A just stop oil protester is going to miss her brothers wedding now that she has been locked up.

Thank goodness I had parents who took me to parks to play and didn’t take me on marches about anything.

Doing things which cause people to focus on your damaging actions rather than the cause you’re supporting . . .
Doing it when you are known to do and use things that contribute to the danger you’re protesting about . . .
Complaining that other’s actions are having the same impact on you as yours did on others . . .

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Oh, my achey breaky heart.
That's proper justice.

Well these numpties have just been arrested whilst trying to stop people going through departures at Gatwick Airport.

I and my family do all we can to limit our carbon footprint, but I would be extremely cross if I had to climb over these (as many people, young, old and parents with buggies) to get out of the U.K.

I do think we should be doing more to save the planet and I worry about the future for my grandchildren. However I have no sympathy for these stupid obsessive protesters and am glad they have gone to prison. If they wanted to go to their daughter’s weddings they should have not taken part. I wonder what their children think not having their mothers at their wedding, a once in a lifetime occasion spoilt forever surely?

Rowantree

Wow, some rather bigoted viewpoints here. I remember them well from my own yoof.
Been reading the Daily Hate?

Ah well.

The Guardian and Morning Star, tbh.
Ciao.

When I was but a baby protester in secondary school, it was well understood that direct action would have serious consequences.
Many courageous people did it anyway. I don't remember there ever being this kind of whining about consequences until very recently.
The consequences are the point. The point is to draw attention to the cause and the unfairness of whatever you are protesting against.
A gentle word and a let off achieves nothing. Hallam knows this full well, but apparently his followers don't.
The entire point of direct action protest is to attract the negative attention of the state.

TwiceAsNice

I do think we should be doing more to save the planet and I worry about the future for my grandchildren. However I have no sympathy for these stupid obsessive protesters and am glad they have gone to prison. If they wanted to go to their daughter’s weddings they should have not taken part. I wonder what their children think not having their mothers at their wedding, a once in a lifetime occasion spoilt forever surely?

It is her brothers wedding she could, and bloody well SHOULD, be missing out on!
Why the heck should she be allowed to attend? Let her miss it, and give him the chance of a good day without worrying about what she'll protest about!

Cressida will miss her brother's wedding, Louise Lancaster will miss her daughter's wedding. That their families think this should engender sympathy is so entitled and dismissive of the enormous grief their actions caused to others.

Well if she had brought her daughter up to not be selfish and think of others she wouldn’t be behind bars and she hadn’t stopped ambulances etc ppl might have felt sorry about it. She can show her the photos lol

Good. Let's hope she's learnt a lesson.

mokryna

These people are fighting for the human race. The sentences were/are too harsh and they will be marked out of certain jobs for the rest of their lives.
It makes me think of the suffragettes.

If she has to be punished, as the prisons are overcrowded, shouldn’t she be tagged to stay at home?

They got what they deserved. There are many ways to protest and they chose to inflict as much damage as possible on thousands for people they don't even know. It got them nothing.

They are nothing like suffragettes and the comparison is insulting.

No doubt this new government will let them out early anyway.

Rowantree

Wow, some rather bigoted viewpoints here. I remember them well from my own yoof.
Been reading the Daily Hate?

Ah well.

There is always one

Rowantree

Wow, some rather bigoted viewpoints here. I remember them well from my own yoof.
Been reading the Daily Hate?

Ah well.

Rowantree
Wow, some rather bigoted viewpoints here.
That’s the impression I get reading your posts.

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