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Just Stop Oil activist faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
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jfc... she's 77. Does the petrochemical industrial complex require so much protection from this tiny elderly woman that they need her to go back to jail? Because she's not a threat to anything else.
I love it when 'big, bad corporations' are scared shitless of tiny elderly women, who despite diminutive stature are explosive powerhouses of activism. It really shows the cowards for who they are.
It’s all about control. How many farmers have been arrested?
Leave it out! Farmers are the good guys. The “Farmy Army” are only doing their best to avoid paying tax. How are their kids going to go to public school and Oxbridge if they have to pay tax like the rest of us? They haven’t got two shillings to rub together and all they can afford is a brand new Jag this year.
She was part of a group who were literally blocking a motorway.
They could have caused a serious accident. The idea that they're "not a threat to anything else" is not true.
how exactly could they have caused a serious accident? violently slamming their bodies against a car with such force that it crumples the front?
Those Farage-saluting farmers literally blocking roads with their tractors? Cheered on as the “Farmy Army” by the press. It’s completely different, isn’t it and, of course, tractors can’t cause accidents and never stop ambulances from passing.
Blocking roads is bad whoever is doing it.
Not according to millionaire-owned media. Farmers good. Climate activists bad. Blocking roads for greed is justified whereas blocking roads to try and save humanity is criminal.
No, no they couldn't have. Pedestrians literally legally cannot cause an accident with a vehicle. The driver will always be liable, even if those pedestrians are breaking the law.
Pearl-clutching is unbecoming of you, cut it out.