It does make me smile a bit that after all the turkeys cheered on the Tories cracking down on protesters, they aren’t even going to have that legislation used the way they want. So now you get the authoritarianism you brought on yourselves, and still get annoyed and waylaid by protesters. Serves you right for being so eager to trade our fundamental political rights for personal convenience.
I’d call it schadenfreude if the rest of us didn’t get caught up in the consequences.
Edit: the lesson is to not be so gung-ho about getting rid of others’ rights that are inconvenient for you. Because it probably won’t pan out quite how you wanted.
> Protesters blocking main roads in central London have not yet caused major disruption
I mean he’s right… it’s pissing off a relative minority of people while anyone who matters can easily ignore it.
They also know that getting arrested is part of the plan of protesters for added visibility.
Took them a while to twig on but they finally have after that woman being carried away by the police while giving a calm interview to the press.
Funny way of saying our police force is piss weak and useless
Because they only disrupt the lives of ordinary people, not anybody who matters to the met.
That’s not what the daily heil would have you think
They quite literally have a new extension to the existing road traffic act to stop what is happening here and they refuse to do it
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It does make me smile a bit that after all the turkeys cheered on the Tories cracking down on protesters, they aren’t even going to have that legislation used the way they want. So now you get the authoritarianism you brought on yourselves, and still get annoyed and waylaid by protesters. Serves you right for being so eager to trade our fundamental political rights for personal convenience.
I’d call it schadenfreude if the rest of us didn’t get caught up in the consequences.
Edit: the lesson is to not be so gung-ho about getting rid of others’ rights that are inconvenient for you. Because it probably won’t pan out quite how you wanted.
> Protesters blocking main roads in central London have not yet caused major disruption
I mean he’s right… it’s pissing off a relative minority of people while anyone who matters can easily ignore it.
They also know that getting arrested is part of the plan of protesters for added visibility.
Took them a while to twig on but they finally have after that woman being carried away by the police while giving a calm interview to the press.
Funny way of saying our police force is piss weak and useless
Because they only disrupt the lives of ordinary people, not anybody who matters to the met.
That’s not what the daily heil would have you think
They quite literally have a new extension to the existing road traffic act to stop what is happening here and they refuse to do it
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/part/IX/crossheading/obstruction-of-highways-and-streets
If they won’t do their jobs, the only decent thing is for them to turn a cheek and let the street decide how its stopped
>“In 11 days we have put 2,156 officer days into doing this, so that’s a couple of hundred per day roughly.
How does this not count as “major disruption”?
That’s how you know your protesting isn’t working by the way.
Yeah, shut up. People took matter in their own hands, at the same time showing how weak the Police is and now it’s okay to protest.
Then see you at the December Protests against the criminal electricity prices 😉