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.
onlycans130just heard dover park run got cancelled. *now* they're in trouble.
Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉87So I can only deduce that in this current UK climate these fascists will get nothing* *a sponsorship deal and a podcast maybe
Richard Approximately77This is what you get when you have a government desperate not to upset the far-right.
Dr Lori-Ann Foley49Spot 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.
Leftback39If/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 Foley38The 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. ☹️
SpinningHugo28Rightly. These people too need to be arrested and convicted.
Kevin Hoffin7I'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)32They're just average blokes with some concerns. Those grannies with Palestine action were the real terrorists.
Maddie (delicious, nutritious)22Years 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 🦌🏳️🌈10If 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 Services8Everyone has an equal right to protest, of course, but some people have more of an equal right than others.
Astral-Enby8Unrelated I'm sure they're not distracting from reforms biggest ever scandal on day 2 of their conference
Charlottes Mum7Complain 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.
yaoi gagarin26i was wondering why this got 750 likes despite having really no exceptional qualities and then i realized it might be because on a vibes level it kind of reads like im actually british
DJ Markymarc8Tommy Ten Names must have friends who have stuff on the PM. Where is Andy Burnham at a point of national crisis with his country going to hell?
janemick3Damn right, BBC being even-handed again (as never)
Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸2Well those are scary leftists that should be treated with only bad faith attacks and made up nonsense to get them assaulted and killed Those other ones are our precious racists we cant do without for some reason
Just Stop Oil planned to block a road, they got 21 years. Far Right masked thugs actually blocked roads. Not one arrest, nothing.
Tanvir Hamid11Two Tier Policing illustrated here.
davidbwilson5810The police said blocking the port was a "spontaneous" event and not planned 🤔 Obviously they all just happened to be wearing a sort of uniform by coincidence.
Kevin Davies8This… a million times this. The difference in treatment actually scares me. The right wing thugs are being enabled at the highest level
@Superleggera - who's awesome? That would be me 😊7We are governed by scared idiots.
LaReyne3I despise Burnham as much as I despised Starmer
johnsmith56798.bsky.social3Plus why where they all wearing burkas. What a bunch of old women.
If this was Just Stop Oil we’d be looking at arrests and charges
Polly Pallister-Wilkins29If this isn’t the clearest indication of which side the police are on I don’t know what is
Nikola21The 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
Rosie - Artist | Author12If 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? 🙄
Owain Sutton9"Spontaneous" doing a heck of a lot of excusing.
LiLBaz7There'd be a COBRA meeting called for Monday
Maria W. Norris6Imagine if Stop The War protestors were blocking entry to the HMS Belfast in a symbolic anti-war protest.
Five people climb a gantry in the name of Just Stop Oil and the police shut the motorway, arrest the protesters and imprison them for up to 5 years. Hundreds of people block one of UK's busiest ports in the name of Stop the Boats, and the police do nothing and no-one is arrested. Really? Sigh.
James4Double standards just like Middlesbrough police didn't arrest anyone when they were burning down cars but police can arrest protesters to support Palestine action its Double standards
Mama Lou🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛3Is this the two tier policing they speak of?
Javi 🦋 🇪🇺3Not to mention the people of “support Palestine” being labeled as terrorists, something in the UK stinks to Nazism. 🤮
Laurie Dunkin Wedd2If only we had a Labour government…
Stephen A Graham1Spontaneous? They all turned up at the same time wearing the same clothes. That was planned 🙄
Kent Police have confirmed they didn’t arrest a single person for the Dover protests this morning. Masked, balaclavas, blocking infrastructure, intimidating locals, dressed like paramilitary. If it were Just Stop Oil they’d be jailed for even discussing the idea on a fucking Zoom call.
Josie9Another free pass for right wing Reform racists. Disgraceful
Keith Fagandini6Unbelievable that the police were clearly happy to allow this outrage. Two tier policing really is a thing, then…..
monkeybutter.bsky.social5Ironically plenty of these guys were probably throwing out all sorts of outrage when XR or Just Stop Oil held a road up. Let alone an entire fucking ferry. I mean, technically I guess they stopped a boat. They probably struggled with perspective though...
suresh23.bsky.social5Did they not arrest an elderly lady for standing in Palestine protest
Jules McHamish2Didn’t some journalist at a Just Stop Oil protest get stopped and put in a cell for walking across a bridge? #TwoTierPolicing
it's bizarre that our media and politicians are not wholeheartedly condemning the actions of Patriot Platform as domestic terrorism. Those people in Just Stop Oil got 4-5yrs in jail for simply planning to disrupt the M25 ffs.
Jazzaoxon6I don't know why the mediacand government don't take this seriously. He wants to build an army. Needs to be nipped in the bud. If it isn't, more loony groups and people will appear. They should be dealt with as terrorists.
carlostheghost.bsky.social2Interesting that they're all proudly wearing, what they would have called during the pandemic, face nappies
Compare and contrast with our response to Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action. I don't particularly mind police action against disruptive protest - and hold no candle for either of the above orgs - but I do expect us to come down like a ton of bricks on similar (worse!) Stuff from the right
James Austin41We'll go into the next election arguing its us or Nigel. Civilisation or barbarianism. But that does require us to clearly represent the former
Han🌹🏳️🌈3Poor response. Yet again. I was hoping we would get a stronger response to this under Burnham, but clearly not.
Claire S (UK not USA)1I feel the same as you, I've no time for JSO and PA but those thugs in Dover should be treated exactly the same as their supporters.
