Best of luck to him – he’s got more balls than me, I’d back down long before the cops got riled – will he actually go down for the 5 weeks? Here in Scotland I think all sentences below 12 months are automatically suspended.
And besides, from what I’ve heard about the M4, you don’t need to glue yourself to the road to bring traffic to a standstill, just be patient.
The real issue is landlordism and decreasing home ownership rates, mean people have no stake in where they live and can’t improve their own residences.
The landlords don’t give a shit about terrible insulation because they don’t have to live in the homes or pay the bills.
But the Tories will never do anything about this, and even New Labour is made up of a lot of landlords too.
Funny seeing people call for longer sentences over a man peacefully protesting.
People cheering at the government whittling down our basic human rights
Edit: for everyone telling me “oh he broke the law”, please read the public order bill and understand what the conservatives want to ban in relation to “protests”
The point of a protest is to cause disruption and raise awareness, and protesting is a fundamental human right in any civilised country. Outlawing, or forcing you to protest in “manageable ways” defeats the point of a protest.
I mean, look at what the government want to do to protesting doctors/nurses and teachers. Lmao. Anyone defending prison sentences for peaceful protests under the guise of “they broke the law” needs to give their head a wobble. The law is going to encompass a lot of shit soon
Shutting down peaceful protests will only lead to violent protests
I can sympathise with those whose travel was disrupted, but at the same time, what’s the point of a protest that doesn’t cause disruption?
The government wants protests to be nice and quiet and not actually disturb anyone, which kind of makes them pointless…I.e. their goal
I’d suggest he’ll be on the right side of history and all the little “but he made it take longer for me to get to work he is a bad man bad bad” whingers the wrong side, but unless more people fucking listen to him and realise what the priority should be there won’t be many people around to write the history let alone read it.
Sounds like they’ve been pretty fair towards him if the typical sentence is 12 months
Good. This man isn’t a hero, it’s creatures like this that stop actual heroes (ambulance staff/paramedics/firemen) from doing their job.
Hope they all get home to the message “were all at the hospital. Mum had a stroke. It’s bad. The ambulance was delayed because someone glued themselves to the road. Get here asap, she doesn’t have long”
Just a reminder to all the “what’s the point bothering the public the climate crisis will solve itself/ go away/ is hopeless / etc” crowd that the suffragettes literally carried out years of arson attacks, bombings and assassination attempts before winning the vote – a campaign we now look back on fondly as a justified, heroic movement.
Personally I feel like a lot of people are gonna be on the wrong side of history on this one. Protest is part of democracy and this is really not especially “disruptive” protest considering our history and the stakes involved.
These peoples’ names will be on blue plaques a century from now
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Apparently a lot of people here who would have been angry about the Suffragettes spoiling their races
Proper goms, the lot
Perhaps the most famous person in relation to the climate issue is Greta Thunberg who managed to achieve an international profile using little more that ‘school strikes’ and being good at public speaking. Why not take a leaf out of her book?
The people cheering this remind me of the star wars quote: “So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.”
Good we need to stop the anti protest zones outside abortion clinics too.
Good. I’ve never seen a bunch of morons do more to damage a good cause. Especially as a lot of them seem to be independently wealthy and don’t seem to need to get to work.
If he’d have just left a big pile of burning tyres in the road he’d have been far less likely to be caught.
Good. Blocking roads is stupid and dangerous and has led to harm due to ambulances etc being stuck on traffic etc.
If you want to protest, go protest in Parliament Square, not the M4
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Best of luck to him – he’s got more balls than me, I’d back down long before the cops got riled – will he actually go down for the 5 weeks? Here in Scotland I think all sentences below 12 months are automatically suspended.
And besides, from what I’ve heard about the M4, you don’t need to glue yourself to the road to bring traffic to a standstill, just be patient.
The real issue is landlordism and decreasing home ownership rates, mean people have no stake in where they live and can’t improve their own residences.
The landlords don’t give a shit about terrible insulation because they don’t have to live in the homes or pay the bills.
But the Tories will never do anything about this, and even New Labour is made up of a lot of landlords too.
Funny seeing people call for longer sentences over a man peacefully protesting.
People cheering at the government whittling down our basic human rights
Edit: for everyone telling me “oh he broke the law”, please read the public order bill and understand what the conservatives want to ban in relation to “protests”
The point of a protest is to cause disruption and raise awareness, and protesting is a fundamental human right in any civilised country. Outlawing, or forcing you to protest in “manageable ways” defeats the point of a protest.
I mean, look at what the government want to do to protesting doctors/nurses and teachers. Lmao. Anyone defending prison sentences for peaceful protests under the guise of “they broke the law” needs to give their head a wobble. The law is going to encompass a lot of shit soon
Shutting down peaceful protests will only lead to violent protests
I can sympathise with those whose travel was disrupted, but at the same time, what’s the point of a protest that doesn’t cause disruption?
The government wants protests to be nice and quiet and not actually disturb anyone, which kind of makes them pointless…I.e. their goal
I’d suggest he’ll be on the right side of history and all the little “but he made it take longer for me to get to work he is a bad man bad bad” whingers the wrong side, but unless more people fucking listen to him and realise what the priority should be there won’t be many people around to write the history let alone read it.
Sounds like they’ve been pretty fair towards him if the typical sentence is 12 months
Good. This man isn’t a hero, it’s creatures like this that stop actual heroes (ambulance staff/paramedics/firemen) from doing their job.
Hope they all get home to the message “were all at the hospital. Mum had a stroke. It’s bad. The ambulance was delayed because someone glued themselves to the road. Get here asap, she doesn’t have long”
Just a reminder to all the “what’s the point bothering the public the climate crisis will solve itself/ go away/ is hopeless / etc” crowd that the suffragettes literally carried out years of arson attacks, bombings and assassination attempts before winning the vote – a campaign we now look back on fondly as a justified, heroic movement.
Personally I feel like a lot of people are gonna be on the wrong side of history on this one. Protest is part of democracy and this is really not especially “disruptive” protest considering our history and the stakes involved.
These peoples’ names will be on blue plaques a century from now
[removed]
Apparently a lot of people here who would have been angry about the Suffragettes spoiling their races
Proper goms, the lot
Perhaps the most famous person in relation to the climate issue is Greta Thunberg who managed to achieve an international profile using little more that ‘school strikes’ and being good at public speaking. Why not take a leaf out of her book?
The people cheering this remind me of the star wars quote: “So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.”
Good we need to stop the anti protest zones outside abortion clinics too.
Good. I’ve never seen a bunch of morons do more to damage a good cause. Especially as a lot of them seem to be independently wealthy and don’t seem to need to get to work.
If he’d have just left a big pile of burning tyres in the road he’d have been far less likely to be caught.
Good. Blocking roads is stupid and dangerous and has led to harm due to ambulances etc being stuck on traffic etc.
If you want to protest, go protest in Parliament Square, not the M4