M25 Eco Protests

Sponsored Links
It must have been awful for that guy who was with his mother on way to hospital - she had had a stroke and the protest meant she got delayed by 6 hours.

she nearly died on the motorway and when finally arrived at hospital they said due to the delay the paralysis would be permanent.
 
They should have made the deployment of Johnson’s water cannons legal

and used that against them

bunch of hypocritical dead beats IMO
 
It must have been awful for that guy who was with his mother on way to hospital - she had had a stroke and the protest meant she got delayed by 6 hours.

she nearly died on the motorway and when finally arrived at hospital they said due to the delay the paralysis would be permanent.
Hmm, I guess the gradual decline of humanity as we know it and general consensus of' it's 'not my problem' is OK. But I guess most of the regulars on here won't be around in 20 years or thereabouts when things really start heating up, so to speak.
 
Sponsored Links
Incident in Liverpool quite a few years ago. Local derby match, Everton v Liverpool at Goodison and the side road 3 doors down from where I lived was jam packed with double parking by the fans. One of the houses on the estate had cause to call the fire brigade who found their way 'blocked' by all the parked cars. They overcame the problem by 2 firemen running ahead and smacking all the side mirrors in towards the car doors. The fire engine simply followed through as best as it could but unfortunately, due to bad/selfish parking, some cars were sticking out more than others and consequently lost their mirrors, and in some cases, door handles plus scrapes and dents as the appliance simply forced it's way through to the incident. Turned out to be a kitchen fire but thankfully no persons trapped or injured. When the car owners tried to claim from the fire brigades insurance their own insurance companies turned them down flat on the grounds they had not abided by the highway code to park responsibly. A while later a story was doing the rounds those who had tried to claim were being summonsed to appear in the magistrates court on charges of wilful neglect causing damage to an emergency service vehicle.
Never found out if it was true or not but anyone who causes problems for the emergency vehicles/personnel should be made to face the consequences of their actions.
 
They're a bunch of brain dead morons who actually caused more pollution by their pathetic stunts.

God only knows why the Police didn't forcibly remove them as soon as they arrived!
They couldn't give a **** about a bit of added pollution, don't you get it? The argument that protesters may drive to a protest for example is now beyond irrelevant.
 
In history, the army would be called out, senior officer would stand in front of rabble and read out the riot act. Anyone still there after R A has been read is liable to be shot. Our ancestors had infinitely more common sense than people nowadays and didn't pander to snowflake, millennial tw@s - because luckily for them, they didn't have to suffer them in those days.

5686d556-8b60-4936-87bd-9d3f0d1f227f.jpg
 
hey overcame the problem by 2 firemen running ahead and smacking all the side mirrors in towards the car doors. The fire engine simply followed through as best as it could but unfortunately, due to bad/selfish parking, some cars were sticking out more than others and consequently lost their mirrors, and in some cases, door handles plus scrapes and dents as the appliance simply forced it's way through to the incident.

My recovery co' has the police contract & we're often called out to recover cars on their sides/roofs in a large area of very tight victorian terraces. They'll all jump out & usually bouncing them to one side creates enuff gap, if not then over it goes.

I used to talk with the owners often & took great delight in informing them that there is very little prospect of claiming the damage from the fire brigade.
 
the fire brigade who found their way 'blocked' by all the parked

A mate of mine was a fireman in London. One shout they were blocked by a parked car, they bounced it sideways just enough to get the appliance through, on the way back they stopped and bounced it a bit further side ways. Left it in a nice tight fit two concrete bollards, one front and one rear. Immovable by normal driving.
 
I wonder if those protesting would still think it was worth it if, unbeknown to one of them, one of their nearest and dearest was caught up in the tailback, trying to rush another loved one to hospital as the ambulance was taking too long to arrive. Due to the delay, the ill loved one dies before they can reach the hospital. The hospital advise if the person had been treated an hour earlier they would very likely have survived.

Or what if there was a massive accident in the tailback and x people seriously injured or killed.

Still worth it I wonder?

There's a time and place to protest and sitting on major roads isn't it.

I'd water cannon them, or is that against their human rights?
 
Did anyone one look into the reasoning behind their demands?

They are pointing to an 2018 IET report which says (among other things) in the winter heat demand in GW is 6 times electric demand - This graph comes from another report from the Energy Technology Institute which cites a 2010 Paper from Imperial College. I can't find the 2010 paper but there is a 2014/2015 paper which claims the graph is from the national grid. This links to a 404'd page on the national grid.

So the evidence isn't exactly easy to find.

I've just looked our bills and our electricity usage was 10 times more than the gas so something here is suspect. We barely use the heating these days (perhaps goes on for one month in the winter)
 
In history, the army would be called out, senior officer would stand in front of rabble and read out the riot act. Anyone still there after R A has been read is liable to be shot. Our ancestors had infinitely more common sense than people nowadays and didn't pander to snowflake, millennial tw@s - because luckily for them, they didn't have to suffer them in those days.

Hurrah for the Peterloo massacre, says Reagan.

800px-The_Massacre_of_Peterloo.jpg


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
 
Imagine someone on their way to an important job interview, a job they really need/want for whatever reason. They're delayed and miss their interview and ultimately aren't considered for the job.

100's of other examples we can all think of.

What are your thoughts?
I think imagine how delayed they will be if the M25 is under water. Or it has become an ice road because a climate-change tipping point has shut down the Gulf Stream.
 
Sponsored Links
Back
Top