Not Just a Granny

A couple of weeks ago – and no I can’t remember when exactly, I went walk-about through London (as I do) and on my travels I went past Parliament Square.

protestors set up home in Parliament Square

To my absolute dismay I found that the area, which used to be really beautiful, is now over-run by a horrid mess of tents and rubbish and protestors.  Now, I am all for bringing our boys home and certainly have great sympathy with their (the protestors) cause, but I have to wonder at the audacity of setting up tents in Parliament Square.

I have no doubt their intention is to embarrass the Government, and I have no doubt that they have; however I am quite certain that any number of the folk who have set up their tents in the area probably don’t give a toss about the Troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.  More likely there are any number of drifters and lay-abouts using this as an excuse to set up home.

I wonder what Churchill would have to say about this…..”Bring in the bulldozers” ?  I bet he is turning in his grave.

For my part; as a tax-payer (which obviously that bunch are not, since they are not working but hanging about there), I object to the news that I am going to have to help pay for their removal, which according to the latest news is going to cost in the millions.  Money that could go towards improving the lives of the men and boys fighting away from home.

And I bet if the Goverment stepped in and fined them or forcibly removed them, some ‘Human Rights’ bright spark will come along and scream.