Should be giving them a Knighthood. Maybe for “Desperately trying to save the half-witted British population from themselves as they trash the biosphere”.
When does the injunction come for our disruptive government?
We’re not just stop oil, we’re “Say no to oil”, Those guys are “Get oil to fuck”
Glue yourself to MPs cars and around their areas. You want the public behind you, screw the government over, not a minimum wage worker stuck on a bus, with no pay for the day they missed. Now they have to chose between being cold or being hungry.
While this is hypothetical, it’s also a very real scenario that blocking main roads likely caused.
Love them, hate them, these guys are on the right side of history.
They have just brought some type of crane to get the guys off the bridge
Can we give the Tory government an injunction too or do we only do it when it suits?
Imagine if the Suffragettes, Civil Rights or Stonewall supporters had just stopped because what they were doing had been criminalised.
The root issues of climate change need to be addressed and sorted but that would mean people and businesses losing money not going to happen, got to keep them shareholders happy, come on they still need there holiday’s 5 times per year and a new car every 6 months,how dare the average person ruin that.
Couldn’t they just reform as “Stop Oil Now” to get around this?
“We have banned complaining about unfair conditions. Now there are zero complaints about unfair conditions. So, according to our records, that means we have eliminated unfair conditions. Are you not grateful, plebs?”
The Tories have to go. They have demonstrated their selfish corruption time and time again. We can’t take it any longer. The planet can’t take it any longer. Enough is enough.
They haven’t targetted another cooking oil truck again, have they?
They can call themselves Just Stop 0il with a zero instead of an O and it’s a completely different organisation then.
🎵 Someone’s always playing corporation games. Who cares? they’re always changing corporation names… 🎵
Never vote against our rights to protest,we will need this for when we have blackouts. When it’s disruptive to others it’s all over the media,quiet protesting doesn’t make tea time news. If we vote to stop protests ( it will come ) then when we need to stand up and fight we won’t be able to because we have voted ourselves into silence, especially when we’re protesting about our gas/ energy .
> Speaking ahead of the injunction being granted Just Stop Oil said: “We will not be intimidated by changes to the law, we will not be stopped by injunctions sought to silence nonviolent people.
> “These are irrelevant when set against mass starvation, slaughter, the loss of our rights, freedoms and communities.”
Says it all really. Always fun when the most important and impactful part of an article is buried at the very bottom.
Anyone else getting V For Vendetta vibes?
Hundreds of social media posts criticising the protestors.
Government rolls out legislation in record speed and passes it.
Nice distraction story all over the media (lettuce).
Now suddenly a government with zero mandate has legislated even further against protestors. All in the blink of an eye.
I’m very passionate about saving the planet, but I don’t want it to cause myself any inconvenience whatsoever.
If we could kindly stop global warming without changi g anything, that would be great.
I’d love to know what people on here who are so completely against the actions of these protesters think they should do instead. Genuinely, please suggest your ideas for drawing attention to the issue and affecting change.
Protestors have been trying for decades to get governments to take action and to get the public to take notice. Most people still have their heads in the sand or will come up with some excuse as to how this isn’t the right time for xyz protest, because there’s always some more immediate pressing matter, or will say that a bit of vandalism is wrong, or that disruption ‘only turns people against the cause’.
So what’s your alternative? Governments aren’t taking appropriate or radical enough action, not by a long way. We have a government who are repealing environmental protections to boost economic growth. A completely peaceful gathering of protesters in a square will do fuck all and won’t garner any attention. Even then people would probably find a way to take issue with a completely peaceful protest (see Extinction Rebellion’s various Die-In’s).
You may say that what these protesters are doing also won’t have any effect, but what shall we do then – just give up? Most of the public haven’t even engaged in the fight in the first place.
So please, please, all of you people whining about how traffic disruption or soup throwing or spray painting are just awful actions, please tell me how we fix this problem. I don’t want to fight, please tell me. Because we’re always cast as naive bored middle-class 19 year olds who want attention, so please, wise ones, enlighten me.
Something is always more important, the economy, inflation, the pandemic, some war, your child’s vision appointment, your flight on vacation, your Boxing Day shopping trip. One day though, everyone will realise that nothing is more important, and by that time it’ll be far too late.
I’ve said it before as someone who lived in east Asia in education for ten years. These people should be protesting the governments of massive Asian countries who don’t give a fuck about climate change. I’ve seen multi millionaires open factories in China and Vietnam and bribe an official for a passing certificate and then dump everything into the sea the next day. Tons of corrosive shit and hundreds and thousands of tons of toxic cheap stuff that could have been recycled if they’d been prepared to pay. What difference does me taking the bus make when a new factory pops up in China vietnam or india every week polluting the air so badly with no regard by locals or government?
The cynic in me wouldn’t be surprised if these protesters are working for the government. Anything to move attention away from their disastrous leadership.
Oohhh nooo not an injunction! Please anything but the injunction. Says the the group or people happy to cause criminal damage.
Aye lads. That will show em.
Won’t bother them.
They’ll either defy the injunction and go to court; or protest on non-TfL roads like Kensington High Street or the M25.
It would be cheaper and simpler to just agree to not issue *new* oil/gas permits.
I’m convinced Just Stop Oil are funded by the fossil fuel industry to turn the public mood on environmental and climate issues. Why else would you go to such efforts to disrupt the average person just trying to go about their day? Or why else would you throw soup on a van Gogh painting ? (Yes, I know it was behind protective glass but they bet on the public not knowing that and being outraged so the story would go viral…and it did, and what did it achieve? A load of people now think they ruined a painting and think less of them)
Like it’s insane. Instead of inconveniencing big corporations and government and stirring up anger at the oil companies they inconvenience the average person and stir up anger at themselves.
If I facepalmed any harder I’d be unconscious.
Someone needs to tell them where the BP offices are
I’m sure this made up injunction that doesn’t physically exist will have a 100% effective impact on people physically protesting
God forbid they cause more disruption. Whatever would we do.
When we have that Victorian era twat suggesting we should start fracking, instead of the reams of renewable energy ideas and schemes we could do doing … Then disruption is the least of our worries.
TfL are disrupting us
If people don’t like being inconvenienced by climate protests, then I’ve got bad news for them about how inconvenient it will be when we can’t grow food any more.
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Should be giving them a Knighthood. Maybe for “Desperately trying to save the half-witted British population from themselves as they trash the biosphere”.
When does the injunction come for our disruptive government?
We’re not just stop oil, we’re “Say no to oil”, Those guys are “Get oil to fuck”
Glue yourself to MPs cars and around their areas. You want the public behind you, screw the government over, not a minimum wage worker stuck on a bus, with no pay for the day they missed. Now they have to chose between being cold or being hungry.
While this is hypothetical, it’s also a very real scenario that blocking main roads likely caused.
Love them, hate them, these guys are on the right side of history.
They have just brought some type of crane to get the guys off the bridge
Can we give the Tory government an injunction too or do we only do it when it suits?
Imagine if the Suffragettes, Civil Rights or Stonewall supporters had just stopped because what they were doing had been criminalised.
The root issues of climate change need to be addressed and sorted but that would mean people and businesses losing money not going to happen, got to keep them shareholders happy, come on they still need there holiday’s 5 times per year and a new car every 6 months,how dare the average person ruin that.
Couldn’t they just reform as “Stop Oil Now” to get around this?
“We have banned complaining about unfair conditions. Now there are zero complaints about unfair conditions. So, according to our records, that means we have eliminated unfair conditions. Are you not grateful, plebs?”
The Tories have to go. They have demonstrated their selfish corruption time and time again. We can’t take it any longer. The planet can’t take it any longer. Enough is enough.
They haven’t targetted another cooking oil truck again, have they?
They can call themselves Just Stop 0il with a zero instead of an O and it’s a completely different organisation then.
🎵 Someone’s always playing corporation games. Who cares? they’re always changing corporation names… 🎵
Never vote against our rights to protest,we will need this for when we have blackouts. When it’s disruptive to others it’s all over the media,quiet protesting doesn’t make tea time news. If we vote to stop protests ( it will come ) then when we need to stand up and fight we won’t be able to because we have voted ourselves into silence, especially when we’re protesting about our gas/ energy .
> Speaking ahead of the injunction being granted Just Stop Oil said: “We will not be intimidated by changes to the law, we will not be stopped by injunctions sought to silence nonviolent people.
> “These are irrelevant when set against mass starvation, slaughter, the loss of our rights, freedoms and communities.”
Says it all really. Always fun when the most important and impactful part of an article is buried at the very bottom.
Anyone else getting V For Vendetta vibes?
Hundreds of social media posts criticising the protestors.
Government rolls out legislation in record speed and passes it.
Nice distraction story all over the media (lettuce).
Now suddenly a government with zero mandate has legislated even further against protestors. All in the blink of an eye.
I’m very passionate about saving the planet, but I don’t want it to cause myself any inconvenience whatsoever.
If we could kindly stop global warming without changi g anything, that would be great.
I’d love to know what people on here who are so completely against the actions of these protesters think they should do instead. Genuinely, please suggest your ideas for drawing attention to the issue and affecting change.
Protestors have been trying for decades to get governments to take action and to get the public to take notice. Most people still have their heads in the sand or will come up with some excuse as to how this isn’t the right time for xyz protest, because there’s always some more immediate pressing matter, or will say that a bit of vandalism is wrong, or that disruption ‘only turns people against the cause’.
So what’s your alternative? Governments aren’t taking appropriate or radical enough action, not by a long way. We have a government who are repealing environmental protections to boost economic growth. A completely peaceful gathering of protesters in a square will do fuck all and won’t garner any attention. Even then people would probably find a way to take issue with a completely peaceful protest (see Extinction Rebellion’s various Die-In’s).
You may say that what these protesters are doing also won’t have any effect, but what shall we do then – just give up? Most of the public haven’t even engaged in the fight in the first place.
So please, please, all of you people whining about how traffic disruption or soup throwing or spray painting are just awful actions, please tell me how we fix this problem. I don’t want to fight, please tell me. Because we’re always cast as naive bored middle-class 19 year olds who want attention, so please, wise ones, enlighten me.
Something is always more important, the economy, inflation, the pandemic, some war, your child’s vision appointment, your flight on vacation, your Boxing Day shopping trip. One day though, everyone will realise that nothing is more important, and by that time it’ll be far too late.
I’ve said it before as someone who lived in east Asia in education for ten years. These people should be protesting the governments of massive Asian countries who don’t give a fuck about climate change. I’ve seen multi millionaires open factories in China and Vietnam and bribe an official for a passing certificate and then dump everything into the sea the next day. Tons of corrosive shit and hundreds and thousands of tons of toxic cheap stuff that could have been recycled if they’d been prepared to pay. What difference does me taking the bus make when a new factory pops up in China vietnam or india every week polluting the air so badly with no regard by locals or government?
The cynic in me wouldn’t be surprised if these protesters are working for the government. Anything to move attention away from their disastrous leadership.
Oohhh nooo not an injunction! Please anything but the injunction. Says the the group or people happy to cause criminal damage.
Aye lads. That will show em.
Won’t bother them.
They’ll either defy the injunction and go to court; or protest on non-TfL roads like Kensington High Street or the M25.
It would be cheaper and simpler to just agree to not issue *new* oil/gas permits.
I’m convinced Just Stop Oil are funded by the fossil fuel industry to turn the public mood on environmental and climate issues. Why else would you go to such efforts to disrupt the average person just trying to go about their day? Or why else would you throw soup on a van Gogh painting ? (Yes, I know it was behind protective glass but they bet on the public not knowing that and being outraged so the story would go viral…and it did, and what did it achieve? A load of people now think they ruined a painting and think less of them)
Like it’s insane. Instead of inconveniencing big corporations and government and stirring up anger at the oil companies they inconvenience the average person and stir up anger at themselves.
If I facepalmed any harder I’d be unconscious.
Someone needs to tell them where the BP offices are
I’m sure this made up injunction that doesn’t physically exist will have a 100% effective impact on people physically protesting
God forbid they cause more disruption. Whatever would we do.
When we have that Victorian era twat suggesting we should start fracking, instead of the reams of renewable energy ideas and schemes we could do doing … Then disruption is the least of our worries.
TfL are disrupting us
If people don’t like being inconvenienced by climate protests, then I’ve got bad news for them about how inconvenient it will be when we can’t grow food any more.