Climate protesters block roads

[robm3]

T-195 said:

Why not go and have a mass protest in China, to show commitment to the cause.

I bet Tiananmen Square would be free.

Protestors would have to use two recyclable brown paperbags to stop the tanks now though!

[nelly1]

[robm3]

nelly1 said:

Haha brilliant!!

[heebeegeetee]

Coolbanana said:

I simply used some time I had whilst on a train in Germany today to express some thoughts but, ultimately, I am content knowing that change will happen regardless of the immaturity and ignorance that many here on PH love to wallow in.

Sunday today, shops shut in Germany, as per? Shut yesterday afternoon also, do they still shut Saturday afternoons too?
And travelling by roads is normally nicer on a Sunday in Europe because the vast majority of hgvs have to park up.

Whereas here in good old Blighty we like to have seven full on days of traffic congestion as we shop on Sundays en masse.

I bet those crusties and Tarquins shop on Sundays too, when not flying to their holiday homes.

This is hypocrisy that is truly on a global scale. This is Absolutely Fabulous in stark reality. That wasn’t Emma Thompson in that plastic boat, it was Edina Monsoon.

She was heard shouting to her horrified daughter: “Trees sweetie, we fly to Scotland and plant trees, sweetie! What do you mean, can I possibly have a carbon footprint, darling?”

[chemistry]

FourWheelDrift said:

While they are at Heathrow maybe they could fly over to China and hold their little protest there.

Presumably then, it would help hugely if we stopped buying anything from China, India and other places with low environmental standards in their factories etc. Obviously that would wreak extreme economic hardship on the factory workers concerned and probably hold back the development of those countries in general.

So which do we pick? Do I stop buying stuff made/imported from China and India - resulting in many millions there becoming 'extinct' - so me and my offspring can survive?

[funkyrobot]

nelly1 said:

Tut, tut, tut. Look at that waste. Lots of plastic there.

Astounds me how they completely fail to see their own hypocrisy

[TeamD]

funkyrobot said:

nelly1 said:

Tut, tut, tut. Look at that waste. Lots of plastic there.

Astounds me how they completely fail to see their own hypocrisy

Don't worry, it's mummy and daddy's job to tidy up after them.

[alfaman]

Not-The-Messiah said:

I do wonder if anyone of these protesters are teachers and if they are arrested and convicted will then lose their jobs because of it?

Quite a few I suspect.. basically ppl who are on ‘Easter holiday’ .. so academics, students, unemployed, retired, and casual workers

I doubt if many professionals or workers who work in commerce or industry were at the protests

[Blakewater]

Mort7 said:

This cartoon by Peter Brookes was in The Times yesterday. Brilliant!

We have a virtue signalling actor here who flies back and forth across the Atlantic but has taken the time between bit parts in shows you've never heard of to thank the protesters for inconveniencing everyone else.

https://twitter.com/mat_fraser

It's right above his petition about airlines damaging wheelchairs. When London is flooded, the forests are gone, etc, etc we won't be worrying about airlines damaging wheelchairs.

[Randy Winkman]

garagewidow said:

I'm going to take a wild guess that most of the protestors voted remain in the referendum.

Now considering that one of the remain sides biggest fears is the reduction in trade with the eu shouldn't they be applauding this reduction considering how most goods are transported across the eu and into the uk,let alone around the world?

Or again is it a case of 'do as I say,....'

I thought that the point of Brexit was so that we can trade all around the world?

[anonymous-user]

Randy Winkman said:

garagewidow said:

I'm going to take a wild guess that most of the protestors voted remain in the referendum.

Now considering that one of the remain sides biggest fears is the reduction in trade with the eu shouldn't they be applauding this reduction considering how most goods are transported across the eu and into the uk,let alone around the world?

Or again is it a case of 'do as I say,....'

I thought that the point of Brexit was so that we can trade all around the world?

Well, yes but most remainers think that leaving will damage and reduce trade considerably which would be good for the environment.

Therefore these folks should be voting to leave, which is quite unlikely given that one of their 'points' is that environmental law will be weakened by leaving.

[anonymous-user]

nelly1 said:

Sums it up really; trash left by trash.

[irocfan]

REALIST123 said:

nelly1 said:

Sums it up really; trash left by trash.

Oh don't worry there'll be some reason banana and his ilk will find to exonerate them

Edited by irocfan on Sunday 21st April 19:25

[S1KRR]

Has anyone seen the Mayor of London visit the sites?


Or has he just been issuing Press Releases?

[Randy Winkman]

REALIST123 said:

Randy Winkman said:

garagewidow said:

I'm going to take a wild guess that most of the protestors voted remain in the referendum.

Now considering that one of the remain sides biggest fears is the reduction in trade with the eu shouldn't they be applauding this reduction considering how most goods are transported across the eu and into the uk,let alone around the world?

Or again is it a case of 'do as I say,....'

I thought that the point of Brexit was so that we can trade all around the world?

Well, yes but most remainers think that leaving will damage and reduce trade considerably which would be good for the environment.

Therefore these folks should be voting to leave, which is quite unlikely given that one of their 'points' is that environmental law will be weakened by leaving.

You know a lot about them.

[anonymous-user]

irocfan said:

REALIST123 said:

nelly1 said:

Sums it up really; trash left by trash.

Oh don't worry there'll be some reason bananaand his ilk will find to exonerate them

Of course, they're only doing it to stop pollution! That lot was probably thrown at them by non believers.

[m_cozzy]

Is it wrong not to GAF? I fortunately dont live in London. Its not effecting me. I dont give a hoot about all the climate bllox. I dont have kids and care little for other peoples so the state of the planet is in 30 years is of little consequence to me. Dont get me wrong, I will do my best to recycle and ride to work on a push bike. Maybe not having kids should grant me extra carbon credits or whatever to waste on what I see fit?
Regardless I would still like to see the riot police wade into this lot.

[aeropilot]

crankedup said:

I’ve been enjoying the Santapod drag racing today, NOS, burnt rubber, GPM and 10,000 hp top fuel running sub 4.00 sec quarter
fks sake this is PH.

Good man

[Roofless Toothless]

I was once marshalling at Brands Hatch on a truck racing day, on one of the few posts on the circuit that were actually manned from within the barriers on such occasions. I was clutching my yellow flag as the pack set out on the first lap, roared nose to tail behind me down the hill from Druids, the ground shaking, and disappeared in the direction of Clearways in a haze of stream, diesel smoke and brake dust.

The guy I was flagging with, turned to me and laconically said, "I bet you don't get many people from Greenpeace coming here to watch this."

[aeropilot]

m_cozzy said:

Regardless I would still like to see the riot police wade into this lot.

I'd quite like to see Joe Public get the hump enough with the useless fkers to wade in and sort it out, the media aholes would crucify Plod if they did, which is why they are standing by and not doing as they did in France (or would do anywhere else on the planet)