Just Stop Oil protesters vandalise Chelsea Flower Show garden

[blacksax]

WTF do these people stand for?

Just fuck off you utter, utter cunts.

This, wake up and smell (The soon to be extinct) coffee

It’s a bit like the May Day rioters of the early noughties who protested for the furthering of workers rights such as profit sharing, and an end to poor conditions for the low paid by checks notes terrorising people working minimum wage jobs in McDonalds, and smashing up John Lewis on Oxford street

Actions like theirs are why a law was passed that gave powers to the police to arrest those wanting to show their support for a republic on the day of the King's coronation.

You could protest by planting vegetables in the garden, or banners on sticks, without damaging the hard work of someone. And any plants in a garden are much better than the usual bricked over front garden so someone can park their SUV that they cannot drive properly in any case.

Idiots.

I've spent the afternoon putting 500 lambs through a footbath for their feet, worming them for nematodirus and applying clic pour on to stop them getting flystrike and eaten alive by maggots.

Do these chumps have any idea the work that goes into looking after sheep. Have they turned them out on to someone's lawn ans hoped for the best? Have they any sense that there was a reason they were still running with their mother's and hadn't been weaned from them yet?

Actual animal cruelty right there folks.

and yes you do need to inform the Livestock Information Service (LIS formerly ARAMS) for any Sheep movements off their holding.

You also need a CPH number to keep them

Both of these requirements are so in the event of an outbreak of something like Foot and Mouth Disease all animals can be traced.

Hope they throw the book at them.

Remember last year flash floods and water cascading into tube stations and wild fires around the capital and the UN saying we will miss the 1.5c target when you start to read from the worlds climate scientists are predicting it's truly terrifying. But most of us myself included are in deep denial that this can even be happening. They are screaming to be heard its probaly too late as it is but if I was their age instead of late 60s I would be screaming as well.

Yes, she was great!

It certainly seems to be.

You would have thought the security would have been better. Surely security guards would have been on alert for activists after so many disruptions of recent events.

What wantonly vandalising property? Yeah right!

Of course, if they were so concerned about saving sheep from slaughter they could just buy some sheep destined for the meat industry and rehome them like people do ex-battery hens. But then they wouldn't get publicity.

Yes or maybe protest against the appalling practice of salmon farming which rarely gets publicity.

@Scrowy I live in a sheep farming area and had just been pondering how long the sheep would last if all the farmers "set them free". They haven't a clue.

It was the Brewin Dolphin garden? I was not thrilled they were sponsoring one.

We are not doing enough about climate issues.

I personally watch CFS but feel more angry about climate inaction than some orange paint on a corporate (albeit beautifully designed) garden.

They said on the garden: "You can't grow plants and have biodiversity when it's too hot for things to thrive. This is beautiful but we won't have this for long unless we do something." Several visitors applauded. The protestors have a point.

*Have they any sense that there was a reason they were still running with their mother's and hadn't been weaned from them yet?

I was just thinking that if they are still with their mother then they haven't been weaned. so these idiots have caused distress to both lambs and ewe. I wonder what their expertise is in animal care?

They need to bore off and just let humanity wipe itself out as quickly as possible.

Quite. We hadn't been planning to do all of that today but a good strong lamb that looked perfectly healthy yesterday was stone cold dead this morning with a gut full of worms.

The nematoirus risk level for our area is currently 'very high'. It literally took hours to kill one strong lamb, we reacted instantly and treated 500ish of its peers. We have another 500ish to do tomorrow.

I bet those lambs are dead in their care long before they would have ended up in a slaughterhouse.

Agree with this.
Such a genuinely good cause - the environment, global warming. - yet these spoilt idiots behaving in ways that mean people take it all less seriously.

Everyone just eye rolls at the privileged twats playing at being activists.

I cannot put on here what I think of them and what I wish would happen to them. But I agree with you @blacksax They are over-privileged, horrible, arrogant, bratty, dumb-assed, entitled little shits. And THAT is me being nice. AWFUL creatures they really are.

They could have protested peacefully outside of the event, handed out flyers, held signs. It’s unacceptable to trash someone’s work in the name of their protest.

Does anyone have the security services on speed dial.

It's moved the cause forward so much hasn't it?

Reckon you’d be talking about it on Mumsnet?

Probably not but more people outside of MN might be inclined to listen to them instead of thinking they are idiots.

Nothing they are doing actually addresses the climate and biodiversity crisis. Vandalism if anything makes it worse as it will need to be cleaned up. It would be better if they were guerilla gardening or buying up tracts of rainforest or something. They even vandalised the Bank of England, which is doing loads of work on climate change.

This article is a decade old.

Since then, CFS has got bigger, and the methods remain just as harmful

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