Police in London have refused to clear roads being blocked by eco-loon ‘Just Stop Oil’ protestors while threatening with arrest any motorists who try to do it themselves. The Mail has more.
A Tory former minister today furiously blasted officers for their “Alice in Wonderland” approach to policing Just Stop Oil stunts after motorists were effectively threatened with arrest if they tried to drag the zealots off the roads.
In angry scenes this morning, drivers got out of their vehicles and tore banners from eco-fanatics who have staged a second day of protests in London in a bid to bring the capital to a standstill.
A video shared by Just Stop Oil shows a man telling the demonstrators to “f*** off, every single one of you” and “move out of the way”. When he rips the banners from the hands of protesters and pushes them to the side of the road, police nearby go to stop him.
One of the uniformed officers then tells the man “if you push them, that’s assault – if you do that, that is a crime”, while the commuter can be heard complaining “people have got to go to work”.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline today, Conservative MP Peter Bone blasted “upside down” policing. He said: “There seems to be one rule for protesters and another for hard working individuals who want to go about their job.
“They can break the law, block roads and do criminal damage, and nothing seems to happen. A motorist who just seems to want to get on with their job is threatened with effectively being arrested.”
The former minister added: “At the moment policing seems to be upside down. The people who are breaking the law and obstructing people going about their normal lives, nothing happens to them. The people who just want to get to work are getting into trouble. It’s an Alice in Wonderland situation.”
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I dropped my car off for a service yesterday and got a bus into Birmingham. As it drove along the Tyburn Road into Aston, it looked like a cross between Blade Runner (on a bad day) and Beirut and walking around Birmingham, well don’t even go there!!! We are finished.
Toby you’ve lost the plot a bit on this one.
Muslims vs Hindus recently, ‘Asian’ (Muslim) r*pe gangs, stabbings and gang violence in London, terrorism and on….
How can you even begin to claim mass immigration a roaring success?!
We are importing people who hate us.
Disappointed and surprised by Toby’s take on mass immigration. Even more disappointed and surprised by the tone he took – almost scolding. He also contradicted himself, drawing on the diversionary argument of criticism of mass immigration being based around race, not culture, and that multiculturalism is embedded in our history and there being no such thing really as ‘English’ culture. He then went on, correctly, to acknowledge that English culture is affected by immigrants that refuse to integrate fully into English society. He completely tied himself up in knots by stating that there wasn’t really an English culture, then going on to say how that same culture (the one that doesn’t exist) can be eroded. Of course there is an English culture, and of course it’s being eroded – eroded by a million tiny cuts of which the examples are becoming almost endless.
I know that nobody will be reading these comments now, but on the off chance that Nick or Toby may occasionally take a peek, I felt the need to further explain why I felt so disappointed by Toby’s take on this, so…
Toby, almost literally, saved my life. I was starting to spiral into a deep, dark well of depression, feeling I was alone, that the world had gone bat shit crazy and virtually nobody seemed to notice. Then I found this site. The articles and the comments section definitely pulled me back and for that I will always be eternally grateful to Toby.
I listen to most of the podcasts and, with respect the James & Toby one, mostly find myself agreeing with James, but sometimes also with Toby. Often my beliefs sit somewhere in the middle. The podcast with Nick & Toby normally feels a little more light hearted, although there are clearly many topics on which they disagree. I’m completely with Toby on the latest podcast talking about Kanye West and Jews – I think any excusing is deplorable and I think Nick’s counterargument may well have got under Toby’s skin. Anyway, I may have misinterpreted it, but Toby’s “people like you” seemed to me to be delivered with a little venom… almost disdain. I am also a person like Nick, so that also felt it was directed at me, which it was. There will be many, many others that feel the same. Now, that’s not a problem at all; this is what free speech is about, and the right to disagree and possibly offend is part of that right. It’s a right that must be upheld if we are going to have a society that has meaningful debate which can change minds. So it’s not really that I was disappointed by. What it was I think, and I’ve been trying to understand this myself, is that Toby epitomises what it means to be English – great sense of humour, calm, quietly passionate, polite, self-deprecating, welcoming, patriotic (I thought)… an all round decent bloke – somebody that if you wanted to hold up as an example of the product of English culture, Toby would be at the front of the queue, but Toby doesn’t seem aware of this himself; isn’t aware that the culture that he represents so well is under threat. It’s that sad irony that rankled.
No, Toby, we don’t think Brit’s are racist.