A "victory for the terrorists" my ass.
The politicians realized that this was a loss for themselves... They're just starting to realize that in a marginally representative / democratic country, the politicians can't rule against the wishes of the citizenry forever.
Democracies tend to put up with a lot of crap, then suddenly explode in fits of collective rage. If this Tory a-hole thinks this incident was bad, he should wait to see what happens if they don't show some real results soon. Think interment camps & nukes.
Hey - a boy can dream, can't he?
;-)