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Insulate Britain - a bunch of loonies or rightful cause?

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EerieSilence · 13/10/2021 10:53

I'm watching the videos with Insulate Britain people blocking the motorists, people driving their children to school, hospitals or simply going to work.
I don't get the cause and the way they chose. I'm a leftist myself and participated at demonstrations but this, I really don't understand.
How is blocking normal people doing their normal business going to achieve anything?
If it happened to me, I would be pissed off and wouldn't care one iota about the cause. Why don't they protest in front of Boris's expensive nursery, blocking ways to Queen's residences and parliament but instead target people who didn't cause the problem?

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ThroughTheTunnel · 13/10/2021 21:06

Wankers

MercyBooth · 13/10/2021 21:20

I live in over insulated social housing. They dont know what they are talking about....................or perhaps they do and that is why they wont insulate their own homes. They are only interested in turning other peoples homes into sweat boxes.

Hont1986 · 13/10/2021 21:46

I only follow the news occasionally (conscious choice) and the only things I know about Insulate Britain are that they are the wankers sitting in the road. I don't even know what they want, I assume it's to do with climate change but what's 'insulate' got to do with it?

MephistophelesApprentice · 14/10/2021 06:54

They have more than enough "grass roots level" support - they dont need any more

If this was true they'd be able achieve their objectives through democracy.

Oblomov21 · 14/10/2021 07:02

They've scuppered themselves by protesting in a way that irritates most people.

Dojacatpaws · 14/10/2021 07:30

Most people? Not everyone drives, not everyone uses the roads they are blocking, not everyone is affected

silkience · 14/10/2021 07:53

What they are actually calling for is perfectly reasonable. How they are going about it, on the other hand....

Yes but we wouldn't be talking about this now if they weren't going about it in this way ....

BatshitCrazyWoman · 14/10/2021 08:06

@Orangejuicemarathoner

Heroes

They are risking everything, an sacrificing such a lot

And it is becoming VERY effective. They are not out to get your vote!

In 100 years time, there will be statues in their honour

There really won't Hmm
BatshitCrazyWoman · 14/10/2021 08:07

@Dojacatpaws

Most people? Not everyone drives, not everyone uses the roads they are blocking, not everyone is affected
Ambulances are driven. Food is delivered by drivers. What a ridiculous argument.
bogeythefungusman · 14/10/2021 08:14

Silkience, but we're not really talking about it now - all we're really talking about is what wankers insulate Britain are.

EdgeOfTheSky · 14/10/2021 08:20

@Dojacatpaws

Most people? Not everyone drives, not everyone uses the roads they are blocking, not everyone is affected
You obviously haven’t seen the lorry drivers complaining.

But then again perhaps you live off grid on a self-sufficient Croft and never need anything that arrives as part of a distribution chain. (Where goods can be time sensitive, and also time = money which one way or another you will end up paying).

But then again, you appear to be on some sort of tech device…

SueSaid · 14/10/2021 08:24

'I live in over insulated social housing. They dont know what they are talking about....................or perhaps they do and that is why they wont insulate their own homes. They are only interested in turning other peoples homes into sweat boxes.'

How can housing be over insulated . It either is insulated or it isn't. If it's too hot just open a window or turn your heating off Confused.

Biker47 · 14/10/2021 08:50

I could be wrong but didn’t the government miss its own targets to insulate homes? At least there’s one group out there willing to hold them to account with tangible action.

Go block up Parliament Street and Parliament Square then; some bloke trying to get to his plastering job, someone trying to get their kids to school, on an ambulance crew trying to get to/from an emergency on the M25 have no control over this, and as shown, they're hypocrites who don't even have their own (literal) house in order, and all they are doing is damage to people actually caring about whatever end goal they're aiming to achieve.

Rachie1973 · 14/10/2021 09:01

The cause is noble. I can understand and support it.

The methodology, blocking roads and emergency services. I can’t support that.

SueSaid · 14/10/2021 09:09

'Go block up Parliament Street and Parliament Square then; some bloke trying to get to his plastering job, someone trying to get their kids to school, on an ambulance crew trying to get to/from an emergency on the M25 have no control over this'

But that is what protestors do, cause disruption to everyday folk who then rightly get outraged and it causes massive media coverage. Who would care if MPs were being obstructed getting to work.

I don't agree with them but I can understand their methods, annoying as they are.

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 14/10/2021 09:22

@Skysblue

They’re mad. Attention seeking wankers with a wannabe-hero complex.

If we could solve climate change by lying down on a road, we’d all be doing that. If they care so much they should lobby legally / get jobs in appropriate industries and try to contribute to solving the crisis.

Exactly!
daimbarsatemydogsbone · 14/10/2021 09:24

@JaniieJones

'Go block up Parliament Street and Parliament Square then; some bloke trying to get to his plastering job, someone trying to get their kids to school, on an ambulance crew trying to get to/from an emergency on the M25 have no control over this'

But that is what protestors do, cause disruption to everyday folk who then rightly get outraged and it causes massive media coverage. Who would care if MPs were being obstructed getting to work.

I don't agree with them but I can understand their methods, annoying as they are.

and then everyone concentrates on doing something to get rid of the wanky protestors and their single use plastic banners, not saving the planet.
Alltheprettyseahorses · 14/10/2021 09:30

I think they're idiots. I don't even believe it's about insulation. The leader doesn't have his house insulated, none of the group's actions have been anything remotely relevant or effective in regards to promoting an ostensible cause of housing insulation, it is something else completely. Probably just disruption for disruption's sake.

sst1234 · 14/10/2021 09:31

@Lostmarbles2021

They are all probably hypocrites but so is a doctor that tells you to give smoking because you are at risk of lung cancer but smokes themselves. It’s still fact that you need to give up smoking.

Urgent and drastic action is needed. Our governments are not doing enough and have been kicking the can for decades. Being hypocritical pains in the asses is the only thing left. For decades peaceful protest, scientific reviews from 95% of the worlds relevant experts, petitions and marches have been tried. What else is left? This is an emergency and people are already dying.

They may scum, pain in the ass, hypocrites and whatever other names you want to use but at least they are doing something in the face of the wider public sleepwalking into disaster.

Hang on. What disaster. Yes there is Climate change but disaster is is moly over stating it. If it is so bad, why are US and China continuing with their carbon emissions, the latter building more coal powered stations. Are we saying that we in west are so oh so progressive and the Chinese are flat earther climate change deniers. That we know something they don’t. And that they happy for their population to be wiped out by climate change and therefore choose to do nothing about it.
sst1234 · 14/10/2021 09:33

@JaniieJones

'Go block up Parliament Street and Parliament Square then; some bloke trying to get to his plastering job, someone trying to get their kids to school, on an ambulance crew trying to get to/from an emergency on the M25 have no control over this'

But that is what protestors do, cause disruption to everyday folk who then rightly get outraged and it causes massive media coverage. Who would care if MPs were being obstructed getting to work.

I don't agree with them but I can understand their methods, annoying as they are.

Spoken as someone who is most likely not impacted by it. Armchair sympathisers are usually the least impacted. Well done you for agreeing with them and being so out of touch.
SueSaid · 14/10/2021 10:36

'Spoken as someone who is most likely not impacted by it. Armchair sympathisers are usually the least impacted. Well done you for agreeing with them and being so out of touch.'

You must've missed the bit where I said I don't agree with them 🙄

Protestors cause disruption to the general public to draw media attention to their cause. It's not really new is it.

Sirzy · 14/10/2021 10:51

But very little media attention is being paid to the cause, an awful lot more is being paid to the fact they are a bunch of hypocrites who are turning people against them. Not sure that’s a recipe for any sort of change!

Shitzngiggles · 14/10/2021 12:14

People are quite rightly pissed off with them.
They've totally lost public sympathy so what they are doing is a total waste of time. I firmly believe that most of them neither know nor care what the hell they are doing there anyway. Rent a mob out on a jolly.

NanFlanders · 14/10/2021 12:20

A rightful cause being advocated for in the most counterproductive way possible.

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