Just Stop Oil have evaded police to climb onto another motorway gantry again today – despite choosing the same time locations and the exact same method for their protest.
Fed-up drivers ignored smart motorway markings to go into closed lanes in a desperate attempt to get to work.
They targeted the M25 gantries at junctions 1b, 8/9, 12/13, 7/8, 11, 12/13, 14/15, 20, 21a, 22, 27 and 31. Many of them were the same locations hit yesterday, sparking disbelief police were today not better prepared.
So once more our police demonstrate that they are unfit for purpose. I am fully committed to the right to protest in a free society. I am, however, opposed to the kind of guerrilla tactics being used by these eco-nuts. Despite the injunction that they are now breaching, we have laws in place regarding blocking the highway. These laws need to be vigorously invoked and the maximum penalties applied. While the state apparatus pussyfoots around these people, they will continue to do it.
Already ordinary people are taking the law into their own hands. Expect this to get worse as time goes by when people trying to go about their businesses see the police utterly failing in their duty.
The German Porche showroom had the right idea. When these fruitcakes glues themselves to the floor, the staff shut up shop, switched off the lighting and heating and went home. The protestors’ pleas from some toilet facilities fell on deaf ears. Well done. That’s what we should be doing here. If they scale the gantries, let them stay up there and keep the motorway open. Stop them from descending. The lack of food, water and toilet facilities will eventually do the job. If one of them falls, well, they took the risk. We do not owe them a duty of care. Make them suffer for their cause and when they finally come down, hand down the maximum available penalty upon successful prosecution.
We do not have a climate emergency, whatever these nutters might be saying.
“If they scale the gantries, let them stay up there and keep the motorway open. Stop them from descending.”
Exactly my feeling.
I understand these morons are being arrested under the Highways Act, rather than the Public Order Act, which can lay down conditions they have to accept before brighten bail. If they refuse to accept those conditions, then no bail. Also, when arrested, why are they taken to the nearest Police station to be dealt with? The UK Police have jurisdiction in all of England and Wales, so why not take these cretins to nicks in Staffordshire, Blackpool, Lincolnshire, or Cardiff? Releasing them on bail from these locations would cause great hilarity while allowing the idiots to show how they can get home without using oil. Just a thought.
You are a nasty, vicious, wicked person. I completely agree with you, my only addition being that if they are returned to their homes by means or transport using oil, they should be dragged behind, I hate these bastards with a vengeance, boiling oil is what they need.
I’d cheerfully hang them from the gantries, so I guess that makes me nasty and vicious too…
I wonder what these protesters do for a living. Perhaps if they are claiming benefits it could be stopped, after all they can only get it if actively seeking employment. Don’t think sitting on a gantry counts.
The trouble is people don’t realise the hidden co2 that is created every time you send texts, emails, Facebook messages etc. Everything uses energy and it has to be gained from somewhere. I’m all for green energy, harnessing wind, waves and sun but it takes time to advance. I think making them walk home from a long distance is a wonderful idea.
Perhaps it should be put to them what would you expect to happen if a relative needed an ambulance. They wouldn’t want them delayed also if we are not to use oil, will they be happy with a horse and cart, or maybe a form of cycle with a passenger seat. It’s easy to shout the odds when it’s someone else’s problem.
They don’t seem to worried about ambulances. The level of hypocrisy is off the scale. It’s difficult to express just how much I despise these people. Horse and cart is a bad idea – horse farts cause climate change, donchano.
They’re getting paid to protest.
The official answer is that the funding comes from Hollywood luvvies and other trust fund heirs, such as the Getty’s, the Disneys etc.
However, there is no transparency.
Anyone want to guess how much is coming from Russian funds?
Investigate who organises and provides transport (etc.) for the protestors and encourage lawyers to pursue a civil claim against them for recovery of extra expenses on behalf of all the drivers inconvenienced. Even an hour at minimum wage for tens of thousands of people would be a substantial, life changing, sum.
This may be the long term solution – hit their funding where it hurts. Use the civil law.
Or just make it clear that the public can clear the way themselves.
Would only take a few protesters going home with their teeth in a baggie to stop the rest…
Or having to crawl after someone has stomped on / run over one of their kneecaps, because good luck getting an ambulance when their mates are blockading most of the junctions.
And they shouldn’t call the air ambulance because a helicopter ride would massively increase their ‘carbon footprint’.
Sooner or later someone is going to get killed because of this nonsense.
I suspect that’s the plan. That vile creature Roger Hallam will have a martyr. Like all cult leaders, he’ll make sure it isn’t him. Evil scumbag.
I was thinking more along the lines of some poor sod getting rear-ended by a 40 tonner because the road is closed.
I don’t care if one of these muppets falls from a gantry. I was taught from the age of three not to mess about near the road.
Anti-climb paint has been available for decades. It’s nasty, slippery stuff which also coats your clothing if you get too close.
Assuming the police wish, or are allowed to stop this nonsense, a few painted gantry columns should stop these misinformed and misguided idiots.
Or just leave them – it’s getting chilly overnight now and they can shiver for all I care.
As in the German case, when they’ve peed and shat themselves they might think again.
Arrest them, confiscate their wallets, phones and shoes and dump them on Orkney.
Make the fuckers walk home in bare feet.
As Jeff Cooper said a long while ago “There are not many problems that can’t be solved by a good man with an accurate rifle”.
The first one will get their attention …
I’ve said before in real life, and probably on here or Worstall’s place, like you say and the Germans did.
When they glue themselves to the road/gantry’s/whatever.
Leave them there. Make sure traffic can flow, at least one lane. Then leave them there.
A few days superglued to the road will change their mind. Sitting in their own piss and shit while soaking wet, freezing cold and forty ton trucks thundering past ought to show them how fucking daft they are.
If anyone tried to remove them, make it clear that they’re interfering with right to protest and will be arrested with prejudice.
Love to see how long these fuckwits last glued to the road then
Or I also stand by my teeth in a baggie approach. Either is acceptable.
Set up an oil free zone and make them live there. I doubt that these people are aware of the fact that everything, literally everything, is nowadays produced or transported using oil. Synthetic materials are mostly made from it. About the only thing that they will be able to wear would be wool. Here are some sheep, here’s your spinning jennie and loom, you had better get cracking or by next winter you’ll freeze to death. Of course that is if you have managed to grow enough food and haven’t starved to death by then.
Even sheep are reared requiring petro-chems nowadays. Fertilisers for the fields they graze, tractors to shit-spread, heated winter pens, shearing uses electricity, the industrial production of wool uses loads of bleach, dye and other chemicals.
Ok, you could do it the old fashioned way, lose 25% of your flock a year, have much lower yields and take a week to knit one lumpy sweater that looks and smells like shit.
They live in la-la land.
“Ok, you could do it the old fashioned way, lose 25% of your flock a year, have much lower yields and take a week to knit one lumpy sweater that looks and smells like shit.”
Yep, that’s exactly what I had in mind. These people have no clue about the consequences that are inherent in their ideas. They think that the modern world can just run on magic.
They are just repelling the general public.
To the majority of the country these Eco nuts appear to be unhinged. Is it time for the good old “sectioned under the mental health act” solution?
Whilst I totally agree with the sentiment of leaving them to stew in their own piss while the world carries on around them, it’s not really fair on the innocent driver who gets killed by one of these morons falling or dropping something onto their car as they pass underneath. Even if the driver walks away unharmed, that kind of experience can screw a person up for life – see also train drivers and platform jumpers.
Julia has been covering the squirming of the police spokesperson when being criticised for their inaction on this matter.
http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-reaction-of-someone-who-knows-they.html?m=1