Plane Stupid

This has to be the most suave and dexterous act of “egg-on-your-face” type protest I have ever seen. (Ok, I haven’t seen so many.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/news/7927700.stm

It is amazing this Plane Stupid protester was able to get so close to Lord Mandelson and walk calmly away as if she were Anna Chancellor making a cool and collected stage exit. Third runway at Heathrow protester, Leila Deen, was then given airtime on the BBC during which she eloquently made her case. What a stunt. No agro, no arrest and loads of airtime. It is amazing that she didn’t get arrested! People have been arrested for much less!

To top it all off, Gordon Brown even made light of the incident:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7928074.stm

Clearly, a much better PR ploy than holding up budget airline passengers at Stansted.