Climate Activists

[emmer_moans]

They may have used cornflour as they think it would be organic and harmless but orange/red dye is not an easy colour to get rid of...
Also, there's a risk of copy cat behaviour with people using actual paint in the future rather than some type of flour. So either way, it's irresponsible/criminal as they have tainted the stones. Anyway, what has Stonehenge got to do with petrol and climate change? They'd be more impactful if they painted petrol stations orange or something, not that I condone that either. All they are doing is pissing people off and ruining artefacts.

 

[Impleo]

It is the hypocrisy that I can't stand. No wonder as a society we are becoming more divided.

I live in a city that tends to have a strong opinion on things. We've had 2 efforts to shut down my city on a weekend by Extinction Rebellion. First one I decided to go and have a nosey.

It was cringe - these are our hardcore anarchists. The aim was to shut down the city to all traffic, including public transport. Privileged people shutting down the city to those who cannot afford to live here, struggling local businesses losing money due to the disruption.

I expected passion and heated exchanges. What we had was an embarrassing display of virtue signalling.

What I don't get is why do they do it in a city like mine, where I imagine most people would be aware of the cause and would be a city most likely to support the cause. Why not go to Bradford or Rochdale and see the reception they get? I do get it really, all they want is a pat on the back from other like-minded people.

 

[NeverEnough]

Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for throwing soup on Sunflowers

Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup over Van's Gogh's piece.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apparently Plummer believes that "It is not just myself being sentenced today, or my co-defendants, but the foundations of democracy itself."

Ever so slightly grandiose.....

 

[rainbowlemon]

A court injunction has been granted, meaning similar demonstrations could lead to imprisonment.

Insulate Britain: Injunction granted against M25 protesters

National Highways wins a High Court ruling against protesters who have been disrupting the M25.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[IngressUK]

Reported today that the latest Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 has caused two lorries to crash.

Enough of this BS. Time for the fed up motorists caught up in this crap to take direct action against those involved. I don't generally agree with violence, unless absolutely backed into a corner - which these protesters are now doing to the public.

I think it now the only thing that will get though to these protesters and curtail their actions. The wrath of the fed up public.

There would he a huge round of applause and support nationally, if they did.

 

[MarquisDeSade]

Upper middle class prats with too much free time on their hands looking for a bit of attention.

Their end goals are unrealistic at best, and it’s strange that they don’t openly criticise China or India.

Pay them no mind and they will move on to the next “cause” that’s in fashion.

 

[kev1974]

folks on Wandsworth Bridge not standing for any of this road blocking nonsense

no police there to ask them if they wanted cups of tea or other pleasantries

 

[kev1974]

If all it took was a cherry picker, why did it take 36 hours and not 2 hours to get it done?

• Dartford Crossing has been closed for a day after two protesters climbed the QEII bridge at 3.50am yesterday
• A cherry picker arrived and the eco-zealots have now been taken down from the bridge and arrested
• The two men have been arrested on a charge of suspicion of conspiracy to commit public nuisance
• Comes as police also probing video appearing to show fireworks being fired at the protesters last night
• A separate protest by the group this morning blocked traffic outside Barons Court station in London

I think it was a super tall cherry picker. Not many of them around and I'm sure the few there are are booked solid on construction jobs, not laying around waiting for a twat to climb up a bridge.

I hope they are made to pay the immediate costs of hiring the super cherry picker in the first instance, and that cost is not left to the taxpayer to pick up on their behalf.

 

[JoeBloggs]

Frankly if you sit on a motorway, you deserve what's coming. How on earth is it allowed, just move them and dump them somewhere or let them be at risk of being run over.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

I dont understand how bagpipe man can be moved on for safely playing a musical instrument, while someone blocking a road cant?

 

[GladiatorReady]

If one of the protesters suffered life-threatening injuries (eventually I think someone is going to get annoyed and drive into them) I wonder if the others would block an ambulance arriving to help them.

 

[Renegadedancer]

The papers need to agree not to report on them , don’t give them oxygen. Then they have no one to highlight their cause. Disgraceful. They are also alienating the people they need on their side.

 

[Lonette]

These people are psychotic. Why would they ruin something like the London Marathon! People running in the open air is about the healthiest passtime a human can do, and one of the best for the planet as well.

They make no sense, disturbing snooker and throwing things at paintings. None of this has anything to do with what you'd think their message should be.

I'm not a climate change denier (though I do think that label is fucking ridiculous) but I feel the likes of Just Stop Oil are more about attacking the working class everyman than anything else.

I was glad to see two have been jailed for one of their vile motorway stunts that caused people to miss funerals and such but I wish the sentence had been five years each. These people act like they are running the country and it's batshit crazy.

 

[emmer_moans]

A lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck, if I lived near the M25 I would probably feel dangerously close to losing my nerve if being trapped in gridlock meant my boss docked my pay. A day's pay is significant and is the difference between affording food for the whole month or not. I understand stuff needs to change for the future but it's always the common Joe Bloggs who gets punished by these protests.

 

[Oohthedrama]

I'm glad it's not just me who thinks this

she’s painfully annoying and I hate the fact nobody can criticise her

 

[kev1974]

Why aren't they in work or college? I wish the police would leave them glued

Exactly. I bet it would sort things out overnight and there would be no more of these protests if the police just left them glued to the road for once, even better put up some boarding/fencing so they're just enclosed in their own little protest space and the world just carries on around them. See how committed to the cause they are when having to wet themselves or rely on others to spoon feed them their dinner becomes a real danger.

 

[Justhereforthedrama]

I think we need to look deeper into JSO, I think its gone beyond climate activists and more into cult.

I saw a bizarre interview with the leader a while back and he was saying if we dont stop climate change then sea will rise, immigrants will come to the uk and break in and r*pe your Gran. It was like some weird programming thing. It felt like scientology.

Then I've put the discomfort I felt with that combined with the bizarre behaviour of the people involved, One girl in particular, chained herself to a bridge and was literally sobbing about the planet.

I have noticed they have been using older people nowadays to do these stunts.

 

[givepeasachance]

This is like when you're on your 5th gin & lemonade, and get over emotional about the daftest of things and then you start crying. You know you're getting over emotional but the tears start flowing and you're powerless to stop them in the gin induced drama.

THE FISH IN THE POND ARE DYING THEY CAN'T BREATHE

And the next day you remember your emotional state and the cringe is real

 

[JoeBloggs]

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...t-cold-dark-gluing-Volkswagen-shop-floor.html

If only we'd take the same approach

We spend too much time pandering to these people.

If you go up on the bridge, then leave them there and let life carry one. They are well aware of the danger they are putting themselves in so let them worry about it. Why are 100s of people being effective for the actions of one.

 

[Bobby Chariot]

Thousands of people will have trained for a year to run in the London Marathon, raising money for charities etc.
These protesters really annoy me, they ought to head for one of the globe's biggest polluters - China, & try protesting there, a truncheon across the face or worse, would be the outcome.