If pigs could fly…

Scotland Yard would be London’s biggest airport, as the old joke goes. Here’s some video showing the friendliness of the traditional British Bobby in action — by beating up Brian Haw as well as the protesters he was filming:

See also the story on Prog Gold yesterday. If the name sounds familiar, Brian Haw is the guy whose anti-war protests so stuck in Blair’s craw he pushed through a law forbidding any unlicenced protests near Parliament, only to find that it didn’t apply retro-actively so Haw could stay on his lonely vigil. Later on some “artist” berk copied his protest as an artwork and won forty grand for it, hence the title of the Prog Gold story.