Cressida Gething missing bro's wedding

How unutterably depressing that only 20% of people (even here, on Mumsnet, where the level of education is ostensibly higher than average) have any understanding of the impending climate emergency.

The word 'emergency' isn't hyperbole. We are on the brink of catastrophe.
Insects are disappearing, bird and animal species are becoming extinct, the few remaining forests are still being cleared... people keep buying crap from Shein and driving around cities in SUVs - and this poor girl is the problem?

Bloody hell, wake up!

Thats exactly what it is ....

Peaceful protest isn't illegal. Obstructing the roads is.

And what sort of fuel will the relatives and guests et al be using to get to the wedding, presumeably the bride and groom will be going off on a cycling holiday to appease the sister..

Good. I’m glad she’s missing her brothers wedding. She can have a taste of her own medicine. JSO protesters were responsible for a lot of missed appointments, weddings, birthday celebrations, flights for holidays that families had scrimped and saved for. I heard that someone didn’t get to say goodbye to their parent before they passed away in hospital because of these selfish protesters. The fact that nearly 20% of people on here have voted YABU just about says it all.

Give her another year so she misses the first anniversary too😉

If it is a destination wedding then surely she would have refused to go to it on principle.

Or not.

Peaceful protesting does NOT involve stopping thousands of people going about their daily business.

4 years is very harsh imo. Some people get less for absolutely heinous crimes against children, women, animals…

But complaining about missing an event? The hypocrisy is quite hilarious, tbh.

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.😂

@User8646382 😂 I can see how you might think that, but no. But I'm clearly in some kind of minority on this thread. I'm a working class immigrant raised on environmentalism by necessity and international solidarity, working with asylum-seekers from regions impacted by the climate emergency so, despite being a middle-aged woman and a mother of a strong-minded DD, I've little else in common with Mrs CressieMum.

And I'm not really in a lather, just frustrated that instead of directing a bit more "Wtf!?"-energy at the fossil fuel corporations who are screwing us all over with the help of our governments (here's hoping Labour will bring fresh hope), the working poor of the UK, many of whom were adversely and disproportionately impacted by the actions of JSO, are being cynically pitted against a handful of protesters (and a mum) instead of encouraged to rise in solidarity with the poor and voiceless in other nations, who are really feeling the climate emergency bite already. In terms of having a voice, and choosing whether we use it or not, we have the privilege. So we should think carefully about where we put our energy.

@SoreAndTired1 , I'm sorry you're unwell. The prevention of emergency services vehicles to reach their destinations doesn't sit well with most people, I don't think.
As to whether Cressida really cares about her cause: I suspect she does. I'm working class and know working class kids who care deeply about the environment and have participated in direct action. It is in the interest of workers of all nations to demand climate justice.

@macaroniandcheeze, way to go!

@Puzzledandpissedoff 🤣🤣

I actually think that jailing them won’t work as they will wear it as a badge of honour

I disagree. I think Cressida, having grown up in a mansion and been privately educated, is going to get a truly gigantic culture shock in prison. I doubt it'll take long before she's thinking "Oh fuck, I really didn't think this through, did I?"

Wonder what the mother would say if all the people who had their time and money wasted because of her dd and the JSO protests did a Just Stop Brother’s Wedding protest to see how the mother liked having her day ruined by people sat in the road and not being able to get where she needed to be in time

Yes. It can be both and it probably is.

Edited because I sounded like I was defending the mother. Not my intention.

One of the Modern Parents.

Married to Malcolm

I think it's a bit patronising to say people are being whipped into a frenzy by the media. People have minds of their own. Plenty of us have listened to Cressida's mother's actual words and are appalled. No mention of missed cancer treatment and funerals, just a missed wedding.

Unfair? Like being unable to get to your work,attend health appts

You seem delightful.

Unlikely. But even more unlikely if her mother stops publically bumping her gums about it.

Do you think her brothers wedding will be targeted? If so, that’s a little unfair on them.

I actually think that jailing them won’t work as they will wear it as a badge of honour

Paying for all the missed work missed appointments and extra petrol money (+ interest) people spent trying to get to these places with an attachment of 50% of their earnings and any income they get and confiscation of their passport until it is all paid off might bring it home to them that what they did cost people money they could ill afford to lose and no one is interested in their ridiculous protests

If you want to tackle climate change, the biggest thing you can do is find something that would save people money they can see immediately in their bank account from the first month or within a year at most.
Stop using the stick to get people to change because whilst you might see a difference in that particular thing it’s going to be a long battle ahead

This is entitled tone deaf doing what they do best. Making everything about them. Clueless when it provokes outrage

If you read the sentencing remarks, what's being referred to is the intended result of their protest. It was intended to cause far, far worse disruption and gridlock of the entire network around the M25. It could well have resulted in deaths and they were lucky that it didn't.

Her sentencing reflects what happened and what she intended to happen, but it would have been more severe if she and her co-conspirators had been fully successful in their aims.

What relevance is a wedding to attend? I’m sure there’s lots of prisoners who have missed family occasions due to being inside. I don’t imagine the protesters will be inside for any length of time but I hope it acts as a deterrent to others. (I’ll be honest, I was surprised at the length of sentance, but not that they got a custodial sentence).