I'm so glad they were not charged. Although what they did was illegal (trespassing) - and that shouldn't change, the police read it in the correct context - a political protest where no one was hurt - and used their common sense.
If this were to happen today, they would probably be murdered as they were bludgeoned over the head with a truncheon, or perhaps tazered.
The attackers were taking to a police station, but were released when the police realized they were actually women, and that there wasn't any room in the girl's tank for them...
@stynium LOL I'm guessing you're a lesbo, which to be fair, is your personal choice. If you want to lick the other side of the stamp that's your business and if it makes you happy then I'm genuinely happy for you.
Why do you feel the need to try and insinuate I'm small minded and bigotted? I'm neither, I know gay people, I have 2 gay friends. Trying loudly and publicly to find prejudice against your sexuality where there is none is what annoys people like me, not your choice of partner...
lmao..... 4 lesbian demonstrators broke into the BBC news last night..... while Sue Lawley read the headline another presenter sat on them.....silly puddins
"We have rather been invaded." Love it! Classic English reaction to any incident is to remain calm. Like the Northern Rock bank securitisation crisis. People were in danger of losing their entire life savings, and possibly their homes... what did they do? Riot? Protest? Break things? No...
... they queued calmly in their thousands at the closest Northern Rock branch to discuss their options. lol Brilliant.
Lesbos, Les-be-friends, Dykes, Bulldykes, Dick Van Dykes, Spare-Rib-Ticklers, Cat-Flaps, Pussy Footers, Knicker Pickers, Men, Backpackers, Tent-peggers, Trout fishers, Melon Farmers, Kwikfit Fitters, Baggage Handlers, Left Luggage...call them what you will
@chrisgrainger well we dont have a First Amendment here in Britain like in the United States but we have the right to free speech enumerated in the Bill of Rights
These certainly weren't the lesbians you would fantasise about. Most likely the butch ultra left wing dykes that we used to laugh at in the eighties and who probably threw a fit if they heard the expression manhole cover. At least a lot of lesbians these days are fanciable.
Argentina was mobilizing 500,000 troops for six months & yet Britain did not see it, it shows Britain wanted war. Military needs war every 10 years to keep up military expenditure.
Those lesbians are well cool, one of them wearing snow-wash denim, (very trendy at the time) and smoking a cigarette. Good on you! I'm not a lesbian myself but I totally support what they were doing. The Conservative government had no business to tell people how to live their lives.
I have no issues with people being Gay but I never understand why so many gay people (thankfully not all) have to oppressively force their beliefs into the view of others?
What do they hope to achieve? I guess back then there was less in the way of legal equality but even today people do it.
(ps why do most pro-fem Lesbians dress in a masculine way emulating men?)
@chapmasi pro-fems dress manly because mens clothing is more comfortable...most women agree, (hence jumper stealing girlfriends, as such why tart yourself up to put yourself out their to a man, when you can be comfortable and rely on who you are not cheap looks
As for why, clause / section 28 was a law being brought in to make it illegal for councils to "promote homosexuality" the knock on effect of this meant that anyone who was gay had absolutely no education on safe sex between 2 people of the same gender..not too much an issue if you promote general safe sex, but when u say men and women only, it encourages problems.
The fact that they had to protest is another example of the divisions in society that seem to always come with a tory government. And sadly they're back, so we can expect a return to the bad old days.
@m3voj a lot of women prefer short hair because it's just more comfortable and easy to wash - and when they don't have to doll up and waste time putting it out for some guy, they just go with a short haircut.
Hilarious.! Nicholas Witchell rolling around on the floor with two handcuffed lesbians and pressing his wanton body all over them while breathlessly holding his hand over their mouths...
The "senior executives rushed in with a hacksaw" line gets me! I'm sure ever TV news boss keeps a hacksaw close by, just in case of a lesbian invasion.
I guess the security guard was sacked then?You can't just wander into the studio, the doors are automatically locked when a broadcast is in progress ,even BBC reception is guarded!
Security wasn't as tight as it is these days. There was no main reception, the gates behind Glen O Glaza were the main way to get into TV Centre. It's not the first time simethign like that happened, Jan Leeming was attacked in the newsroom by an intruder in the early 80's
No studios aren't locked when broadcasts are in progress... for very obvious reasons!
Security wasn't as tight as it is these days. There was no main reception, the gates seen behind Glen O Glaza were the main way into TV Centre back then.
TV studios aren't locked when broadcasts are in progress... for very obvious reasons!
Oh.I thought when a broadcast was in progress, the studio doors were electronically locked to stop any unathourised people (or dozy crew members)wandering in, but in the event of a fire, the lock was automatically disabled?
electronic locks never have been used on TV studio doors. one for the reason you missed in the above comment. What if there is a fire and the electronic lock fails? What if the fire was *caused* by the electronic lock?
Secondly, TV cameras in those days were susceptible to interference from radio signals and other devices similar to electronic locks. When K-9 first appeared in Doctor Who in 1977, the production team found his radio signals caused grey lines to appear on the pictures.
I loved the court sketches too - the protestor Nick Witchell is shown restraining has a ginger crewcut, which she doesn't appear to have in real life in the interview at the end of this clip. I'm surprised she wasn't shown wearing a pair of dungarees.
I dont get why some lesbians act butch and manly (just as some gay's act femenine) to turn on the same sex. but if a lesbian/gay likes other women/men acting like the other sex, then surely they aint completely gay/lesbian??
Of course if this were to occur today the protestors would not have been released without charge. They'd have been detained under the Terrorism Act for a few days and then charged with a Public Order Act offence. How times change!
hahaa i'm not surprised they are lesbians..what man would want to sleep with them!
mrpinkist 1 week ago
lesbians rule
paranoidandroid10 3 weeks ago
very professional and focused despite all the comotion
kookoopops1 4 weeks ago
So calm and composed.
Exfenestracide 1 month ago
I'm so glad they were not charged. Although what they did was illegal (trespassing) - and that shouldn't change, the police read it in the correct context - a political protest where no one was hurt - and used their common sense.
If this were to happen today, they would probably be murdered as they were bludgeoned over the head with a truncheon, or perhaps tazered.
chrisgrainger 1 month ago
The attackers were taking to a police station, but were released when the police realized they were actually women, and that there wasn't any room in the girl's tank for them...
joel1923 1 month ago
Poor choice of words lol. Imagine if "we have been invaded" had been taken out of context.
Amaru19 2 months ago
Don't fuck with 'Wichell'!
dvdmsch 3 months ago
very professional handling of the situation
terrendously 3 months ago
Just read in Wikipedia that Baroness Young would be sadly missed. Death to all homophobic political activists.
loggerhead743 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Christ! the 1980's reck of Thatcherism, it pervaded all areas, and ruined G.B.
loggerhead743 3 months ago
Comment removed
loggerhead743 3 months ago
hahaha!
IloveyouLenaKatina 4 months ago
LOL... I love the interview with the "women"... Too funny. Ted boys.
rocr62 5 months ago
"NewsKnight: The Legend of Sir Nicholas Wichell"
MrJimmystylez 5 months ago
Nicholas Witchell is easily the hardest newsreader. His book is dope too
MrJimmystylez 5 months ago
Heroes.
djjs91 5 months ago
An inside job - lesbos at the BBC let them in.
IlRezzonico 6 months ago
These demonstrators were awesome - how courageous of them to protest against a outmoded and stupid bill - Section 28. Inspiring!
All the homophobes posting here are probably scared of their own shadows, ignorant and bigots to boot. Homosexuality is natural and right as rain.
stynium 6 months ago
@stynium LOL I'm guessing you're a lesbo, which to be fair, is your personal choice. If you want to lick the other side of the stamp that's your business and if it makes you happy then I'm genuinely happy for you.
Why do you feel the need to try and insinuate I'm small minded and bigotted? I'm neither, I know gay people, I have 2 gay friends. Trying loudly and publicly to find prejudice against your sexuality where there is none is what annoys people like me, not your choice of partner...
chapmasi 6 months ago
I doubt anyone would get away with that now. The BBC's security today is really tight. Must have been pretty crap back then.
UncleFeedle 7 months ago
Hmph! Poetic justice for the BBC I suppose.
MrGoblin60 7 months ago
Very cool lady.
willewinky 7 months ago
I thought Sue did a very good job! She stayed very calm.
alanheath3 7 months ago
lmao..... 4 lesbian demonstrators broke into the BBC news last night..... while Sue Lawley read the headline another presenter sat on them.....silly puddins
BenoitBenn 10 months ago
Ye that's right, lets promote being gay. That's just wat evolution got us here to do - put willies up each others bums.... daft muff munchers
easyable 10 months ago
the homeland of all miseries,as gay life,and other dishuman errors
satansprick13 11 months ago
"We have rather been invaded." Love it! Classic English reaction to any incident is to remain calm. Like the Northern Rock bank securitisation crisis. People were in danger of losing their entire life savings, and possibly their homes... what did they do? Riot? Protest? Break things? No...
... they queued calmly in their thousands at the closest Northern Rock branch to discuss their options. lol Brilliant.
UnitedKingdomify 1 year ago
hahahaha lesbian protestors
xelvargx 1 year ago
I remember the Mirror newspaper headline: "Beeb Man Sits On Lesbian". Classic. And Sue Lawley, what a professional.
huffymatron 1 year ago
Lesbos, Les-be-friends, Dykes, Bulldykes, Dick Van Dykes, Spare-Rib-Ticklers, Cat-Flaps, Pussy Footers, Knicker Pickers, Men, Backpackers, Tent-peggers, Trout fishers, Melon Farmers, Kwikfit Fitters, Baggage Handlers, Left Luggage...call them what you will
MrSyrett 1 year ago
religion and homosexuality aside, section 28 was a facist law which violated free speech and the first amendement
MamaMario13 1 year ago
@MamaMario13 The first amendment of what?
chrisgrainger 1 month ago
@chrisgrainger well we dont have a First Amendment here in Britain like in the United States but we have the right to free speech enumerated in the Bill of Rights
MamaMario13 1 month ago
Lesbians are so cool!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
So there was a time when Brits made a stand? What changed that?
defproc 1 year ago
@defproc the indie style of gay litle haircuts and queer as fuck music
TomCuthbert93 1 year ago
@TomCuthbert93
These certainly weren't the lesbians you would fantasise about. Most likely the butch ultra left wing dykes that we used to laugh at in the eighties and who probably threw a fit if they heard the expression manhole cover. At least a lot of lesbians these days are fanciable.
Glenn1967ful 11 months ago
The news was always better when Sue (Lawley) did it! Sue Capenter as well!
ThePoo57 1 year ago
Argentina was mobilizing 500,000 troops for six months & yet Britain did not see it, it shows Britain wanted war. Military needs war every 10 years to keep up military expenditure.
justicepartyuk 1 year ago 2
i could've guessed they'd be dykes
falafelhotdog 1 year ago
@falafelhotdog
Why so? pls elaborate.
DanameaTheBattleLock 1 year ago
Crazy bloody Bull Dykes....
NolanRogers2 1 year ago
@NolanRogers2
Crazy bloody Bull Dykes .... that have the balls (Unlike alot of us) to take a stand on what they believe.
DanameaTheBattleLock 1 year ago
Invasion?! lol, i thought this was on about the falklands ivasion! lol
TheNationalMilitary 1 year ago
Those lesbians are well cool, one of them wearing snow-wash denim, (very trendy at the time) and smoking a cigarette. Good on you! I'm not a lesbian myself but I totally support what they were doing. The Conservative government had no business to tell people how to live their lives.
Feisty1967 1 year ago
Do you think they fancied Sue Lawley? They're certainly full of praise for her.
anonUK 1 year ago
I have no issues with people being Gay but I never understand why so many gay people (thankfully not all) have to oppressively force their beliefs into the view of others?
What do they hope to achieve? I guess back then there was less in the way of legal equality but even today people do it.
(ps why do most pro-fem Lesbians dress in a masculine way emulating men?)
chapmasi 1 year ago
@chapmasi pro-fems dress manly because mens clothing is more comfortable...most women agree, (hence jumper stealing girlfriends, as such why tart yourself up to put yourself out their to a man, when you can be comfortable and rely on who you are not cheap looks
henniganwilson 1 year ago
@chapmasi
As for why, clause / section 28 was a law being brought in to make it illegal for councils to "promote homosexuality" the knock on effect of this meant that anyone who was gay had absolutely no education on safe sex between 2 people of the same gender..not too much an issue if you promote general safe sex, but when u say men and women only, it encourages problems.
henniganwilson 1 year ago
@henniganwilson and out of paranoia, thats what the councils did
henniganwilson 1 year ago
Comment removed
stynium 6 months ago
The fact that they had to protest is another example of the divisions in society that seem to always come with a tory government. And sadly they're back, so we can expect a return to the bad old days.
keithc1977 1 year ago
That is why the Tories are scum.
myinfamy 1 year ago
why the f*** should I pay for gay propoganda? they still do this today
tramtrackharry 1 year ago
lol hahaha
Musketor 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
hahahahah 1:10
"I am afraid, we have rather been invaded"
ROFL
Elberiver11 2 years ago
Comment removed
Elberiver11 2 years ago
I am a poofter
Elberiver11 2 years ago
I had to laugh at the hacksaw mention.
"Television News Executives rushed in with a hacksaw, to remove the women's HEADS" :D
Qorab 2 years ago 8
Check out (JOHN MCCULLAGH "ILL DANCE ON YOUR GRAVE MRS THATCHER"........on youtube or myspace,well worth a listen!
LARRSON77 2 years ago
So it was not poofs and trots?
pc0sence 2 years ago
Dirty manheads.
m3voj 2 years ago
@m3voj a lot of women prefer short hair because it's just more comfortable and easy to wash - and when they don't have to doll up and waste time putting it out for some guy, they just go with a short haircut.
stynium 6 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
stupid lesbian twats haha sort ur heads out be normall u wierdos lmfao
scouse180 2 years ago
lol i Remmber that night...
BlastEMFF 2 years ago 2
Ah the 80s, before scum-Britain was born.
britishjohn04 2 years ago
I laughed really loud just as I heard "four lesbian protestors"
ShitMovies2000 2 years ago
Hilarious.! Nicholas Witchell rolling around on the floor with two handcuffed lesbians and pressing his wanton body all over them while breathlessly holding his hand over their mouths...
GoodTimeGeorge3 2 years ago 2
Lol, that courtroom style sketch is a masterpiece. Priceless.
97channel 2 years ago 16
LOL at the artist's impression of ginger witchell astride a lesbian, hand clasped firmly over her feminist gob.
markheim71 2 years ago
At 0:42, you could see the protester behind Sue Lawley. And still, Sue's so professional!
GuienGarma 2 years ago
Queer Power!
DreamClaws 3 years ago 3
ha ha check out the short haired dyke!
mellowNdark 2 years ago
Loving the artist's impressions of the studio invasion. The pissed off look on Little Nicky Witchell's face has been caught very well.
PaulRoberts 3 years ago 27
LMAO you can tell that ITN were enjoying this!
daveevans1000 3 years ago 22
The "senior executives rushed in with a hacksaw" line gets me! I'm sure ever TV news boss keeps a hacksaw close by, just in case of a lesbian invasion.
Ulleskelf 3 years ago 3
good for them!!!! freedom of speech in action lol.
annakatherine22 3 years ago
YAY!!
DreamClaws 3 years ago 2
I guess the security guard was sacked then?You can't just wander into the studio, the doors are automatically locked when a broadcast is in progress ,even BBC reception is guarded!
mistofoles 3 years ago
Security wasn't as tight as it is these days. There was no main reception, the gates behind Glen O Glaza were the main way to get into TV Centre. It's not the first time simethign like that happened, Jan Leeming was attacked in the newsroom by an intruder in the early 80's
No studios aren't locked when broadcasts are in progress... for very obvious reasons!
LuthansaTerminal 3 years ago
Security wasn't as tight as it is these days. There was no main reception, the gates seen behind Glen O Glaza were the main way into TV Centre back then.
TV studios aren't locked when broadcasts are in progress... for very obvious reasons!
LuthansaTerminal 3 years ago
Oh.I thought when a broadcast was in progress, the studio doors were electronically locked to stop any unathourised people (or dozy crew members)wandering in, but in the event of a fire, the lock was automatically disabled?
mistofoles 3 years ago
electronic locks never have been used on TV studio doors. one for the reason you missed in the above comment. What if there is a fire and the electronic lock fails? What if the fire was *caused* by the electronic lock?
Secondly, TV cameras in those days were susceptible to interference from radio signals and other devices similar to electronic locks. When K-9 first appeared in Doctor Who in 1977, the production team found his radio signals caused grey lines to appear on the pictures.
AidanLunn 3 years ago
Fair play to them...great way of publicising your cause. Lawley was a true professional though.
Scottmachin 3 years ago 4
My thoughts entirely...nice one.
BaddaBigBoom 3 years ago
I love nicholas witchell he is weird cute and handled this with great aplomb by sitting on one of them. Top man!
Jasminebeautyfairy 3 years ago
WTF?
DreamClaws 3 years ago
bloody lesbians
worcesterwombat 4 years ago
lol thts exactley wat i thought
jayg2009 3 years ago
ha ha look at Glen Oglaza now of Sky News
GeeGee3374 4 years ago
Sue Lawley was very profetional here.
cloverfield911 4 years ago 3
I loved the court sketches too - the protestor Nick Witchell is shown restraining has a ginger crewcut, which she doesn't appear to have in real life in the interview at the end of this clip. I'm surprised she wasn't shown wearing a pair of dungarees.
prontford 4 years ago
I thought it was Nick who had the ginger crewcut!
mistofoles 3 years ago
I aint being sexist here, so dont kill me:P
I dont get why some lesbians act butch and manly (just as some gay's act femenine) to turn on the same sex. but if a lesbian/gay likes other women/men acting like the other sex, then surely they aint completely gay/lesbian??
metallicaKSA 4 years ago
There a lot of femme and butch lesbians just like you get tomboys and feminine girls. People just act like that.
barSLS 4 years ago 2
yup exactly :P
metallicaKSA 4 years ago
fab clips, thanks for posting
jamie5581 4 years ago
"In the meantime, if you can possibly ignore the background *news*, we'll bring you the news as best we can."
I can't believe ITN gave the protesters airtime, though.
MQsCues 4 years ago
Of course if this were to occur today the protestors would not have been released without charge. They'd have been detained under the Terrorism Act for a few days and then charged with a Public Order Act offence. How times change!
tgsh2007 4 years ago
Yeah, Sue Lawley was superb! Good job
Durbs75 4 years ago 2
Those 'court sketches' are fantastic.
Goatherder 4 years ago 3
I remember watching that live as a kid!
so professional sue!
jgjg69 4 years ago
I love the courtroom style pastel-works of Nicholas Witchell's barvery!!
envcrouchie 4 years ago
LOL
DreamClaws 3 years ago
ignore the background news ... lol!
welshguy28 4 years ago
LOL thats jkz
silverfan93 4 years ago
I heard that as well! She should have concentrated more like she told us to lol
KevCityboy 4 years ago
yep, I remember this as a kid... thanks for posting
easy1355 4 years ago
Thanks for uploading, I have been looking for this for ages.
1218174 4 years ago