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Video: Parliamentarians interview Nicola Fisher and other key G20 witnesses

in case you missed them | 14.05.2009 01:01 | G20 London Summit | Repression

Select Committees interview Nicola Fisher and other key G20 witnesses

Videos of Home Affairs select committee and JCHR variously interviewing David Howarth, Chris Abbott, Frances Wright, Nicola Fisher, Sue Sim, Tom Brake, Nick Hardwick, Chris Allison.  http://news.parliament.uk/2009/05/committees-look-at-policing-of-g20-protests/

Some highlights of Home Affairs select committee interviews: David Howarth repeating claimed distinction between 'peaceful' Bishopsgate and 'violent' Bank, even though he didn't attend Meltdown and Tom Brake did.

Nicola Fisher appears to fluff her narrative of events as the session goes on though a strong delivery nonetheless.

Sue Sim, some kind of head spokesperson for ACPO gets some MPs very wound up by stonewalling questions, and also claims that "kettling" was a media invention never called that by police, it's really "containment" and that "containment" is nothing new.

Also being new to watching this committee, Keith Vaz seemed a very different and capable chairperson to the Keith Vaz portrayed in the Daily Mail a few years ago.

Incidentally David Howarth is one of the few non-London MPs not to claim a second home allowance:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8048215.stm

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Representative

14.05.2009 09:26

I'm commenting before I've seen the footage, but having Ms Fisher as a representative of all protesters on the day smacks of Parliament investigating serious issues around the policing of dissent by following the dictat of Max Clifford and the commodification of serious political issues through celebrity culture. I saw the interview Ms Fisher gave on the TV, and having someone scrubbed up, putting on a flowery dress and playing a public-school educated little female victim may work for the Daily Mail etc, but doesnt really do justice to the rest of us who might look a bit, well, you know, not middle class and respectable. Add to that the violent/peaceful distinctions that the post mentions as being reinforced, and I suspect this review will get us nowhere in terms of ensuring that the police back off from over-policing legitimate dissent.

Protester (non-celebrity)

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14.05.2009 11:59

Nothing will ever come of this, its just a show for the public who have largely forgotten it even happened and are being told by the media the next big evil for them to worry about

ballz

Worth watching

15.05.2009 06:47

I've watched this entire thing and I recommend anyone who has ANY interest in what happened to do the same.
Quite a few points and concerns about various issues are cleared up, others barely touched on.
It's a valuable insight as to where we are now in this whole episode.

Badoni