Who's feeling sorry now?

So Fred 'The Shred' Goodwin's house and rather nice car got vandalised. Not that I condone violence, should I add. I'm an upstanding citizen and all that. On the other hand.... the only thing funnier than watching the TV anchor trying hard NOT to cheer publicly and go "Whoops! Isn't that a shame?" sarcastically was watching the fine, upstanding citizens of Edinburgh say "Not that I condone violence or anything, but, well, he was kind of asking for it, wasn't he?". Sadly, its only funny because, lets face it, he's our current scapegoat. But when the axes start to fall on RBS jobs, he's still going to be sitting there with his massive pension... he's not getting repossessed, is he? And no amount of vandalism will sort that out.

Even Oxo mum Linda Bellingham got in on the anarchy by encouraging a revolution. On lightweight housewife's staple diet 'Loose Women'. Hardly the beginning of a massive revolt, then. On the other hand, a revolution's all and good as long as uhm, no-one gets hurt and they stay away from me. By all means go for mass anarchy, as long as there's some kind of organisation involved (let's say, via the PTA?), and it's all over by 3.30 so people can collect the kids from school, OK?

Seriously, though, this is Britain. We couln't get anarchic unless there was a timetable, lunchbreak and a cup of tea with a sarnie involved. Perhaps we could court real controversy by... ooh.... I don't know... refusing to queue at the Post Office? Or panic-buying things that would actually be useful in a crisis? Or stoically continuing through snow-storms without letting the capital grind to a halt for three days?