Bilderberg 2013: welcome to 1984
The auditorium grew hushed as a senior Watford borough councillor took to his feet. The police liaison team looked nervous. They had made their presentation and laid out their plans for this "unique event": the anti-terrorism zones, the identity checks, the restriction on vehicles stopping in the vicinity of this "important international conference". But now it was the turn of the people of Watford to speak.
What would they make of this international three-day policy summit, with its heavyweight delegate list bulging with billionaire financiers, party leaders and media moguls, protected by the biggest security operation Watford has ever seen?
"What this whole thing boils down to," boomed the councillor, "is this: are you, or are you not, setting a precedent for vehicles parking on the verge of the Old Hempstead Road?"
Thus began an hour-long (hour-and-a-half-long?) discussion about whether or not cars and press vehicles should be allowed to park on a strip of grass running parallel to the A41, just opposite the Grove hotel. It was like a weird, dystopian episode of Keeping Up Appearances. Never mind that our ministers are meeting in secret with the heads of Shell, BP, Google and Amazon what about the verge!
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/05/bilderberg-2013-goldman-sachs-watford
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dipsydoodle
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and even I'm having difficulty what they are going on about other than the fact the "strip of grass" on Hempstead Road runs into a motorway access point , J19/M25 and surrounding country lanes are too narrow to park on without blocking the road.
The Guardian harps on about it here too : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/02/week-ahead-bilderberg-2013-watford
It's a difficult place to keep secure anyway given that aside from the Hempstead Road main entrance its surrounded by a 300 acre site of fields and a golf course aside from which the Grand Union Canal runs through it.
For what the Grove is / was see here : http://www.thegrove.co.uk/about-us/history/
News from our local rag here :
Police to use anti-terror laws and no-fly zone to secure Bilderberg Group conference at The Grove hotel, Watford
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/10460651.Police_to_use_anti_terror_laws_and_no_fly_zone_to_secure_Bilderberg_conference/