Extinction rebellion

[Fade and Die]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

Not sure I'm a fan of natural justice and surely giving them a kicking only adds to their "cause" but can see how the commuters must be getting mighty hacked off with these idiots disrupting their day every day at the moment

 

[Deleted member 25172]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

I would lie if I said that didn't bring a smile to my face.

 

[Dando]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

That’s cheered me up but no doubt the commuters will be the ones charged with an offence!

 

[ger147]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

Canning Town, a very wise choice for a protest...🤣🤣

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

No support from me for action disrupting the underground/DLR in this way.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Odd target to go for. Surely the tube is the greenest method of moving a mass population around a capital city? I would have thought they would want to move people onto the tube system, not push them off it.

 

[Hacker Khan]

As with just about everything at the moment, the people right on the fringes or movements/political parties are commanding the most exposure and leading the narrative. Much to the determent of the more coherent views of the majority of people in these movements.

 

[backwoodsman]

Extinction Rebellion protesters get a pasting trying to stop East Londoners getting to work!😂😂😂
welcome to the real world.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news...rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385

Sadly, that something of this nature would happen was as inevitable as the year is long. The commuting public is rather long suffering but surprisingly tolerant. But sooner or later, someone would feel they'd been pushed too far.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

As with just about everything at the moment, the people right on the fringes or movements/political parties are commanding the most exposure and leading the narrative. Much to the determent of the more coherent views of the majority of people in these movements.

I think this is so true. The cause is honourable but people are going to stop listening to the message if they are behaving like this and disrupting people's jobs day after day.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

As if commuters don’t have enough to put up with in regards the poor standard the receive on the tube as it is - they now have to deal with them

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Anyone know how badly injured the protester is.
It looked pretty brutal with many passengers kicking him.
I wonder if some of the posters on here would still be supportive if the guy had died.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I think this is so true. The cause is honourable but people are going to stop listening to the message if they are behaving like this and disrupting people's jobs day after day.

Apparently an internal Extinction Rebellion poll found 70% of ER members were against this sort of action.

 

[MegaSteve]

Anyone know how badly injured the protester is.
It looked pretty brutal with many passengers kicking him.
I wonder if some of the posters on here would still be supportive if the guy had died.

Being a veteran of protest I can advise he'll be as happy as Larry... As he has achieved exactly what he desired... The few bumps/grazes will be seen as more than worth it...

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Anyone know how badly injured the protester is.
It looked pretty brutal with many passengers kicking him.
I wonder if some of the posters on here would still be supportive if the guy had died.

Well - those doing the kicking (on both sides) have been video'd and so the law will take it's course if it is asked to.

 

[backwoodsman]

Lord T has it - the underlying cause/ concern has merit but the message has to be delivered properly. Folk may well have sympathy with the cause, but if the delivery is wrong people will stop listening..

I have some sympathy for the general cause, but equally had plenty of sympathy with the commuters - and was content even up to the point of the protester being ejected from the roof of the train. Beyond that was not acceptable. And I fear that sooner or later, the protest, or a protester, will push the wrong button on the wrong person, and there'll be a serious incident.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Anyone know how badly injured the protester is.
It looked pretty brutal with many passengers kicking him.
I wonder if some of the posters on here would still be supportive if the guy had died.

I dont agree with how ER are going about this and certainly dont condone their behaviour stopping people earning a crust but seeing him being kicked on the floor cannot be condoned.

I'm all for dragging him off the train and giving him a slap but the continued kicking of him on the floor was bang out of order.

 

[AmandaJR]

At first I watched and thought "don't blame you, get him off and get on with your daily lives which are being constantly disrupted" but then it got really nasty and shameful.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I dont agree with how ER are going about this and certainly dont condone their behaviour stopping people earning a crust but seeing him being kicked on the floor cannot be condoned.

I'm all for dragging him off the train and giving him a slap but the continued kicking of him on the floor was bang out of order.

This and you have to hope that the police will act and arrest some of those involved for assault

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I don’t like the mass kicking, but by the same token if the protester had slipped and fallen down onto the tracks the others side then what?