Cardiff city centre has been turned into a high security ‘prison’ with 10 miles of fencing - which is being dubbed the ‘ring of steel’ - ahead of the Nato conference next week.
Police have erected the nine feet high security fencing around Celtic Manor resort in Newport where Barack Obama, David Cameron and other world leaders will meet in Wales on September 4 and 5, as well as the city centre.
It comes as former foreign office minister, Kim Howells, issued fears that home grown Islamic State terrorists could be planning to attack the 2014 summit.

The pathetic political class can't be bothered to control our national boarders, but they do lock themselves behind high security steel barriers – at our expense:

We are sleepwalking into a police state. Scenes like those in that article should not be tolerated anywhere in the UK, let alone in a major British city but it's slowly but surely creeping into our daily lives. Was it really that long ago the Berlin wall was toppled and seen as a sign of freedom and democracy ?

Emergency measures will be introduced to prevent the lights going out this winter.
Offices and factories will be offered compensation to undergo 1970s-style energy rationing and shut down for up to four hours a day to prevent households being plunged into darkness.
In addition, owners of old power stations will be asked to switch them back on to meet the country’s demands.
National Grid had not planned to use this option until next winter.