The impact of one days trains strikes is orders of magnitude higher than a few orange people walking up the M25 for a few hours.
All I’m saying is that you guys support the JSO oil people going to prison because you don’t support their cause. If it was a cause you did support, your stance would be completely different.
No, those are very different scenarios, you've missed a key fundamental difference here and come to a flawed conclusion.
Not turning up at work or striking (as the RMT sometimes do) is perfectly legal and it's up to their employer to fix, no one is stopping some trains from running operated by people not on strike.
Similarly threatening to quit your job at an opportune moment (which might have significant costs) and asking for a raise is fundamentally different to threatening to reveal your boss's affair and asking for a rise.
Invoking your right to quit or to not do something (overtime, on call, turn up on X day etc.) is different to actively blocking/disrupting/breaking things.
You may not agree with their methods but they clearly care about a good cause. Most people are selfish and would never put themselves at risk of violence or prosecution in order to try to fight for something which does not directly benefit them. Therefore, it's rather ignorant to condemn their "life choices" as if they are drug addicts or benefit fraudsters.
We're living in a democracy, not a dictatorship, if they want to choose this self-indulgent path where they get to LARP as heroes who are bravely fighting their imaginary fight by just being a complete pest to the rest of society then they're going to have to accept the consequences of their actions.
Sadly they don't seem to be prepared to admit that they're wilfully breaking the law for a righteous cause even, in fact, they tried to weasel out of it and attempt some sort of jury nullification thing and it backfired thus the sentences:
