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Why Brits don't protest?

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matt j

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Just looking at yet another protest by Farmers elsewhere and wondering why we don't see more/any of it here? Is it just the stereotypical British 'stiff upper lip/it's not cricket old boy/mustn't make a fuss' attitude or is there more to it?

Plenty of other nationalities aren't backwards in coming forwards in making their voice heard, so what's our problem? We'll complain hard enough to each other about poverty, shit governments, thieving Tory scumbags etc. so why does it stop there?
 
matt j said:
And other countries don't do any of those, the police just stand by and clap them on? I'm not buying it.
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Other countries have a very broad range of attitudes to protest.
Obviously reasons previously given aren't the only ones, but today in UK a conviction = prospects V seriously trashed.
 
matt j said:
Just looking at yet another protest by Farmers elsewhere and wondering why we don't see more/any of it here? Is it just the stereotypical British 'stiff upper lip/it's not cricket old boy/mustn't make a fuss' attitude or is there more to it?

Plenty of other nationalities aren't backwards in coming forwards in making their voice heard, so what's our problem? We'll complain hard enough to each other about poverty, shit governments, thieving Tory scumbags etc. so why does it stop there?
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Join the campaign
https://enough.campaign.gov.uk/
 
No idea why Brits or Germans don’t protest nowadays. They should.
Here in France it’s very much in our DNA.
Brits protested a lot in the awful Thatcher years, but they weren’t listened unfortunately, so perhaps they were disgusted and stopped demonstrating altogether?
Maggie was a heartless witch – our continental vision anyway.
 
The recent ‘don’t Pay’ campaign over leccy bills has had all sorts of commentators sucking their teeth about how your whole life is determined by your credit rating. So don’t rock your own boat sort of thingy….
This may have a short shelf life if peeps wake up.
 
Because we have so called "experts" from government, media, charities, even here, who tell you this & that will happen, plus most people are sh*thouses who are afraid to step outside the ring.

We deserve all we get here because we get shit on & just wipe ourselves down waiting for the next dump.
 
There is a list somewhere of all the protests, riots etc that occurred between the 60s and 90s. It's a long list, probably as long as any other European country. Didn't get them very far down the road toward libertarian communism either (other ideologies are available).

Bottom line, if your average general election turnout is 67% then you only really need to look after the top 34% if that (maybe a tad more under pr).
 
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UK cost of living crisis
Cost of living crisis: protests to launch across the UK

Enough is Enough campaign garners 300,000 signs-ups with 50 rallies planned next week across Britain
Zoe Wood

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ing-crisis-protests-enough-is-enough-launch-k

Any Fishies joining in on this debacle❓ :rolleyes:
 
paulfromcamden said:
There were several marches of 1m+ people opposing Brexit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_in_the_United_Kingdom#Marches_by_number

edit: and of course the XR protests have upset enough people that the government is changing the law to make annoying people a criminal offence.
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I think it's probably fair to say that the number of people protesting here is on average much less than (to take one example), France

List of protests in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
Liste des rassemblements les plus importants en France — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)
 
It's fine to protest against sth but unless you have a viable solution it's surely a pointless gesture. There are just so many negative scenarios coming on stream that it's difficult to point to one as being more important than the other. Certainly, former governments haven't exercised foresight in preparing contingencies which, with the enormous benefit of hindsight, now seems crass short-termism. The burgeoning strike mentality is wholly counter-productive and is only supposed to benefit small sections of society whilst negatively affecting much greater numbers.

We're here (and so is much of Europe) and the only way out is to ride the storm, increase self-sufficiency and productivity to at least assuage the already worsening situation in the medium term at least. One thing nobody can control, and that is the climatic peaks and troughs; this needs a fully global conviction and accord. Whether, even if that comes to pass, we can dial back the meteorological clock is quite another thing. Not at all sure how revolutions against ruling monarchies can have any relevance to today's political global line-up.
 
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