So My Last Post Could've Made More Sense Then.

On Sunday December 13th a group called Stop the Islamification of Europe (SIOE) staged a protest outside the Harrow central Mosque in Northwest London, UK. As SIOE are a tiny group with only three full time members the policing of this protest was left entirely up to the local Borough Commander just like the dozen or so soccer matches that take place in London every week. Unknown to anyone at the time a small pro-Israeli group called the Jewish National Fund (JNF) had also invited the former Israeli Foreign minister Tzipi Livni to their conference that was being held on the same day just a few minutes down the road from the Mosque. When they got to hear about this the local police and magistrates must suddenly have had visions of their little bit of London being burnt to the ground. Therefore when a pro-Palestinian activist filed an application for an arrest warrant for Ms Livni over the 2009 war in Gaza the Magistrate granted it in the hope that it would keep Ms Livni away from the flash point.

As this decision was made entirely at the local level it totally stunned the higher levels of the British Establishment when they heard about it on the news. This didn't stop the Law Lords at the Supreme Court taking advantage of the confusion by rushing out a ruling that stops a Jewish faith school rejecting potential pupils on the grounds that they don't belong to the right sect of Judaism. Providing you don't look to deeply into the events it sounds as if Britain's love affair with Israeli has suddenly ended. Something that should help increase British influence in the Middle East. There were also questions asked about the Livni arrest warrant at Prime Minister's Questions today.

I should also point out that my father and grandmother visit to the Heaver's Road centre today wasn't for a medical type appointment. Instead it was for an open day/networking opportunity. Although it took place at the Heaver centre it had actually been arranged by one of the Croydon voluntary groups so the Heavers people actually knew very little about it. The purpose of the event seems to be to throw open the doors of the Heaver's centre to allow any interested parties to have a look around and get to know the staff. Of course that would also allow event organisers to get to know the interested parties. The whole thing was made more suspicious by the fact that my grandmother is no longer going to be treated at the Heaver's centre having been transferred to a new centre with a new set of staff. Being oblivious to all this my father was planning to go to the event in order to carry on with the mission that he's been trying to complete for the last couple of years. If that wasn't enough to cause utter chaos he was also bringing my grandmother along whose behaviour is quite erratic at the moment.

In the end it actually went quite smoothly because delays like the car not starting meant a day long event was quickly cut down to one that lasted little over an hour. The format for the event had also changed dramatically from being a big open day with lots of people to my father and grandmother having a talk with a single member of staff over a light lunch. That means the maximum the Brits would have been able to gain from the situation was the opportunity to briefly study the interaction between my father and grandmother. I've already decided that's something that's not worth the hassle of trying to stop because the Brits have been doing that for the best part of 40 years and I doubt they'll be able to turn that into anything useful.

At COP15 the Danish hosts have replaced Connie Hedegaard with the Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen as the President of the Summit. This is no surprise because Ms Hedegaard was a controversial President looking out of her depth from the start of what has been quite a badly organised summit. The change was always scheduled to take place today in order to coincide with the big day of protests and the arrival of the heads of state.