Yawn
The Fathers for Justice protest earlier today at Buckingham Palace did not bring out the best in British politics & media, if at least Newsnight is a guide.First up was Mark Oaten, the Lib Dems spokesman on presumably Home Affairs, who took issue with the Police statement that they quickly told it was a F4J protest and not an Al Qaeda terrorist, and appeared to imply that the Police should just shoot on sight next time.
Then we had a statement from David Blunkett to the House of Commons, where either the Tory opposition or his own backbenchers laughed at the suggestion that the Royal Household was in favour of public access to the palace (they may have been laughing at that wish given today's events, but it certainly wasn't clear on tv).
Then there was a terrible debate between a F4J spokesman and a 'security expert', in which Kirsty Wark said that they couldn't discuss the F4J issue, which immediately made it rather hard to work out why he had been invited on. Her first question to F4J was 'does this expose security risks', which he rightly pointed out was a question from the security expert. Then she started her usual annoying style of asking leading questions until someone wearily agrees with her.
posted by Matthew @ 9/13/2004 09:53:00 PM
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