I was in London today to visit the London Book Fair and after a very busy visit, decided to go over to Westminster to get some fresh air and test out my new camera.
Imagine my surprise to find that the Tamil demonstration was still going on at Parliament Square. Seemed to be a huge number in attendance, some on the green and some on the road around the square closing them to traffic.
Incidentally, there did not seem to be many police around that I could see and the ones that I did seemed to be fairly laid back – and had all their identification markings showing, perhaps they have learnt their lessons from the G20 demo incidents last week.
Whilst I was there a number of the Tamil demonstrators came up to me and told about their protest and why they were doing this, they seemed to be very apologetic for the problems that they were causing, but felt it was the only way to get their point over to the British Government and of course the people.
Lets hope that they get their point over and something is done about their plight.
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