Put the kettle on: City Hall would like protests to be a thing of the past
When protestors smashed their way into the Conservative Party headquarters in Central London last month the Police quickly admitted that they had been caught off guard. For weeks similar scenes of uprisings in Europe had filled the news but for some reason the British had convinced themselves that nothing on that scale would occur here.
Put the kettle on: City Hall would like protests to be a thing of the past
When protestors smashed their way into the Conservative Party headquarters in Central London last month the Police quickly admitted that they had been caught off guard.
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