Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Operation Glencoe?!

As the boys in blue await the invasion of London by an army of protesters exercised by the G20 summit, it's rather alarming to hear that the Met have codenamed their security operation Glencoe - a name with rather unfortunate connotations, especially for our Caledonian cousins. How do they come up with these codenames anyway? Do they have a Codenames Origination Department? I wouldn't be at all surprised. If so, this one should have been sent back. Why not something nice like Glenlivet?
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4 comments:

  1. dearieme1 April 2009 at 16:35

    Yeah, they should have called it Peterloo.

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  2. Ric Hernandez1 April 2009 at 18:04

    Nige
    Do you have a collection,a book of essays, perhaps?

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  3. jonathan law2 April 2009 at 10:52

    Well thanks for putting me right, Nige. Having been half asleep when the radio came on yesterday morning, I spent the day believing that the Met had inexplicably named their op after either 1)a brand of coffee or 2) a 1980s soap opera about women in a Jap POW camp. Given the strong whiff of violence and conspiracy, Operation Glencoe is plainly a far sillier choice than either Kenco or Tenko would have been. As you say, how do they come up with them?

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  4. dearieme2 April 2009 at 11:42

    Though I suppose that the half-awake could confuse Peterloo with Portaloo.

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