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"Just stop oil"
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Wow. Them police on the second arrest! Were they the ones off the haribo advert?Imagine if they were hardened criminals they were arresting. They would just laugh and shut the door.
Soldato
I get what you guys are saying, but the plan here would likely be spraying that organic paint stuff they make and sitting down next to something in protest. There are judges that will sign on things in other countries where they have control as well, I imagine it's easy to find one.
Don't know, as annoying as they are, I still sort of think it's a bit controlling, arresting them like this. Removing the right protest, human rights are the next target to be removed. All a bit 1984.
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No-one is removing their right to protest. They are free to do so. What they are not free to do is vandalise property and interfere with infrastructure in a way that causes other people significant impact.
Soldato
I was meaning the changes to legislation, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...slation-affect-the-right-to-protest-in-the-uk. Could things like this lead to more control, using annoying groups like stop oil as a vehicle to enable them to make changes that people would support, perhaps not realizing they are losing their own rights too.
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I see that there is an appeal currently being heard for the idiots that sat on the track at the Silverstone British F1 GP a couple of years ago - seem to be trying to get off based on a point of law based around the fact no public were in danger and only a "small group" of drivers and track marshalls - presumably we can look forward to them being acquitted then.
there's nothing organic about the paint they use - its a dye made from oil
Don
There’s supposed to be a “climate camp” in Aberdeen for the next few days. I think it’s too cold and wet for them as I’ve not heard a peep of any protests anywhere.
Soldato
I wonder if those idiots would be quite so keen if they were made to clean it all up again afterwards. With a toothbrush preferably.
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Global Boiling is downplaying the issue Global Sublimation is where we're at!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well there's no point sending in the big guns if these people will fold like a wet napkin is there?
Even if the UK government could clap their hands and make the UK run on fairy dust / 100% renewable energy. What’s their plan for the other 194 countries? I suspect nothing, even though we all live on the same planet and breathe the same air.
Can’t see any countries ending fossil fuel use by 2030. Especially America, India, China, united arab emirates and Russia etc.
Nope, not even remotely close to that date.
It’s beyond idiotic to think so.
No harm in trying I guess, but the public will only take so much of getting taxed to death in pursuit of it.
we give tax brakes to the fossil fuel industry still so a while to go before that happens. Even fuel duty has been cut in real terms for the last ~15 years.
Edit: we also put a levy electricity to fund low carbon initiatives which is the alternative to fossils fuels while putting nothing on gas.
Edit: we also put a levy electricity to fund low carbon initiatives which is the alternative to fossils fuels while putting nothing on gas.
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Soldato
First job should be that street in Westminster with the toothbrushes...