.. and not insulating is probably costing us that much a day, so what’s your point?
Ridiculous! So what? Track and trace disastrous prgm is at a whopping 36 billlions.
The police action, much of which was universally seen as heavy handed, against them cost £4m – The protestors didn’t *cost the police* anything.
This is just part of the drip by drip erosion of our right to protest, make no mistake.
Personally these protestors weren’t for me. But GMP were rocking up to threaten to arrest 60 odd year old councillors and a literal Vicar involved in Insulate Britain…
Anyway – I just spent £4.5 on a road junction at work so frankly it is small fry money in any respect, within the context of public budgets.
£4m is a rounding error in central government. Insulate Britain are twats but this is just scaremongering.
Let’s be honest, in the grand scheme of the UK’s budget this barely accounts to a rounding error, and it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the cost, financial and otherwise, that ignoring climate change will incur.
> The Met said 6,651 of the force’s officers and staff were involved, at a cost of £3.1 million.
> A further £600,000 was spent on deploying vehicles, while the overtime cost was £300,000, the force said.
So the vast majority of “cost” would have been incurred if the officers were instead chilling back at the station.
The better headline figure would be “£300,000 in overtime, plus some glue debonder”
Ok, now do the math for anti-mask protests and how much they cost.
Never quite sure about figures like this, are the police not just… there? Like the vehicles are ready to go, police have work to do anyway, they just get sent to this protest like any other issue on the roads that may have happened that day. I’ll grant them overtime of course. It of course only surfaces when unpopular things happen and puts it back on the protestors or organisers, rather than what the police chose to do or prioritise.
Ok, they cost the Police 4m, how much did they cost other people getting to work? being unable to clock in on time? What about Unworked hours where they wasted time getting home? Businesses and local Council who had their vehicles trapped unable to do their reach their destination? What about the HGV that were late and drivers going past their tachograph times?
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We have 4 Million from the Police, now add it all up, hell add on the cost to medical with the delays, and fortunately there wasn’t any major fires.
Aye that’s money they could have spent investigating the Tory party and government, isn’t it?
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.. and not insulating is probably costing us that much a day, so what’s your point?
Ridiculous! So what? Track and trace disastrous prgm is at a whopping 36 billlions.
The police action, much of which was universally seen as heavy handed, against them cost £4m – The protestors didn’t *cost the police* anything.
This is just part of the drip by drip erosion of our right to protest, make no mistake.
Personally these protestors weren’t for me. But GMP were rocking up to threaten to arrest 60 odd year old councillors and a literal Vicar involved in Insulate Britain…
Anyway – I just spent £4.5 on a road junction at work so frankly it is small fry money in any respect, within the context of public budgets.
£4m is a rounding error in central government. Insulate Britain are twats but this is just scaremongering.
Let’s be honest, in the grand scheme of the UK’s budget this barely accounts to a rounding error, and it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the cost, financial and otherwise, that ignoring climate change will incur.
> The Met said 6,651 of the force’s officers and staff were involved, at a cost of £3.1 million.
> A further £600,000 was spent on deploying vehicles, while the overtime cost was £300,000, the force said.
So the vast majority of “cost” would have been incurred if the officers were instead chilling back at the station.
The better headline figure would be “£300,000 in overtime, plus some glue debonder”
Ok, now do the math for anti-mask protests and how much they cost.
Never quite sure about figures like this, are the police not just… there? Like the vehicles are ready to go, police have work to do anyway, they just get sent to this protest like any other issue on the roads that may have happened that day. I’ll grant them overtime of course. It of course only surfaces when unpopular things happen and puts it back on the protestors or organisers, rather than what the police chose to do or prioritise.
Ok, they cost the Police 4m, how much did they cost other people getting to work? being unable to clock in on time? What about Unworked hours where they wasted time getting home? Businesses and local Council who had their vehicles trapped unable to do their reach their destination? What about the HGV that were late and drivers going past their tachograph times?
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We have 4 Million from the Police, now add it all up, hell add on the cost to medical with the delays, and fortunately there wasn’t any major fires.
Aye that’s money they could have spent investigating the Tory party and government, isn’t it?