Just Stop Oil activists face new penalties if they obstruct M25 motorway

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  1. Whether I agree with their protests here or not, there is a specific exemption to the walking on motorways law for protest purposes; and I find it concerning that a court has just granted a whole 12 month ban on protesting on a whopping 120 miles of road. This is the sort of stuff the Tories are creaming over and it’s a dangerous prescedent to be setting. One of the largest areas ever covered by an injunction preventing protest, and for a whole year. Not a good sign.

    This is after an interim I junction against accessing land (for any purpose) along the HS2 route.

    And after Shell got an injunction against protesting at any of its forecourts or even the Shell offices back in April.

  2. “repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting a different result each time is a sign of madness” said JSO yesterday.

    Couldn’t agree more.

  3. >It means that anyone entering, remaining upon or affixing themselves to any object or to any structure on the M25 could have proceedings launched against them for contempt of court.

    Good luck driving on it without remaining in your car, which will be on it, and is an object.

  4. We’re going to miss the 1.5degC target by some way, and people are pissed off that their commute is delayed by half an hour. I can’t wait to see how incandescent they are when they realise they have to deal with a world over 2.5degC hotter.

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