I'll bet she wouldn't have thrown Custard at John Prescott...
6th Mar 2009 17:56:20
So yes, the news that a grown woman has decided that instead of actually doing something productive she would throw custard at Peter Mandelson. The planets have aligned, it seems, in such a fashion that I'm siding with Peter Mandelson here. John Prescott, who as we all remember had an egg thrown at him by Craig Evans back in 2001, socked the man in the face.
Don't get me wrong here. It would have been better if Prescott kept his cool, and I'm certainly not advocating that Mandelson should have punched her, but throwing custard at someone is pathetic, childish and stupid, and I agree with most of what she says, too. The third runway shouldn't be built. I agree (along with pretty much every scientist on the planet) that Climate Change is occurring, and Peter Mandelson is unelected, and we should have two elected houses of Parliament.
But imagine if there was a party that agreed with all those things. Imagine if there was a party that opposed the building of the third runway, that took a strong Green stance, and stood for Constitutional Change and a fully elected house of Lords... It's on the tip of my tongue, it really is.
Watching the four year old try and explain her childish actions when interviewed by the BBC was embarrassing.
- Leila Deen on justifiable actions.
Considering that this woman thinks throwing food at other human beings isn't harmful, that's fine. Presumably if someone were to throw offal over her, that would be fine. She also thinks that Democracy has failed us, which is probably reasonable. If only there were some way of our elected representatives being elected in a proportion equal to the number of people who voted for them... Sort of Representing Proportionally? Oh, I don't know, you could think up a snazzy name for it later.
Her actions were pathetic, demean the whole idea of intellectual discussion, political process, and debate, and worse, they made me stick up for Lord Mandelson.
However, on a far more serious point, this whole issue demonstrates how nonsensical the spending of millions and billions of pounds fighting terrorism is. She could have been holding a knife rather than a condiment. Billions of pounds spent fighting terrorism could have been beaten with a £3.99 kitchen knife from Argos.
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