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Parliamentary Security

Asked if any consideration was being given to moving Prime Minister’s Question Time, the PMOS said not as far as he was aware. If he was being asked for a response to last week’s events, he would simply say that people should be a little patient and wait for the report from the House authorities. Asked if the Prime Minister’s personal protection team would start accompanying him into the Chamber, the PMOS said that these matters were best left to the House to deal with. It was not for him to comment.

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after all 9/11 wasn’t that long ago and it takes time for ‘security specialists’ to work out how and where an attack might be made on TB.
I’m sure the House committee will come up with recommendations within the next two years.
Whatever happened to lateral thinking?
Its only recently that security on the river side of ‘the house’ has been stepped up.
Am I alone in having, for the last 2 years, considered it a prime route for a terrorist?
Here’s a neat idea – wait for TB to be at a function outside of the protected zones around London. Then use a suicide sky diver bomber to zero in on his location – now preventing that would take some manpower and technology.
Comment by Roger Huffadine — 24 May 2004 on 3:32 pm | Link
Why is it that terrorism is used for so many changes to our way of life, when in the IRA hayday, nothing like the measures we see now were even considered ? Also, if i remember rightly, after the Spain bomb attacks the Government were saying the Spanish people shouldnt let it change their live or the way they voted. Is it diferent then for the glass screen etc to protect the MPs (when they are the ones that voted to go to war and thus increase any chance of us being a target).
Personally, I am fed up with the hypocricy, lies and double standards in politics these days – and I doubt I am alone !
Comment by Tony — 25 May 2004 on 10:50 pm | Link
Arrakis… Dune… Desert Planet… Good Quote. 🙂
Comment by Gregory Block — 22 Jul 2004 on 9:38 am | Link

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