UPDATE: Tom Brake inside the kettle!

By | 2nd April 2009 - 6:50 pm

Braking news (sorry, sorry) reaches my sofa that Tom Brake, attending the protest as a legal observer, was among those not permitted to leave the City cordon zone operated for several hours by police yesterday.

See the tardily-uploaded CNN report here. (Watch out also for the economically literate and articulate protester on just before Tom – quick, send that man a copy of The Storm and a membership form!)

h/t Will Rhodes

UPDATE: Tom has since put up a video of his experience in the kettle on Youtube.

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7 Comments

  • Chris Keating 2nd Apr '09 - 7:50pm

    So apparently there are “serious civil liberties issues”… no shit!

  • Andy M11 2nd Apr '09 - 8:36pm

    The police commanders who were responsible for employing this tactic must be held to account.

    May also have more news on tasers being deployed in raids today – will update if these reports are substantiated.

  • Craig Ling 2nd Apr '09 - 10:10pm

    Or for those of you who are friends of Tom’s on Facebook, you can check out his report from the frontline on his Facebook page.

  • Anonymous1 2nd Apr '09 - 11:06pm

    What on earth can be the legal justification for the police detaining a Member of Parliament in this way?

    Surely this is as serious a matter as the Damian Green affair?

  • Nick 3rd Apr '09 - 9:09am

    Andy M11,

    If you do have reports of tasers being used during the G20 protests the 2 Liberal Democrat Members of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), Dee Doocey and Caroline Pidgeon would I am sure be pleased to hear from you – or indeed others who were at the protests. The MPA will be looking at the way the protests were policed.

    You can contact Dee or Caroline via email at .

  • Andy H 3rd Apr '09 - 10:36am

    Umm, very ignorant question Alix…

    What’s ‘The Storm’?

  • Alix Mortimer 3rd Apr '09 - 10:50am

    Oh dear, dear, dear! You haven’t been reading your favourite website enough.

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