If you missed 'Question Time' on BBC 1 (Thursday 03/05/01), then you missed a beautiful moment. The first question was from someone who was at Mayday, complaining about police tactics of penning everyone in for seven hours. 'Was it fair?' the activist asked the panel.

At first the politicians said that 'The police did a good job in difficult circumstances' - and most people applauded.
But, politicians being totally out of touch, they then went on to press their luck too far. They started to condemn the protestors for even turning up. And that was it . . .

All of a sudden the audience turned. Smartly dressed middle age women with posh accents (from Winchester 'hardly a hotbed of revolution, as she said) started to come out with comments like:

'Well, what do you expect? People just feel so disenfranchised. The government don't do a damn thing.'

Another smartly dressed older woman made her point:

'I just think it's great that we have people who are prepared to stand up and say 'enough's enough'

Some guy in a suit weighed in with:

'The politicians just want to fudge the issue and concentrate on the violence, instead of talking about the evils of globalisation'

Even Petronella Wyatt from 'The Spectator' laid into the politicians by reminding them that protest was the expression of the people. It was superb! The look of shock and abject horror on the faces of the politicians was priceless. They couldn't believe 'normal' people (as they see it) had turned on them like that. 'Spurious cause' is it Mr Blair? How'dya like us now?