Tony <3 WMD

14/3/07 – London, Westminster

I was in Westminster at lunchtime today – there were protests taking place against the Government’s stance on “weapons of mass destruction”. Conveniently I had a camera on me!

Greenpeace protesters climbed up a crane in front of the Houses of Parliament and let down this banner. Yes, Tony Blair loves WMD. Effective? Hm, not sure but it got pretty widespread publicity – so I suppose their mission was accomplished.

It actually coincided with the day that MPs were going to vote on the subject of Trident. Read more about it here.

In Parliament Square, Brian Haw was making his voice heard through a loudspeaker. He was urging people to go to the Tate Britain to see the anti-war exhibition. As you can see, the road was blocked off by police so I couldn’t go any closer to say hello to him Next time, next time.

These protesters had attached themselves to barrel-like objects, as the police looked on. It was quite amusing really – there were only a handful of demonstrators yet loads of police, and the road was blocked off.

Er, I don’t think they were very amused.

More of them on the other side of the street where we couldn’t get access to.

You can’t really see it clearly but there were men sawing away at the barrels to release the protesters, while they just sat there and stared at them haha

One of them is taken away by police after being ‘freed’

This woman was talking to a “legal observer” about all kinds of things, but in short – how fucked up the Government is. She was looking at me the whole time. I guess she was talking to me then!

That’s all. I miss the days when a lunch hour could stretch to the whole day.

On a side note, remember this woman from my Darfur shots? She reminded me of Michael Jackson, but I just found out that she’s actually Bianca Jagger