Five Just Stop Oil activists jailed over planned M25 blockade
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
onlycans96just heard dover park run got cancelled. *now* they're in trouble.
Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉78So I can only deduce that in this current UK climate these fascists will get nothing* *a sponsorship deal and a podcast maybe
Richard Approximately67This is what you get when you have a government desperate not to upset the far-right.
Leftback36If/when it turns out that a fair few of this lot have previous convictions, we should expect them to be sentenced per the JSO conspiracy convictions
Dr Lori-Ann Foley33The police are ‘engaging’ with them. I’d like to think not but I’m pretty sure if the protesters had black skin instead of black masks, the response would be different. ☹️
Dr Lori-Ann Foley32Spot the difference: Pro-human rights protesters — arrested. Racist white male facists — police are apparently walking them back to the rail station; not an arrest in sight.
SpinningHugo28Rightly. These people too need to be arrested and convicted.
Kevin Hoffin5I've said it many many times, it's not what you do (or plan to), it's who you offend that affects sentencing.
Daniel Nye Griffiths3Also, we should consider that nobody is expecting to get anywhere on the M25 anyway.
Indy3Excellent test case here. Will be interesting to see what happens.
An Frúidíneach2Gently escorted the fascist thugs to the train station where they were free to go home. All masked so no identification. No arrests. That event was a roaring screaming success for the fascists. They acted with no repercussions and will be encouraged to do so again because they were not stopped.
Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙2...and reports suggest that police are just corralling 'stop the boats' thugs towards the railway station - so zero arrests 🤔
oh protesters are they? if just stop oil block a street for an hour thats a criminal offence and when a nice old grammy holds up a pro-palestine sign shes a domestic terrorist but seizing a port still counts as a protest then, i see
Lyri (@x25e0)14They're just average blokes with some concerns. Those grannies with Palestine action were the real terrorists.
Maddie (delicious, nutritious)8Years of protest in the UK has taught me that when protesters block roads, it's standard practice to openly hope that drivers slam the accelerator. Now, I wouldn't say that because it's awful, but I expect we'll surely see that sentiment repeated in the papers. Surely.
sleepyhart 🦌🏳️🌈5If it's pro facism, racism or bigotry its protesting. If it's anti fash and/or standing up for minorities it's terrorism. "Love" this new reality we live in.
Excalibur Discount Legal Services5Everyone has an equal right to protest, of course, but some people have more of an equal right than others.
Astral-Enby5Unrelated I'm sure they're not distracting from reforms biggest ever scandal on day 2 of their conference
Charlottes Mum5Complain about Israel being nasty to Palestine and you are arrested, complain about migrants and it’s ‘British peoples right to protest’. It’s almost as if Isreal is influencing British politics.
If this was Just Stop Oil we’d be looking at arrests and charges
Polly Pallister-Wilkins20If this isn’t the clearest indication of which side the police are on I don’t know what is
Owain Sutton8"Spontaneous" doing a heck of a lot of excusing.
LiLBaz6There'd be a COBRA meeting called for Monday
Rosie - Artist | Author6If they had been grannies holding placards asking for a stop to genocide, they would all have been arrested, and smeared all over the news. Fascist Britain today, eh? 🙄
Nikola6The media got so bent out of shape over JSO the Tories specifically changed the 2022 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act to make blocking a road a crime punishable by up to six months in prison
Maria W. Norris5Imagine if Stop The War protestors were blocking entry to the HMS Belfast in a symbolic anti-war protest.
