Protest At Stansted Airport Over The Deportation Of Failed Asylum Seekers From Nigeria And Ghana.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stansted-airport-closed-protesters-deportation-plane-runway-a7655036.html

[steg]

Quite a catchy wee number they are chanting

[vulcan42]

I wonder if the irony is lost on them, they are shouting 'we want freedom' yet are denying others the freedom to travel to their destinations.

[SlackAlice]

Tough isn't it ☺☺☺
Hope they all get arrested and forced to pay compensation to cover the losses sustained by airlines/airport authority and passengers.

[Islay]

It is their democratic right to protest

[ummmm]

Protest - yes - but not by closing a runway, that's completely selfish.

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

/// It is their democratic right to protest ///

It is not their democratic right to invade an airport, think of the security implications.

[Islay]

If you were taking security implications into consideration perhaps you should stop all visitors to the airport!

[ummmm]

There's a question. How the hell did they get on the runway to start with?

[anotheoldgit]

/// A statement from the activists said eight protesters from End Deportations, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants and Plane Stupid had surrounded the
plane. ///

Should that have read 'Plain Stupid'?

[Baldric]

///A statement from the activists said eight protesters from End Deportations, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants and Plane Stupid had surrounded the plane///

Only 8 of them, surely they could easily have been bundled on to the Plane and deported along with the official deportees.

[murraymints]

stupid senseless and will do nothing to garner public support...quite apart from being dangerous ...

[vulcan42]

Normal visitors to an airport don't usually surround an aircraft and lay down on the runway.

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

All visitors to airports are allowed to go on the runways and wander around the planes or even chain themselves to them, are they?

[ummmm]

I've never been to Stansted so don't know the set up but I still can't understand how they got on the runway. Would they have had to climb a fence?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Nasty gits pissing other people off is normal. It's their democratic right.
A right which will be defended by other like-minded nasty gits.

[vulcan42]

allen, who, on this thread have said these people haven't the right to protest?

[emmie]

i too wonder how they got on the runway, yes protesting is one thing but to pee off a good many people whilst doing so is just not on.

[ummmm]

It's not just peeing people off. It's the time and money wasted for so many.

[Baldric]

It seems to be OK will a couple of folks.