".. you could have nipped out the car offering them a hearty jolly pat on the back and good socialist soldarity, "

Absolutely I would have! Unfortunately, the people blocking the ambulances and the desperate relatives of sick people in Chiswick were the pricks stuck in the middle of one of the busiest junctions in London, queueing for petrol, thinking to hell with these unsavoury buggers who are horribly socialist scum anyway...). Because my lad lives in Richmond, I know this area quite well, and I can tell you without fear nor favour (looking at the cars in the jam) that many of the road-blockers panic-buying petrol were of the metro-elite set, not the hippy ex-college tree-huggers that you appear to think comprise the M25 demonstrators...