David Norris (Independent)

It is important that we keep a sense of proportion about what happened last night. I saw some but not all of it. There was some mild inconvenience where people were delayed for an hour or so but that is all. There was some shouting but no violence. Perhaps people of minority views are taking control of it. That is because there is a vacuum and leadership is not being given by the main political parties. They should be involved in some of these protests. If not, they abdicate responsibility and it will be left to those who are seen to be on the fringe. That is the problem. The vast majority of the people last night were perfectly decent and respectable. They included 60 year old women, people in wheelchairs and so forth. Let us have a sense of proportion and bear in mind what provoked this, the use of cluster bombs by the British and United States forces on civilian targets. That should be known.