This Monday 9th October 2006 sees Parliament resturn after their overlong summer recess.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a planned protest which is being aimed at Parliament itself, rather than about raising public awareness of the repressive policies of the unpopular Labour Government.
The Sack Parliament organisers seem to be intent of trying to block access to the Houses of Parliament with the specific anti-democratic intention of preventing Members of the House of Commons and the Lords from gaining physical access to the building.
Friday's Evening Standard newspaper seems to be looking forward to a riot, something which we do not support.
What right have these people got to try to disenfranchise members of the public in this way by force ?
Just because, collectively, the Opposition and backbench Labour MPs have proven to be ineffective in opposing the Labour Government, does not give any demonstrators the right to censor those MPs and Lords who will be trying to oppose important legislation, such as the Police and Justice Bill in the Lords and the Government Statement on the Cost of the National Identity Register and ID Cards scheme which are scheduled for Monday ?
Is this all a plot to allow the self seeking, ex-communist, Home Secretary John Reid, to grab a few more media soundbites, and pretend to be "tough" on law and order, and thereby try to bolster his campaign to become the unelected Prime Minister rather than Gordon Brown ?
Trying to blocking the access of Members of Parliament does nothing to oppose the the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 section 132 Designated Area law.
Such actions come under the Sessional Order of Parliament, which is passed right at the start of each session of Parliament, and which specifically instructs the Metropolitan Police "to enable free passage by Peers and Members on days on which Parliament is sitting", which they can easily do, with the huge range of public order powers of dispersal and arrest available to them.
The "Sack Parliament" demonstrators are unlikely to be able to do anything effective to prevent the use of the private tunnel from Portcullis House directly into the Palace of Westminster, or anything about the MPs and Lords who arrive in the building before the 1pm kick off on Monday.