Cressida Gething missing bro's wedding

[PeachSnake]

AIBU to not give a shit and wish she had a much longer sentence?
Mum of jailed Just Stop Oil eco-yob moans 'she'll miss her brother's wedding' | UK | News | Express.co.uk

The judge actually said "went ahead "?

Standards in the judiciary must be slipping

I really think her misplaced direct action adversely impacted & targeted the wrong people. Eg the poor and the public
Oil companies and hedge funds were unimpacted as they have the clout and monies to buy their way way around disruption
JSO doesnt cause UK poverty,of course not BUT their misplaced actions adversely impact the poor disproportionately

A good session in how actions have consequences.

You’re her, aren’t you? Cressida’s mum.

I’d bow out now if I were you, while I could still hold onto a scrap of dignity.

Tik tok algorithms I think. I've seen Cressida's mum's video multiple times, his only once. It's a bit unpredicatable.

The lack of self awareness in giving that speech tells us all we need to know about the family. Entitled over privlieged twits who think they are better than us all. Fuck off.

I think one must be living in a cave with no outside connections at all to have heard about climate change. The problem isnt that people dont know about it, its not even that they dont care about it.

It's more, what can we really do. Our lives generally revolve around getting to work, having a decent home. These things require travelling somehow and building homes. Both things not conducive to changing climate. Both things us the gen pop can do fuck all about.

And then you'll see some hob nob or official or minister or sleb flying to faraway places, possibly in a private jet. Then you think oh it's ok for you to fly places, but I'm supposed to stay local. Hypocrisy at its finest.

You’re right. Judges speak an alien English 🙄

I wonder when the public will demand apologies for the lives lost due to fossil fuels.

It really is!

Shame the oil companies don’t ever have to learn the same lesson.

Yes, they're bored little rich kids (and you never, never see working class kids on these protests) at loose ends wanting to be destructive, BUT, don't want to get daddy in trouble too much. Pretending to care about the environment is a better 'look' than graffiti-ing things or doing drugs.

Not one of them actually gives a flying fuck about the environment. If you questioned them, they couldn't even tell you how or where oil is made or what its used for. The environment is a cover for out of control (rich) youths. They could not care less about the environment if they tried. Especially when they're going to go on a fossil-fuelled plane (no doubt first class, knowing her family) to a destination wedding.

presumably Cressida would have been horrified and refused to attend on principle, anyway?

Lol and pigs fly, and chickens grow lips.

So I’m not sure why her brother’s choice or not to have an environmentally friendly wedding has anything to do with her.

You know, that is a very interesting point, and it's very truthful.

Yeh, you're not wrong. Strikes and protests tend to end up penalising the people least responsible. The buses went on strike for a full summer holiday a few years back in my area, leaving anyone without access to a car stranded in the village for 6 weeks. Elderly people, low-income families with kids, disabled people, not even able to get to the nearest supermarket. I lost all sympathy for bus drivers. Similar with JSO, they're turning the public against the whole concept of climate activism.

It's her own fault. She did the crime. I've no sympathy for her.

People are just parroting what they have been told by the press and focusing all their attention on this one tiny detail

How easy it is to make the public hate a woman still astounds me.

This is true, regardless of how self-centred and entitled Cressida and her family seem.

No, the exact wording was "had the gridlock for which all five of you devoutly hoped come to pass"

No one has said they are wholly responsible for people living in poverty. People are, of course, equally angry (if not more so) at the government for driving people into poverty in the first place but this thread is not about that and the fact remains that they have disproportionately impacted the lives of those in poverty.

OMG, she was going to fly to the wedding!!

I'm surprised you're surprised, @Inastatus; scratch the surface even slightly of many of these idiots and you'll find the same - they'll flap their gums just so long as someone else is paying the price, but god forbid it should be them

My personal favourite when faced with one of them is to suggest they could forego that new phone or pair of ultra fashionable trainers and keep the older ones a bit longer in defence of the environment

The confused, thousand yard stares are wonderful ...

Is the wedding a plane ride away ?

The public isn’t pit against itself
The majority don’t support JSO and these protests
The public aren’t vociferously fighting each other over the specifics of application of sentencing guidelines
The only pit is the one Ms Gethin et al dug for themselves, effectively alienating themselves from public

Agree with you OP. And what an utter waste of a Cambridge education.