There are just 148 days until the start of the 2012 Olympics in London and final preparations are being made to the security plan. The terrorism aspect of that plan has been covered by all the recent war games in London so now attention has turned to the issue of protest.
On Tuesday (28/2/12) evening Len McLuskey the head to the Unite trade union allegedly called on his members to engage in direct action and civil disobedience during the Olympics to protest against government spending cuts. This gave the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday (29/2/12) to loudly and publicly condemn Mr McLuskey's comments and in doing so send out the message that Britain has no plans to see the Olympics disrupted by protests. This message was reinforced by the US announcement that the North Koreans had given up their nuclear intentions. This of course may be a bit of a bluff because the way changes to the compulsory work experience were reported seemed to be encouraging protesters by giving them the illusion of victory.
Oh and today (1/3/12) former assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry of his role in the investigation of the phone hacking scandal. Of course he had to give his evidence via videolink because he's currently on secondment to Bahrain helping them put down their revolution.
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