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Trans activists smoke bomb protest the metro

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Bonions · 19/10/2018 17:35

Jim Waterson
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Trans activists have set off smoke bombs outside the entrance to Northcliffe House, HQ of the Daily Mail/Metro/Independent. Unclear if they're protesting against the Mail - or the Metro taking the advert last week - but staff leaving by side entrance.

Consensus seems to be they're protesting against The Metro, which took an anti-trans ad last week. Unfortunately Metro print edition staff don't work Fridays. (The entirely separate Metro website has also had some trouble over the sister paper taking the ad, apparently.)

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Carrrotsandcauliflower · 20/10/2018 13:12

I want the name of this person in the cabinet leaked. Why hasn’t it been leaked?? I want to know their motives. Sounds like a few people know- leak it pleeeeease.

ClocheEncounter · 20/10/2018 14:55

They probably don’t want the libel accusations Carrots. It’s one thing if something is an open secret but quite another to say something that’s an open secret in a newspaper without any proof.

“Keep your powder dry till you know something concrete” is probably the way forward.

merrymouse · 20/10/2018 15:21

Of course the thing about sufragettes is that they weren’t allowed to vote or stand for parliament.

FekkoTheLawyer · 20/10/2018 15:43

What open secret? Any clues?

ClocheEncounter · 20/10/2018 16:45

I have no idea. But if I knew that’s probably what I’d do!

“People in the know know but are too afraid to say anything” sells no papers, but “Cabinet member scandalously accepting bribes/entertaining extremists/whatever and I can prove it” is your front page and you can make hay on your serious investigative journalism credentials.

LittlePaintBox · 20/10/2018 18:24

FoldyRoll:

However if I was a journalist who was significantly delayed in getting my after work pint on a Friday afternoon by a bunch of blokes in Tesco Free From dresses playing shit 90's MOR and spraying blue smoke around, then I may very well find that any sympathy I may have previously had with their position evaporated and I may want to serve my revenge cold, in many sly digs in many articles over many months, which as the DM know is a far better way to manipulate public opinion than a single ranty piece.

This ^^^^

Pretty poor PR strategy to upset journalists.

Ereshkigal · 20/10/2018 18:40

Indeed!

Carrrotsandcauliflower · 20/10/2018 20:16

Sweepstake anybody? Play for biscuits?

LittlePaintBox · 20/10/2018 20:35

Maybe they're being denied the oxygen of publicity.

Carrrotsandcauliflower · 20/10/2018 21:43

I’ve picked my horse.

FoldyRoll · 20/10/2018 23:21

Is that a clue, Carrots? 

AspieAndProud · 20/10/2018 23:34

Is his name Cockney rhyming slang?

PurpleCrowbar · 20/10/2018 23:40

Is the horse a bit vulpine, in a ginger furred sort of way?

BigotedWoman · 20/10/2018 23:44

Does he go 'boom boom!' ?

PurpleCrowbar · 21/10/2018 00:34

What does the [redacted] say?

Is he also a bit fantastic?

May be on completely the wrong rabbit hole here, but it would fit?

hellandhairnets · 21/10/2018 00:59

Yeah, I think the vulpine one has been mentioned before on here as a possibility.

The issue for me is not who as much as why is everybody apparently scared to dissent.

DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 21/10/2018 01:28

US Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is so confident in his support base that he said he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody” and still not lose voters.

It’s the same thing isn’t it? Everyone seems so mesmerised by this bizarre narrative that an action that would cost someone else at least a night in prison, goes unsansctioned and unnoticed.

Pro tip for would-be terrorists. Eschew the long-range planning and sinister secrecy, slip on a frock, slap on some lippy and clap a bad wig on your head. You’re practically untouchable then.

Turph · 21/10/2018 01:30

Pro tip for would-be terrorists. Eschew the long-range planning and sinister secrecy, slip on a frock, slap on some lippy and clap a bad wig on your head. You’re practically untouchable then
Not exactly stealth though Grin

Rumbledore · 21/10/2018 08:21

Are the police investigating this? If not, why not??

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 21/10/2018 08:35

Because this is coming down from high up.

Uterusowner · 21/10/2018 08:37

Nail on head CaptainKirksSpookyghost.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 21/10/2018 08:44

This is way beyond trans rights, someone, or some people in parliament are adamant to get this through for their local own reasons.

Rumbledore · 21/10/2018 08:46

Road closed and building evacuated. Businesses interrupted. Surely this can’t be swept under the carpet?!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/10/2018 08:48

I'm surprised it hasn't been reported at all either.

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Bonions · 21/10/2018 08:52

I still can’t see any mention in the news but the daily mail have written these two articles this weekend:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6299053/amp/Trans-Corbynista-born-man-lands-womens-role.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6298053/Trans-cyclist-defends-championship-win-3rd-place-competitor-complained-NOT-fair.html

So that’s women losing out spaces in sport and politics both touched upon.

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