Protesters blocking various M25 Junctions

[46and2]

Stussy said:

Some cracking photos here, those backpacks they all wear are proving handy for dragging them out the way

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10087103/...

Range rover lady means business

[Tankrizzo]

I've actually ordered some extra-long cable ties on the off chance I happen to meet some of these loonies. Job done.

[motco]

105.4 said:

deckster said:

If it weren't so fking disruptive to everybody else I'd really admire the tactic. It even worked, briefly, in less tolerant regimes. Did we ever find out what happened to this bloke?

My Wife is from Beijing. At the time of the Spring Uprising she was living on the edge of a Hu Tong about 1.5km from Tiananmen Square.

Whilst she was aware and indeed witnessed many of the horrors that unfolded, (there were a pile of bodies at the end of her block), she’d never seen that picture or even realised that guy existed until she came to the UK in 2000.

As for what happened to him, he’d have ‘disappeared’, probably along with several of his close family members. My Wife has told me stories of how for weeks afterwards, the Police and Security Services would just snatch anyone they thought were involved in the protests, (including neighbours, teachers and parents or older siblings of her school friends). Snatch them from their homes, their places of work, off of the street and they’d never be seen or heard from again.

It’s hardly surprising that she utterly despises any form of Marxism or authoritarian rule. One of her friends in the UK is from Nanking. There were similar protests there with similar outcomes for the protesters.

That sounds like a nightmare to have lived in a place where such a regime is in power.

[105.4]

motco said:

That sounds like a nightmare to have lived in a place where such a regime is in power.

My Wife has friends of a similar age, (40-50), from several other former Communist countries. Cuba, Venezuela, China, mongolia and former eastern-bloc republics.

Not a single one of them has anything positive to say about living under communism. Sure, they were all equal. All equally poor and all equally trapped.

[ddom]

Tankrizzo said:

I've actually ordered some extra-long cable ties on the off chance I happen to meet some of these loonies. Job done.

You have chosen. Wisely.

Ankles zipped then drag them to side of the road and arms around a lamp post

[KAgantua]

HappyClappy said:

SpeckledJim said:

GroundZero said:

I remember back to early 2000's when the HGV drivers protested on the roads regarding extortionate fuel prices/taxes.
I remember the government of the day bringing out the "Terrorism" handbook and ordering the police to be as strict as possible.
This saw those protests die out rather quickly. And the government carried on belligerently.

Now you'd have thought a Tory government, that had businesses, working class, "uphold the law" attitudes would have done similar. But no. For some reason they are doing their best to turn the electorate away from any future vote that they may have been expecting and which looks like they are well and truly taking for granted.
I think there may be a big shock for the Tories at the next election.
They seem to be all words and no action over the recent months.

It strikes me as odd too. This molly-coddling might win them a few useless votes in Brighton, but I can say categorically from my experience that their weakness and inaction is going down extremely badly in the little part of the Red Wall where I work AND the little part of the Blue Wall where I live.

I guarantee you that if pissed off motorists block the roads around the poxy COP26 conference next month in Glasgow you will see the riot police out waving batons and clearing the roads immediately.

Yup. One rule for them...

[anonymous-user]

At what point do these protesters actually get stopped from disrupting the roads?

There is an injunction in place that is being ignored and we are still powerless to stop these people.

Their message has got well and truly lost as their actions are now the focus not the message.

[808 Estate]

Promised Land said:

Woman said ‘they knew they were going to be here’, hence lots of paparazzi around so why weren’t plod there stopping them on the first place?

Can you be charged for dragging them out of the road?

Certainly worth it.

I am surprised there havent been formal complaints made to the IOPC against the Police for failing to do their duty.

[Zona Proibita]

808 Estate said:

I am surprised there haven't been formal complaints made to the IOPC against the Police for failing to do their duty.

Easy get out , they're protecting the public glued to the road .
Then they cart them off and release them in the woods somewhere .
The second line might not be true .

[808 Estate]

They arent all glued to the road. Drag one off and handcuff to something solid. Create a human chain with the rest of them.

[texaxile]

simonrockman said:

How hard is it to turn headlight washers through 180°?

And fill the washer bottle with ammonia.

[anonymoususer]

dsmith21 said:

46and2 said:

Range rover lady means business

Christ, she's the archetypal Essex woman isn't she, couldn't get little Romeo to skool, awww diddums, fking hilarious. You could open bank vaults with that screeching gob. What a slag

You sound a delightfull chap. So she is an entitles **** because she takes her son to school ?
Maybe she is acaring mother who thinksgetting her child to school is an important part of the day.

[Gweeds]

dsmith21 said:

Christ, she's the archetypal Essex woman isn't she, couldn't get little Romeo to skool, awww diddums, fking hilarious. You could open bank vaults with that screeching gob. What a slag

You seem nice.

[eldar]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

True. It was a strange outburst.

[anonymous-user]

Gweeds said:

dsmith21 said:

Christ, she's the archetypal Essex woman isn't she, couldn't get little Romeo to skool, awww diddums, fking hilarious. You could open bank vaults with that screeching gob. What a slag

You seem nice.

haha I was gonna just say prick

[anonymous-user]

MonkeyMatt said:

Gweeds said:

dsmith21 said:

Christ, she's the archetypal Essex woman isn't she, couldn't get little Romeo to skool, awww diddums, fking hilarious. You could open bank vaults with that screeching gob. What a slag

You seem nice.

haha I was gonna just say prick

Did she screech more than Corsa lady?

[Gareth79]

Tankrizzo said:

SydneyBridge said:

Wondee how much it hurts if you glue your hands to the road and then get dragged out of the road?.

The practical man in me wondered how easy it actually is to superglue your hands to asphalt, it's all bumpy and surely the superglue doesn't stick very well to it.

Yup, I doubt it's effective at all, you'll just end up with grit and dust glued to your hands, hence why we haven't seen pictures of police trying to remove people glued to the road.

[No ideas for a name]

Gareth79 said:

Yup, I doubt it's effective at all, you'll just end up with grit and dust glued to your hands, hence why we haven't seen pictures of police trying to remove people glued to the road.

Seems the police are getting tougher... DM report has a picture captioned "A police officer tries to remove the hand of a demonstrator glued to the road on the M25 in Thurrock this morning"

Removing their hand seems a bit extreme... or maybe it just usual quality reporting from the DM.

[gr1340]

BBC are trying to cause more panic buying:

[dandarez]

Gareth79 said:

Tankrizzo said:

SydneyBridge said:

Wondee how much it hurts if you glue your hands to the road and then get dragged out of the road?.

The practical man in me wondered how easy it actually is to superglue your hands to asphalt, it's all bumpy and surely the superglue doesn't stick very well to it.

Yup, I doubt it's effective at all, you'll just end up with grit and dust glued to your hands, hence why we haven't seen pictures of police trying to remove people glued to the road.

You've not looked hard enough.


The nutters do superglue their hands to the tarmac, but the cops are too gentle imo. Can only hope the glue does lasting damage.

A friend of mine a few years back had to go to A&E after squeezing a small tube of SG and it split open causing his fingers to adhere to his palm. Took a good while to heal.

These people (I use the term very loosely!) are braindead. What the people behind this want is one of the disciples to get killed (highly possible as the anger of motorists gets higher) and then they will have their martyr. And more braindead dheads will join.