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Baldybonce
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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    It pisses me off how they can seemingly do as they please. 
    If that was a group of football fans the police would treat the situation totally different. 
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Run them over
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Hopefully a few of them get a clump. Love watching videos of them getting dragged across pavements.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    4 vans of OB just walking along with them.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Meanwhile crimes are happening but police have a manpower shortage.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,723
    just go round them grass track style. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,317
    I really feel like JSO must be an op run by a combination of Shell and the Daily Mail. What other explanation is there? Greta Thunberg doesn't do shit like this, because she's actually smart 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,814
    just plough through them
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,660
    They have been in Central London pretty much every day for the last month blocking bridges etc. Bellends.
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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Why aren't they at work?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Look at them with their plastic banners, their plastic hi-viz vests and their plastic clothing. I think someone needs to educate them on how plastic is made. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Macronate said:
    Why aren't they at work?
    I think they all work at the same place as @Chippycafc and so are "WFH" today! ;-)
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    edited June 2023
    Macronate said:
    Why aren't they at work?
    university lecturers 
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Macronate said:
    Why aren't they at work?

    I should think the majority are retired, there were only a few under 40.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    No one has tried Canning Town Underground station recently for a protest
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,963
    shirty5 said:
    No one has tried Canning Town Underground station recently for a protest
    I'd have paid money to seen them protest there on the day of West Ham's Europe celebration.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,678
    JiMMy 85 said:
    These people need the police alongside them because they will be assaulted if not, and it's right that the assailants are arrested.  
    That is a matter of opinion, and certainly not mine.
  • jacob_CAFC
    jacob_CAFC Posts: 2,063
    Disruption caused by JSO and the like will be nothing compared to what will happen if action isn't taken
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,624
    R0TW said:
    JiMMy 85 said:
    These people need the police alongside them because they will be assaulted if not, and it's right that the assailants are arrested.  
    That is a matter of opinion, and certainly not mine.
    No. It’s a matter of the law. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,932
    JiMMy 85 said:
    The Tories have worked hard at taking away our right to protest, so I am thankful that we still have the ability to make a stand against things. These people need the police alongside them because they will be assaulted if not, and it's right that the assailants are arrested. Even if we all sympathise with where they are coming from. 

    And that's the crux of the JSO protest - the protesters are going after the wrong people. It's like shouting at a 16-year-old McDonald's employee because you don't like the way the company treats cows. Telling me to stop driving, when I am doing everything in my power just to stay afloat in this world, is ridiculous. 

    It takes the people at the top to affect change in this world. And chances are, nobody in that traffic jam is at the top. 
    Agree with this. Very supportive of their cause and message. I thought their initial protests were novel and gained massive public attention and public support for the cause (which was surely the aim of them). That then was the opportunity to use that platform to take the protests to government and lobby for real change. Instead they continued on the same tack until more and more members of the public have got pissed off with them and their approach. 

    Good message - terrible strategy.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,108
    edited June 2023


    It takes the people at the top to affect change in this world. And chances are, nobody in that traffic jam is at the top. 
    I heard Billy Smart Junior was stuck in the jam there on the way to Blackheath Circus.
    He'll never make it to the top 
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    edited June 2023
    I've heard that one of the sniper battalions that was earmarked for post-Brexit Britain has been deployed to Blackheath as they weren't needed for Brexit after all.

    It will give them some much needed training to keep match fit.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    edited June 2023
    cantersaddick said:
    JiMMy 85 said:
    The Tories have worked hard at taking away our right to protest, so I am thankful that we still have the ability to make a stand against things. These people need the police alongside them because they will be assaulted if not, and it's right that the assailants are arrested. Even if we all sympathise with where they are coming from. 

    And that's the crux of the JSO protest - the protesters are going after the wrong people. It's like shouting at a 16-year-old McDonald's employee because you don't like the way the company treats cows. Telling me to stop driving, when I am doing everything in my power just to stay afloat in this world, is ridiculous. 

    It takes the people at the top to affect change in this world. And chances are, nobody in that traffic jam is at the top. 
    Agree with this. Very supportive of their cause and message. I thought their initial protests were novel and gained massive public attention and public support for the cause (which was surely the aim of them). That then was the opportunity to use that platform to take the protests to government and lobby for real change. Instead they continued on the same tack until more and more members of the public have got pissed off with them and their approach. 

    Good message - terrible strategy.
    Saw an interview with one of them pre rugby final at Twickenham and he said they did protest at Shell's offices in London the same week but it got zero coverage. 

    Problem they have is they need to inconvenience the average joe for the average joe to know it's happening.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,932
    To a certain extent i get that point of view. But once you have a platform and public support its very easy to get official channels to lobby and have direct contact with government. they could have been speaking to actual decision makers (or those working for them) and having actual constructive conversations about how to make it happen, advising on plans etc. Or at least influencing policy proposals for the opposition. 

    That ship has sailed now. Too many people have written them off as looneys and unemployed etc etc. that government is quite comfortable in ignoring them.
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,973
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    R0TW said:
    JiMMy 85 said:
    These people need the police alongside them because they will be assaulted if not, and it's right that the assailants are arrested.  
    That is a matter of opinion, and certainly not mine.
    No. It’s a matter of the law. 


    Which shows the law is an ass.
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    Macronate said:
    Why aren't they at work?
    Probably off with stress/bad back type reasons. 
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Hard for anyone to disagree with the end goal but these methods are just driving some in the opposite direction. That said these people have a right to protest and I absolutely believe in that right and hopefully that won't be diminished any further. It's also sad to see so many people advocating violence towards other human beings just because they don't agree with something they are doing. It's just a depressing time all round really. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    If anybody has thought about it and concluded climate change is a big problem and oil a big contributor about which something should be done, and they change their mind to believe the opposite because of some protestors they are pathetic.

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