That they are being used to keep ‘The People’ away from Parliament and the PTB is positively scary.
The PTB are ‘forting up’
Originals & story via The Daily Mail
That they are being used to keep ‘The People’ away from Parliament and the PTB is positively scary.
The PTB are ‘forting up’
Originals & story via The Daily Mail
11 comments:
Bizarre. What if the protestors approahc Parliament from any one of dozens of other directions? It all looks a bit Maginot line to me.
That's Tahrir Square, right?
I suspect that after last summer's riots, the back-room boys were set to design lots more of this sort of thing since they can now prove a 'need' for it.
Hmmm...as "impenetrable barriers" go it doesn't look very substantial to me. Not when you've seen a coupla pissed up smackheads can do in a matter of minutes to a bus shelter any day of the week.
Now...if they were to run an electric current through it...
Tattyfalarr, I've been wondering about the lower edge; despite a sort of black rubber modesty panel, you can distinctly see a collection of size 11 police boots though the gap in one of the Mail's photos.
Surely a couple of well-aimed molotov cocktails rolling underneath could cause havoc - to say nothing of a violently-wielded scaffolding pole.
I can see another problem. If the police are all on the other side of them they have to retract the bloody things in order to go and do that thing they do, what's it called again, oh yeah, policing. I reckon someone wrote to the Home Secretary and said 'Look at our new police thing, just what you need and only a huge pile of money each.'
Drool, drool, all that metal, drool. fucks me it comes all bundled up in a tow away thingy, drool.
If you add in the Jankel Armoured Cars that suddenly became 'available' in Hackney.
Someone has obviously been planning this for a long time and with good funding. These things don't just appear, committees are needed, orders are placed.
Makes me wonder that if water cannon are ever authorised are they already just sitting in a Met Garage somewhere already painted up
Some panels have doors. Recycled caravans ? I blamed gypos when ours got robbed. Maybe it wasn't them, after all !
PC, I think water cannon has been around for years but just never used apart from in N. Ireland. Certainly been occasional talk of using water cannon on the British mainland since I was a kid so I'd expect either the ones used in Ulster are available if someone gives the nod or there are some in a garage somewhere like you say. But I think they'll have been there for long time. Might be an interesting area to FOI the Home Orifice.
@Angry I am sure you are right about the NI cannons mothballed on some army base.
but I can't see the Met using old & busted Water Cannon , when they have the budget for such new hotness such as Jankel Urban Combat Vehicles and a TASER for every Bobby.
When there are things like THIS to be bought with our money. Why look you can mix your tear gas and dye straight in
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