Suspended sentence - really?

[Grahamm]

Privilege? What a ridiculous thing to say?

Do people look at you walking down the street at night and think "is he a mugger or a rapist"? Do shop assistants keep a special eye on you in case you're going to try to nick stuff? How many times have you been Stopped and Searched because your face "doesn't fit" in a particular area? etc etc etc.

And irrespective of your link, the police force, especially the Met, are so woke right now that they're scared to let their officers do their job properly without fear of some sort of reprisal, normally by the repulsive media.

"So woke"? You mean trying hard not to be "Institutionally Racist"?!

"British policing is institutionally racist. Until we admit it we’ll never win back trust"- Neil Basu is assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police

Like all these idiot protesters sitting in the roads of London. How on earth is that not wilful obstruction and a breach of the peace, yet the police are hardly on rapid response to remove them to let Londoners get on with their daily life without any more hinderance. Life is tough enough right now so we really don't need brainless morons upsetting everyone, because that is all that they're doing, they are not gaining any support by the decent general public whatsoever.

Lol! People protesting in a way you don't like are "idiots" and, of course, YOU are part of the "decent" general public. And the fact that this planet is facing a Climate Emergency isn't as important as making life easier for you, even though when (not if!) Global Warming starts having a real effect, that's going to make life a hell of a lot more tougher for you and everyone else.

They have *tried* protesting "nicely". There have been campaigns and petitions and letters to MPs and TV programmes and warnings from scientists and successive governments have said "Yes, we agree, something needs to be done" before they kick the can down the road again.

And now we have a Prime Minister who isn't even going to bother to go to the COP 27 conference, showing exactly how much he cares...

So people are taking action that makes others have to pay attention and whilst that may be inconvenient for you and might lose some support from the "decent general public" (ie people who think like you, others are going to start thinking "maybe they have a point".

But I'm sure you'd rather the Police just lock them all away, just like those who think a "few broken bones" might deter others and we take another step down the slippery slope to living in a wonderfully dystopian Police State...