>>-Are you looking for every cellar before every opening of English parliament (If it's true, so funny. :)) )
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>I expect there ARE many security checks all over nowadays, esp. due to Al Qaida and esp after 7/7. After all, the IRA DID succeed in blowing up part of Parliament back uin the 70s. So what's so amusing about the concept?

In that article this mentioned as an old tradition. Not belonged any terror thing. If that's true yes, funny...