Britain is in the grips of another fuel crisis with one in three petrol stations in the south forced to shut after climate activists caused days of disruption at oil terminals. MailOnline has more.
Around 1,200 pumps south of the midlands have been forced to turn away motorists, the Campaign for Fair Fuel has claimed, in the wake of the action by Just Stop Oil.
The eco protestors have been targeting oil terminals across the south of the country, including in Hertfordshire, Essex and Warwickshire this morning by locking themselves to pipes.
The action has been blamed for shortages of both petrol and diesel at stations compounding misery for drivers already facing record prices at the pump, reported at over £2 a litre in some areas.
Mass protests have seen over 800 arrests across the country and put a “real strain” on local police services with over 50 more arrests expected today.
The protests are exacerbating existing supply issues due to increased demand after Covid lockdowns and Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Frustrated drivers have blasted the eco activists for causing “misery” to the lives of ordinary people who need to work and have no alternative but to use their cars.
Police today also slammed the criminals for putting lives at risk with their “exceptionally dangerous” climate stunts as one force has spent over £1 million on policing the protests.
The action at oil terminals is taking place at the same time as climate protests in London, led by Extinction Rebellion, have shut down two major bridges in the city.
Vauxhall and Lambeth Bridge are currently occupied by a number of protestors, equipped with banners and flags, despite being a key crossing point for access to St Thomas’s Hospital.
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These brainless idiot puppets are being paid by jewish networks and their bankers. Note how they always have all the new gear, posters, tchirts, banners, etc, etc… This is all part of the communist green agenda which seeks to destroy industry in the west..
Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme:
– ” Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies:
– ” A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De- development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.”
Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defence Fund:
– ” The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
But many people have discerned the real motives of this agenda:
Professor Richard S Lindzen, speech criticized by politicians and activists who claim “the science is settled”, and demand “unprecedented changes in… Read more »
Imagine how they all got there and how all their clothes and banners were made.
Idiots. But you have to question why now and why are they allowed to be like this? Answer: it isn’t due to ‘freedom’.
This is what the powers that be want, disharmony.
Perhaps it’s in situations like this that police tactics like those used in Ottawa and Victoria would be excusable. These are hardly harmless demonstrators – they are causing REAL harm.
They don’t need to – they just need a set of bolt-cutters and something to remove superglue at best, plus a load of Police vans to transport the ‘protesters’ to the local Nick.
If all they do is lock themselves to pipes, that won’t stop any fuel flowing. I doubt if they’d be so stupid as to turn any valve (not easy) to try and shut off flow, given the consequences might be very dire for them and the area if they caused an explosion (remember Buncefield).
If they chain (etc) themselves to the gate, then it should just take minutes to remove them. Why the Police just don’t do this is beyond me – do they sympathise? If so, they need replacing.
No coincidence that all the ‘colleges’ are on their Easter break at the moment. These loons need to be arrested en-masse as they start to protest and locked up until term-time re-starts, then taken to court and the proverbial book thrown at them.
If only the police use the same force against these terrorists as they used against people protesting against lockdowns!!!
I’m tempted to highlight a Z in the extinction rebellion symbol
Who is paying these eco warriors? You would think they would be a bit more concerned about the dangerous experimental biologicals wiping out huge swathes of people. Guess not. Paid actors?
Must say I’m rather fed up with XR. They are playing into the hands of the globalist agenda – destroy the economy, disrupt supply, jack up prices etc. I wonder where they think all their stuff comes from and how it got there and how they got to the oil terminals in the first place. I would have more respect for them if they rode horses, grew all their own veg and powered their homes with wind or micro-hydro but the chances are they don’t. They are just disrupting an economy that is trying to get back to some sort of functioning and it’s the small to medium sized businesses that struggle the most. The capitalist system is not ideal in any sense but we have to transition off it in a manageable way, we are not going to be successful with this shock treatment. They want to p*ss off the sleeping masses and wake them up but this is not the way.
If the official police are unable to deal with this nonsense I’d have thought it’s time for a little citizen’s policing as per the XR caused chaos. How many men would it take to remove these imbeciles on a daily basis until they get fed up and go home.
All planned and controlled by Soros and the Globalists. They want us broken, miserable and slaves to their ideology.
Isn’t it strange how the Government takes such a softly, softly approach to these Eco Terrorists. You could be forgiven for thinking they are doing what the Eco Loons in Government want.
I wonder if any of these twats are going to use any form of petrol-driven vehicle in the next day or two… I think it’s quite likely that they are.
How come this handful of eXtremely Righteous muppets get all the coverage when tge freedom marches last year in central London with crowds vastly larger garnered barely a whisper in the Corporate media? XR can only be useful idiots for the power elite.
Why aren’t these eco loons being arrested and prosecuted with heavy fines or even jail time for organisers / persistent offenders? Presumably the loon in No. 10 and his co-conspirators see them as supporting his zany net zero policies.
If they lock themselves to pipes leave them there, who cares.
Blocking vital transport links, well Boris knows where the water cannon are stored. Get them out and wash them off the street.
It’s clear these fools are tolerated and the police just stand and watch.
What a bunch of absolute fuckwit pawns.
Hose the feckers down with petrol.
Police told to stand down as usual? “Orders from the top” is it?
They really are serious about destroying this country aren’t they?
This is what happened when our cowardly and gullible Parliament hands perpetual “Emergency Powers” to do what he pleases to a clownish, narcissist maverick who wants to be ‘King of the World ‘and takes all his orders from Davos!
This ‘crisis’ suits Johnson and Co’s anti-car (ie anti-personal transport) agenda, thus they’ll act lightly and late against these criminals.
Time for Johnson to stop fighting his proxy war in Ukraine and step down from government.
Time for Johnson to F O.
The planet!
Where did all Boris’s water canons go?
They are only for use on those the establishment doesn’t like.
That would be people like us then.
Mainly the virtue signalling myopic upper-middle class who want to close down the oil industry and industrialise the countryside with solar and wind – more subsidies for the landed gentry, paid for by the ordinary working and middle classes. We have a PM who is not interested in energy security for the nation – advised by some very wealthy, and well known land-owning individuals.
There are already laws on the books to deal with this. The police are failing to do their jobs. Because of police failure the government will introduce draconian restrictions and further infringements on our rights. Do not fall for it. The fault lies entirely with the police, who no longer exist to uphold the law.
They changed that. They are there to create “social cohesion”, whatever that means. Hitchens is good on that.
Hitchens is good on pretty much everything.
They literally look like a crowd of NPCs. There are maybe half-a-dozen faces there, repeated. It’s like masks-off at the end of a week long Klan rally where nobody has showered.
This is a terror organisation, and it should be treated as such by the courts. No more revolving door: 6 months inside, and then upwards from there.
How about death by brutal torture and hanging?
Maybe a bit much. Might elicit sympathy. What about a year working at an oil refinery 😜
A one year apprenticeship in a deep, dark coal mine would be a start.
Ten years hard labour more like. Breaking rocks is the level they’d regress us all to, so them first.
I once read the XR website to try and figure out their agenda, but found it impossible to discern what they are even for. It is literally waffle. Essentially seems to say: “join our movement if you want to feel good about yourself…” Like some fruity, spiritual dance class mixed with creative writing for people on strong medication. Whoever is bankrolling them had the right idea – a herd of essentially mindless, useful idiots, some of whom will glue themselves to things, and all willing to dress up to make that special impression for the media, whose cameras are always present and rolling. Not co-ordinated at all, of course.
You mean pandering to the unicorn rainbow brigade didn’t help?! I’m shocked!
Perhaps next time if we pander harder and longer they’ll like that more 🤔
On Friday, I drove to High Wycombe from Buckingham (just try doing this by public transport) for an Hospital appointment for a contact lens check up.
On my return I needed to fill up with diesel. There was none to be had. And there is STILL none to be had.
Another appointment has been scheduled for Wednesday 13 April at 11:15. Unless I can get some diesel I am left with four options, none of which are particularly attractive:
I am certain that I am far from alone in experiencing this massive inconvenience.
Buy a second hand petrol car with 12 months MOT for a few hundred pounds, use it for a few weeks, and sell it on again when done.
Not a bad idea that. I hadn’t thought of that one!
Any friends in your church or elsewhere? When I had loads of hospital appointments a few years ago there was no shortage of people happy to take me to whereever.
Still not a mention of the petrol problems on the news this morning.
Our disruption will not stop until the fossil fuel economy comes to an end
The idea that the fossil fuel economy could be ended on short notice by people, who – with vocal support of the UN (a UN secretary reportedly said continued use of North Sea oil and gas would be morally and economically mad) – make lifes of ordinary Londoners miserable, is breathtakingly idiotic. Hence, this is obviously just an attempt to blackmail the UK government into spending more money on things the UN approves of despite this is demonstrably harmful to the population of the UK.
Diesen Wasserkopf von sich vollständig verselbständigt habender, internationaler Bürokratie müßte man mal einschlagen.
(Roughly This hydrocephalus – idiomatic in German – of out-of-control international bureaucracy should be kicked in)
I wonder when people will wake up and realize we are at war with globalists, and they have specifically targeted the countries with a bothersome history of being preoccupied with individual liberty. We are quite an inconvenience to their plans.
Indeed Vaxtastic and our own PM is one of those we are at war with in his submission to globalist policies.
Some info…
The XR symbol represents an hourglass. It’s a rotation of the dagaz rune, meaning “day” and representing the dawn of light as one epoch gives way to the next.
Now take a look at the symbol for The Exchange, based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
That’s a triquetra. It’s also the symbol of the Steinerite bank called Triodos.
Then look at the address that Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook, two leading figures in XR, give for themselves in official filings for a company called “Compassionate Revolution”.
The idea about the “fifth extinction” is part of a belief system in which “epochs” come to an end when the population have lost their way and the “root race of the next epoch” has started rising. That’s what these people see themselves as part of. That’s what they mean when they involve themselves in stuff such as “Transition Towns”.
Apparently there is now a group called “Doctors for Extinction Rebellion” with members in Britain and…can anyone guess?…yes, that’s right…Switzerland.
One of them is Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the Lancet. See how high this goes?
Are any lawyers reading this? Aren’t they breaking the law by using the red cross symbol? I thought it… Read more »
Well, these people have a common purpose. YouknowhatImsayin 😏
Yes. That sinister fifth-column organisation has been busy paving the way for this lunacy.
Here’s an impressive orga chart of networked secret societies and other affiliations – on steroids!
https://archive.org/details/ChartAccompanyingTheSocialistNetworkNestaHWebster/mode/1up
– and that was just the left side of the political spectrum LOL!
The Red Cross is a protected insignia under international law and as far as I am aware is owned by the committee of the International Red Cross.
Beginning of a deep exposure of corruption in Tulsa USA. Corruption of the local institutions such as education by nefarious actors, with scholar and thinker Julianne Romanello laying it out dropping so many nuggets of information. She is very impressive, forming a working project with Brendon O Connell who opens the clip with a very insightful commentary and summing up of the world we are seeing unravel in real time. Excellent work here
125. The Ukrainian Future – Smart Cities – The 4th Industrial Revolution With Julianne Romanello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqiHnpCuuhM
Thank god 2 out of 3 are open. They want us to DEMAND that these protests are stopped, that means all protest, even peaceful, BILL going through soon. There are already laws to stop the chaos being caused now, vandalism etc, but they want this, to push the BILL through.
Always an agenda, always an ulterior motive, and ALWAYS at the expense of the public.
I see the logic. Tacitly encourage obviously selfish protests out of sync with ordinary people, then use the disgust to discourage scrutiny of a bill that will make legitimate protests more difficult to pull off. Clever.
When people do not integrate in society and cause disturbances of the peace and material hardship towards others, they belong in prison. All of these people are not exercising any sort of legal right to protest. Considering we are living in such difficult times, with everything becoming more and more expensive, the last thing we need are literal terrorists making our lives even harder.
That’s what the punishment of exile was often for. Used to great effect by the Greeks if I recall.
It was also a punishment meted out under the old Irish Brehon laws. Some postulate that a certain well-known Irish demographic have their origins in those who were exiled.
There will soon be no “society” left for them to ‘integrate in’ – that’s the whole idea!
Are you still a stranger to the ‘ Great Reset ‘- you do know they are all in on it?
Smash to pieces so Johnson can “Build Back Better”?
Johnson is just the puppet, The anti-human megalomaniacs behind the Great Reset are those who see themselves as those who should Build Back Better. Better for them, of course, but not for thee or me. Whether or not they succeed remains to be seen.