As it was a nice sunny day I had a wander around Westminster. I have hardly really looked at Parliament from up close. Usually lots of people milling about making it difficult so it's an area I avoid. This Saturday it was OK and had look good look round. Then I spotted press photographers and decided to go and have a look at what was happening.
Turns out it was a protest
by a small group including two people dressed as Guido Fawkes. They had a pretend barrel of gunpowder and a dragon. Not sure about the dragon but there you go.I took a few pictures, wondered whether the press outnumbered the demonstrators by 2 or three to one. A TV bloke said it was more like 5 to 1.
The first picture is of one of the protesters lining up with a few police. I took this Angle so I could include the statue of Cromwell in the background. He was someone who knew how to clear Parliament!
The second picture is towards the end of the demonstration. There's a mixture of the Guido Fawkes people and a group from UK Jury Team who were there for different reasons. A party from Socialist Worker and The Christian Party were also milling about, the European elections are due soon.
