The green rooftop stunt looks a little too convenient - not a dickybird on msm news coverage of the EU referendum protest in Parliament Sq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenies on the roof] Reference

All I ask is that you keep quiet about me saying a dickybird to you until I’ve left Sheffield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conferences are Murder]

A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tracer of Lost Persons] Reference