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So there I was last week hob-knobbing at the premier of “Doghouse” – a laugh out loud British movie that introduces us to Zom-birds. Not my usual genre of movie, but spoil yourselves, go and see it!
Anyway I digress. Courtesy of Bob Crow and his militant minority no tubes were running, so I had to drive in to the West End. Now what I encountered got me thinking deeply about rights and disruption.
My journey was turned in to a nightmare because of a demonstration of motorcyclists crawling through Haymarket and Lower Regent Street, creating mayhem. They were protesting Westminster’s decision to charge motorcycles for parking. A cost that surely pails into insignificance compared to the cost of wasted fuel and running costs for the traffic and the policing required.
My offices have a spectacular panoramic view of London. Recently I had the pleasure to look down on the IMAX cinema roundabout brought to a standstill by a mass of cyclist’s grid locking the roads. The noise from the car horns was insufferable and even 16 floors up I had my peace disturbed.
So we have a minority members of RMT creating havoc for millions with tube strikes; demonstration after demonstration creating disruption for the silent majority who go about their daily activities, who are just getting by, earning money to pay their taxes.
Where are our rights? So perhaps the time has come for us to rise up a plan a mass march to gridlock London and create havoc to protest and say “demonstrations and strikes are wrong!” Although that’s a bit like fighting for peace!
12 Jun 2009 09:55:29