Men's Hour

F4J Protest finished

The protest has finished now.

Fathers' group roof protest ends

A couple of quotes

A fathers' rights campaigner who scaled the roof of the Houses of Parliament has ended his protest.

Fathers 4 Justice protester Guy Harrison had earlier climbed on top of Westminster Hall, bearing a banner which read "Does Blair care?".

He clambered down part of the roof to waiting police officers at 2000 BST - five hours after his protest started.

Mr Harrison, 37, of Ashurst, Sussex, also protested at the House of Commons last year, hurling flour at Tony Blair.

On Tuesday evening, he was escorted from the tower and driven away in a police van, to the claps and cheers of waiting supporters.

And

Leader of the House of Commons Geoff Hoon, speaking from the Labour conference in Brighton, said Mr Harrison had "exploited the opportunity" offered by summer tours of Parliament.

"I'm not in any way minimising the seriousness of the situation, but obviously MPs are not there and ministers are not there... but this is a serious situation and we will look at very carefully," he told BBC News.

Live Feed Now

Guy Harrison of Fathers4Justice was sclaed the House of Commons. He threw purple power at the Prime Minister last year. There's a live feed now. Go to

Fathers' group scales Parliament

And click on "Live Now"/"Live Video" just to the right of the picture. Requires Real Player installed.

It's growing dark now.  Maybe they'll put a spotlight on him.

Protest at the Labour Party Conference 25th Sept 2005

The Reading Real Fathers For Justice did an impromptu protest outside the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, England. Prime Minister Tony Blair was apparently inside telling the party faithful what a good job he's done. Outside the Brighton Centre was a banner saying “Tony Blair Family Butcher” and “300,000 children have lost contact with their fathers under Labour”. Security was in evidence and the police took some interest in us but it was very friendly. A few press came and had a chat. It was mentioned in the Scotsman

51 held as conference comes to town

The last 2 paragraphs are

Meanwhile, a demonstration by Fathers 4 Justice was the only protest outside the Brighton Centre.

Members of the campaign group held up a banner depicting Prime Minister Tony Blair as a bloodstained butcher with the words: "Blair and Co Family Butchers - 300,000 children have lost contact with their fathers under Labour."

There's a photo album here

It is not recorded if anyone told Tony Blair about the banner but then we wouldn't want him to lose any beauty sleep over what's happened to these fathers, right?

Slough Awareness Event

Reading Real Fathers For Justice group spent the day in Slough shopping centre on Saturday 24th Sept. 2005. The public were unanimously supportive. We met some fathers who are having problems and some mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers who know someone who's having problems. We got some signatures and some donations and had a good time and will do that again soon.

Come to Slough Saturday morning!! (24th Sept.) Real F4J

For an exciting morning on Saturday 24th Sept. come to Slough.  Close to the station and with good parking, you can enjoy the delights of
Slough shopping centre and regale shoppers outside Boots with why you think you should see your children. We’ll be manning (or personning) a stand with badges and petitions and marching a big banner up and down the pedestrian precinct.  You might even meet people who think your message should have a prominent place … on the dark side of the moon or others who think that the entire democratic structure of the United Kingdom will fall apart if you didn’t get permission in triplicate to be there, but mostly you’ll meet others who know someone in the same boat and are sympathetic.  If you’d like to join us

            Time: 10am to 2pm
            Place outside Boots (184 HIGH STREET, SLOUGH SL1 1JR)
            Map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=497852&y=179724&z=0&sv=SL1+1JR&st=2&pc=SL1+1JR&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf

If lost etc. call me from about 9am on 0790 552 0513

Raymond Cuttill