Talkin Bout a Revolution

[Peter Presland]

One of the most ridiculous interviews I have ever seen. "But the police thought you were wheeling towards them" Well it wasn't a bloody armoured tank the man is in a wheel chair and uses it like walking.

He is also unable to propel the wheelchair himself but needed someone - to push it for him.

There's another very brief Flash 10 video from press TV here. It is prima facie evidence that there were indeed determined and well briefed agent provocateurs operating under police cover in Parliament Square.

I had a brief spat in the comments section of Iain Dale's Blog on the subject the other day after Dale issued one of his Dale-Winton-like profundities to the effect that demonstrators must be required to remove face coverings (I enjoy winding them up occasionally)

Requiring demonstrators to remove face coverings is a non-starter I'm afraid. Not least because it would pose a serious problem for the police themselves by making it both difficult and extremely dangerous for their Agent provocateurs to continue operating

I know I know, Our fine upstanding police forces would not stoop to deliberately provoking violence, much less staging the odd bit of spectacular criminal damage for the cameras themselves now would they? The Chief Constable himself ridicules the idea, so perish the very thought.

But hang on a mo - as the effects of peak just-about-everything and the consequent end to that sine-qua-non of capitalism, economic-growth, become increasingly in-your-face bloody obvious to those with half a brain (and those not quarantined in the Westminster goldfish bowl); in turn dictating the ever more draconian policing/surveillance powers clearly needed to maintain a bankrupt system, on which those in (or aspiring to) power currently depend - ask yourself this one simple question: QUI BONO?

Then take a look at the many 'balance of probability' and several 'beyond reasonable doubt' cases of recent police agent-provocateuring. A simple Google search should do the trick.

Though I guess it's less intellectually challenging to simply go with the flow, join the Daily Mail in its apoplectic outrage and indulge that age old urge to simply kill the messenger eh?

The apoplexy it generated together with most of the other comments are illuminating and depressing in equal measure.