It may be a time to remember poor Edward Woolard. He’s the eighteen year old student who’s life has been ruined by the stupid act of throwing the fire extinguisher off the roof of the Millbank headquarters. Now he is an adult who has plead guilty and he could have killed someone, he deserve to face the full force of the law.
However there are others, and they are the (mostly Labour) politicians who scrupulously avoided the violence but whipped it up, and as “collateral damage” ruined Edward Woolard’s life. Among the guilty men are Aaron Porter who put out literature for the demonstration saying there will be a “riot” and calling for a “Demo-lition”.
To get some flavour of the Ipswich Labour Party there was John Cook who said during the demo “Challenge to Nick Clegg: Come outside and say that! Tuition fees”. This is the former councillor and agent for Ipswich Labour Party who has some undefined role in the Ipswich Labour Party now.
Now I’m sure that Edward Woolard didn’t ruin his life because he followed John Cook’s Twitter account, but it was the stupid over-excited “by any means necessary” rhetoric that did drive him to do this. People like John Cook have responsibilities. I have no doubt that John Cook would do nothing in this sort of event, just encourage others and if something did happen explain it as a “joke”. The weasel.
That he would encourage students, who would otherwise have a far more glittering career than his so far, to ruin their lives gives you the full measure of the man. If Labour allow him to stand as councillor that will give the full measure of the Ipswich Labour Party. Resentful, bitter and not too bright failures, and that’s before we get to John Cook.
Related articles
- Student guilty over violent demo (bbc.co.uk)
- Teenager admits throwing fire extinguisher during tuition fee protest (dailymail.co.uk)
- TUITION FEES PROTEST: Teenager Edward Woollard admits throwing fire extinguisher (dailymail.co.uk)
- Protester admits Millbank disorder (mirror.co.uk)
- The protester who ‘threw fire extinguisher at police’ in student tuition fees riot (dailymail.co.uk)
