Climate protesters block roads

[anonymous-user]

Vaguely interesting BBC article on them today.

“But, perhaps surprisingly for an activist organisation, the group's biggest outgoing is its payroll.
Activists can claim so-called "volunteer living expenses" of up to £400 a week, which set the group back £130,000 for the months of June, July and August alone.”

I might be persuaded to do a protest or two if they’ll pay me.......

[garagewidow]

.........and they say they want to bring down the capitalist system

[Mothersruin]

garagewidow said:

.........and they say they want to bring down the capitalist system

It's fine, it's within the commie rules - it's 'Someone Else's Money'.

[GOATever]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

[garagewidow]

Hmm,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4PGiJl2dQ

[T-195]

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

Six figure salary?

£6000.00 a year?

[jakesmith]

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

‘After reading up on climate change’
Useful idiot

[Blakewater]

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

Can the money not be taken as proceeds of crime and put towards the costs to the police and victims of the protests? What about the people who've lost business or had their wages docked because of the disruption?

[Finlandia]

AAGR said:

Finlandia said:

Isn't Santiago the next stop for the climate change circus? At least I think I read something about that child heading to Santiago for some conference.

May get a bit heated there then

And how did the little darling get to Santiago without breaking her own rules ? It's a long way from the USA to Chile, there isn't a single road or railway connecting from Central America with Chile, and I reckon that a wind powered yacht might just be becalmed somewhere near Easter Island.

More information please ?,

The riots may change the plans, but according to the press, she is heading to Santiago, by Tesla, bus, train and boat.

Wonder if I can get a celeb to give me a Tesla...

[Europa1]

Finlandia said:

The riots may change the plans, but according to the press, she is heading to Santiago, by Tesla, bus, train and boat.

Wonder if I can get a celeb to give me a Tesla...

So the Tesla will be charged by power generated how? The bus - I'm guessing a diesel? Train - again, what is the power source? And the boat - what is that powered by?

It's noble that she is avoiding flying, but one does wonder about the comparable footprints.

[Pericoloso]

Half term is over ,isn't it ?

All the XR rebels can go back to being normal human beings not gluing themselves to stuff and jumping onto tube carriage roofs .

[Mort7]

Pericoloso said:

Half term is over ,isn't it ?

All the XR rebels can go back to being normal human beings not gluing themselves to stuff and jumping onto tube carriage roofs .

Unlikely that they were ever "normal".........

[Digga]

Blakewater said:

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

Can the money not be taken as proceeds of crime and put towards the costs to the police and victims of the protests? What about the people who've lost business or had their wages docked because of the disruption?

Just the sort of useless, demented clunge you'd imagine working for the governments latest interference in a private pension industry it screwed up itself with Gordon Brown's tax credit grab and then scrambled yet further with the stakeholder fiasco. Explains a lot.

BBC said:

anded in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust

[R Mutt]

jakesmith said:

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

‘After reading up on climate change’
Useful idiot

So pensions are a scam because the world is going to end?

Just about had long enough for pensions to mature without further war or recession if started in 1945 except no one would've had anything to put in.

[turbobloke]

Digga said:

BBC said:

Handed in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust

It will take a while for the population to get over that.

Still, giving an everyday use for the yoctosecond was nothing if not community-minded.

[Digga]

turbobloke said:

Digga said:

BBC said:

Handed in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust

It will take a while for the population to get over that.

Still, giving an everyday use for the yoctosecond was nothing if not community-minded.

The latest pension chaos is yet to be understood but, basically, for many ordinary workers, it has created a reduction in disposable income, whilst saddling their employers with even greater wage costs.

It is not being spoken about in most economic or media analysis of UK wage data, because it's not understood and, for higher earners, working for larger firms or public sector entities (like those in the media or economics ) the effect are far less pronounced, if at all.

[jshell]

motco said:

colonel c said:

Is it me or are they missing the point of nuclear power and CO2?

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/extinction-rebellion-x...

CO2 is not their target but capitalism and modern lifestyles based on readily available energy are.

Read it and weep: https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-...

[Stussy]

Doesn’t seem to be much protesting going on, I wonder if that’s anything to do with it being colder and wetter

[NRS]

Digga said:

The latest pension chaos is yet to be understood but, basically, for many ordinary workers, it has created a reduction in disposable income, whilst saddling their employers with even greater wage costs.

It is not being spoken about in most economic or media analysis of UK wage data, because it's not understood and, for higher earners, working for larger firms or public sector entities (like those in the media or economics ) the effect are far less pronounced, if at all.

Salaries have basically been flat with inflation for the last 30 or so years, so not ‘even greater wage costs’. And the problem is pensions will be a huge issue, so people need to be forced into saving for them, as otherwise even more problems will occur in future.

[wc98]

Digga said:

Blakewater said:

GOATever said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50087022

Can the money not be taken as proceeds of crime and put towards the costs to the police and victims of the protests? What about the people who've lost business or had their wages docked because of the disruption?

Just the sort of useless, demented clunge you'd imagine working for the governments latest interference in a private pension industry it screwed up itself with Gordon Brown's tax credit grab and then scrambled yet further with the stakeholder fiasco. Explains a lot.

BBC said:

anded in his notice at Nest - the National Employment Savings Trust

"However, as a former businessman he also brings a certain gravitas to the matter."

re the bold, at least there is one person at the bbc with a sense of humour .not a word that many, if any,would associate with these clowns.