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27 May 2012

Targeting Clegg’s family home was plain wrong

Defenders of the UK uncut protest call it a "party". Would they be so relaxed if the far-right copie

By Richard Morris

As a Liberal, I actively encourage people to demonstrate when they see things they don’t like or approve of. And I love creative demonstrations that make their point in an imaginative way, that get people talking and debating the merits of an argument, whether I happen to agree with that view or not. So it takes quite a lot for me to write that a protest is just plain wrong.

But targeting someone’s children does cross that line. Which is why I think yesterday’s UK Uncut demonstration outside Nick Clegg’s home was unjustifiable.

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