“Under foreign occupation and denied a right to vote, denied the right to run your own affairs ... I suspect that if it had happened here in England we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves,”
“[Any attempt to try to help Bush avoid protesters would be] inconceivable, ... To create a situation in which perhaps 60,000 people remain unseen would require a shutdown of central London which is just not acceptable.”
“It is the first ever time we have closed Oxford Street to traffic. Today is about getting people into London. We want to make certain that shops make a real benefit out of this.”