A friend of mine has been to see that show and said that Sigourney Weaver is dreadful in it
How did those people get up on stage? That's bad security. I'm also surprised that the audience weren't more hostile.
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How did those people get up on stage? That's bad security. I'm also surprised that the audience weren't more hostile.
Luvvies darling, luvvies! They sympathise with the loons. Middle class theatre goers.A friend of mine has been to see that show and said that Sigourney Weaver is dreadful in it
How did those people get up on stage? That's bad security. I'm also surprised that the audience weren't more hostile.
Yes, indeed. That's why they protest at Sainsbury's and Shakespeare plays, but not in Lidl or at a Millwall football match
They did the same for Les Miserables too.
Some theatre tickets can also be bought for £25-£30 pounds if you sit far away enough.
Some theatre tickets can also be bought for £25-£30 pounds if you sit far away enough.
Hmmm maybe a good time for her to learn the word "consequences".
They're all trust fund mats with too much time on their hands. I long for the day someone gives them the old one, two 
I'm that pass
Personally, if I was booking the court time, I'd go out of my way to schedule it during finals just so there are consequences regardless of the outcome of the trial.
I agree. These pretentious individuals need their comeuppance. They have to realise that they can't just run amok and expect to be lauded and applauded.
I'm so sick of these arseholes.
They are never going to achieve their goal, which is if I understand it right is to piss people off so much the government have to do something.
Life is hard enough, things just now are especially miserable for many. These total bleeps just need to duck off, all they are is cowardly bullies going for their soft targets. God, I would LOVE to see them try and take on Millwall or whatever.
They are never going to achieve their goal, which is if I understand it right is to piss people off so much the government have to do something.
Life is hard enough, things just now are especially miserable for many. These total bleeps just need to duck off, all they are is cowardly bullies going for their soft targets. God, I would LOVE to see them try and take on Millwall or whatever.
Why are they not even talking about Israel destroying biodiversity and releasing carbon through widespread bombing?
It's all just slogans with these folk.
It's all just slogans with these folk.
Car + protestors in the road.
It's hard to feel sorry for them really.
It would be hilarious if they called for an Ambulance and were told there was a report of the road being blocked and therefore inaccessible.
Judge's comments from the Just stop oil protest that blocked Dover in '21.
"On Friday 24 September of 2021, the Registrant and 38 other people brought arterial roots into and within the town of Dover and its Port to a standstill for about an hour and threequarters.
The sentencing judge observed that: “…you and all of the others, set yourselves up as judges, jurors and executioners of the ability of, I am satisfied, the 1000’s of people to go about their business that day.” He went on to state that: “In well-planned and concerted action, consciously not in the communities where you yourselves lived, you all, having travelled from different parts of the country, with high visibility clothing, leaflets and determination to get yourselves arrested to promote your cause, you set about bringing Dover to a standstill. Your group, together, sat in busy roads, leading to and from the port, blocking any and all traffic, until one by one you could be arrested and removed from the scene. You claim to have intended to target only the port and HGV drivers, as if the people working in the port and HGV drivers were not worthy of consideration and were merely fair game for your protest. In fact, your actions were totally indiscriminate. You didn’t care who was caught up in the traffic chaos, although I accept that the stories of individual victims, now that you’ve heard them, are ones that you do care about. The small selection of stories of victims, and victims they were, which were read to the Court, just demonstrate that.
The self-employed therapist, travelling to meet a vulnerable young person; the scaffolder awaiting delivery of parts vital to the repair of a road bridge; a young woman travelling to the home of her elderly grandmother, to spend the day caring for her; the lifeboat crew, forced to take two or three times as long to get to the lifeboat station; the builder, late for work, and so late home and missing an important family event. There are the records and the information about the ferries containing hundreds of people, stuck at berths in the United Kingdom and France and possibly worst of all, stuck at sea, unable to enter the port because there were no empty berths. There were many such stories of inconvenience, many hurting innocent people in their pocket, through lost wages. Of even more significance was the great risk of physical and psychological harm that you exposed people to. One such was the victim of the chemical spill at a petrol station. As a result of tailbacks of traffic being so long the specialist ambulance team couldn’t reach them other than by leaving their ambulance and running on foot with what equipment they could carry.
Your so-called blue light policy, of letting emergency vehicles through was arrogant, ill thought out and useless if queues of traffic were so long that emergency vehicles couldn’t even get close to where the roadblocks were. As the morning wore on, there was growing risk, and a real risk of public disorder and violence, as you and the other protesters were impervious to the pleas of ordinary people to let through medical staff, care staff and others, making people more and more angry. Anyone and everyone was merely collateral damage in this crusade, the large company, the subcontractor ,the employee, the self-employed, the emergency worker, the nurse, the carer, the parents and the children. I think of the little boy being taken to nursery school by his father, distressed and upset by witnessing the growing anger of the motorists, in which his father’ scar was stuck, and, in particular, the two toddlers with a neurological condition, trapped with their mother in a hot car for an hour, growing increasingly distressed until other motorists were able to shuffle their vehicles aside and let them escape.
It was suggested during the trial that HGV drivers are used to such delays and that seemingly they’re fair game for your actions, but the nation depends on them to deliver the goods that everybody needs. They perform a vital role for us all. The contents of each HGV load was important to someone, and each driver was a person with their own life to get on with, their own homes, and families to return to and bills to pay. Your suggestions during the trial that somehow the Police were at fault and contributed to the traffic congestion by failing to remand people in custody from earlier actions, and by failing to arrest you all sooner, is hypocritical and ridiculous. They were stationed at the other end of the County of Kent because of earlier protests around the M25. In the end, over 100 Police Officers were needlessly taken away from their duties of investigating crime and keeping communities safe, by having to attend Dover, to painstakingly arrest you all and remove you from the road because you steadfastly refused their repeated requests, that having exercised your rights to protest you now needed to respect the rights of everyone else to go about their business. You wouldn’t have it. Instead, to further your aims, you exploited the Police and the communities in Dover and Kent, in order to get the sensational images you wanted. There are no sentencing Council guidelines for offences like these, but I must still assess culpability and harm. Culpability is high, in my judgment, due to the extensive planning, the travel from far afield, the large size of the group, the strategic targeting of a vital and busy port and the determination to resist all pleas to lift your blockades for as long as it took to be arrested”
"On Friday 24 September of 2021, the Registrant and 38 other people brought arterial roots into and within the town of Dover and its Port to a standstill for about an hour and threequarters.
The sentencing judge observed that: “…you and all of the others, set yourselves up as judges, jurors and executioners of the ability of, I am satisfied, the 1000’s of people to go about their business that day.” He went on to state that: “In well-planned and concerted action, consciously not in the communities where you yourselves lived, you all, having travelled from different parts of the country, with high visibility clothing, leaflets and determination to get yourselves arrested to promote your cause, you set about bringing Dover to a standstill. Your group, together, sat in busy roads, leading to and from the port, blocking any and all traffic, until one by one you could be arrested and removed from the scene. You claim to have intended to target only the port and HGV drivers, as if the people working in the port and HGV drivers were not worthy of consideration and were merely fair game for your protest. In fact, your actions were totally indiscriminate. You didn’t care who was caught up in the traffic chaos, although I accept that the stories of individual victims, now that you’ve heard them, are ones that you do care about. The small selection of stories of victims, and victims they were, which were read to the Court, just demonstrate that.
The self-employed therapist, travelling to meet a vulnerable young person; the scaffolder awaiting delivery of parts vital to the repair of a road bridge; a young woman travelling to the home of her elderly grandmother, to spend the day caring for her; the lifeboat crew, forced to take two or three times as long to get to the lifeboat station; the builder, late for work, and so late home and missing an important family event. There are the records and the information about the ferries containing hundreds of people, stuck at berths in the United Kingdom and France and possibly worst of all, stuck at sea, unable to enter the port because there were no empty berths. There were many such stories of inconvenience, many hurting innocent people in their pocket, through lost wages. Of even more significance was the great risk of physical and psychological harm that you exposed people to. One such was the victim of the chemical spill at a petrol station. As a result of tailbacks of traffic being so long the specialist ambulance team couldn’t reach them other than by leaving their ambulance and running on foot with what equipment they could carry.
Your so-called blue light policy, of letting emergency vehicles through was arrogant, ill thought out and useless if queues of traffic were so long that emergency vehicles couldn’t even get close to where the roadblocks were. As the morning wore on, there was growing risk, and a real risk of public disorder and violence, as you and the other protesters were impervious to the pleas of ordinary people to let through medical staff, care staff and others, making people more and more angry. Anyone and everyone was merely collateral damage in this crusade, the large company, the subcontractor ,the employee, the self-employed, the emergency worker, the nurse, the carer, the parents and the children. I think of the little boy being taken to nursery school by his father, distressed and upset by witnessing the growing anger of the motorists, in which his father’ scar was stuck, and, in particular, the two toddlers with a neurological condition, trapped with their mother in a hot car for an hour, growing increasingly distressed until other motorists were able to shuffle their vehicles aside and let them escape.
It was suggested during the trial that HGV drivers are used to such delays and that seemingly they’re fair game for your actions, but the nation depends on them to deliver the goods that everybody needs. They perform a vital role for us all. The contents of each HGV load was important to someone, and each driver was a person with their own life to get on with, their own homes, and families to return to and bills to pay. Your suggestions during the trial that somehow the Police were at fault and contributed to the traffic congestion by failing to remand people in custody from earlier actions, and by failing to arrest you all sooner, is hypocritical and ridiculous. They were stationed at the other end of the County of Kent because of earlier protests around the M25. In the end, over 100 Police Officers were needlessly taken away from their duties of investigating crime and keeping communities safe, by having to attend Dover, to painstakingly arrest you all and remove you from the road because you steadfastly refused their repeated requests, that having exercised your rights to protest you now needed to respect the rights of everyone else to go about their business. You wouldn’t have it. Instead, to further your aims, you exploited the Police and the communities in Dover and Kent, in order to get the sensational images you wanted. There are no sentencing Council guidelines for offences like these, but I must still assess culpability and harm. Culpability is high, in my judgment, due to the extensive planning, the travel from far afield, the large size of the group, the strategic targeting of a vital and busy port and the determination to resist all pleas to lift your blockades for as long as it took to be arrested”
That summary must have made the activists day, knowing they'd caused so many ordinary people to suffer.
I was reading the fitness to practice hearing for one of the protestors. The judge's comments are from there.
The only reason he will not protest again is:
"He informed the Committee that he was the subject of a civil injunction brought about by a private company which would prevent him from repeating his behaviour."
The only reason he will not protest again is:
"He informed the Committee that he was the subject of a civil injunction brought about by a private company which would prevent him from repeating his behaviour."