London was blockaded by a major protest yesterday but there was not the slightest disruption. No one sat for hours in a traffic queue. No one was late getting to work. At least that was the impression given by the BBC News website.
By 4 pm, when the Extinction Rebellion mob had been doing their worst since the early hours, the BBC reported that Lambeth and Westminster bridges were blocked and campaigners had filled Trafalgar Square.
Not one word about the chaos that would inevitably arise.
Instead, screeds and screeds from the protesters such as actress Juliet Stevenson spouting that this was ‘a very wonderful action’ and actor Mark Rylance with ‘I’m a storyteller and this story dwarfs everything else.’
The BBC website carried just four pictures from yesterday, including one of Ms. Stevenson and another of model Daisy Lowe, one of smiling protesters holding a banner and one of police in a deserted Whitehall.
Incidentally, the piece was tucked away at the bottom of the UK News front page without a picture to highlight it.
You had to turn to Mail Online or indeed almost any other news website to discover the scale of the vexation these ill-informed and misguided followers of fashion were causing.
The Mail Online headline said: ‘Fury as “outnumbered” police fail to stop Extinction Rebellion from shutting down swathes of London’, and it reported:
‘Commuters vented their fury about long delays and miles of queues as they criticized the XR “hypocrites” causing more pollution by forcing cars to sit idle, while others blasted the “nuisances” who had ruined their journeys across the capital.’
Dozens of pictures showed the extent of the disruption with pop-up tents filling the road outside Westminster Abbey, and protesters being carried away by police.
Apparently one of their tactics is to refuse to walk so that multiple officers are required for each arrest.
SEE ALSO: Boris Johnson Slams Extinction Rebellion Climate Protesters Wreaking Havoc In London
The BBC reported that Smithfield Market, London’s big meat market, was ‘occupied’ by 500 people, but it was left to Mail Online to say that the event started with a minute’s silence for the dead animals there and around the world.
I imagine the BBC was too embarrassed by the sheer nuttiness.
The Times website reported that ‘protesters shut down the heart of Westminster’.
The Sun website said: ‘Angry Londoners today blasted the activists for targeting the capital again, despite the UK cutting carbon emissions faster than any other G7 nation.
‘The travel chaos forced pensioner Tony, 65, from Vauxhall, to take two buses and two tubes to get to St Thomas’s hospital after his normal route was blocked by the eco-warriors.
‘The OAP has two broken bones in his foot and had to struggle across Westminster Bridge on his crutches to reach the hospital.
‘Tony, who didn’t want to give his surname, told the Sun Online: “It’s disgraceful. It’s a pity they got rid of Boris Johnson’s water cannons”.’
To think that the BBC was once a byword for fair and accurate reporting. Sigh.
PS: These are the questions that everyone is asking:
How is this allowed?
How is this allowed? pic.twitter.com/E3LpIuP7JG
— Stephen Canning 😄 (@EssexCanning) October 7, 2019
Why are the police just standing there?
Why are the police just standing there? What a joke. pic.twitter.com/xPmFNZWbLz
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) October 7, 2019
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If the protesters are allowed to protest, and block traffic, then what is there to stop another group of protesters of the protesters from unblocking the traffic?
Maybe throwing them off the bridges they are blocking?
But that would be throwing trash and littering.
Maybe it’s time to protest protesters who really are doing nothing to effect change . They are not happy getting their message out they need to feel power by disrupting other people then go back to their MOM’s basement .
In fairness they have been brain washed by the enabling MSM and left wing political activists at college . Now that scientists they point to as proof
are trying to introduce common sense and facts they are coming in really late
after sitting back silent for 20 years while the money flowed . Now that the “science is settled ” why pour more money at them .
They were well paid to front a scare campaign they happily enabled .
The problem is they are responsible for the premature deaths of 10’s of thousands every year because their puppet masters used the mis- information
to drive policy that made poor people decide whether to eat or heat .
Now as some of these retiring scientists head out the door they are calling over their shoulder … just kidding , maybe we embellished but our intentions were good . The bigger the lies the more money poured in while it lasted .
The world is owed a massive apology from the UN IPCC who orchestrated the fraud as directed by rent seekers .
Imminent climate crisis?
Mass extinction?
Ecosystems collapsing?
Where, where and where?
Anarchy? Oh yeah!
I would like for these jerks to learn some real responsibilty like having them clean up the mess they leave behind
One inarguable fact about global warming is that the idiotic emotional reation to it is far more disruptive and destructive than anything that climate change could possibly impose in our lifetimes.
The last line of the article “Why are the police just standing there” In Edmonton, 8 people (claiming to represent Extinction Rebellion) blocked a very major bridge leading into downtown Edmonton for all of the morning rush hour. Police stood between the anarchists and the public to shield them from the angry public, and waited for the protest to eventually be over. Absolutely pathetic! If 8 representatives from a right-of-center group blocked a bridge – would the police do the same?
The best way to stop these brainless morons causing disruption, is to ignore them and not give them the publicity they crave!