Fair point. But inconveniencing a small sprinkling of football fans on a day out, compared with bollocksing up the working day of thousands and thousands of people just trying to go about their daily lives is not a likewise comparison. The principal behind it may be the same, but its a stretch to conflate the two.
Not really - you're doing the conflating here, not me. Specifically we are talking about an incident at a theatre. That affects, what, 300 people? About the same as York's away following probably.
Sure, but I don't think it's generally believed that women got the vote because Emily died
With current technology (for alternatives) it's simply not possible. Middle-eastern countries have vast wealth and power because of their oil, there's nothing we can do to stop them using every last drop, as long as it's making them a profit. Of course if a cheap and clean alternative source of energy was found, that would change things, as it simply wouldn't be worth the cost of drilling for the oil, but that doesn't look like happening either.
It contributed, without a doubt. It would have brought the issue into focus in the minds of the British people.
I think you missed my point a little bit and I've since thought of what I think is potentially a better comparison. If our protests in the War Years were because we weren't in the Premier League, there would have been scorn for our behaviour and absolutely no public support whatsoever. What we were protesting about was the arseholery going on to destroy our club and strip it of assets. We were clear what we wanted and why and those protests are typically successful.
Trying that at an away pool fixture at the Whitehawk Tavern would have been interesting, my memory recalls.Wouldn't have happened in the Pubs I used to frequent in my Yoof, not with there being several cues available for crowd control...
it’s strange that it always gets mentioned in political history when it was such an insignificant event.
Only affected women? I've had to put up with this shit government you lot keep voting for!
Yes, of course I voted for this lot. Every political thread I’ve ever contributed to will tell you that.
Is there a list then of what we are and aren't allowed to protest about? Perhaps it's kept somewhere in Tufton Street.
We are investing in renewable energy - far too little and far too slowly. I think you're seriously underestimating the severity and scale of CO2 emissions and climate change. I get it's difficult to know what to believe in the media with regards to "research", evidence etc and perhaps the sources I read are wrong or overlying pessimistic. However there was a recent paper by Matt England in Nature for example which said ocean currents are set to seriously slow/collapse this century. I know some scientists turn rogue and starting using their influence to promote agendas which don't follow evidence (Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine comes to mind) but all the climate scientists/oceanographers etc think a catastrophe is on it's way as far as I can tell. Are you ok with that? Happy to be corrected with reasonable evidence.
earing in mind that Emily Davidson had a return ticket and left no suicide note, the reason she threw herself in front of the King's horse is perhaps because she wanted to pin a ribbon to its bridle and didn't realise how hard that is to do with half a ton of horse galloping at 40 mph.
This government doesn’t care. Join in a protest, cause a disruption and you can get arrested, and put in prison.
Yeah, women are thick aren’t they?
I was referring to the various protests on the M25 and the QE2 bridge, by the same group, which caused massive disruption to thousands of people.
Rightly so if you do something
if it’s against the law, of course you will and should be. If it’s not against the law you won’t - it’s really that simple. This isn’t Russia.
