Protest during 2 minutes silence

I don’t find the two minutes silence farcical. I use it in the presence of others to remember my own grandfather( and his brother) who was killed inWW1 at the Battle of the Somme leaving a wife and two small children with another on the way. I think of my great grandmother losing two sons within three months of each other and another taken as a POW. Yes of course I can think of them at any time but there is something special about doing it alongside others. However, I do take your point Franbern and to a certain extent I agree but this protest in my local town was totally out of place and disrespectful.

I did not see this news item. However, I can very much understand any young person who finds the whole charade of the two minutes silence (in memory of those that died), very farcical.

I am in my eighties, think that in all those years there has been ONE DAY during which there has not been a war somewhere in our world.

True commemoration for soldiers of past conflicts would be the genuine intent of stopping present and future wars.

So, whilst people stand for this two minutes silence, our country is supplying arms to support to current wars - one of which is genocidal.

I am so in admiration of these young people who have genuine peaceful convictions, and not afraid to stand up for them.

Freya5

ftm420

Stupid woman, but why did our local BBC News keep giving her airtime? Including the words "some people agreed with her; others boo'd". I don't think a single person there agreed with her.

Then the article ended with "people dispersed peacefully" (I think). Did they really? Of course they did!

Rubbish reporting.

I wouldn't expect anything else from that dire news outlet. Disgusting giving this woman even any airtime.

It was also reported in the Daily Express.

News outlets will report on matters they think will grab people's interest, regardless, and that applies to both the BBC and Express, and any other media.

This was the actual report on the BBC local news includes video. People were uniformly against her. Why knock the BBC for this report buried quite deep in its "local news" section given it was in the Daily Express as well.

When it's giving a slice of news. And relevant.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm27e6l587do

I agree of course, wrong place, wrong time.

But unless she happens to be a Gransnetter, the protester won’t know anything about the discussion on here. Mind you, looking at her, she could possibly be a Gransnetter. I doubt it though.

Not only did the BBC give her airtime, she now gets “GN time”.
Frankly I knew nothing about her protest until this thread. Localised, it should have stayed there.

I hope all the men women and animals who died so we can live come back and HAUNT that repulsive creature.

How utterly selfish, thoughtless, conceited, irresponsible and egotistical. If she's working and if I was her boss I'd sack her on the spot.

Vile.

I respect the right to protest however, this was not the time nor the place.

ftm420

Stupid woman, but why did our local BBC News keep giving her airtime? Including the words "some people agreed with her; others boo'd". I don't think a single person there agreed with her.

Then the article ended with "people dispersed peacefully" (I think). Did they really? Of course they did!

Rubbish reporting.

I wouldn't expect anything else from that dire news outlet. Disgusting giving this woman even any airtime.

ftm For anyone wishing to see the full picture, do not watch the BBC. They will show anything but!! I agree with you totally. I am stunned that some people still view the BBC as giving the truth!

I think these people are testing to see just how much they can get away with. It just shows.....give someone an inch and they'll take a mile.
If she is here illegally, she should be deported.

Agreed ftm420.I was saddened that this happened in my local area. Where was the evidence that some agreed with her? All I could hear was booing.

It was disrespectful to all men and women who gave their lives not just in WW1 but any conflict since. Plus all those who are still suffering from their service to this country.

I think we’re all in agreement. She was disrespectful in the extreme.

Stupid woman, but why did our local BBC News keep giving her airtime? Including the words "some people agreed with her; others boo'd". I don't think a single person there agreed with her.

Then the article ended with "people dispersed peacefully" (I think). Did they really? Of course they did!

Rubbish reporting.

Allira

^There's a time and a place for protest, this wasn't it^

Agreed.

Hear hear

There's a time and a place for protest, this wasn't it

Agreed.

What a vile, disrespectful and intentionally nasty thing to do. She knows it won't make a bit of difference to what's happening in Gaza, but wanted to cause upset to the people marking the remembrance, which she clearly did to the woman seen crying.
There's a time and a place for protest, this wasn't it.

Agree

Agree not the place or time.

Agree Truffle - not the place or time.

Was she a teenager? That would be the only excuse in my book.