Birmingham doctor could be struck off after Just Stop Oil protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv20p4e1zy5o
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Birmingham doctor could be struck off after Just Stop Oil protest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv20p4e1zy5o
by heslooooooo
25 comments
What a mess UK protest laws are where holding a sign outside a fenced off area gets your 30 days in jail…
Say what you like about Just Stop Oil but what does this have to do with her ability as a GP?
Yes, because what this country desperately needs is fewer doctors. Man, fuck the tories
Judging from the comments she has yet to appear before a routine medical tribunal for serving jail time?
Meh it’s a non story BBC rage bait
What I really want to know though is will Labour reverse these laws when in power?
Because historical precedent and their authoritarian leaning on the political compass suggests Kier Starmer’s Labour is likely to keep protest illegal.
Happy to be corrected otherwise if this is on the Labout manifesto but I’ve not seen any evidence it is. They’re too frightened of scaring off the Tory-lite Blue/Red switch voters to go back on this.
WTF. There are literally anti-vaccine doctors still grifting from the start of the pandemic who haven’t been struck off.
The issue isn’t that custodial sentences result in an investigation by the GMC, it’s that protesting can lead to custodial sentences.
We need US-style free speech laws in this country.
HEADLINE:
# GP could be struck off after Just Stop Oil protest
REALITY:
“The tribunal will inquire into the allegation that on 26 April 2022, 4 May 2022 and 14 September 2022, Dr Benn engaged in peaceful protests within a prohibited buffer zone at Kingsbury Oil Terminal in breach of an interim injunction granted on 14 April 2022. I**t is alleged that Dr Benn’s actions amounted to contempt of court and resulted in a custodial sentence.”**
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Right so they aren’t being struck off for going to a protest. They’re being struck off because they broke the law, breached a court injunction and got a custodial sentence.
I mean I think it’s quite reasonable that a doctor be struck off if they’re actively breaking the law and getting custodial sentences….
Holding signs now illegal.
They used theae twits to push laws like this through.
Ruining your career over a cause that has no hope of succeeding – yeah. Not smart. China produces a ridiculous amount of emissions – way more than Europe. The U.K. is a tiny % of worldwide emissions. These protests won’t achieve anything.
>Dr Benn held a sign saying “no new oil” and was subsequently found to be in breach of a civil injunction and was imprisoned for 31 days, Just Stop Oil said.
This seems incredibly disproportionate for holding a sign.
Should have killed someone with a car, or burgled a bunch of houses, or punched a bunch of people, or a myriad of other crimes instead, and got a longer (but suspended) sentence, and not been imprisoned.
That said, a review of whether a doctor convicted of committing a crime should still hold a licence to practice is fair.
Not sure I’d be happy being treated by someone who thought stopping oil is a good idea.
I’m honestly not interested in the politics of my GP unless they’re some sort of whackadoodle anti-vax Holistic Harriet. What I want *is a fucking appointment.*
Good idea. I expect we already have too many doctors in this country anyway, let’s reduce the surplus by firing any who care about the future of our civilisation.
I would rather have a GP that cares, than the ass hole GP’s I’ve had to deal with over the years..
No they won’t. Of course they won’t be struck. Silly news.
If she can’t follow the law and does her own thing, how confident can we be that she will follow medical procedure and not do what she wants ? – High risk !
The left and the right need to understand that things like right to protest and free speech come under this banner of free speech. When either side cheers for authoritarian measures from the government this is what you encourage. Whether it’s unspecified online hate speech laws or bans on protesting. You get what you ask for when you want the government to be authoritarian in their policies.
People arguing against these protest laws dont seem to realise that they dont criminalise protesting on the pavement, they only criminalise the act of intentionally blocking roads and causing pain to the public, which is what JSO protests are doing. The Tories are the democratically elected party to lead the country, so what these protestors are doing is actually very undemocratic in that they are holding the government and the public to ransom by trying to bring the country to a hault until we bow down to their demands.
What we should be protesting and campaigning for is the abolishment of FPTP. This way, parties like the Greens would be democratically represented, and JSO would have less need to take such damaging action. Another ref on FPTP is very possible in the 2020s if people are willing enough. Unfortunately, they arent.
Good job, we’ve got way too many of those GPs around.
I’m a pretty radical environmentalist, but “just stop oil” is perhaps the most naive way to couch our ideology
it implies that quality of life won’t take a significant hit if we adopt a radical environmentalist approach to laws. people can’t just go on consuming their luxuries like nothing happened, there is not just stopping oil. we need to change our lifestyles at their roots.
Well, hopefully they see what should be common sense, and allow her to continue practicing. It would be absurd otherwise.
“she argues that her actions are consistent with medical ethics, which prioritise patient and public safety above all”
Totally agree with this. Her actions haven’t put patients or the public at risk of harm, and could even be interpreted as aiming to reduce risk of harm to patients and the public.
Criminal who breached a civil injunction might lose their license after being sent to jail.
K.
These lot are clowns anyway. She can go join the circus.
Absolutely fantastic. She f’d around now she is finding out.