London 2012: Legal challenge to Olympic missile sites

[dipsydoodle]

Council tenants will go to the High Court later over proposals to place surface-to-air missiles on the roof of their tower block during the Olympics.

Residents of Fred Wigg Tower in Leytonstone, east London, will apply for permission for a judicial review.

The tenants say they were not consulted fairly and properly over the plans.

The Ministry of Defence plans to deploy either Rapier or high-velocity missiles at six sites as part of security measures for the London Games.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18765062

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1. Somewhat appropriately, "Fred Wigg Tower" sounds like a location ....

.... straight out of the Goon Show.

"You dirty rotten swine! You nearly deaded me, you naughty Olympian, you!"

I wish Bluebottle and Eccles every success with their struggle against Major Bloodnok.

(Bemused American cousins, please start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show )

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[dipsydoodle]

2. That would be Major Dennis Bloodnok's Aide de camp

Wigg aka Wiggy no doubt.



When the shows were originally broadcast back in the fifties I used to listen to them using a crystal set with the headphones dismantled - one piece jammed between my ear and a pillow. That would be followed by Radio Luxemburg 'till I fell asleep only to wake up with a cauliflower ear the following morning. I remain fascinated by school friends who recite the entire script the next day but couldn't remember 70 or so geometry theorems.

On a couple of discs I've MP3's of every single Goon Show - the whole 9 years or so.

[truebrit71]

3. I love the Goons....

...pure broadcasting excellence poured from a brandy bottle...

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4. Ah, but would you want them putting missiles on your roof?

Though as Willium doubtless said, "Sorry, mate, Mr Grytpype-Finn says I got to put 'em 'ere. More than me job's worf to put 'em on the 'aase nex' door, mate."

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[truebrit71]

5. Of course not, where on earth would I put the piano?

...Here, help yourself to a picture of Queen Victoria...I have plenty more you know...