Swampies need air apparently.
Eco-protesters who tunnelled underneath part of London have made a desperate plea that air supply underground is running out.
Members of HS2 Rebellion, who have constructed the tunnels under Euston Square Gardens, claim the small green space near the station will be built over with a temporary taxi rank before being sold to developers as part of plans for the high-speed railway.
In a bid to stop the work going ahead campaigners have burrowed themselves underground in a network of 100ft tunnels where they have been living for more than 100 hours now.
With most of the camp cleared out by bailiffs over the past week, five protesters remain underground.
Speaking from inside the tunnel Larch Maxey, a full-time Extinction Rebellion volunteer in Brixton, said the protesters “urgently” needed help.
They are in trouble as a direct consequence of their own doing and are now pleading with others to bail them out. There is a simple solution and that is to vacate the tunnels that they have illegally dug.
I’m all in favour of peaceful protest and I happen to agree with them on HS2, which is a vanity project that will do little if anything for the rail travel. Shaving a few minutes off the London-Birmingham run is a small gain for a massive cost that could be better spent elsewhere on the infrastructure.
But, I do not condone vandalism, which is what this tunnelling is and I fail to see why others should now come to the rescue. These people have a choice – come out or suffocate. I really have no preference either way. I certainly don’t think that the authorities should waste time, effort and resources bailing them out of their stupidity.
He accused HS2 of making the tunnel unsafe by ‘allowing rain water into it’ but the company says it’s the protesters that are putting themselves in danger by staying in the tunnels.
“They need to make it safe to control the rain water like we did,” Maxey said in a Facebook video, claiming the eviction was “endangering” their lives.
The lack of self-awareness is staggering. You dug the tunnels, you are responsible for your actions as no one else is. If they are unsafe, that is your fault and yours alone. And you should be forced to put things back as you found them at your own expense, but I doubt that will happen.
“They also need to help us make the tunnel safe again. We are now not getting the air supply we need in the tunnel.”
No one is obliged to help you at all. Frankly, if you suffocate, that’s just Darwinism in action.
The spokesperson added: “Highly-experienced and specialist skilled professionals are leading this operation. HS2, paramedics and the Metropolitan Police have all spoken to those in the tunnel to warn them of the dangers they have put themselves in, but still they refuse to come out.
Fine. Their choice. Let them suffocate. I have no sympathy whatsoever. They are typical of the petulant teenager mentality that lies behind these activists – put themselves in danger and expect the adults to bail them out. Well it’s time they took some personal responsibility.
Those kinds of people never think through the consequences of their stupid actions. That they are right about HS2 is unusual, they are usually as wrong as it is possible to be. There has been exploratory gas drilling near my village. Some of the houses have signs up that say “Green fields not gas fields”. That is an impressive concentration of stupidity in just five words. These are people who use gas for their heating, cooking and hot water.
Stopped clocks and all that. The law of averages says they will be right about something eventually.
Yep let the scum suffocate. We had enough of that idiot Daniel Hooper blocking the building of the Newbury bypass. Personally i’d have shot him out of his tree !!!
+1 to all
HS2 is a vanity project train set for MPs paid for by taxpayers. Ignore sunk costs and end this EU mandated folly.
HS1 was private sector. If HS2 was needed, private would have built it.
OT
Farage reflects: 1 year on from Brexit Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2acSQs6zMA
I hadn’t been keeping up with the various stages of us disentangling ourselves from the EU. I’d forgotten that the end of Jan last year was significant. I presume that we will eventually establish an independence day but the process was so messy and drawn out I’m not sure what the date will end up being.
I still think a tanker of expanding foam is a viable solution.
Presumably Plod was well aware of their close proximity activities and chose not to go after them, instead it was easier to harass law abiding taxpayers.