Mother of jailed Just Stop Oil campaigner complains daughter will miss brother’s wedding after she blocked M25
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/jailed-just-stop-oil-campaigner-complains-miss-brothers-wedding/
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Mother of jailed Just Stop Oil campaigner complains daughter will miss brother’s wedding after she blocked M25
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/jailed-just-stop-oil-campaigner-complains-miss-brothers-wedding/
Posted by willington123
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It’s annoying when you can’t get to where you want to go isn’t it?
I wonder how many weddings were missed by the actions of JSO.
“branded the Whole Truth Five by Just Stop Oil.”
Pretty lame branding.
Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of her own actions
Did the mother not teach her daughter that actions have consequences?
Given that our prisons are practically full system right now, keeping 5 JSO protestors in prison means allowing 5 violent criminals to walk free. I know who I’d rather have roaming around.
I was lucky enough to go to the same university as the daughter. From my experience there are a lot of people there who have been brought up in a bubble where they can do no wrong. Growing up they have been the golden child – were often the smartest in the room and at their schools, they won awards and accolades and, finally, ended up in an institution that only highlights those experiences.
Consequences from actions are just something that simply doesn’t happen to these people. For the majority, the graduate, enter the real world and find out it isn’t all as rose tinted as they believe it to be – however for a small minority their collision with life can result in some pretty bad results.
For the mother, she has obviously been blessed with a great life – to the point where the very idea of someone being forced to miss a wedding is tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment and far beyond the pale.
I hope that the daughter learns from this – that her actions that day did have consequences for people who aren’t as blessed as she – and that perhaps this humbling will put her on the right course in the future.
A kid on my estate just got out after 15 months for stabbing another kid.
5 years for blocking a road is absolutely ridiculous.
It was a serious inconvenience, and the wedding comment is more throwaway than a “its not fair!!”, but seriously this is the worst they can get
>A police officer suffered concussion and bruising after being knocked off his motorbike in traffic caused by one of the protests on November 9 2022, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward KC said at the sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.
which is the action of drivers, and apparent monetary loss. For a multi-year sentence. This ain’t right, even if people dislike them, tactics, or don’t care about climate change.
>Prosecutors alleged the M25 protests, which saw 45 people climb up the gantries, led to an economic cost of at least £765,000, **while the cost to the Metropolitan Police was more than £1.1 million.**
>They also allegedly caused more than 50,000 hours of vehicle delay, affecting more than 700,000 vehicles, and left the M25 “compromised” for more than 120 hours.
>A police officer suffered concussion and bruising after being knocked off his motorbike in traffic caused by one of the protests on November 9 2022, prosecutor Jocelyn Ledward KC said at the sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.
[https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-path-to-zero-emission-vehicles-by-2035](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-path-to-zero-emission-vehicles-by-2035)
The UK has a clear plan to stop oil powered vehicles in the medium term. They were calling themselves “Exinctoin Rebellion” then “Insulate Britian” now its “Just Stop Oil.”
They dont care, they have zero interest in the details of what and how we achieve net zero and are crushingly indifferent to the costs of their demand and making their demands on others. They have zero interest in anything but themselves.
Didn’t people miss funerals because of just stop oils antics? and the jso reps who talked about it were very dismissive.
seems hypocritical of them to then complain about missing events
Just like freedom of speech, I absolutely support the freedom to protest. However the vast majority of people including myself are not freedom absolutists. There is obviously a line that gets drawn where neither are acceptable where speech and protest infringe on the rights of others. That line is often vague, but if you are going to participate in this kind of protest then you should understand the consequences that lie ahead, regardless of whether you agree with those consequences or not. The zoom call referenced in the trial clearly outlined plans to cause “the biggest disruption in British modern history” with life threatening consequences to the public. It just isn’t acceptable.
You can see where the sense of entitlement comes from
But look how much awareness this is generating. Light sentences wouldn’t have got nearly as much coverage. Well played JSO, your sacrifice is appreciated.
Imagine all those people who couldn’t get to weddings, doctors appointments etc because of these guys actions
But they didnt mind when they blocked a cancer patient from getting to their treatment. Or the people that missed work that day and lost money. Or the truck they blocked delivering food to a local hospital. Having the audacity to even voice that opinion knowing what the daughter had done is insane. Some balls on her!
Well it’s her own bloody fault but in reality she shouldnt be in prison. Community service and a fine yes, not prison.
block the m25 after the wedding then fucks sake. PLAN.
If it’s important for her to be there, they can always reschedule. After all, what’s a little delay matter?
Hope she wasn’t planning on driving. Fucking moron.
5 years is pretty ridiculous but I’m not gonna act like there shouldn’t be any punishment for an idiot blocking the road.
When you block a road, you are just forcing the cars to sit there with their engines running, causing more pollution than if the road was clear and those cars could just go to their destination. JSO really did not think that through very well at all, they are literally causing more pollution when they block roads.
I’m sorry but there should be consequences for people acting like bellends in public, not 5 years, but something.
Let’s not act like these JSO people blocking roads are actually doing anything meaningful in terms of progressing the cause of stopping climate change.
5 years is too much though.
If Just Stop Oil were targeting the 90 companies that cause two-thirds of the world’s pollution I’d assume that nearly everyone would agree with them and they might even find they’d get some traction from those they target. I get the argument that ‘if we don’t stop oil nothing else matters’ but their ill-thought-out strategy to affect everyday people who would otherwise agree with them through defacing paintings, disrupting sporting events and blocking roads (ironically causing more pollution) means that when they get sent to jail with excessive sentences and they need a public outcry there’s zero sympathy when they most need it.
Okay the headline is a bit ridiculous but 4 years is extreme. Wasn’t there an article posted here a couple weeks ago about a guy that killed someone whilst driving only getting 2 years??
Well unfortunately lining the parasite classes pockets is more important than ensuring the future of our planet.
While I don’t agree with their actions in any way at all the sentences handed out are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
It’s hard enough to get rapists, violent offenders and paedophiles, amongst other, a prison term and yet 5 fucking twats have about 20 years inside for non violent offences.
I think the judge may have saved her brother and his guests from being lectured about driving to the wedding venue.
‘No you don’t understand; she was trying to make life difficult for *other* people, it’s not fair that she should suffer consequences and have *her* life made difficult. She shouldn’t have to abide by the same rules that common people do’
Wonder how many funerals people missed because of her. How many people couldn’t take their loved ones to important hospital appointments because of her.
Suck it up sweetheart
Didn’t a woman miss her mother’s funeral because of JSO?
I, like most other people, have been on the receiving end of JSO’s bad PR, and have therefore had my opinion of them tainted. The irony is that, were it not for all the negative press they receive, I would probably find myself agreeing with their principles.
But I digress, that’s beside the point. In Britain, we have a constitutional right to a peaceful protest. Disruption *is* peaceful. The only question is whether the right to a peaceful protest supersedes anti-trespassing laws, which in England only apply to certain areas, namely military land and transport infrastructure. From my point of view, the only law that has been broken is the latter of these – trespass, ordinarily a civil offence.
Five years for the crime of trespass spits in the face of democracy, and makes it painfully obvious that the sentencing has been affected by the media portrayal of JSO. No individual would receive five years behind bars for the simple act of trespass were it not for the baggage attached to the JSO brand.
While I will stop short of defending JSO’s actions, I do believe this sets a very dangerous precedent regarding our democratic right to protest. The law has failed in this context, and we should all be deeply concerned, because this undermines our entire legal constitution dating back to Magna Carta.
The sentence is appropriate when you actually look into the effects of their actions.
A Police officer was injured because of the gridlock they created, they “compromised” the M25 for 120 hours, effected over 700,000 people with an estimated financial cost of £765k. The Police spent over £1 million dealing with the protest.
If you caused almost £2 million of damage or stole it, or did something that effected 700,000 people nobody would blink if you were given 4 years in prison.
To add another point to this. There are people who travel in regular cars to go to medical procedures – not everyone goes to hospitals in ambulances.
Given the scale of that disruption, that also means people’s routes to go to places like their work or university are interrupted. Should a protest have the right to disrupt or deny someone else the ability to earn a living, or to learn in-person?
Further, something else I can’t find mentioned here is that a factor behind the sentencing was their behaviour in court.
Other points on why the sentence was as long as it was – factors like prior criminal history or what was planned to in addition to what was done matter in sentencing. This wasn’t 5 years for a group with not a single prior criminal record between them or plan for anything else who had exemplary behaviour in court.
You have the right to speak, you do not have the right to force everyone to listen.
What might be the emissions profile of a brother’s wedding and would it be worth a protest?
Don’t break the law and don’t risk going to jail and missing your brothers wedding.
While I think the sentence is excessive I have no sympathy for the predicament that she finds herself in now.
Well, people missed their shifts and other duties because of her daughter so… Who gives a flying F…. For some selfish activist.
Why do they all look like that?
They always seem to be some variant of :
Multicoloured hair / pierced and obese
Dessicated hippie
Smug vegan
And what about the people with aggressive cancer that missed their appointments and subsequently had to wait months again to be seen? The people that missed funerals of their loved ones? People who have had their livelihoods impacted?
We know climate change is an important issue and we know more needs to be done, but your privileged, champagne socialist daughter is going about it the completely wrong way and alienating millions of people.
Hope she enjoys her time in jail.
The mother’s response really puts into perspective the behavior of the daughter.
Totally at the FO stage of FAAFO
What’s the old idiom play stupid games win stupid prizes?
Instead of whining about being held accountable for her own actions, perhaps she should ask how many other people’s weddings she intentionally sabotaged.
Poor old Cressida doesn’t look cut out for jail to me. I reckon her sentence will get reduced on appeal, the big fuck-off five years is just to get headlines and try to make them pack it in imo