...to think Bleeping Dame Emma Bleeping Thompson can bleep off back to Los Angeles?

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...I'm out of bleeps. What a fucking cheek, flying five and half thousand miles spewing pollution all over the skies to stop people getting on a bus????

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47987891

Wonder if she wants a cab to take her to the airport?

They should be lobbying (not bullying) businesses and shops to provide alternatives and show the benefits.

I came to a realisation a while ago that we use too much ‘stuff’ and waste a hell of a lot. I was thinking more about resources and food (where there are people starving without roofs above their heads) and have been trying to reduce use of disposable items (have you seen how many Metros clutter up the city every day?), moved to a ‘green’ energy provider, walk where possible, stopped buying crap/cheapo ‘disposible’ clothes, shop ethically (no whiff of a sweatshop), I don’t drive anyway...

So people around me have started taking small steps too - glass coffee cups instead of disposable ones, walking more, organic and local foods... because they can see the benefits.

I swear I haven’t been lecturing anyone but once people know - and realise that the food won’t taste crap and be £££ then why not?

Her husband was on stand up for Cancer celebrity bake off a few weeks back.

He was an insufferable self interested arrogant man who you could tell got the backs up of the other contestants.. Clearly they're well matched.

But she always had a whiff of the smuggery about her.

The whole Polanski thing and ‘nasty bully women step aside for (nasty bully) men’ letter finished me off.

re too much stuff

there's obviously loads of talk about this protest on Twitter. One person has been supporting the protest and said he really doesn't know you can get reusable coffee cups.

WTAF. I don't think he's being goady because he seems pleased to hear that he can.

Why isn't she protesting in the USA ?

Why isn't she protesting in the USA ?

Presumably because of the damage that would do to her career over there, as ever won't risk her own means of earning, or cause herself any inconvenience but more than happy to do that to those considered beneath her.

He was an insufferable self interested arrogant man who you could tell got the backs up of the other contestants.. Clearly they're well matched.

Yes, they both appear to be very pleased with themselves. Smug, self-satisfied and over-privileged pair. 🤮

I was very surprised at how annoying Greg Wise was in Bake Off. I've always had a bit of a crush on him.
Anyway ET is very smug but she's not the worst human on the planet.

I think the message is too big and important to let quibbles over the messenger get in the way.

Extinction Rebellion is getting this issue into the news and into our minds - that's a good thing.

We all need to change our thinking.

And police being taken of the streets to haul away frightfully nice ladies from the Home Counties yelling ‘I don’t usually do this sort of thing, aren’t I naughty?’ Is hardly good use of police time (or taxpayers money) when young people are being stabbed on what seems like a daily basis.
^^ this and it made me chortle
I know an eco warrior family who don't own a car as a statement but they live in a massive fuck off house right in the centre of London and are happy to ask for and accept lifts off other people. I think individuals are really starting to engage with changing habits but we still need corporations to do more. I'm also suspicious of the core of these protests who I think are highly connected to a drug culture, their protests are nicely timed for 420 day

I can't think of a single person who is free of hypocracy, including myself.

ET flying over is just a distraction and the Govt will be so thankful that they’re inaction has been taken off the front page, and a famous women is getting all the flack!

Yet another reason, if she really cared about the issue, to have stayed in LA and perhaps had her say via video link. Or even to have saved it for her scheduled return to the UK, which would probably have meant a few repeats of recent footage - surely a win for the protesters?

Someone this experienced would have known the flack she'd get, but it seems even that's grist to the mill of her "look at MEEEEE!!!" self indulgence

I think the message is too big and important to let quibbles over the messenger get in the way.

There has been a more than adequate messenger talking about climate change this week. Someone who has had nothing to do with the protests and probably knows more about it than all of the protestors put together. His contribution has rather been overshadowed by all the headline grabbing. ET might have been more useful if she'd stayed in LA and told people to listen to him instead.

I don’t think anyone is saying they are never hypocritical

But to preach and disrupt other people’s lives when it suits you to (unfortunately she couldn’t manage the first few days of the protest as she was away with her husband) and knowing you have a public platform just shows her lack of self awareness

Do as I say not as I preach is what Emma has done so spectacularly

It seems from the comments here and elsewhere that they are not only not getting their message across to those who need to hear it, but they are alienating people who are trying to do what they can. I always use reuseable coffee cups and water bottles, I carry them around for my children, I recycle, do park clean ups, as much as I can as do most of the people I know. Seeing people being causing havoc, taking scarce resources away and then dumping crap everywhere is pissing off those people while minimising the message for those who don't want to hear.

But, as I'm sure has already been mentioned on this thread, the Government are not there so there is no chance at all of the protesters getting to speak to them. Why do this now? Possibly because they have no real chance? Not helping their own cause at all.

We all have the power to make the Government listen. It’s called democracy. They are mobilising the electorate.
And Govnt don’t only follow current affairs when in session.

Emma Thompson took part in a protest alongside people that specifically targeted green transport systems used by poor people many of whom could lose jobs if sufficiently delayed. To do this she waited till it was convenient to break from her highly-paid work and took one of the least-clean transport methods to come to London. A method employed only by the privileged and wealthy. We all assume that she did not use an economy seat - and so was exercising even greater privilege and an even worse carbon footprint.

I am not pissed-off by their beliefs but I am flummoxed by the targeting of rail systems. If they carried placards saying "attack the poor" and "stop all green transport", these actions would make more sense than the messages they are voicing.

She flew business class.

She is definitely one of the people...

Well i think she's wonderful.
She's dammned if she is dammned if she isn't.
She talked flying on the radio.
I think she's a good person.

And why involve her husband?

Greg was an absolute bell end on CGBBO.

They are obviously well suited.

I am not pissed-off by their beliefs but I am flummoxed by the targeting of rail systems. If they carried placards saying "attack the poor" and "stop all green transport", these actions would make more sense than the messages they are voicing.

Just heard that their goal is zero carbon dioxide emissions within 6 years. That means an end to all transport and most economic activity.

Not really surprising that their behaviour seems inconsistent- they just want to protest, not find solutions.

My thoughts exactly.