Protesters on the QE II Bridge

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Here we go again...shall we ask GNHQ for an "Indignation and Misinformed Complaining" forum?

Not regarding this, no misinformation my OP was from information direct from the Police website.

It is relatively local, the effect could be seen from my kitchen window as roads leading to the bridge became slower and slower during the rush (slow) hour and was exasperated by the school runs.

The expert is about to educate us with her profound knowledge and experience of everything we know nothing about.

Here we go again...shall we ask GNHQ for an "Indignation and Misinformed Complaining" forum?

No sympathy with them,they are part of the consumer society, just like the rest of us. It’s their way of getting noticed instead of being useful contributing members of society.

When we reduce our consumption of resources I will join in the crusade.

We are currently sitting in the traffic jam caused by these idiots. 4 of us are on our way to a funeral, 3 people have taken the day off work, 2 travelled down from Scotland last night. We will now miss the service. I have every sympathy with members of the public who dragged protesters off the road in Shoreditch on Saturday. It is a matter of time before someone is killed.
Whilst I agree with their argument I don’t agree with their tactics and therefore have no sympathy for them. The media needs to stop reporting their selfish actions.

And yet again preventing people from getting to work, to hospital, and to important meetings. It achieves nothing apart from raised blood pressure in the people queuing for hours in order to get on with their day. And possibly a death or two because patients aren’t able to get to hospital in time, or because surgeries were postponed due to the surgeons being unable to get to work on time.

I have little sympathy for anyone who deliberately puts themselves in danger climbing bridges and high buildings. It's their choice and they don't have to do it! What is worrying is the possibility of them hurting someone else.

They are 85 meters high not the safest of protests, I hope they have secured themselves as I wouldn’t like them to fall to their deaths, despite my opinion on this protest.

The tail back was over 7 miles last time I looked.

All those cars/vans/lorries stationary and pumping out CO2, seems rather counterproductive?

We pander to H&S in this country and never do anything to upset or endanger them. I guess leaving them up there would be ideal, but if they fell and hurt someone then we'd never hear the end of it.

What are they achieving apart from a big traffic block and very cross motorists
They would achieve even less if they didn't close the bridge and just left them up there hopefully they have secured themselves probably not pc but probably more popular than their actions

I agree with you both Mollygo and Chestnut

I saw your post, Chestnut.
I’m not sure those young people see themselves as part of the problem though.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf4NVo6_8Z0

I have suggested on another thread they should be targeting youngsters who are buying the latest mobile phones, buying fast fashion, buying water in plastic bottles, buying everything that's disposable. The consumer society has a lot to answer for.

Waits for cries of . . . What sort of protest would be acceptable?
I don’t know.
Certainly Blue Planet II made the damage global warming is having quite clear.
I wonder how many of the younger generations, who are the ones who must make the biggest changes to their lifestyles watched that, and thought it applied to them.
I did elsewhere suggest protesters making use of the media, e.g. TikTok videos to broadcast facts and figures, but on second thoughts, that would involve using devices which use lithium, which is itself under scrutiny for potential damage.
So I don’t know.

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