Bit dramatic and probably mostly made up by the Mail anyway
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Last edited by xxnick1975; 29th October 2022 at 15:48.
Happened on the M25, elderly woman was in the early stages of a stroke and was being taken to hospital by her son, 6 hours later left paralysed.Originally Posted by RustyBin5
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/ne...hospital-trip/
F**k democracy, in this instance someone would have been missing teeth.
Any more detail on that story?
Unnamed woman, son only known as Chris and the story is essentially reporting what he said on a radio phone in?
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Are you suggesting that in all these traffic disruption stunts there are no ambulances with ill people being held up from urgent medical treatment? Is so you are delusional
No not really, I just think that story seems a bit weird, phoning into the radio about something like that.
Also Ive seen news that some ambulance services have been confirming that the Mail and their like have been making stuff up about this.
All this knocking peoples teeth out and whatever the consequence chat is a bit macho man
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Last edited by xxnick1975; 29th October 2022 at 17:25.
Don't really know if this is trustworthy or not but as an example
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jus...-m20-accident/
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Think what you will - would love to see your pragmatic approach if it was yourself that was on an emergency and couldn’t get through. I doubt you would be quite so understanding. When they block the road the traffic tails back and causes a gridlock. An emergency vehicle stuck further back in the jam will be delayed - imho that’s indisputable.
As for macho well whatever. I doubt I’d have to resort to smashing their faces but I would not hesitate to drag them off the road. If they resist physically they would be met with escalation. Both would suffer consequences and that’s all fine.
Fair enough, I'm going to the pub now!
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No other than on every media outlet known to man.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/new...-b2200256.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...e-nearly-hour/
https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk...espite-fining/
Obvioulsy this also never happened
Hope your taxi isn’t delayed
All good!
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delayed slightly by a protester = bad
sat in traffic as smoke from wildfire and burning homes billows across the motorway = tolerable as it’s not my home on fire.
road flooded and traffic backed up = not too bad as i’m not getting rained on.
sat in traffic heading to the coast on a sweltering 40° day as people try to escape their poorly insulated homes for a bit of respite from the heat = at least i have aircon in my car.
I believe it’s the lack of police action that truly infuriates the general public, and their double standards compared to other less “popular” protests.
As for the protesters themselves, they are just idiots and hypocrites.
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Not trickle down. I'm keeping all of it. lol lol Obviously I would have expenses. It costs money to run an environmental movement lol.
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Yes I agree with you, they are hypocritical idiots. However we live in a democracy and everyone, no matter how looney has a right to have their views heard. If you try to quell them, they will almost certainly try to quell you and that suits no one.
We just have to tolerate them as a dictatorship is much much worse.
Yes we do but they are breaking the law and cost the tax payer money, keep the police away from other perhaps more pressing duties, they should be imprisoned and they should have to pay the full cost of keeping them in prison IMO from there savings, sale of there property or from any payments they get from the goverment.
ps: and when they glue themselves to a wall or someplace if not inconveniencing anyone they should be left there for a couple of days as it was there choice to glue themselves.
Yes these people really p**** me off.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63454974
I fully sympathise with your views but we must allow the police to disperse them and not do it ourselves. The moment we start taking the law into our own hands is the day things will escalate.
They can have their views heard, without question, but when they start doing stupid things, stopping people form going about their daily business, putting peoples lives at risk and destroying property that falls in to a different ball game.
agreed and nobody is saying they have no right to be heard and air their views. Endangering people and breaking the law means the police deal with it. When the police do nothing or take forever to do anything is when the people start to think feck this I will do it myself. Wrong it may be but its where we are heading - only today I read this
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/...4809fd90ffdc06
police made arrests - but again this time Harrods got gallons of orange paint put on it. If you or I did that as random vandalism and graffiti we would have to do community service and pay to have it cleaned or we would be fined. In that article at least the numbers of arrests seems to be rising.
Reading that link, they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves (the activists)…since October 1st its taken almost 8000 officer shifts to police this nonsense!!
Why stop at climate protesters? They are small fry compared to the lawbreaking on a massive scale that goes on daily at far greater cost to society and without the police lifting a finger.Yes we do but they are breaking the law and cost the tax payer money, keep the police away from other perhaps more pressing duties, they should be imprisoned and they should have to pay the full cost of keeping them in prison IMO from there savings, sale of there property or from any payments they get from the goverment
Why can’t those crimes be punished in the same way?
Are you suggesting they will be treated differently in the courts than you or I would be?
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Will be a bugger to clean off if it’s oil-based paint.
Why can't they ? I agree.
Time will tell but I’m sure some legal advisers will be claiming diminished responsibility on the grounds of being on a crusade to save the world or some bollocks.
Probably because there would have to be a massive prison building programme and a huge recruitment drive in both the police, judiciary and prison service.
Maybe that could be funded by taxing the energy companies making huge profits, though i think that would be better spent elsewhere on things like reinvestment in renewables and insulating the poor UK housing stock.
Maybe 'some legal advisers' will claim such a thing but it doesn't necessarily follow that the that the defendents will be punished in any way differently than others wopuld prosecuted.
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I was watching some early morning TV programme this morning and ED Balls was interviewing some retired ex policeman. He said that blocking the road was illegal and any policeman will normally arrest anyone who does not leave when asked to do so.
He also said that the EU passed a law pre Brexit that we are signed into whereby political protestors have more protection than yobs and will also be treated differently in court.
So it's a grey area by the look of it.
4. Obstruction of the Highway
This power is often used to remove demonstrators who are standing outside buildings, sitting down blockading entrances or roads and in many public order situations.
You could be committing this offence if, without lawful authority or excuse, you willfully obstruct the free passage of the highway. The ‘highway’ includes the road, the pavement, grass verges and private property used as a public thoroughfare.
‘Obstruction’ includes anything that prevents passing and re-passing along the highway. You do not have to be blocking the whole width of the highway. It does not matter whether free passage along the highway has already been temporarily restricted or prohibited
The obstruction has to be ‘wilful’ (meaning intentional or deliberate), so you will often be asked to move by the police, sometimes they will do this five times, and if you do not then this could be used as evidence that the obstruction was wilful in court.
The offence is recordable, which means you must give your fingerprints and DNA at the police station if you’re arrested for the offence. If you refuse, the police can use reasonable force to make you comply. A record of the arrest will also go on the Police National Computer.
If convicted, the maximum penalty is six months in prison and a fine. First time offenders would be likely to receive about £200, depending on the type of road obstructed and the length of disruption. The increased maximum sentence that includes a custodial sentence was introducted by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. The offence is only triable before a magistrate’s court.
Upon conviction, the CPS who prosecute most offences will likely apply for court costs. This is where you have to pay some money to cover the costs they’ve incurred preparing the case and conducting any hearings. The full schedule of costs that the CPS will try to get is publicly available. In practice, the court doesn’t often award the full amount. To see reports of how court costs are used in practice, see a series of recent court reports here.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
What is the punishment for deliberately, systematically undermining the increasingly clear consensus on climate change? When it was done for lead in petrol, smoking, pesticides, food additives and so on the consequences were serious but not world changing.
Because, frankly, time isn't running out any more. It's run out. The effects are everywhere, with 'hundred year' events occurring slightly more often than once a century, desertification and drought all over, ice sheets melting and scientists desperately pointing out tipping points that are in the process of tipping..
Because in a handful of decades, as sea levels rise and the world stops being able to support the current population, one of two things will happen - a unified world will act with consensus to try to pull back from the brink or a fragmented world will fight for whatever matters to them while the planet burns.
Paint on a window? Inconvenience to commuters? Gosh, a squirrel? Don't worry about the environment, just keep consuming and being monetised. These folks are not your enemy they are the ones pointing out the house is on fire.
Mind you, gluing yourself to shit is stupid and damaging stuff is daft except in extreme circumstances. Get a large enough mass of non violent protesters politely refusing to cooperate in the big picture while cooperating in the small one and that's enough.
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This is not the Bear Pit. Get a grip.
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Might want to edit that Matt?….G&D!!
Have already PM'd.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Just getting to court would be something, I thought the police normally made them a cup of tea
Thanks, edited. My apologies, I didn’t register that it wasn’t the bear pit.
My apologies.
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Cheers, my mistake.
But it should be BP as it’s escalated politically and has a tone of anger and violence so not really in keeping with the G&D..
It would be interesting to see what the reactions would be, if another pressure group with less acceptable aims decides to use the same tactics.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
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