Big power off 10pm tonight

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Thrugelmir said:

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GingerTim said:

Isn't the point of protest to be effective? This manifestly isn't.

You might well be right. A protest is only effective when it causes the Gov to pay attention and has the numbers willing to actually put themselves out there and risk what they have. Clearly sitting in your house and turning your power off for 10mins doesn't exactly do that 
 

Perhaps if everyone was more productive and constructive. Then we'd all be in a better place. Everybody seems to want a free lunch. While elsewhere in the world there's plenty of people who'll happily work hard to better themselves. Seems as if there's one of those pivotal crunch moments on the horizon. That people might see if they lifted their heads up rather than staring endlessly at their phones.. 

erm there is no country in the world that is perfect and not everyone is looking for a free lunch. Plenty of pros and cons in any part of the world. It’s the governments responsibility to ensure equality of opportunity for all and to ensure the the gap between the haves and haves not doesn’t get too wide as to cause unrest. 

casjen

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

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casjen said:

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

Pointless statement. 

 When people protest they are willing to cross other peoples boundaries and even break the law because they feel they have no other option. 

markin

If it had any affect at all i dont see it

https://electricinsights.co.uk/#/dashboard?start=2022-04-10&&_k=yq4cbj

The should be some data on Earth hr that probably had more people.

Ultrasonic

Deleted_User said:

casjen said:

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

Pointless statement. 

 When people protest they are willing to cross other peoples boundaries and even break the law because they feel they have no other option. 

Nonsense. Lots of protests are entirely legal and don't inconvenience others. A case could be made that those that do are more effective though.

On the original subject of this thread, participation in protests is a way for governments etc to gauge public feeling and I rather suspect a lack of participation last night may have the opposite effect to what the organisers were hoping for. My bet is the also overestimated how many would see a social-media only based campaign. I bet a large subset of those most concerned by energy bills are pensioners who would never see publicity one Facebook, Twitter etc.

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Ultrasonic said:

Deleted_User said:

casjen said:

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

Pointless statement. 

 When people protest they are willing to cross other peoples boundaries and even break the law because they feel they have no other option. 

Nonsense. Lots of protests are entirely legal and don't inconvenience others. A case could be made that those that do are more effective though.

On the original subject of this thread, participation in protests is a way for governments etc to gauge public feeling and I rather suspect a lack of participation last night may have the opposite effect to what the organisers were hoping for. My bet is the also overestimated how many would see a social-media only based campaign. I bet a large subset of those most concerned by energy bills are pensioners who would never see publicity one Facebook, Twitter etc.

Did I say all protests?

please consult your history books and the world view and see how many protests have happened around the world that have been legal and not legal. When people feel they have no other option but to protest they will decide how much they’re willing to risk of themselves for the cause they want to protest about. 

Ultrasonic

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Ultrasonic said:

Deleted_User said:

casjen said:

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

Pointless statement. 

 When people protest they are willing to cross other peoples boundaries and even break the law because they feel they have no other option. 

Nonsense. Lots of protests are entirely legal and don't inconvenience others. A case could be made that those that do are more effective though.

On the original subject of this thread, participation in protests is a way for governments etc to gauge public feeling and I rather suspect a lack of participation last night may have the opposite effect to what the organisers were hoping for. My bet is the also overestimated how many would see a social-media only based campaign. I bet a large subset of those most concerned by energy bills are pensioners who would never see publicity one Facebook, Twitter etc.

Did I say all protests?

By simply saying 'when people protest', yes, you did.

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Ultrasonic said:

Deleted_User said:

Ultrasonic said:

Deleted_User said:

casjen said:

People can protest as much as they like.

 However there is not one person on the planet who  is entitled to have their personal protesting, interfere or disrupt ME going about my daily business regardless of what that business is.

Pointless statement. 

 When people protest they are willing to cross other peoples boundaries and even break the law because they feel they have no other option. 

Nonsense. Lots of protests are entirely legal and don't inconvenience others. A case could be made that those that do are more effective though.

On the original subject of this thread, participation in protests is a way for governments etc to gauge public feeling and I rather suspect a lack of participation last night may have the opposite effect to what the organisers were hoping for. My bet is the also overestimated how many would see a social-media only based campaign. I bet a large subset of those most concerned by energy bills are pensioners who would never see publicity one Facebook, Twitter etc.

Did I say all protests?

By simply saying 'when people protest', yes, you did.

Nope taking things out of context and projecting all over my comment.

I was replying to someone who said no one is entitled to stop them going about their business and I was simply pointing out than when people protest they are WILLING to break laws when they have NO OTHER OPTION.

 So when peaceful law abiding protest is NO longer an OPTION they’re WILLING to break the law 

Sea_Shell

I'll be going lights out again at about 9.30pm...anyone care to join in. 😁

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Sea_Shell said:

I'll be going lights out again at about 9.30pm...anyone care to join in. 😁

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You rebel 

i might be going around 10