I have never answered one of your posts before,and never will again after this,because you are as much of an idiot as the guardsman,
They are supposed to be trained to keep their cool,both in peacetime and more importantly wartime situations.
This preat obviously coould not do either.
He deserves any punishment he gets.
I was in the Army before/during/after WW2,and if we had acted in this way we probably wouldn't have won the war.
Sadly the standard of recruits and Army training has now reached an all time low,and this is the sort of rubbish we end up with.
When a soldier (who is supposed to be disciplined) lashes out a tourist standards have reached a pretty bad level.
PS:~
I have just asked a friend (from Chelsea Barracks) to look at the pictures,and he tells me it is a "set up" as that part of The Mall is nowhere near St James Palace,and the soldier is not in correct uniform.
Hmm, The Daily Mail lies again.