Broken Britain yesterday was suffering all sorts of naughtiness it appears, we had the imminent threat of flooding all along the east coast, cue Hordes of people in schools and leisure centers. And the most amazing thing was happening on Sky News. They were live at the scene, showing viewers the Thames Barrier being lowered or raised, whatever the hell it was meant to do, and they were expecting something dramatic and they got nothing.

But instead of carrying on with the other news, such as that “conspiracy theory” murder in Italy where that poor student girl was murdered and they are dragging in everyone who knew her, they stayed on that for a further 20 minutes. Just watching a block being moved.

Now forgive me for sounding silly, and that does happen frequently, but that doesn’t sound like a roaring time. I couldn’t imagine for the life of me see people in the pub, shouting at it going “COME ON BARRIER! YOU CAN DO IT MY SON!”, but then again I seldom watch the news anymore, I only caught all this last night during an attempt to pretend that I was in the gym losing weight and looking all the more manly for it.

And by the time I had finished on the cross-trainer and it was still on, I was amazed at this, and I felt compelled to write about it now. Sorry, it’s just whenever I watch the news in recent times, it is overly depressing and the few times I do watch, something on the news always amazes me, the barrier fitted into that category. It was almost like they were stuggling to for things to say.

But dear readers, indeed there were other happenings going on it appears such as the tougher laws on Speeding being introduced, and of course the raking over the coals of the Police bloke about the guy who got shot in London who turned out to be innocent.

I am still not sure what the fuss about the fuzz is about, you’ll have to forgive me, I’m not quite with current events, but it appears that they want Sir Ian Blair’s head on a stick because of the one occasion that all the anti-terror laws and pursuits end up in a tragic death.

Such is the times we live in that we have excuses to take our liberties, saying the terrorists won’t win, and won’t change our way of life, despite the fact they have achieved that by all the extra security and well it’s a vicious circle. And it appears we do anything to stop anyone who looks like they are about to do naughty. It will happen again, simply because of human error. The flip-side of the coin is: Would people care if he did turn out to be a terrorist? No, but that’s not the point here.

An innocent man was killed so where this goes, who knows? Will it result in lessor tactics being employed by police? Well no. Once those type of powers are granted, they are never taken back, and the fact is the public will want the police to be tough in the face of naughty terrorist singing “The Hills are alive with the sound of music” and blowing up things. So I do believe nothing will change. It will get buried and we will carry on thinking about jumpers and pop tarts.

That whole debate will never end as long as the terror plots and treason continue albeit in the background. But to show a barrier not moving for a great length of time, well bugger me, maybe that’s not news. Hell, my arse being wiped would have made for more gripping news. Come on news people, concentrate on the bigger issues.