Why Do We Tolerate These Morons?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55796445
Just start pumping concrete in, they come out. We always seem to pussy foot about when the solution is simple and obvious.

[emmie]

they may be all of those things who knows, but one life lost seems a high price to pay. they have been in situ in Euston square since september, because the plan is to remove the trees from the park bit outside of the station, at least that is what i believe they have protested over, you would think that the law could and should have removed the protestors before now. and since then have built a tunnel in two months. Something fishy about this whole matter.

[aelmpvw]

i'm guessing professional activist Swampy - real name Daniel Hooper - was involved . . .

[ToraToraTora]

thechair, rubbish, this is not vanity it's necessary, the speed is irrelevant the extra capacity is what is most needed. Do some research instead of swallowing the baubles. The mistake was calling it HS2, so everyone thinks the effort is about the speed it is not.

[Spicerack]

They should chuck some of those birds from Greenham Common down the tunnels. They'd frighten anyone off. shudder

[emmie]

ael, yes he is involved..

[Hopkirk]

Starve them out

[ToraToraTora]

that would be cruel and unusual spice!

[emmie]

they have long gone from GC, the women that is, if that what you were referring to.

[Paigntonian]

Tora: If they were socialites they'd probably be in dinner jackets.

[Khandro]

When HS2 is finished they will be able to get down to London quicker to protest on other things, don't they see that?

[dannyk13]

They have been moved out of the tunnel by the bailiffs, some of them hanging around above ground.

[emmie]

what about the front of Euston station, that part of the protest has been going on since sept. Protecting the trees.

[douglas9401]

Moved out? Without flamethrowers and fixed bayonets?

Maybe the "problem' was overstated by our head of evictions.

[aelmpvw]

// fixed bayonets?//
have they sent in Lance Corporal Jack Jones to deal with the situation?

[Spicerack]

Weren't exactly up to Vietcong standards, were they?

[TrevorThePug]

"Why Do We Tolerate These Morons?"

"they are rich kids with nowt better "

Are we talking about the keyboard fascists on Answerbank? At least these people are actually taking some action for what they believe in rather than lazy couch potato nay-saying dullards.

[New Judge]

//Good for them, I'm on their side.//

Why? You support lawbreaking? It’s a good job their likes were not around in the second half of the nineteenth century when most of the nation’s railways were built. I don’t think it’s too well appreciated just how much the development of railways contributed the this country’s success.

//It takes guts to do what they do.//

No it doesn’t. They know they will not be harmed.

//HS2. A useless and inordinately expensive vanity project, set to destroy acres of ancient woodland for no tangible gain. //

Apart from the link from London to the Channel Tunnel (HS1) there has not been a main line railway worthy of the name built in the UK since the end of the 19th Century. As much as the tree huggers like to deny it, people and goods have to be moved about the country and railways are the most efficient and environmentally friendly way of doing that. HS2 provides additional capacity that is sorely needed to enable that.

[EmilyAdkins1]

We have to tolerate them because if we didn’t hire them I don’t think we have a say in what their doing

[lady-janine]

Agree entirely with TheChair. HS2 should be stopped. Should not have been allowed to progress so far.

[teacake44]

Just get them out by whatever means, and don't give them news time.