Protests today re Bibby Stockholm police injured

They shouldn’t comment on political matters. It’s a great shame that bishops automatically have a seat in the HoL. I respect Welby for having had a career outside the Church and for knowing the loss of a child, but I believe Church and politics should be separate from one another.

I had assumed they were commenting not organising?

I agree.

Wyllow3

I think the demonstrations included the elements mentioned above, but its not quite so straightforward:

Compassion for the most vulnerable’: bishop thanks protesters who blocked asylum coaches

Bishop of Dover praised people who stopped removal of men from Margate to Bibby Stockholm barge

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/bishop-of-dover-thanks-protesters-who-blocked-asylum-coaches

The Church should butt out.

Peaceful protestors !

It's just my reflection that the O/P's "loony left idiots" doesn't include the genuine peaceful protestors -
so I went looking to see who was in fact really there and why and it wasn't just the rent a mob that I object to as much as anyone else.

Ok, I confess, it was tongue in cheek.

The people they prevented being taken to the Bibby Stockholm would be queueing up to be baptised and I expect she would be happy to oblige.

Wyllow, I do know who the Bishop of Dover is. I can only assume you don’t know who Welby is.

Callistemon21

I expect he'll be offering to baptise them all now 🤔

I doubt many of the demonstrators would be interested.

She, apologies.

I expect he'll be offering to baptise them all now 🤔

Her name is not Welby but is the Right Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the former chaplain to the late Queen and the House of Commons. and its quite clear in the photo in the article not all demonstrators were rent-a-mob or far left. Tho it's clear some are.

Another Welby then.

I think the demonstrations included the elements mentioned above, but its not quite so straightforward:

Compassion for the most vulnerable’: bishop thanks protesters who blocked asylum coaches

Bishop of Dover praised people who stopped removal of men from Margate to Bibby Stockholm barge

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/bishop-of-dover-thanks-protesters-who-blocked-asylum-coaches

I suppose I come under the banner of " assorted dafto"

Ah well, it could be wrose, much worse.

They use tasers quite a lot, for their own protection and for aggressive people threatening violence.

No, not all police carry tasers.

Then, if they use one, half the time there'd be an enquiry afterwards.

nanna8

Don’t the police carry tasers? What’s wrong with them?

Some do, I believe there’s talk about all police being allowed to carry them after the incident in London on Wednesday morning which was shocking.

Yes, I think that was evidence of it.

The group of protesters were mainly left wing students and black lives matter with some teachers of English to immigrants and assorted daftos.
More passive policing by the Met.
Arrests, yeah, but not a single migrant on board when the bus left the scene.
Does the UK now allow mob rule over law? It seems so.

I absolutely support people’s right to “peacefully” protest AND in doing so showing their faces whilst making their points.

This does not seem to have a peaceful protest by any stretch of the imagination and I would see them in the same way as I’d see any “rent-a-mob” group, who appear to turn up at ANY given protest. I’m sure there were a few genuine people there.

I completely object the term “loony left” which implies a politically left leaning person, rather than a mob of unruly thugs!

No point in expressing my distaste about derogatory comments about migrants, most of you already know how I feel.

I to agree

Agreed.

Those protestors are cowards covering their faces. They are either supposed to be at work or they’re known troublemakers. I guess many of them couldn’t really give a damn about the migrants, they are there because they will do anything to stop the Conservatives from moving forward with this problem.