[Tealeaf]

Two points, boys & girls:

1) The Poppy burning happened. I was chatting to one of the cops earlier on today who witnessed it. Later on this afternoon, someone pointed out some graffitti in a men's trap here in central London which read 'Page from the Koran -->', with the arrow pointed towards the bog roll dispenser. There was also a date on there - 11/11/10.

2) Some of you may well recall the city riots last year when some drunken news vendor fell over after giving some gip to a policeman; he subsequently died, although that could have happened at any time.

As a result of that, the Met have been issued with new guidance as to how to deal with troublesome protestors. They can't wack 'em any more; truncheons & boots are out. The most they can now do is snatch and contain. That is why we saw all this 'do nothing' nonsense on wednesday night outside the Millbank Tower & the cops standing by in front of the poppy burning 'ceremony'.

Personally, I would have gone in there with flamethrowers and tanks, but that is only my humble opinion.