Hysterical

Today’s morning news was awash with the story that Fathers 4 Justice (but apparently, not “4” Literacy) had “plotted” to kidnap Tony Blair’s son, Leo, and that the “plot” had been broken up by police.

However, if you read more about the story (BBC version of the story here), you get to realise that this wasn’t a plot at all, except in the tiny minds of the media.

The plan only got as far as what police called the “chattering stage”, BBC correspondent Ben Ando said.

Police believed a fringe section of campaign group Fathers 4 Justice discussed the idea but did not have the ability to do it.

So basically it was a small group of people talking bollocks in a pub.

“You know what’d get us in the papers? Kidnapping Blair’s kid”
“Yeah, that’d be great.”
“Pity we’d end up in jail, or shot as terrorists”
“Yeah, that’s not so great”
“Best not do it then, yeah?“