Fair play to Bol here for taking a stand against all of the carbon kopites in here
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bol-uk
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It’s not good for my productivity but needs must I guess.
The problem with the tube stunt is that for a lot of people it will be the only way they can get to work that morning, or wherever else they needed to be. Their choice was either wait for the police to deal with the situation (probably hours) or remove the idiots themselves. It was always going to result in the latter.
With the protests in Westminster it has been disruptive and a pain but people at least have options of going a different route.
If you block off a group of people's one and only option of getting to where they need to go then you are obviously going to have a really angry backlash.
It was stupid and very provocative. On that basis, I have no sympathy for the fella who was on the end of a few digs because he created the entire situation (including trying to kick someone in the head first).
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And you'd have to be an absolutely pot-boiled gammon joint to think it was anyway comparable to the Suffragette protests
Or Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.
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Please tell me no one has compared it to that ffs
Extinction Rebellion tweeted it.
They have since deleted due to the backlash but you can read it here:
Extinction Rebellion compares Tube protesters to Rosa Parks
Read our live updates HERE
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orly
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Extinction Rebellion tweeted it.
They have since deleted due to the backlash but you can read it here:
Extinction Rebellion compares Tube protesters to Rosa Parks
Read our live updates HERE
For actual FS.
It is indefensible.
Hopefully they have learnt some lessons and in future attempt to be more inclusive in their demographic (it is currently overwhelmingly middle class, privileged white people), welcoming of debate and smarter with their public relations.
It’s not yawn though, is it. People have important things to do in their lives
how about they go and sit outside the EU parliament and protest the law makers who spend £150m and generate 20,000 Tonnes of carbon dioxide by stopping the moving of parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg
I mean, that would be more hard hitting than stopping a normal person who is travelling to their minimum wage salary job
bol-uk
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Where is the disruption in your plan? They could camp there for years and no one would talk about.
Once again you are missing the point entirely
larrygobfiend
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Okay, let's say the UK government gives them everything they want.... what happens next?
In the grand scheme of things, it'd be a fart in the wind.
.......no doubt I'm missing the point.
by stopping the movement of European Parliament, which happens on a yearly basis. Forcing the change of a European Treaty which would then be a case of the “power makers” actually implementing something they are trying to enforce
a current case of do as we say, rather than do as we do
but no, let’s stop Jane the single mum who needs to be at her first job for 7:30am to ensure she makes a basic salary to feed her kids
I think you’ve missed the point, and just believe that any mass disruption is an effective manner of hammering home a point.
bol-uk
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So you think it would be a bad thing if we were carbon neutral (obvs not by 2025) along with the other countries XR are protesting in? There is literally no point in it?
larrygobfiend
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No, I think it'd be absolutely fantastic, but realistically, that can't happen. The Government has said it plans to stop the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2035... now that's a realistic and fair target in my opinion. There's gotta be a bit of give and take.
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