Protesters blockade at Stansted airport

deegee999

What a bunch of idiots, they should have rounded them up & left them in the daparture lounge to explain to al the passengers. Love moonchilds way of testing their beliefs, personally i'd crucify them on the lamp posts on the access road.

withabix

The name of their 'organisation' is very appropriate...


Plane Stupid


Yes, they certainly are!


They are bleating on their website about someone at Stansted trying to run them over with a snow plough.


Clearly they weren't trying hard enough.


Greasy Oik: 'What just ran over my head?'

Another Greasy Oik: 'It was a Plane, Stupid!'

ynot2005

Moonchild wrote: »

There's a big chunk of me that heartily agrees with them and the actions they are taking, as it's for the right reasons. Strong enough to back up their beliefs with strong, direct action. Turns out I went to school with a couple of them, and you'd find most of them to be educated, middle class, with good jobs, so hardly unemployed layabouts.

However the simple truth is that they have disrupted holidays, honeymoons, curtailed business which is unacceptable.

So therefore I think the only acceptable thing would have been to leave the airport open, and see how firm their beliefs are laying on tarmac with a Ryanair 737 coming straight for them every 3 minutes.

i would love to know how many flights these middle class types take a year on their weekend breaks?, what gas guzzling cars they drive?

thats what happens when they are all sprawled out in a starbucks and want to change the world, as it said on the news hardly any protestors were from essex.

you can be sure all the "big dreams" wouldn't have affected their lives, families or income.

hopefully their fifteen minutes of fame will be enough material to keep them chatting away in starbucks and that will be the end of it.

phatbear

The protestors would never have got on airport property if they had more than 100mls of liquid about there person, however no rules about bolt cutters and barracades of course, im tempted to hand a pair of bolt cutters to the "security" guard when I go into work rather than my pass, we'll see how that goes down.

all the best

the bear

jaymac_2

Fiftytwo planeloads of ordinary people have been inconvenienced by these protestors, possibly having to cancel prebooked and prepaid accomodation and transport with no recourse to insurance for help because the protest will be classed as "civil unrest" The protestors would have been better thought of if they had demonstrated outside the airport rather than forcing its closure. My sympathies are with the travellers not the protestors.

deegee999

Maybe if some names & addresses were made available LOTS of people could pursue them for their money back!

bagand96

I wonder if any of the protesters could actually tell me what % of the UK annual carbon emissions are actually caused by aircraft landing/taking off in the UK? Found the following on the Plane Stupid (ironic?) website:

Despite myths propagated by the airline industry, aviation already accounts for 13% of the UK’s contribution to climate change.

Sounds like a made up statistic if I ever heard one. Give me some real numbers and I'll believe your cause. Had to laugh when I read....

Protester Richard Claxton, who was d-locked to the fencing at the time, said, "I was terrified: you don't expect to be attacked with a snowplough on a peaceful protest."

You broke into an airport which is private property. Shame it wasn't a 737. Idiots

dzug1

ceridwen wrote: »

I note the comment from one of the protestors "We're here because our parents generation has failed us and its now down to young people to stop climate change by whatever peaceful means we have left". .

Breaking through a perimeter fence doesn't exactly seem peaceful to me.

discoinferno_99

No sympathy for them - get them locked up is what I say as well. They are a political group, but use illegal means. They also use some pretty ropey facts to aid their arguments.

I have no problem with lobbying and protests that do not use illegal activities such as trespassing, but these clowns are beyond that.

I remember them protesting and trying to cause some problems at Manchester Airport earlier this year to complain about unnecessary domestic flights. Except the pillocks did it in an international terminal. Police and security didn't seem to want to intervene in stopping them from blocking access to the security area. They had been blocking it off for 25 minutes before a rubgy team on a tour politely asked them to make way. When they didn't a few of them carried up a few of the protestors and dumped 'em 20 yards away. Job done.

Not sure if they started up again, but about 250 of us waiting to get through did so just fine after that. :j

withabix

ceridwen wrote: »

"We're here because our parents generation has failed us"

Yes indeed, their parents forgot to use any contraception...