Doug the protest, in less than 5 days has resulted in the effect that no fuel can be obtained anywhere in the UK. The speed of this action is an entirely new thing. One of the reasons for this is that with everybody and his dog in the UK, now owning a mobile phone, it is now possible for all those involved in protest, to be in immediate contact with everyone else.

Had this form of communication been available, during other, more honest popular protests, like those against the Poll Tax, the course of UK politics would have been very different.

It has been an old type of action with an entirely new type of protester. They have not been elected to speak for, and do not represent anyone, but themselves. Their motives are completely selfish, but they have managed, thus far, to convince the general public that the action has been conducted on their behalf.

They have not accepted that the present government has been democratically elected and will not rest until they bring it down.