Climate protesters block roads

[Agammemnon]

XCP said:

I find the current lack of action by the authorities a dereliction of their duty.

Why is it happening?

[ChocolateFrog]

DAVEVO9 said:

I would like to amened this idea now with a 50:50 mix of cow st and horse piss. Much more viscous
Just the right height too

It's amazing how much damage a "non-lethal" slug of nylon will do fired from a baton gun.

A couple of those aimed in your direction and convictions soon go out the window.

We're just a bunch pussies these days and everyone knows it.

[XCP]

Agammemnon said:

XCP said:

I find the current lack of action by the authorities a dereliction of their duty.

Why is it happening?

I suspect that a lack of resources will be the excuse. I have also had one former senior officer tell me that there is a balance to be struck between the right to protest and committing offences by obstructing the highway. I think the balance has swung too far in the way of the protestors. I have also been told that things are different these days! Whatever that means.

No-one speaks for the rights of the law abiding to go about their lives unimpeded though. I suspect that the vast majority would support the police being allowed to go in and remove the protests by force. It wouldn't take that much effort. Half a dozen police dogs and protestors would soon find somewhere else that they would rather be.

[Frank7]

Agammemnon said:

XCP said:

I find the current lack of action by the authorities a dereliction of their duty.

Why is it happening?

Presumably for the same reason that the cops stand around, looking at their fingernails, while travellers wreck fields, trash pubs, and drive illegal vehicles anywhere they want.
Whoever can give the order to go in and stop them, has neither the inclination, nor cojones to do so, like the travellers, they couldn’t care less.

[ChocolateFrog]

From the article posted previously about the disruption in Bristol.

Darren Jones, the Labour MP for Bristol North West, said he supported the activists’ objectives but asked them not to block ambulances or people using “clean” buses.

So fk all the people that voted for him that dare to own a car or use a 'dirty' bus. I suppose they elected him, will they hold him to account.

[R Mutt]

You could ban cars and planes tomorrow and they'd still be protesting against coal power stations and gas boilers. Eliminate all those and they'd move on to nuclear.

[Mr_Yogi]

ChocolateFrog said:

From the article posted previously about the disruption in Bristol.

Darren Jones, the Labour MP for Bristol North West, said he supported the activists’ objectives but asked them not to block ambulances or people using “clean” buses.

So fk all the people that voted for him that dare to own a car or use a 'dirty' bus. I suppose they elected him, will they hold him to account.

And how exactly are these protesters supposed to un-block 2 miles of gridlock to allow an ambulance through? How the juddering f**k do these people manage to get in position to represent anyone let alone somewhere the size of Bristol?

[A Winner Is You]

R Mutt said:

You could ban cars and planes tomorrow and they'd still be protesting against coal power stations and gas boilers. Eliminate all those and they'd move on to nuclear.

They'd suddenly be outraged that Waitrose shelves are empty and they've got no way of going on their skiing holiday

[anonymous-user]

Comment from the local PCC

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/ex...

It still doesn't explain why they just handed over Bristol Bridge to the protesters though, and do XR even realise that

PCC said:

Bristol was the first city in the country to announce a climate emergency, and the council is committed to being carbon-neutral by 2030

[kev1974]

R Mutt said:

You could ban cars and planes tomorrow and they'd still be protesting against coal power stations and gas boilers. Eliminate all those and they'd move on to nuclear.

At some point even they surely have to realise that while solar panels and wind farms may not have any unsavoury emissions while they're in use, the processes of their initial fabrication, erection/installation, and eventual end-of-life disposal all sure as hell do. Not to mention the damage that sourcing the raw materials for their fabrication does.

But they conveniently disregard those environmental costs for some reason, because #greenwash.

I'd wager that there's an environmental cost to the additional copper and rubber necessary to connect up new wind farms that are 30 miles offshore, but again nobody talks about that either.

[ChocolateFrog]

It's all about convenient environmentalism, for the ones where it's a concern at all.

It wont stop them heading to Verbier in February.

[irocfan]

R Mutt said:

You could ban cars and planes tomorrow and they'd still be protesting against coal power stations and gas boilers. Eliminate all those and they'd move on to nuclear.

"What are you protesting against?"

"What've you got?"

[gizlaroc]

kev1974 said:

At some point even they surely have to realise that while solar panels and wind farms may not have any unsavoury emissions while they're in use, the processes of their initial fabrication, erection/installation, and eventual end-of-life disposal all sure as hell do. Not to mention the damage that sourcing the raw materials for their fabrication does.

But they conveniently disregard those environmental costs for some reason, because #greenwash.

I'd wager that there's an environmental cost to the additional copper and rubber necessary to connect up new wind farms that are 30 miles offshore, but again nobody talks about that either.

I think cobalt mining is probably one of the worst abuses of human life we have on the planet too.
The way they are sending small kids down the mines and some of the undercvover footage showing the way they are treated is shocking.

So fk anyone that says they care for the kids while they sit there with their electric cars, laptops, phone or anything that uses a rechargeable battery.

[turbobloke]

Treat Extinction Rebellion as an Extremist Anarchist Group, Former Anti-terror Chief Tells Police

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/07/16/tr...

[R Mutt]

Grahamdub said:

Comment from the local PCC

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/ex...

It still doesn't explain why they just handed over Bristol Bridge to the protesters though, and do XR even realise that

PCC said:

Bristol was the first city in the country to announce a climate emergency, and the council is committed to being carbon-neutral by 2030

The govt have pledged this by 2050. Bristol by 2030. They want everything by 2025.

Goes to show their demands are quite unreasonable, if banning planes wasn't proof enough.

[bristolbaron]

It was completely clear at MOD/abbeywood by lunchtime today. I’m guessing the MOD’s powers of persuasion are slightly higher than A&S Police!

[Yertis]

bristolbaron said:

It was completely clear at MOD/abbeywood by lunchtime today. I’m guessing the MOD’s powers of persuasion are slightly higher than A&S Police!

Also not so many shops, cafes etc nearby.

[anonymous-user]

Yertis said:

Also not so many shops, cafes etc nearby.

Theres a big Asda etc next door to Abbeywood. Slightly more open space (and guards with guns) than the centre though

[Dr Jekyll]

PCC said:

Bristol was the first city in the country to announce a climate emergency, and the council is committed to being carbon-neutral by 2030

Bristol council being Bristol they probably meant by half past eight.

[anonymous-user]

Abbey wood still the presumed centre of demonstration tomorrow as they move out of the city centre....

.....after having cleaned up Castle Park and leaving no trace of them being there as they promised....