When Real Life Happens!

This was the moment earlier this evening when the terribly thoughtless people of England intruded into the lives of Prince Charles and Camilla.

The moment when Charles and Camilla's car was attacked

What an darned inconvenience for them.

Thankfully however, the two were not held up for long and managed to make it to the Royal Variety Performace on time. What a relief.

While they may be of far less importance, sadly many of the little people in London were faced with more havoc caused by both genuine protesters and thugs who turned the city into a warzone.

I spoke to Andrew Hart, who works in Kensington but made his way down to Westminster at around 6pm to watch the protests unfold from a safe distance. He likened the scenes to the Notting Hill Carnival: "From where I was standing you could see the students trying to push the police across the bridge. A lot of drunk kids and just kids being little dicks were throwing cans or whatever.

"I never saw the worst of it yet it was crazy busy. It was not what I would call a protest - more of a street festival. A lot of people were just pushed along like cattle".

The BBC's Business Secretary Vince Cable said today that the policy which is the cause of this trouble has been passed by a democratic Parliament and that the details must now be explained to the public.

While this may be true and the system of government in this country is something to protect at all costs, it has been let down by the politicians who failed to keep their promises.

It is unlikely that the Liberal Democrats will come back from this for many years, and Nick Clegg has certainly already seen his best days - but what has been damaged by the whole affair is more worrying.

When a party publishes its manifesto, detailing what it stands for and what it hopes to do, this forms the basis on how the people of the country vote. When politicians fail to keep to these promises there is little we can do - except protest.

And although putting people in danger is inexcuseable, be it the ordinary minions or the future King himself, it is certainly heartening to know that there are still people in this country who will go out and show how angry they are when they've been let down by the people they voted for.