Cressida Gething missing bro's wedding

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AIBU to not give a shit and wish she had a much longer sentence?
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Katie Hopkins has done a video about this, absolutely hilarious!

I think most young people recognise the danger the planet is in

Maybe, or perhaps - lacking mature judgement and experience - they're just very susceptible to the excitement created by a fashionable cause and want to join it for the SM "likes" from their peers

In fairness, though, at least they're not usually getting paid to spout their ill digested cant, which makes a pleasant change from all those sucking at the climate funding teat in some ridiculous attempt to frighten us all to death

Well there’s no need to lower the tone, I’m sure.

One thing is for sure - her expensive education won’t help her survive this.

If she was a boarder it will have stood her in fairly good stead for prison.

This is even mentioned in Porridge.

Posh prisoner: I'm used to this sort of food, I went to Harrow.
Fletcher: Good advert for public school, it prepares you for the nick.

@CautiousLurker, right, really need to know now where everyone is getting the information about the brother's wedding. I haven't managed to find anything to support claims that it's a destination wedding or that it's going to max out on carbon. It's almost as if it's made up to perpetuate a stereotype.

And generally, as for the imperative of ideological purity and hypocrisy-hunting, which is always popular on threads like these; this kind of thinking keeps us all in a position of disempowered grudging. We can't win so what's the point in trying to do better? XR, IB and JSO are not imploring Tom on his daily commute to change his habits, but are hoping to influence government policy. There is literally no point in dismissing each other as hypocrites when we have enormous fish to fry on a global level.

She's got more of a sentence than a man who broke into his ex's house, smacked her children awake. Assaulted the male babysitter enough to put him in hospital and then had a very distressed primary age child phone the ex, slapped her and forced her to tell the ex what would happen to them if she didn't get home. It's been non stop light sentences for very violent men because of a lack of prison places. Those in possession of child abuse images don't even get a custodial. But I've now seen three non violent women get much longer sentences. I don't think it's cause to celebrate.

I can’t take JSO seriously and I don’t know anyone who does. Which is a shame because their message is lost in attention seeking behaviour.

Different issue - but totally agree this man should have been locked up indefinitely. No idea why/how they released him,

The problem there is that the sentence is too short. Not that this one is too long

‘Ideological purity’? ‘Hypocrisy-hunting’? ‘Disempowered grudging’?!!!

Do you realise how ridiculous you sound?

XR, IB and JSO are not imploring Tom on his daily commute to change his habits, but are hoping to influence government policy

This is true, even though Tom on his daily commute is exactly the sort who pays the price they extract

But Tom and millions more like him are the very ones who elect the government, and if they're mostly pissed off by the extremists' actions they're not likely to be very sympathetic to a government seen to be dancing to the tune of XR, JSO and the rest

All of which is why the activists need to carry the greater public with them if they hope to succeed - and so far it's simply not happening

Wrong. That is destruction and violence. Not 'peaceful'.

Well said. I completely agree and welcome an alternative viewpoint to the vindictive tone and selfish disinterest of other posters on here.

Maybe little miss privileged will learn the world does not revolve around her. Plus her vile mother will hopefully get a dose of the real world.

my sympathy is with the people who missed important things or even did not get to say goodbye to loved one or the sick people needed the ambulances that could not get through.

Sorry, but I totally disagree - Cressy was only cognisant of the risk in the same way people who speed on the roads are aware that if they are caught they will get charged and could, maybe, lose their licence. And if it comes to court a good sob story and lawyer will get them off.

In no way at all did she think that she would charged or sentenced in this way. Mummy and daddy have been there applauding her behaviour, and meeting with the headmaster to remind them how much they were paying in fees, whenever she overstepped. I say this as one such parent (the HM meetings) with parent friends like this (roll eyes).

That said, I still have no compassion. If she believes in the cause so vehemently, if her family support her in her activism, then these are the consequences. She may come out of prison with new awareness of the real world and a new cause.

I think a 4 year prison sentence seems harsh

However (to me) it seems counter intuitive to create the type of disruption that would have created way more emissions and pollution...in the name of climate change....People taking detours, being stuck for hours potentially with their engines idling, delivery lorries needing to keep food/materials at a certain temp (some of which may have perished/got wasted) .
Same when some prat decides to glue themselves to a train or block a bus lane....the result - probably people taking ubers or cabs...how is that helping the cause...??

While most sensible people are aware of the climate emergency they're also thinking of their kids immediate future ....like next week - they need to go to work to earn money to put a roof over their head and food on the table now, they probably can't afford to take 3 days off to sit in a road or climb a motorway gantry.

You are right, of course, in that the public elects its leaders and that public backlash is a massive issue. People feel hectored and perceive that someone ‐woe betide them if they're a bit posh or fail the hypocrisy test‐ is 'telling them what to do'. I'm not sure how we get around it ‐it feels a bit hopeless when we're seeing the impact of a heating climate unfold on a global stage but seem to find it so hard to focus on the real obstacles to progress. And it's not JSO, whatever we may think of their campaign strategies.

I honestly think this is going to be one of the greatest tragedies going forward: we'll start reaching tipping points of increasing significance, and it'll be too late when it dawns on us that the climate emergency didn't care whether we felt impinged upon by 'worthy' types suggesting the government stop issuing oil licences, and we were busy slagging off someone's mum on a parenting forum.

I don't agree with the methods used by JSO but the gloating on here and in the media over the prison sentence is horrible.

Oh, do fuck off will you, it’s exactly this kind of ‘I’m more intelligent and insightful than you’ which turns people off the JSO bell ends.

And what about all the events, appointments, etc the regular people missed due to her actions. She may be a ‘regular family girl ’ but that doesn’t excuse her actions. If being a ‘regular family person’ was a defence, then most people wouldn’t be in prison.

Has Cressida’s brother spoken up on her behalf?
If so, he has brought himself up for media scrutiny & with that comes the ‘court’ of public opinion.

If he’s not muttered a squeak about the judgement & sentencing, then he is keeping a low & private profile.

They didn't even receive the maximum they could've. They were repeat offenders. They refused to stop. They aren't above the law. I'll reserve horrible for the people who missed funerals, cancer treatment and all the other stuff suffered at the hands of JSO goons. It was very horrible for them.

Cautious, why are you so adamant that this sentence has come as some kind of unexpected, unpleasant surprise to Cressida? It really didn't. When statements reference 'injustice' it doesn't mean that the sentence itself was unexpected.

Just in the years since the gantry-climb, JSO activists have been arrested, worn tags, faced deportation, spent time as remand prisoners (including CG herself), and served lengthy custodial sentences. In a hardening political climate, and in the face of new public order legislation, activists were aware of new precedents for long sentences being set as well as the maximum sentence length.

JSO isn't some kind of shady, secretive outfit: anyone can sign up for an introductory zoom call via a link on the very public website, where, incidentally, they also publish details of activists' arrests, court appearances and sentences alongside campaigning successes such as acquittals, releases from prison and, most importantly, policy change.

Given how active and defensive the vat on private school threads were on mumsnet, I'm surprised there's so much hate for cressida on here