Revolting Students

Students are presently involved in a violent demonstration outside and even inside 30 Millbank where the Conservative Central Office is housed. Yet again poor Londoners are being subjected to gridlock on their streets for miles around Westminster - as if the ridiculous congestion charge was not enough. I have no objection to peaceful demonstrations but those which descend into violence are an unacceptable infringement of the freedom of the law abiding citizenry. The perpetrators must be arrested, charged and tried. The perpetrators are of course of the hooded kind and thus difficult to identify. This leads one to think that no demonstrator should be allowed to hide their faces at any lawful demonstration. Perhaps also there should be a specific venue out in the country with easy access from all directions where all demonstrations must take place and nowhere else. The venue would be armed with TV cameras to transmit the events as they happen and if the demonstrators would pay for them even with panes of glass and other breakables for the smashing thereof. Depending on the nature of the demonstration the venue's name could be changed from the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Demonstrations to the Karl Marx Centre for Demonstrations or perhaps to the Big Brother Centre for Demonstrations. The demonstrators would have to be charged for using the venue but at a subsidised price with the subsidy coming from everybody's council tax. One can but dream.