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Old Bill digs up little weed beside Big Ben from The Times 05.07.00 THE seeds of guerrilla gardening came to fruition yesterday when police discovered a crop of suspected marijuana plants in the shadow of Big Ben. The plants are believed to be the result of an allotment plot hatched by the anarchists who invaded Parliament Square two months ago for the May Day demonstration which descended into violence. Armed with spades, seeds and compost, the group Reclaim the Streets had invited "Avant Gardeners" to turn London's urban spaces green. Capitalism would be destroyed by the addition of flower beds to car parks and, while the statue of Churchill was being defaced, green-fingered revolutionaries had buried a fresh crop of grass in the Square. 
The plants would have continued to prosper were it not for an observant group of Aboriginal protesters who were themselves staging a protest over land rights. "England has a advanced a bit, hasn't it?" said Michael Anderson, from the Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Peoples. "You must be a very liberal country. We should all emigrate to England."" Police said they would send the plants for analysis, but were treating the matter as a "low-grade offence". Last night MPs in the Strangers Bar were slow to recognise the plant. Dennis Turner, the chairman of the catering committee and MP for Wolverhampton South East, asked: "Is it mint? It smells lovely." However, it was eventually identified by a member of the Upper House, Lord Evans of Parkside, who shouted loudly: "That's cannabis, that is." |
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