It contributed, without a doubt. It would have brought the issue into focus in the minds of the British people.
Protestors don't throw themselves in front of race horses unless they have good reason.
Not really - you're doing the conflating here, not me. Specifically we are talking about an incident at a theatre. That affects, what, 300 people? About the same as York's away following probably.
Wrong. Nobody gave York City fans a second thought when the pitch was invaded and the crossbar snapped in 1996. They'd made a four hour journey for 9 minutes of football.
But I'm sure people said the same thing about the suffragettes when Emily Davidson threw herself in front of a racehorse.
Or perhaps more pertinently, Albion fans didn't protest just with strongly worded letters to the Argus when the club was being asset stripped. I remember a former NSC...