Police have arrested 31 eco-protestors who spent the morning blocking service stations and vandalising petrol pumps on the M25, causing severe disruption. MailOnline has more.
Around 32 activists from Just Stop Oil have blocked Clacket Lane, Cobham and Thurrock services, and also claim to have disrupted petrol and diesel supplies from local depots since yesterday. The depots affected included Navigator, Grays and Kingsbury.
At least 31 people were arrested this morning across all four sites, including the services on each side at Clacket Lane. In a statement, Surrey Police said activists have damaged fuel pumps and glued themselves to the forecourts.
Three petrol stations remain completely closed, both the eastbound and westbound sites at Clacket Lane in Surrey, and Thurrock in Essex. Fuel is available from some pumps at Cobham services, which are now fully reopen, but some remain unusable due to damage.
Just Stop Oil has carried out a series of actions in recent months to try and pressure the government to take more action to transition to a low carbon economy amid the climate crisis.
Protesters have previously blocked roads and other fuel stations across the country, and last month glued themselves to several priceless pieces of art in London’s museums.
Pieces targeted included Van Gogh’s Peach Trees In Blossom and John Constable’s The Hay Wain.
Some activists are now facing the UK court system for these and repeatedly blocking various sections of the M25. Several protesters, who the group say acted peacefully, have been remanded in custody while they await trial, which will likely take months. This may be delayed even further after criminal barristers voted to strike from September earlier this week.
Britain has been brought to a standstill by climate activists since before the pandemic, with mass Extinction Rebellion protests targeting London and other major cities since 2018, Insulate Britain activists storming motorways to stop traffic, and more recently Just Stop Oil protesters sabotaging fuel pumps and depots in their campaign against fossil fuels.
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And what are the police doing while all this is going on? Dancing the bl00dy Macarena with a bunch of deviants at a Pride parade in one instance.
Go in there, rip the protestors off the ground (minus some hand skin) and cart them off to jail.
However, even if the Plod did actually do the job for which we pay them, a pathetic jury or sympathetic judge would probably let these cretins off with a slapped wrist, if that. It really is beyond a joke.
Compare and contrast the treatment of anti-lockdown protestors…
They’ll certainly not be slapped on the wrist as this would be illegal under any circumstances, even if done peacefully.
“And what are the police doing while all this is going on? Dancing the bl00dy Macarena with a bunch of deviants at a Pride parade in one instance.”
But they’re impartial, right?
It’s a pity Dick didn’t go over the disgraceful treatment of anti-lockdown protesters. Still, at least she’s gone I suppose, though I dare say there are plenty more Dicks where she came from.
The photograh shows five police officers and the same number of demonstrators. If the police cannot handle that many what hope is there when demonstrations over Net Zero and power cuts start getting serious.
Perhaps what we see here is another example of what I have experienced today on the roads. The M11 had a 30 minute delay because three northbound lanes went into a single lane. There were a couple of machines, 4-5 vans and five relaxing workers, not working.
The journey out of my town was slow for reasons I learned when I came back. Traffic lights are obstructed by barriers for some sort of works and the traffic lights have been replaced by primitive road works ones. There were NO workers on site. Tail backs all through Epping.
The police won’t be called in. The ‘refugees’ who are being shepherded across the Channel will be used against us to impose military martial law. These refugees are soldiers for the NWO & to deal with the unrest which is exactly what the government is fomenting by following orders.
Spot on.
As Jim Royle would say :
“immigrants, my Arse!”
I think you’re right Bertie. They are criminals and they are arriving in their thousands. Where do they go once they’ve been processed? Our own police are encouraged to not to real policing. Our army is negligible. This happened before in 1066. Our army was decimated and a foreign invader came in and destroyed our society with no feelings for the people whose lives they ruined. It’s the same. I would want to know exactly where all these people are going.
Battle of Stamford Bridge just prior to it tipped the balance didn’t it? Still, at least we never had any more trouble with the Vikings.
So what exactly is government for these days?
Mind you, Hugh, the Normans WERE Vikings – Norsemen – who’d settled in Northern France and been a thorn in the side of the French King until the opportunity to invade Olde England arose. The Russians – Red Hairs – are also Vikings. There’s a lot of these people about!
Government is a pantomime to give the impression that we have representation. True democracy, I believe, involves Juries of the People not just voting which is but a part of a functioning democracy. I reel that politicians should need licences to practice politics, being in such positions, just like doctors need a licence to practice medicine.
One thing these protestors do is give people an idea of what a carbon emissions free world entails: no cars, no planes, basically a retreat from modernity.
I’m pretty sure few people want that.
I rather think those protestors want it, though. There is a very strong hair-shirt mentality among such people.
Well yes, they may want it at the moment of protesting for their current cause, but they don’t want it when it involves gap year travelling, or spending summer or winter hols at mummy and daddy’s villa in Spain or ski chalet in Verbier.
Problems always arise because the wrong people irresponsibly do stuff. The right people do it responsibly.
I bet most of them are posting footage of their actions on iPhones though.
It would be nice to hope that some of these firkers have a bloody cold Winter coming to them.
Agenda 30 states in black & white that there will be no flying allowed by the plebs, just getting us used to the restrictions….
I posted a YouTube pod from Katie Hopkins on just this last night.
https://youtu.be/wseAVK7l9hc
Here you go – flying five years from now. Well not for us. Obviously.
We’ve peacefully damaged petrol pumps! certainly has something going for it. A peaceful
slap in the face would be a good reaction to that.
Reminds me of all those TV reporters talking about the “mostly peaceful” BLM riots against a background of burning, looted shops.
A peaceful kick in the goolies would work too.
I’m referencing a German tradition from the 19th/ 20th century: If some pompous jerk causes annoyance because of some act of applied sillyness, he’ll get so-called Ohrfeigen (literally ear figs, slaps with the palm of the hand onto the ear, a traditional punishment for children) from one of his betters. If he then doesn’t at least immediately call for a duel, he’s also officially dishonoured.
About the right treatment for these guys.
I wonder how this lot travelled to these motorway service stations?: presumably by walking or cycling along the hard shoulder. I bet none of them fly abroad for holidays, travel locally, wear high-vis clothes made from oil, take pharmaceuticals, or use any products made from plastic. If they really want to go back to the stone age, there are plenty of caves around, though they are not permitted to hunt meat or light fires in case they cause the planet to boil over. And of course, breathing creates CO2, so maybe they could hold their breath and not talk for a few hours each day.
I think the firm but fair solution is simply to hose them down with Petrol
It’s quite simple…protest against oil use and pollution…get let off with nothing more than a caution.
Protest against lockdowns and the erosion of your freedom….get your head smashed in and thrown in jail.
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Velvet gloves for the global agenda protesters
“amid the climate crisis” which doesn’t flipping exist. For crying out loud.
Shout out…
Anybody on here seen or heard from a climate crisis?
Biden’s foreign policy has been far more effective than ‘extinction rebellion’ (or whatever it is that they’re calling themselves today) at reducing demand for fossil fuels.
We need to organise funding to hand out handcuffs to commuters so they can get together and drag these pampered little toss pipes off our motorways and forecourts to the nearest railings, toss the key down a drain and leave them there.
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That is indeed a suggestion scaing high on the merit chart.
All I see when I look at the photo are the unwitting footsoldiers of the NWO. Bright and shiny eyed with radical zeal hellbent on bringing society crumbling to its knees, neatly avoiding the hypocrisy of where their food and clothing comes from, they really have no idea of what they do is leading us – back to caves, nettle stew and candles made from pig fat while their paymasters look on from above, laughing. They imagine themselves as the heroes and heroines of the hour valiantly struggling against the might of capitalism, of Mammon and the Devil. And all the while, the Devil rubs his hands with glee.
If we were to get flung back into the dark ages, I suspect the people who would find the privations the hardest are the generations who thought initially it would be a wonderful idea. These are largely spoilt and soft adults whose free time has, for most of their lives, been something to do with watching a screen. They have never been thwarted by adults, have been told they are all winners, been kow-towed to almost. How practical are these people? They certainly (in general) didn’t spend their childhoods building shelters in the woods and cooking over campfires for fun, or possibly even learning to swim, ride a bike (I know of several gen z who have never learnt to ride bikes because their parents deemed the roads too dangerous) or forage. God forbid that they could catch, kill and prepare small game. I know there’s a storm coming, but in some ways I am almost looking forward to the either stony silence or complete volte-face from the thousands of idiots who thought we didn’t need power other than wind or sun. I think a few months of deprivation will change their minds. How many of them, for example, have slept in a bedroom where the temperature hovers around freezing? Oh my, have they got a shock coming!
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These “protesters” should be classified and treated as Eco Terrorists.