There was a big lawyers demo against the legal aid ‘reforms’ at Parliament today, but so far as the early evening news was concerned it might just as well not have happened…
As we work from home we are able to watch the news at lunch time. I was encouraged to see a rather good report of the demo on Channel 4 news which I felt presented the problems perhaps as well as we can expect. However it seemed to have vanished off the airwaves by the evening.
I made a point of watching BBC1, ITV and the 7.00pm Channel 4, and it was not mentioned on any of them. Indeed I have not been able to find much on the internet, other than a few blog entries and this on Channel 4 (not nearly as good as their lunchtime effort).
Of course it might be reported on Newsnight later on, but I am not sure if I can face another news program. I suppose the fact that the most needy in our country are shortly going to find it difficult to enforce their rights is not considered to be a newsworthy topic by those who select the stories to cover.
Sadly we have some way before we lawyers riot in Parliament Square like the Pakistani one’s. Still there is always hope. I’ll make some petrol bombs – just in case.