Hmm, working in Westminster for the last two years, my view on the actions of Brian Haw have changed.
I have no problem with people protesting in Parliament Square, whether they be Anti-War, Pro Fox Hunting, Women’s Global Strike, Anti-Fees.
However I believe that Brian Haw is slightly different.
Firstly, Westminster City Council are always cracking down on people sleeping rough, including those behind Army & Navy on Victoria Street, so how Brian Haw is different I don’t know.
Secondly, if I was to hold a demonstration outside Westminster, and then leave my placards behind, I would expect Westminster City Council to remove them, but again it’s different for Brian Haw. How signs and placards which litter Parliament Square can be seen as “his property” I’m not sure.
I believe that he has to go, although I have no problems with him catching the bus everyday to Parliament Square, to stand out side and to shout through his megaphone, whilst holding his placard, but any more signs and the sleeping rough must stop.
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Young Dems’ sick Blunkett Stunt
Now whilst I think that I might have been called sick once before, a national newspaper is a first for me (and on page 2!).
Chris Bryant MP seems to think that an item which I designed and sent out to student branches 15 months ago is newsworthy. Now I can understand why people might think that I’m “poking fun at David Blunkett’s blindness”, but I wasn’t.
I spent ages researching what an ID Card would look like and a year ago these were the stories that were on the BBC Website Plans for ‘£40 ID cards’ and Blunkett pushes ID cards debate. Back then, we were all led to believe that ID Cards would be an all-in-one card, which would replace your passport and driving license.
Now as we have EU standardised driving licenses, the belief was that ID cards would look similar, but would differentiate between those who could drive, those with a provisional license and those who can not drive.
Early examples of designs for ID Cards across a variety of sources all had the words “This card is not valid for driving”
However since Blunkett changed his mind last week, and now you’ll need a driving license, a bio-metric passport and a bio-metric ID card, I’m guessing that the design will be slightly different.
On another note, I like the fact that Chris Bryant said “Everyone knows the young Lib Dems want to legalise drugs and Kennedy hasn’t the spine to take them on.” I was under the impression that we lived in a democracy, and one of the great things about the Liberal Democrats, is that it lets it’s members, local parties and the youth wing make policy. In fact this is exactly what Peter Hain was calling for in the Guardian back in March.
Although I have to say that I do like Chris Bryant’s idea of calling LDYS “Lib Demlets”
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A Second Style
Whilst wandering around the Opera website, I discovered the style setting handheld.
So I’ve knocked together a style sheet for mobile/pda devices which use Opera.
To add your own, you’re best off hosting your style sheets in a separate file, and not in the blogger template.
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”https://blog.artesea.co.uk/blog_style.css” media=”screen”>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”https://blog.artesea.co.uk/handheld_style.css” media=”handheld”>
Will probably play about with it some more over the next few days, but if you want to have a look at how it appears, you’ll can download normal Opera, and then press Shift+F11 to get it to convert into SSR.