Flights disrupted at London City Airport after Black Lives Matter protesters storm runway

danielanthony · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:03

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/flights-disrupted-at-london-city-airport-after-protesters-storm/

London City Airport was brought to a standstill on Tuesday morning after a group of Black Lives Matter activists stormed the runway.

The demonstrators say they have "shut down London City Airport to protest the UK's environmental impact on black people".

#BlackLivesMatterUK @ukblm
By 2050 there will be 200 million climate refugees. Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis.

So climate change is now a race issue? I'm struggling to see the link tbh, its not like climate change isn't a global problem.

Looking at the photo's online, the protesters are all white, why are white people trying to hijack this black political protest movement?

Dis86 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:04

The answer is simple. Because they're a complete bag of dicks.

benneh · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:05

Quality thread incoming.

233 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:05

fire truck, hose see how long they want to stay and protest.

really don't get why the police haven't arrested every one of them instantly.

danielanthony · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:06

I'm genuinely confused about this, usually I can usually see *some* point in protesting, but climate change specifically to do with race completely escapes me.

b0redj0rd · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:07

How do these 'protesters' get time off work to do this stuff?

soundb0y · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:08

Biggest group of idiots going. They had a representative on r5 live the other week and she could barely string a coherent sentence together.

Bring out the riot police.

XeNoN89 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:09

Shock, pictures show it's a bunch of white most likely middle classed left wing idiots.

We should have 0 tolerance for these morons. Spray them with CS spray, arrest them and throw them in a cell. I'm sure these troublemakers will soon stop.

cheesyboy · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:09

The point is that the first people to feel the strain on climate change will be those in the poorest countries - countries which are, of course, populated substantially by people of colour.

Further, the angle here is that the west would care more about climate change if it were more directly affecting them.

As it happens, I consider this a dilution of the BLM movement, and a distraction. It's a bit too abstract for most to understand (see this thread), and doesn't really help the cause (quite the opposite)

deuse · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:11

"protest the UK's environmental impact on black people"

why don't they just throw them in a van and jail them?

Lefties are a pain.

sgavan · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:12

Arrest them, protesting is fine but this will just annoy most people.

neil_g · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:13

Dis86 said:
The answer is simple. Because they're a complete bag of dicks.

/thread

ov_sjo · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:13

Considering it's a floating runway, a water cannon should successfully eject them into the river.

KiNgPiN83 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:15

I'm due to fly from there at 14:45...

We are just trying to find out whether its even worth going to the airport. Luckily its only for work and not leisure. I like how they are waiting for a specialist. (Guy with bolt cutters.

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wordy · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:15

Would it cause to much damage to the planes if they just take off & land as normal but just run over these idiots?

They could then call it Black Lives....Splatter!

Yaayuh! · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:16

Dis86 said:
The answer is simple. Because they're a complete bag of dicks.

Pretty much this.

/Thread.

StriderX · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:18

So everyone else who wants to protest has to abide by the rules and limit their numbers, a non-aggressive location and cant be seen to illicit more members.

But no, when a bunch of a soft-headed regressive lefties want to make a statement by shutting down a civil structure, its entirely ok.

Thank **** the world is headed for a an authoritarian structure, especially so to deal with the exact issue they seem to purport here, maybe we can finally shut them up.

KiNgPiN83 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:18

Sorry guys, but I'm definitely bringing this average down!

and i'm in IT to further skew their stats.

"The average salary of a London City Airport user is 136,000 euros (£114,000) and 63% of them work in business, finance or other business services."

ov_sjo · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:19

wordy said:
Would it cause to much damage to the planes if they just take off & land as normal but just run over these idiots?

You mean like that tank did in Palestine when that American idiot thought her protesting would matter?....

Dis86 · 6 Sep 2016 at 10:21

ov_sjo said:
You mean like that tank did in Palestine when that American idiot thought her protesting would matter?....

Just to nitpick, it was an Israeli bulldozer.

Outcome was the same however.