I’m fuming!

The arrest of an LBC radio reporter and a photographer by police at an M25 demo smacked of police state actions in the tinpot dictatorships elsewhere in the world. They were journalists doing their job for a free press. The policemen who arrested them should be severely reprimanded and a public apology given. We can't tolerate this police heavy-handed behaviour in a democracy.

Peaceful protest - I'm all for it
Stupid disruption - Dead against it

Yesterday was my husbands funeral and the family we were expecting were caught up in the protest therefore didn't make it! I know their protests are justified but maybe find a different way

Totally agree with original OP. Not just the huge disappointment of this friend, but flights were missed and as others have said, operation lists cancelled.
Perhaps if the protestors had some practical ideas to put forward rather than wailing from the top of a gantry hiw angry they are, they might actually get somewhere.

I can see both sides. I understand the UTTER frustration - and indeed, panic - felt by these protestors who live with the knowledge of what is happening to our planet and see very little being done to stop the slide to disaster. I only live comfortably but shutting off that reality, most of the time. But, yes, they will lose support if they cause such disruption. I guess they wonder what it will take for people to take notice and they might argue that a birthday lunch and even a surgeon's list are nothing compared with global disaster. It's all so dreadful.

One poor man was on the news as he had missed his father’s funeral because of the protesters. Whichever route he tried to take was blocked. It is totally unacceptable.

Just disrupting. No solutions, no plans for how an economy without oil would work. No idea really 🙁

Not achieving anything.

Not wanting to achieve anything except disruption.

If they had protested on a quiet road out in the country they would not have got their point across would they. If the meal is rescheduled maybe she should set her satnav not to go on motorways. She should have done that before as this protest was mentioned on all the tv channels.

If the motorways are blocked where on earth do you think all the traffic goes. The A roads in the surrounding areas are then gridlocked. No one knows in advance which section of the motorway is going to be hit or the police would be waiting for them ready to lock them up with a bit of luck

I am sending this while sheltering behind sofa. Was recently reading a novel with well researched stuff in it about the suffragette movement.
Why are you doing this?
We want to vote.
But (you stupid woman) why? Your husband can do that for you.
Complete incomprehension.
And now.
Why are you doing this? I have scheduled operations to perform.
We are doing this because we believe the world is burning up and not enough is being done about it quickly enough. We want to force swift action.
I can see protesters point. A day's worth of cancellations v end of the world. What is actually being done about it all is far too little and probably too late

I'm just wondering how they got there.........

We in this country can do very little about climate change. In comparison to countries like China, India, Russia etc. we produce very little CO2 . China alone in the last 10 years has produced more CO2 than we have since the start of the Industrial Revolution. They are building coal powered power stations a the rate of about one a month. If we get to to net zero all we will have done is ruined our country and China will still be pumping out CO2 and laughing at us.

A missed lunch is not the end of the world Climate change will be though

fluttERBY123

I am sending this while sheltering behind sofa. Was recently reading a novel with well researched stuff in it about the suffragette movement.
Why are you doing this?
We want to vote.
But (you stupid woman) why? Your husband can do that for you.
Complete incomprehension.
And now.
Why are you doing this? I have scheduled operations to perform.
We are doing this because we believe the world is burning up and not enough is being done about it quickly enough. We want to force swift action.
I can see protesters point. A day's worth of cancellations v end of the world. What is actually being done about it all is far too little and probably too late

They’re not doing anything about it. They won’t have saved a day in this future they’re so worried about. N fact they’ve probably brought it one day closer.

That is the point.

I can’t understand why when they glue themselves to something, they aren’t just left there without food or toilet facilities for a couple of days! (Obviously not on a motorway). I bet they would soon be reaching for the glue solvents then.

Plus to this day the majority of adhesives are manufactured from petroleum-based materials. Isn’t this what they are objecting about in the first place?

Along with manufactured orange paint that’s going to need chemicals to clear up

Katek

I'm just wondering how they got there.........

I think one of the leaders drove some of them there in her petrol driven car…

I read that in France that protesters are 'removed' from the roads whether or not they glue their hands to the road.

For a start, this is not what I'd call a 'peaceful protest'. When people are losing out on (possibly) life saving operations, I'd call it terrorism and the perpetrators should be prosecuted severely for it. Either that or, in the case of the woman who poured excrement over Sir Tom Moore sculpture, or spraying paint on buildings, should be subject to the same treatment and see how they like it. If the Govt. don't want to prosecute these people, then their parents or families should pay for the damage. At least some reparation somewhere or they think they can always get away with it. If someone gets so p****d off with them and assaults one of them, he/she would most like end up in prison. This is not acceptable at all.

These protesters have completely shot themselves in the foot I will never support them now and I'm pretty sure other people feel the same .They all appear to middle class / money folk who have nothing better or constructive to do

This is the young lady from the gantry at junction 30 of the M25 on Monday.

Did she swim to Argentina, or just another do as I say not as I do hypocrite?

Grantanow; If the LBC reporter and photographer were on the gantry then they should be prosecuted. They too were breaking the law

It's a day out for these numbskulls. Livens up their otherwise pointless lives.

Surely not a car Lathyrus........, no bikes, Shanks' Pony? Oh and I presume they realise that hydrocarbons are used in the production of the cyanoacrylate glue that they're using?

Honestly their actions have now stopped any sympathy or support for them. They are affecting people's lives. Arrest their asses and educated them how their actions have hurt normal people