Brian Haw

Hell to pay at Parliament Square just now: a wagonload of coppers and flunkies in high-res jackets have fenced Parliament Square in on behalf of London's very own GLA, and are ripping up tents in the peace camp. Charming.

'There was no eviction notice, or no warning - they just came here this morning and said they were taking the tents down, and then the fence went up,' says an exasperated Maria Gallastegui. Maria, a Londoner, has been camping in Parliament Square for about a year. She joined the camp to support Brian Haw - 'he wasn't allowed to leave the site unattended (the site being Brian's pavement protest with his anti-war billboards and signs), so we joined the camp to help him and look after the site when he wasn't there.' She says the police have 'never said anything about the tents before. They can't do this. There was no warning for us at all.'

Brian Haw says Ken Livingstone was the culprit this time. A year into the peace camp, the GLA has developed some sort of hangup with peace-camp hygiene, apparently. 'They're saying that the people in my camp are defecating and pissing all over the square,' Haw says. 'Well, they're not. The people who help me out are clean. They don't do that. They have been here for a year and nobody has said anything about it.' Haw says the weird thing is that the police told him that the peace campers could stay, as long as they move their 20 tents into the tiny area around his own protest site - an area of about half the size of a garage. Presumably, the peace campers will still have to wee, though: Haw isn't sure why the cops think putting 20 people into a different part of the Square will change that.

Police arse about as usual at Parliament Square peace protest.

It's the final morning of the weekend-long Parliament Square peace camp and famed protestor Brian Haw seems tired enough to swing at somebody: the police probably, but maybe a journalist if it comes to it.

'It's called sleep deprivation!' he screams, trying to get a moment to himself in his blue chair by the traffic. 'It was the bastard police, being their usual bastard selves.' The peace camp was set up for the weekend to remember the 2004 Fallujah slaughter and as a protest against the occupation of Iraq. The tents were set up in the grass on the Square. Haw says that he was up until at least 6am this morning, because the police were circling the camp, and then looking for him, as usual.