Cressida Gething missing bro's wedding

Which brother was it, Tarquin or Rupert? And what did he say?

Cry my a river 🙄 YADNBU OP!

As soon as I heard her mother speak I instantly thought privileged middle class upbringing. Serves her right, good enough for her! The ambulances that these idiots block, the funerals and important hospital appointments people miss because of these clowns, so the mothers got a cheek to complain she’ll miss her brothers wedding 😂

That’s what I mean when I say privileged, tone deaf!

Are you sure it’s me who’s in a lather?

After appeal, parole etc she'ss server around a year. Which I think it about right. her brother could easily delay his wedding by a year.

She is also going to clearly make a career out of this so will be fine afterwards as will be employed by/as an activist that won't care about her criminal record.

Right wingers? Do grow up.

Her and her ilks actions were a direct attack on the poor. They can all rot in prison for all I care. Those living in poverty will be disproportionately impacted by their actions and they fucking know it. It's all well and good for them to crow to us about climate change and the like but I can assure you my impact on this planet is negligible precisely BECAUSE I am poor. I shop in second hand shops, I've never had a foreign holiday, I rarely buy meat because I can't afford it, I rarely have my heating on because I can't afford it, I don't even drive ffs.

If I miss a cancer appointment then guess what, I can't simply then go private, I'd have to wait another 2 months like the cancer patient in this case. If I were to miss work and lose pay it would mean not being able to pay a bill that month. If I missed my DSs autism assessment then I'd likely have to wait another 5 years for one because I can't simply pay for another.

I am sick to the back fucking teeth of being preached to, looked down upon and inconvenienced by those who have zero understanding or empathy for what life is really like for those on the brink of poverty.

They should have thought about that before theh stopped the m25 where no doubt people were trying to get to weddings, funerals, school, holidays and work. They made others miss important events, put strain on individuals so I can't shed a tear for her missing her brothers wedding. I don't agree with the use of fossil fuels and I wish eco alternatives were more widely available to us as consumers for a reasonable price but stopping the m25 was not the way to do it. I wonder how many of these protestors drove cars to get to their protests, used mobile phones to record, wore clothing they brought brand new used hair dyes and ate food or used products containing palm oil.

I've watched the video She comes across as very entitled.

Protest via peaceful means that don't disrupt, isn't illegal. Causing people to die? That should be illegal! This group are not your average protesters. The ability to (lawfully and peacefully) protest is not under threat. And still isn't after this verdict. 4 years is too short for these murderers.

OK, I'll bite. Who can link to a transcript of what Cressida's mum actually said which caused the Express to choose the phrasing "moans about"? I've had a cursory Google and seen the verb "complained" used in another paper, but both are definitely paraphrasing what was actually said, quite possibly to create the very effect we are seeing on this thread. Both publications do quote her mum's words later in the articles as she describes her daughter, but crucially, as is evident on this thread, they are merely interpreting what was said concerning her mum's disappointment that her daughter would not be present at her brother's wedding.
And while you're at it, also link to the brother's statement re his wedding being a destination wedding, seeing as this is gaining some traction on this thread.

Seems like natural consequences to me.

Mumsnet would have hated Emily Wilding Davison

Everyone who got a custodial sentence had been in trouble over protesting before, so they had to know they were likely to be going to prison this time. They took the risk, they do the time.

This and equally Cressida shouldn’t get a longer sentence as some people are saying or get publicly hated more because she has a mum who said something tone-deaf.

I expect Cressida knew the risks when she acted and thinks that their message is more important

Can anyone given an example of a peaceful, non disruptive protest that ever achieved anything?

I stand the way Just Stop Oil protests, but 4 years is beyond harsh. Rapists serve less time.

Protesting peacefully is not against the law as such. Climbing up a motorway gantry is against the law as it causes a public nuisance.

A person commits an offence if—
(a)the person—
(i)does an act, or
(ii)omits to do an act that they are required to do by any enactment or rule of law,

(b)the person’s act or omission—
(i)creates a risk of, or causes, serious harm to the public or a section of the public, or
(ii)obstructs the public or a section of the public in the exercise or enjoyment of a right that may be exercised or enjoyed by the public at large, and
(c)the person intends that their act or omission will have a consequence mentioned in paragraph (b) or is reckless as to whether it will have such a consequence.

(2)In subsection (1)(b)(i) “serious harm” means—
(a)death, personal injury or disease,
(b)loss of, or damage to, property, or
(c)serious distress, serious annoyance, serious inconvenience or serious loss of amenity.

** Hopefully, in the not too distant future, Eesipeelerie.

IllMetByMoonlight · That was one great post with which I concur
(never take any notice of posters who start a response with "See").

She thought she'd get away with it. How sad.

Never mind.

My interpretation of ‘peaceful’ is that it would have minimal impact on bystanders. It had a huge impact on bystanders - there were multiple people very inconvenienced and a number who were affected significantly.
I’m not making any judgement on her or her motivations, just saying I can’t see this was a peaceful protest as it did disturb the peace.

Ms Gethin has 3 previous convictions for similar protests/including one which was disruption of the M25.

If it is a destination wedding she could be let out next month and still may not make it anyway.. most countries aren't too happy about letting convicted prisoners in.

I get annoyed with the 'it's a climate emergency so she had to act' arguments. My brother is also a committed environmentalist. What did he do? Studied and obtained a PhD and now is the COO of a company working on more sustainable farming practices.

She's clearly a clever girl if she got into Cambridge. She would be better placed using that intelligence more productively.

Just because they weren't throwing bricks it doesn't mean that protest was 'peaceful'. That implies that said protest would do no harm

Blocking the M25 most emphatically did do harm

But it's more than rich that we're supposed to care about her missing her brother's wedding. What about all the people who missed important events because of her actions?

One man missed his father's funeral another a cancer appointment which couldn't be rescheduled for a few moths affecting their outcome.

However this is her Mum - who broke no laws and is probably devastated her child is now in prison and will have to face implications of that - first of which is missing her brother's wedding. It does come across as tone deaf though.

I was with you totally - men who download horrific images of child abuse bestiality women being raped and men who actually do some of these things are walking away with suspended sentences so I don’t want peaceful protesters taking up prison spaces. The right to freedom of expression is important. But her mum is making it look only her family deserve snagfree events - can’t come across as a lot more selfish and idiotic. Weddings are so un eco friendly surely she’d only be protesting it anyway?

It's not her who's complaining, it's her mum, who might just as well be complaining about the behaviour that led to it as the sentence. I think it's OK for a mum to be disappointed that her daughter will miss her son's wedding, but not to expect that makes any difference to anyone else.

Protests that don't cause disruption have never achieved anything, there's not much point in a peaceful non disruptive protest, and there are numerous people in history who we need to be grateful to for protesting, despite the personal consequences.

I do think it's a bit much that this is the same sentence as the one handed to the child rapist in the news this week.