"I think he would have made something of it had it been blood."

No, I think he would have taken cover and had his eyes and ears open for what might happen next.

I have an amusing image in my head of a ship full of pancking activists at 5am in the morning, surrounded by a hostile Navy who are firing weapons that may or may not be paintball guns (as far as they know without the benefit of hindsight), hiding from a machine guns lazer spotlight, and scared that there may be a chance that they could be killed, and in the middle of it all stands Keith oblivious to all that but declaring (not sure to whom) that this is absolutely outrageous whilst sniffing the ladder to inspect the chemical composition of the fluid on it.

How very British.

And not actually very amusing at all.