Just Stop Oil protesters vandalise Chelsea Flower Show garden

[blacksax]

WTF do these people stand for?

Just fuck off you utter, utter cunts.

[Ohmych]

What is the point of that?

[Ohmych]

Why are they protesting about a garden? It makes no sense.

[crossstitchingnana]

All I can assume is that they're trying to upset Boomers (assumption that older people like CFS)

[Sagittariusrising]

Love the woman who hosed them down 😀I can't imagine many people there having a lot of sympathy. Hope nothing like this happens tomorrow when I visit.

[ThePoshUns]

Just saw this. Vandals. That's someone's hard work ruined by their pathetic ' look at me' actions. Bunch of c**ts.

[Trinity65]

😡

[Clymene]

Bunch of over privileged yobs

[Summerhillsquare]

You know why they are doing it, for the publicity. If you don't support them, don't share their actions 🤷

[Barbadossunset]

@Clymene

Bunch of over privileged yobs

There is an article in the Spectator about ‘econians ’ - privileged people taking part in Just Stop Oil and ER etc. I’m sure some of them are over privileged but not all of them surely?
I wonder if it’s a plan by the government to turn the public even more against these protesters: posh = bad, therefore if posh people are protesting then the cause and protests must be bad.

[sashagabadon]

Their posh middle class parents were probably there the day before.

[sashagabadon]

It’s not a plan by the government. They are all posh and middle class

[WilkinsonM]

what arseholes

[WilkinsonM]

@Barbadossunset

There is an article in the Spectator about ‘econians ’ - privileged people taking part in Just Stop Oil and ER etc. I’m sure some of them are over privileged but not all of them surely?
I wonder if it’s a plan by the government to turn the public even more against these protesters: posh = bad, therefore if posh people are protesting then the cause and protests must be bad.

The woman talking seemed very middle aged and posh to me!

[Genzken]

Publicity - of which they are getting a lot of to be fair.

[GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut]

@Sagittariusrising

Love the woman who hosed them down 😀I can't imagine many people there having a lot of sympathy. Hope nothing like this happens tomorrow when I visit.

Oh, I hadn't seen that! That makes a weird quote from the JSO people make a bit more sense. Something about gasps of dismay then became people clapping in support or something. Seemed unlikely, but now I suspect they were supporting the hose weilder!

[Bluevelvetsofa]

I heard that they were saying that there is no point in having a garden that doesn’t provide food. The garden they vandalised was a sustainable garden and many of the gardens will be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere. I also think that a garden can provide balm to the soul and its a pleasure to see beautiful flowers.

Growing fruit and vegetables is important, of course, but not everyone is able to do that.

I see little point in doing something that antagonises the people that you presumably want to get on side.

[EdithWeston]

The vandalism was throwing orange powder (poster paint) on the garden, which may have permanently stained the stone. But no apparent damage beyond that.

(But I shudder to think what the environmental impact of CFS is - all that construction, people travelling miles - bringing all the things that build the gardens as well as all the workers, volunteers and spectators, lots of out-of season plants, mature trees literally uprooted to be sited there briefly etc)

[QuintanaRoo]

@Ohmych

Why are they protesting about a garden? It makes no sense.

Apparently land should be for growing veg not flowers. Obviously clueless about bees, diversity and pollination. Fuckwits

[HeartOrHeadDecision]

I'm so sad about Trevi fountain in Italy too. Just why???!!!

[GeraltsBathtub]

@Barbadossunset

There is an article in the Spectator about ‘econians ’ - privileged people taking part in Just Stop Oil and ER etc. I’m sure some of them are over privileged but not all of them surely?
I wonder if it’s a plan by the government to turn the public even more against these protesters: posh = bad, therefore if posh people are protesting then the cause and protests must be bad.

I’m genuinely convinced that they are actually a ploy to turn people against the cause of environmentalism, not because of being posh but because they are clearly morons who hurt the cause with every stupid stunt action they take!

[Barbadossunset]

I’m genuinely convinced that they are actually a ploy to turn people against the cause of environmentalism, not because of being posh but because they are clearly morons who hurt the cause with every stupid stunt action they take!

I agree but there was a thread on here a couple of days ago about the trans lobby’s pee protest being done by posh and entitled people.
The general view seemed to be that posh people protesting makes a bad cause worse.

[Irequireausername]

When people try to claim that there isn't a class problem in the UK anymore, they should take a look at things like just stop oil 😂

[Coyoacan]

@Bluevelvetsofa

I heard that they were saying that there is no point in having a garden that doesn’t provide food. The garden they vandalised was a sustainable garden and many of the gardens will be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere. I also think that a garden can provide balm to the soul and its a pleasure to see beautiful flowers.

Growing fruit and vegetables is important, of course, but not everyone is able to do that.

I see little point in doing something that antagonises the people that you presumably want to get on side.

But ecology needs more. Flowers benefit bees and even some birds. They are not very bright are they?

[Spudlet]

@HeartOrHeadDecision

I'm so sad about Trevi fountain in Italy too. Just why???!!!

What happened to the Trevi Fountain?

[thebabessavedme]

Idiots, what a demographic to piss off, all those passionate gardeners who are ecologically minded, not using peat, growing organically sustainable gardens, looking to create environments for insects, wildlife etc, looking at ways of growing gardens that are water friendly etc. The garden in question was due to moved for use elsewhere. pillocks