Just stop oil at the rugby today

You don't get it, do you? There's no point in having a protest if nobody notices it. You want maximum publicity to raise awareness for your cause. Glueing yourself to your own driveway or throwing powder around in your own house isn't going to achieve that.
I might as well stop doing this now then I suppose??? Was getting right on the wife’s nerves and she was really coming round to getting an electric car but fine, if you say I’m wasting my time…..
 
So finances are tight but you support protestors (who are being paid to do this) stopping people from getting to work who have serious money worries, and can also do absolutely nothing to stop climate change

Just imagine how devastating it must be to be completely skint yet having to miss work because of these protestors. It’s not something I could ever support regardless of their cause

If you lived or travelled through London and had to deal with this, you would realise how much they are actually making people suffer
Anyone skint .. wasn't at twickers this weekend
..no right or wrongs applied btw
 
It didnt spoil my day whatsoever but I did smile st the red faced reactions from many there who had they been allowed would have attacked these demonstrators such was the anger. I mean beer was spilt! Pasty crumbs were being blown into the air in contempt.

Im all for demos like these. Not quite Erica Roe but a welcome distraction for a few minutes and nobody was harmed. The game carried on a few minutes later.
 
It’s funny isn’t it, they stopped a shell agm meeting but you didn’t hear anything. If they want to protest for what the believe in, and want to be heard it seems they have to be extreme in what they do

It is a real shame the media only highlight the more disruptive efforts. They are protesting at the right times too, just not getting the visibility for it.
 
So how does ruining a sporting event for 61000 people or, especially or, destroying a garden help? Disrupt oil tankers, or shell executives, or the politicians who deny climate change.. annoying everyone isn't helping their cause.
People are talking about them, and if they get more people to join them they’ll disrupt even more until a point the influence change.

They’ve disrupted shell agm meeting and it got almost zero coverage. Government policy change is the only way to influence big business
 
Be thankful that you can take the financial hit, because many can’t at the moment and a few lost hours will be devastating.
Just because you wouldn’t suffer with missing work doesn’t mean that others won’t

Sounds like the government have achieved their aims with you.
’devastating…..causing inconvenience …. Missing work…thousands suffering…missing school’
Lots of minister’s sound bites there.

I’ll bow to your knowledge of the protesters at the Rugby. You clearly know them well to describe them as being privileged and being paid.

I don’t know them at all so can’t comment on their social status (not that it should matter) or motives.

And - I love the fact you are quoting the government‘s protest legislation as a stick to beat them with.
Using this givernment’s response to argue a case? FFS - a new low.

Presumably you are anti strikes and anti refugees as well? because…. guess what, the government wants to ban them.
 
Sounds like the government have achieved their aims with you.
’devastating…..causing inconvenience …. Missing work…thousands suffering…missing school’
Lots of minister’s sound bites there.

I’ll bow to your knowledge of the protesters at the Rugby. You clearly know them well to describe them as being privileged and being paid.

I don’t know them at all so can’t comment on their social status (not that it should matter) or motives.

And - I love the fact you are quoting the government‘s protest legislation as a stick to beat them with.
Using this givernment’s response to argue a case? FFS - a new low.

Presumably you are anti strikes and anti refugees as well? because…. guess what, the government wants to ban them.
Government haven’t achieved anything with me. Realistically what do you think is the outcome during a COL crisis when people are loosing hours at work due to protestors blocking the roads. You don’t need the government to tell you that’s going to be devastating for some people. If you can’t see that and accept it’s a problem then you are seriously out of touch with the issues working class people face

Plenty of threads on here outraged at the poor conditions those at the bottom currently face in the uk, yet the same people are cheering on protests that actively make things worse for those at the bottom

Also not sure how you have interpreted me saying protests shouldn’t stop ordinary people getting to work, make me anti refugee. That’s such a bizarre take
 
Government haven’t achieved anything with me. Realistically what do you think is the outcome during a COL crisis when people are loosing hours at work due to protestors blocking the roads. You don’t need the government to tell you that’s going to be devastating for some people. If you can’t see that and accept it’s a problem then you are seriously out of touch with the issues working class people face

Plenty of threads on here outraged at the poor conditions those at the bottom currently face in the uk, yet the same people are cheering on protests that actively make things worse for those at the bottom

Also not sure how you have interpreted me saying protests shouldn’t stop ordinary people getting to work, make me anti refugee. That’s such a bizarre take

You are using the anti protest legislation as an argument they should stop what they are doing.
They are bringing in legislation to remove refugees. Using your logic Blame the refugees.

You are using the language of government ministers - yet they haven’t achieved anything with you.
Ok - from your own knowledge - how many people, how many hours and how much have they lost.
 
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You don't get it, do you? There's no point in having a protest if nobody notices it. You want maximum publicity to raise awareness for your cause. Glueing yourself to your own driveway or throwing powder around in your own house isn't going to achieve that.
I do get it yes. I’ve argued before about disruptive protests. I just think JSO are being hypocritical and not in any way disrupting the right people.
 
I think that you're confusing being mildly inconvenienced with suffering mate. I could tell you all about what real suffering is and it isn't being slightly late for an appointment.
If the appointment is at a hospital. This may be an incorrect statement.
 
'Suffer'. Seriously? Did Smalltown 'suffer' because a nasty man briefly ruined his enjoyment of a crappy eggball game?
That sounds, and I hope I’m wrong, like reverse snobbery and people being happy because it was a rugby game. I Hope I’ve got you wrong but this site normally has this type of comment
 
Are all of their demos aimed at annoying Tory w@nkers or just this one?
Ah, I knew they would be some misguided reverse snobbery when rugby gets a mention. It’s sad that some people stoop to that. Makes thread like this worse because you don’t know if people defending them are true environmentalists or just people who want to abuse “posh” people
 
People are talking about them, and if they get more people to join them they’ll disrupt even more until a point the influence change.

They’ve disrupted shell agm meeting and it got almost zero coverage. Government policy change is the only way to influence big business
I would say this weeks protests would get fewer people to join them, that’s my argument: destroying a garden? And interrupting a match where the majority of the crowd would be well aware of environmental concerns?
 
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