let'em eat amotal

[Burgess, John]

Please see my reply to Murthy's post.  Again, London is not like your 
typical big city.  Even in the Eastend, even in the Docklands, you have 
and had Lords and Ladies (though more in the past than now) living amongs 
the dockworkers.  Moving the target offered zero assurance of avoiding 
ANYBODY.  It's disproved by the very facts of the city.

I'm not arguing that the British were incapable of doing what the theory 
suggests.  I am saying that they were smart enough to see that any input 
they could impart would have no possibility of doing anything useful.  
Assuming that the War Office was not entirely populated by psychotics, 
they had no reason to do what is imputed.

BTW, the Royal Naval College is across the river (i.e., about 500 meters) 
away from the docklands.  Now THAT's a good place to redirect an incoming 
rocket....
Maybe it was all due to interservice rivalry?