Protest at the snooker

Randy said:
Form a party to run for government.
There seems to be enough of them?

See if they get the general support from the wider population at the polls. Then they can enact whatever change they want.
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Yikes, why would anyone want that to be the only route to society ever changing? It take decades for anything to happen. Unless we changed the system so we could elect a new government every week or so.
 
Chappy112 said:
Oh yeah just get in government lads :ROFLMAO:

Imagine applying that to any protest throughout history. I swear you need to read some of the things you type before you post it.
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They want the current government to stop new oil and gas projects correct? The current government doesn't seem interested in that and I don't think any new government would have it high on their agenda?
New political parties aren't hard to form are they? BNP, Reform, Brexit party as a couple of examples. Work with the Green party?
 
Muttley said:
What has it achieved?

Some short interruption to the snooker and damage to the cloth on one table.
Coverage on the National News
Representatives on TV talks shows to state their case
Increased public profile for their cause
Some irritation and a few people digging themselves into foxholes on social media

On balance I'd score that as a significant success for the protestors.
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Agreed, whatever their cause, they have a bunch of middle aged blokes discussing it in a football forum. So imagine the numbers of people their message has reached. Huge success from their perspective. From my perspective, they’ve been heard without hurting anyone, clever if you ask me.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Or they believe that the bigger picture is more important than their own employment prospects.

It's a very lazy dismissal of their message to label them all as posh public school kids who dont need to worry about employment.
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Rubbish, you have to be in a very privileged position to even consider that to be an option

Do you think a young working class person with no financial support from anyone but themselves could afford to stay at university until their mid 20s and then destroy any future chance of employment. It’s all good having principals but they have to be put to one side for the majority of us to actually survive
 
JM14 said:
Rubbish, you have to be in a very privileged position to even consider that to be an option

Do you think a young working class person with no financial support from anyone but themselves could afford to stay at university until their mid 20s and then destroy any future chance of employment. It’s all good having principals but they have to be put to one side for the majority of us to actually survive
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No you dont.

You need to truly believe in the cause, that you're willing to sacrifice certain things to advance the cause. Emily Davison believed in the Suffragettes cause so much she was willing to die to advance the cause, plenty of people believed in the anti-Franco cause that they were willing to potentially die when joining the International Brigades, Bobby Sands was willing to starve himself to death because he believed in the Republican cause.

None of those people above were thinking about whether they'd be able to get a job at the end of it, they believed in something bigger. As I say before dismissing them as "poshos"is pure laziness.
 
JM14 said:
Rubbish, you have to be in a very privileged position to even consider that to be an option

Do you think a young working class person with no financial support from anyone but themselves could afford to stay at university until their mid 20s and then destroy any future chance of employment. It’s all good having principals but they have to be put to one side for the majority of us to actually survive
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Your initial assumption is still doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
There's already a party doing that.
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The greens? Maybes work with them or alongside them. As others have mentioned I don't see what glueing yourself to the road is going to do other than **** people off through missing work, been late for work/appointments etc.
 
Randy said:
The greens? Maybes work with them or alongside them. As others have mentioned I don't see what glueing yourself to the road is going to do other than **** people off through missing work, been late for work/appointments etc.
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I actually agree with you. Hence why we should support them doing stuff that is less destructive, like this. Anyone who costs Eddie Hearn a bit of dosh is fine in my book, especially if they're doing it to try and save the planet. Its not as if I think JSO are a bunch of total crackpots who don't have any kind of valid point.
 
Randy said:
The greens? Maybes work with them or alongside them. As others have mentioned I don't see what glueing yourself to the road is going to do other than **** people off through missing work, been late for work/appointments etc.
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The Greens have been around for a long time and in some countries they even win seats. I don't think their target audience is taking any notice.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
No you dont.

You need to truly believe in the cause, that you're willing to sacrifice certain things to advance the cause. Emily Davison believed in the Suffragettes cause so much she was willing to die to advance the cause, plenty of people believed in the anti-Franco cause that they were willing to potentially die when joining the International Brigades, Bobby Sands was willing to starve himself to death because he believed in the Republican cause.

None of those people above were thinking about whether they'd be able to get a job at the end of it, they believed in something bigger. As I say before dismissing them as "poshos"is pure laziness.
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It’s a bit far to use that comparison, I doubt these people are exactly willing to die. They purposely pick soft targets knowing they have police protection but clearly have the funds to be able to deal with the consequences

No one living in the real world can behave like this yet we have to deal with the consequences of their actions time after time
 
JM14 said:
It’s a bit far to use that comparison, I doubt these people are exactly willing to die. They purposely pick soft targets knowing they have police protection but clearly have the funds to be able to deal with the consequences

No one living in the real world can behave like this yet we have to deal with the consequences of their actions time after time
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Do you reckon everyone involved in the civil rights movement were wadded?
 
JM14 said:
It’s a bit far to use that comparison, I doubt these people are exactly willing to die. They purposely pick soft targets knowing they have police protection but clearly have the funds to be able to deal with the consequences

No one living in the real world can behave like this yet we have to deal with the consequences of their actions time after time
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So you're ok with horses dying for the entertainment of people, and don't want people's entertainment disrupted by a protest drawing attention to the impending climate disaster?

Weird priorities you have.
 
JM14 said:
It’s a bit far to use that comparison, I doubt these people are exactly willing to die. They purposely pick soft targets knowing they have police protection but clearly have the funds to be able to deal with the consequences

No one living in the real world can behave like this yet we have to deal with the consequences of their actions time after time
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Should they not be entitled to police protection?
 
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