Police Raid In Islington: Sarkozy And Brown Not Arrested
NICOLAS Sarkozy and Gordon Brown are palying football at Arsenal.
The two men toyed with the ball. Both resisted any urge to play head tennis, which always ends in shame for the politico.
It was a simple game of pass and don’t move. Sarko didn’t nutmeg Brown. And Brown didn’t smack the ball into the stands with the cry “‘Ave it!”. How we would have warmed to him had only he done so.
To one side, Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s erudite manager, looked statesmanlike and in charge.
Meanwhile, about half a mile away, about 600 bobbies in blue boiler suits are yomping down Blackstock Road. It’s the Mail’s “Operation Overkill”. It’s a swoop on drug dealing, money laundering and selling fake documents.
More than 300 stolen mobile phones, along with 120 laptops, 110 cameras, 32 iPods, 20 sat-navs and 47 forged passports and driving licences are recovered.
A Met Police spokesman says: “There is no doubt that people know they can get rid of stolen goods in this particular road. That is why we are doing a clean sweep to clear it out.”
Says the Express on its front page: “For weeks you never see a policeman then ‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, 600 turn up at once.”
And on the same day as Gordon Brown meets Sarko just up the way. The Queen thinks everywhere beyond the palaces smells of wet paint; Gordon Brown sees only a land purged of wrongdoers…
Neither Broon nor Sarko was arrested…
Posted: 28th, March 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
