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Why Brits don't protest?

TheDecameron said:
instead it’s all personal pronouns this and personal pronouns that these days
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Personally, I agree with you, Dec, though I think you're being personal, esp. about pronouns. Don't follow all this gender-blender business, but there again, I never quite got the hang of X and Y chromosomes; too graph ic for me. :D

mandryka said:
He just shrugged his shoulders
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We'll just have to adopt the Gallic shrug, n'est-ce-pas?

Riots, demo's and marches; against whom or what? There are too many strings to this upcoming depression (if it materialises as such) and no one body has the magic wand.
 
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wulbert said:
Remember the brutal clampdown on “New Age Travellers”? I wonder what existential threat they represented? And to whom?
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it struck me as the police having a busman’s holiday at the taxpayers expense with huge support from the taxpayer and both enjoying it mightily. The crusties get a bit of a pasting etc, etc. Shocking how it was gloated over… the oppressed enjoying the ‘even more oppressed’ having their windows put out by the government of the day.
No windows means no home. if it’s a bus as you can’t ring up Anglian….
 
Arkless Electronics said:
LOL:D And how do you square the concept of democratic elections with those with the most money being allowed to brainwash the electorate in order to blatantly preserve their vested interests??:rolleyes:
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No problem with your aspirations; it’s just how to get to them gives me indigestion:) in any system, no matter how well organised the intelligent with no conscience will find a way to the top. The American constitution is pretty good, yet a charismatic psychopath has managed to run a coach and horses through it just by ignoring the rule based system. How fragile is that when questioned?
 
Mike Reed said:
Personally, I agree with you, Dec, though I think you're being personal, esp. about pronouns. Don't follow all this gender-blender business, but there again, I never quite got the hang of X and Y chromosomes' too graph ic for me. :D
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The X chromosome is the horizontal one on the bottom, and the Y chromosome is the one that goes up.
 
paulfromcamden said:
I recall there being quite a lot of fashion crimes.
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That "shaved mullet" thing.

I shared a flat for a while with a rotating cast of hunt saboteurs and people who would have been called "crusties" in certain red-top newsprint. I was studying mechanical engineering and working in a toy store. Very square.
I wonder if it was their rejection of consumerism that scared the authorities the most? Maybe that, and their ideas that the land belonged to everyone.

I'd like to read more about that time. I wonder if something important/interesting was happening and then got crushed.

Found this: andyworthington.co.uk Looks like he was there at the time.


 
chartz said:
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.
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Yep, and I admire you for it… unless it affects my flight.:D
 
wulbert said:
That "shaved mullet" thing.

I shared a flat for a while with a rotating cast of hunt saboteurs and people who would have been called "crusties" in certain red-top newsprint. I was studying mechanical engineering and working in a toy store. Very square.
I wonder if it was their rejection of consumerism that scared the authorities the most? Maybe that, and their ideas that the land belonged to everyone.

I'd like to read more about that time. I wonder if something important/interesting was happening and then got crushed.

Found this: andyworthington.co.uk Looks like he was there at the time.


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I was a new age traveller. I wasn't at the battle of the beanfield but knew many that were. I was involved in several other fracas with the pigs though. Anyhow I've written long posts about it all before and pfm's shampaigne socialist property rights are everything types really don't like it and can shove it where it hurts:p
 
Mass trespass protest being planned.

"Sangita Myska meets Guy Shrubsole, author of Who Owns England and founder of Right to Roam – a campaign to improve access to privately held land.

According to Shrubsole, in Britain (excluding Scotland) we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways. Yet the Covid lockdowns highlighted how much we crave green spaces and how many of us do not have the privilege of easy access to nature."


 
wulbert said:
That "shaved mullet" thing.

I shared a flat for a while with a rotating cast of hunt saboteurs and people who would have been called "crusties" in certain red-top newsprint. I was studying mechanical engineering and working in a toy store. Very square.
I wonder if it was their rejection of consumerism that scared the authorities the most? Maybe that, and their ideas that the land belonged to everyone.

I'd like to read more about that time. I wonder if something important/interesting was happening and then got crushed.

Found this: andyworthington.co.uk Looks like he was there at the time.


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Do you know about Alan "Tash" Lodge? He is a photographer who documents alternative, underground movements and an all-round good bloke.
https://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/
 
MUTTY1 said:
it struck me as the police having a busman’s holiday at the taxpayers expense with huge support from the taxpayer and both enjoying it mightily. The crusties get a bit of a pasting etc, etc. Shocking how it was gloated over… the oppressed enjoying the ‘even more oppressed’ having their windows put out by the government of the day.
No windows means no home. if it’s a bus as you can’t ring up Anglian….
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Based on my very limited sample I see most protesters are either young or over the age of fifty so I had this idea that as mentioned elsewhere that the likelihood of taking part in a protest, correlates to how much mortgage debt you have.

However we are now at a stage where police reaction also needs to be factored in . Ok this poor man did make the Guardian, but it does help set in the mind is that even having multiple disabilities doesn't accord one a little respect and dignity. Plus that newspaper vendor in London a few years back .
Would you protest knowing what potentially the reaction could be?
I wouldn't.
 
I took part in several of the mass anti-Brexit demonstrations in That London a few years ago. I admit to being a little concerned about the risk of being kettled and police repercussions, before the first one.
 
AFAIK French police are more err robust that in the UK. I have no intention of researching this subject.
 
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