Public (Carol) Service Announcement
You are cordially invited to a public carol service in Parliament Square at 6pm on Wednesday the 21st of December 2005.
This inclusive service will contain both Christian and secular verse, and is expected to last no more than an hour.
Candles and song sheets will be made available, with donations going to Medical Aid for Iraqi Children.
Please note that if you attend this carol service, it will classify as a spontaneous demonstration (of faith, hope, joy and/or religious tolerance) and there is a possibility that you will be cautioned or arrested under Section 132 of the Serious and Organised Crimes and Police Act 2005.
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Posted on December 16th, 2005 at 1:09 pm
Will Cherie be putting Baby Jesus in crib then?
What a wonderful Christmas thought.
If you liberals thought half as much about the poor as you do childish antics like this, the world would be a better place.
This is all about highlighting the supposed suppression of free speech in parliament square. Well its bollocks.
You can say what ever you like in parliament square. I walk through it many times, saying whatever I like.
What you can’t do anymore is make a public nuisance of yourself and cause a disturbance. The protests of various nutters who congregate there with their loudspeakers and ridiculous banners was getting a right nuisance.
You lot can crow about free speech, but you are all campaigning about the superficial and missing the real targets. Prats!
Do you mean like that woman who quietly read out the names of the British soldiers who have died in the Iraq war? That kind of public nuisance? That kind of disturbance?
So “we” (and of course we can obviously be lumped together in a single group and don’t have individual opinions) feel strongly about this and somehow this means we don’t give a shit about the world’s poor? What the fuck are you talking about?
Is carol-singing in Westminster a threat? A disturbance? A public nuisance? A rather better question than “why do you want to do this?” is “Why do you want to stop us doing it?”.
The is the second time you’ve gone off half cocked in this site’s comments without checking your facts. A quick search would have told you that I champion the poor quite regularly especially with concern to the depradations your poster boys have visited on the working poor having ben a victim of them myself. Still, why get your story straight when prejudices and insults will do, eh Neil?
Like your well-reasoned article over on The Sharpener about regulating the press - you only want to see the supression of views that don’t conform to those handed to you from on high by your overlords. You seem to have forgotten that the government are our employees not out feudal masters.
If freedom of speech is superficial to you Neil, I’m not sure I want to live in the kind of socity you’d regard as ideal. What about the suffragettes? Prats? The poll tax protesters. Prats? One million people protesting against war. Prats? What? All of them?
On this subject, like you used to be on ID cards, you’re yet again the lone voice in the wilderness.
You are entirely right, Mr Harding. It is UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE to be concerned with more than one issue at a time, isn’t it? If someone’s concerned about freedom of speech, there’s NO WAY IN HELL that they could possibly also be taking an active interest in poverty, is there?
Christ - grow up.
Glenda Jackson sends her regrets she isn’t free to join us, and her best wishes to Brian Haw.