As it was decided not to advertise this action, the six easily entered the shopping precinct and into the branch, where they proceeded to blast away on the mega phone and hand out leaflets.

Unlike last time there werent enough security on duty so activists had to be carried out (literally) one by one.

Once outside the police arrived who had actually been called by a member of the public due to the security's heavy handedness! They soon left and in the words of one comrade, "People were queuing up for the leaflets..you couldn't have got a better response if you were handing out free beer!"

They stayed an hour and handed out 1000 leaflets.

We must say to Norfolk's 'finest' we were deeply upset that you didn't bring out the fucking helicopter and hope that we see you at our next big day out..the picket at Wilko's. Should be a good day, ABSOLUTELY HOARDES OF MILITANT ANARCHISTS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE WILL BE COMING! MIGHT EVEN BE A BAZOOKA OR TWO IF YA LUCKY!! WINK WINK!!

(Stolen from the Monarchy Out! website)

A Head of State is a symbol of his/her countrys character and outlook. And naturally enough, Heads of State try to make a good impression when on official visits (at home or abroad). This requires diplomacy and tact from all the Head of States entourage. Oh dear, enter Prince Philip, the man for whom the term politically correct is completely alien and who only takes his foot out of his mouth to eat or drink. Phil apparently believes that he is misunderstood and that many of his remarks are misconstrued. Somehow, I dont think so. Take a look at the evidence spanning over thirty-five years:

• May 2002 - Phil ensures that the Windsors Golden Jubilee tour of Britain starts appropriately. Upon confronting a visually impaired, wheelchair bound lady and her guide dog, he joshes: Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now? Stan Boardman must be worried about losing the title of Most Offensive Man in Britain.
  
  
• March 2002 - Liz and Phil travel to Australia as part of the Golden Jubilee World Tour (any T-shirts available?!). After taking in a performance by an Aboriginal dance troop, Phil wisely avoids racial stereotypes by deftly asking an Aboriginal leader, Do you still throw spears at each other? Yeah, thatll help the monarchists down under.
  
  
• August 1999 - whilst being shown around a high-tech electronics factory in Edinburgh, Phil notices a fuse box thats less advanced than other equipment that's around. So naturally, the completely unbigoted and misunderstood Duke automatically says, It looks as though it was put in by an Indian. Thereby offending an entire sub-continent.
  
  
• May 1999 - Phil visits the new Welsh Assembly, eventually coming across a group from the British Deaf Association. Upon seeing some young people with hearing impairments standing near a band, the Duke remarks: Deaf? If you are near there [the music], no wonder you are deaf. What an enlightened and educated man he is, eh?
  
  
• 1997 - theres something about India and Indians with Phil. On an official visit to Jallianwala Bagh and the Flame of Liberty (a memorial to unarmed men, women and children who were butchered by General Reginald Dyers British forces in 1919), the Duke reportedly said the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy was vastly exaggerated.
  
  
• 1996 - Phil makes an entirely perspicacious, intelligent and sensitive comment during the gun debate that follows the Dunblane massacre: Theres no evidence that people who use weapons for sport are any more dangerous than people who use golf clubs or tennis rackets or cricket bats. And Im certain the people of Dunblane share your views.
  
  
• 1995 - never one to rely on stereotypes, Phil asks a Scottish driving instructor: How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?
  
  
• 1994 - everybody knows that questioning a persons parentage is never a polite thing to do, well, except good ol Phil. During a spell in the Cayman Islands he asks a local: Arent most of you descended from pirates?
  
  
• 1993 - Phil tells a Brit in Hungary: You cant have been here that longyou havent got a pot belly.
  
  
• 1993 - Phil visits Lockerbie, scene of the Pan Am air disaster, where eleven locals died (killed by wreckage) along with those on board. For some strange reason, the locals are offended when Phil says: People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle. Insensitive, inappropriate and idiot are three words that spring to mind.
  
  
• 1992 - animal lover Phil declines to even touch one of Australias most loved species, the Koala bear: Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.
  
  
• 1986 - on a tour of China, Phil single-handedly tries to end Sino-British diplomatic relations. He describes Beijing as ghastly and told a group of British students: If you stay here much longer youll all be slitty-eyed.
  
  
• 1986 - whilst its true to say that the people of Hong Kong and China choose their ingredients from a wider selection than us in the West, Phil oversteps the mark during a World Wildlife Fund conference: If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
  
  
• 1984 - upon being presented with a gift from a very obviously female Kenyan the ever gracious and courteous Phil inquires: You are a woman, arent you?
  
  
• 1981 - at the peak of the recession, Phil sensitively jokes that: Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
  
  
• 1969 - Welsh national treasure Tom Ive had more knickers thrown at me than Ive had hot dinners Jones is asked by the Duke if he gargled with pebbles after a turn at the Royal Variety Performance.
  
  
• 1966 - whos left for Phil to offend? Ah, yes - women: British women cant cook. Admittedly, that comment is a little more tame than the rest, but this was 1966, Phil was just warming up back then.