Protest At The Lockdown.

[10ClarionSt]

Last week, a guy tried to organise a protest march against the lockdown, from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street. You didn't hear about did you? Because only 2 people turned up! I wonder why? Could the fact that they were in lockdown have anything to do with it?

What the protesters should be doing to protest at the lockdown is - tonight after the round of applause, go to your front door and bash your pans with cutlery, like others do who are on enforced lockdown. I think you'll make more noise than the applauders. Go on! Give it a go! I will.

[naomi24]

Theland, you have gone on about how you think there will be riots, so why wouldn't Vulcan take you seriously now?

[vulcan42]

Theland,Yes, this is not the first time you've suggested or predicted it.

[youngmafbog]

Well I think he has a point.

If this carries on there will be riots, this tends to happen when the poor cannot put food on the table and the rich (In this case paid for by taxes) are riding high on the hog and stopping them working.

[Theland]

Oh well. If we are being serious for a moment, yes, I think there will be riots as has happened in other countries.
Giving my opinion will not initiate them will it?

[youngmafbog]

I doubt it The Land. It is extremely unlikely that anarchists are reading AB waiting for you or I to call them to arms.

[fiction-factory]

No signs of riots as far as I can see, just an acceptance that this is a necessary measure, and I'm not aware of anything out of the ordinary overseas either- maybe a link would enlighten me. The protection measures from the Chancellor cover most people, and the existing pensioners and benefits claimants aren't affected if they weren't working before, so can you give examples of which people will turn into rioters through new poverty?

[jim360]

As far as I can see there is, if anything, a greater acceptance of the lockdown measures in the wider population than in the Cabinet.

[Theland]

In countries where the poor exist on less than a dollar a day, living hand to mouth, suddenly under curfew etc.

Look at East Africa, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda.
The Covid restrictions will hurt them far more than they hurt us.
Add to that local flooding, and the worst locust swarms in seventy years, coinciding with the harvest, and already five million children malnourished, and people will fight over food.
We!have!our safety net social security, but we are not immune from the pressures but to a lesser extent.
Then there is the tribe mentality that rears its head occasionally, as when the armed criminal Mark Duggan was shot dead by the police, and London burned.

[MartinMillar]

//I think there will be riots as has happened in other countries. //
What riots please?

[vulcan42]

Theland. \\ Giving my opinion will not initiate them will it?//
I doubt you have that much influence. The reason I asked is because you have often mentioned it and I wondered why you have this fascination for civil unrest.

[Theland]

Why would I be fascinated by civil unrest?
I'm really not fascinated by anything.

[Mozz71]

Martin

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235307/Riots-break-suburbs-Paris-amid-anger-French-police-heavy-handedness-lockdown.html

I believe there were some in Germany, and maybe Italy as well.

[Mozz71]

You're fascinated by astonomy TL. :-)

[MartinMillar]

Wow really I haven’t seen that at all on the news

[Theland]

Mozz - Ah yes, there are indeed a few exceptions.

[Theland]

MM - I don't make this up you know.
Yemen, population 32 million, 16 million on the brink of starvation.
Many day labourers paid by the day unable to work or access food.
What would you do if your family were hungry?

[Mozz71]

Martin - No, it has been conspicuous by it's absence on the televion news.

TL - does arguing with Nailit also count? ;-)

[fiction-factory]

The Paris one looked like the sort of thing that happens in the Paris suburbs fairly regularly- Covid or no Covid- when someone from the local usually ethnic community gets arrested/ injured/killed by police.
The riot in Italy I know about was in a prison. There was another one in Italy reported but it turned out to be nothing to do with Covid restrictions.
The main risk here is that drugs couriers are more easily spotted and I think that as more arrests are made there could be issues in communities that rely on the drugs trade

[Peter Pedant]

// Won't everyone just think you're getting overzealous with your applauding for the NHS workers?//

vot eez you name?
dont tell him Pike !
( wiv thx to Dad's army)

yeah pot banging and dustbin clanging ARE looked in as support

erm - stats are against you Clarion - the olds who are likely to get C virus and DDDIIIIEEEE! agree with lock down ( much of their life is locked down probably)

Young sproing chickens like you arent involved
Good prog last night what was it like to get covid?

and I think they were all self filming -
and no one went to Hospital !
and there were people in the households who didnt get it!
and the ambulance man who pulled the plug and said he was ready for hozzie was rejected by his well co-workers who said he wasnt!
(that showed patients were not good at self assessment!)

so no one got bad. no one got to Hospital. no one was vented and no one died ! - like you know it was supposed to be ....

one had an elderly mother than died - not realy televisual

[Peter Pedant]

// The main risk here is that drugs couriers are more easily spotted //

no yeah - didn finka dat!
gor pure AB there
some very expensive cars, er "delivering" oop Newton Heath and more police this week - ie 'some'