Nicky Wishart, a pupil at Bartholomew School, Eynsham, Oxfordshire, organised the event on Facebook to highlight the plight of his youth centre, which is due to close in March next year due to budget cuts.
The protest, which was due to take place today, has attracted over 130 people on Facebook, most of whom are children who use youth centres in Cameron's constituency, Witney.
Wishart said that after the school was contacted by anti-terrorist officers, he was taken out of his English class on Tuesday afternoon and interviewed by a Thames Valley officer at the school in the presence of his head of year. During the interview, Wishart says that the officer told him that if any public disorder took place at the event he would be held responsible and arrested.
Yup, the lad wanted to stop his youth centre from being closed. If you want to know just how innocent this event was going to be:
Speaking about the youth club, [Virginia] Phelps, [Nicky's mother] added, "Over the last few months, the kids have been trying to keep the youth club open, raising money by cleaning cars. They've raised £140. Through the club they've been had all sorts of experiences that I couldn't afford to give them myself."
But the good news is:
Despite the police visit, Wishart said he would continue with the picket today and he would be delivering a letter to Cameron's staff about the youth centre closure.
Well done Nicky, and I hope it goes well and plenty of people attend. The Thames Valley Police should be ashamed. Yet more evidence, I afraid, the thin blue line see themselves as being here to protect 'democracy' from the people. For shame.
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