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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank 18:17 - Feb 17 with 1480 views

Digging up a university lawn in Cambridge and then carting the mud in wheelbarras to the nearest branch of Barclays is less extreme than trying to stop the city but does it help or hinder the cause?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51534446

It is to do with Trinity turning a farm in Trimley St. Mary into a lorry park for Felixstowe Port.

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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:20 - Feb 17 with 1454 views

Doctor_Earman

It's a Monday. Don't these people have jobs or parental responsibilities?

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:20 - Feb 17 with 1456 views

RobTheSnob

Blockade is 100 yards from my place of work. Zero traffic disruption today, what they have done to Trinity Lawn is disgusting

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:33 - Feb 17 with 1434 views

bluelagos

It does seem counter productive to be destroying a bit of greenery. Much like targeting the tube (a green mode of transport)

There was a documentary on XR last night (C5) which was very interesting. One issue is that they are a very loose movement where pretty much anyone can organise a protest. The tube protest was very unpopular within the movement - yet their structure (or lack of) meant it went ahead anyway.

So they will inevitably have some protests that are far from ideal. Which is a shame as the negative publicity is latched onto by many when in reality we should be talking about the issues they seek to raise rather than the misguided methods some groups use.

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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:38 - Feb 17 with 1422 views

itfcjoe

It reminds me of the riots post Mark Duggan's death

Some go out to protest, others go out and just see it as a chance to be arseholes and p155 other people off with no real care of the message

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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:42 - Feb 17 with 1399 views

bluelagos

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:33 - Feb 17 by bluelagos

https://www.my5.tv/extinction-rebellion-the-inside-story/season-1/extinction-reb

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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 18:58 - Feb 17 with 1351 views

swede

If only XR had kept up with the news they would have read last Friday that the government planning inspector had recommended to East Suffolk Council that the proposed lorry park be removed from the local plan. He has ruled that there is no evidence that there is a need fora lorry park based on predicted future container trade through the port. He has also ruled that the cost of a new junction on the A14 would be prohibitive and not feasible.

This is a huge victory for local democracy and local residents who have put forward their protests in a legal and peaceful manner and also raised funds to pay experts to argue the case.

XR could have saved themselves all the bother of their ridiculous protest and the bad publicity that their vandalism has bought. We local residents are appalled that they have taken such action in our name.

Oh...and if the BBC had bothered to check, they would have realised that the proposed lorry park was in Trimley St. Martin, not Trimley St. Mary!

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:02 - Feb 17 with 1335 views

lowhouseblue

the ironic thing is that traffic in cambridge today has been fine. actually better than normal. why's that? because it's half-term and the posh kids aren't being driven across the city in their 4 by 4s to go to school. why is the xr event this week? because it's half-term and the school kids can take part. better than the parents having to find child care i guess.

And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:09 - Feb 17 with 1313 views

TractorWood

I work in Cambridge and their traffic blockades have had absolutely no impact. This turf thing is in extremely poor taste and is likely to be hugely counter productive to their demands.

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So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:10 - Feb 17 with 1297 views

CoachRob

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:02 - Feb 17 by lowhouseblue
the ironic thing is that traffic in cambridge today has been fine. actually better than normal. why's that? because it's half-term and the posh kids aren't being driven across the city in their 4 by 4s to go to school. why is the xr event this week? because it's half-term and the school kids can take part. better than the parents having to find child care i guess.

You're obviously not aware of the Fridays for Future school strikes that have been going on.

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:13 - Feb 17 with 1278 views

lowhouseblue

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:10 - Feb 17 by CoachRob
You're obviously not aware of the Fridays for Future school strikes that have been going on.

i certainly am. i often hear them around the city centre squeaking out their chants. they're laudable.

but their attempt to create traffic chaos has been entirely nullified by the effect of them not being driven to school. which is funny.

So, XR, there's mud in your...errr...bank on 19:21 - Feb 17 with 1251 views

Plums

It’s brilliantly British that there’s more outrage over the destruction of a manicured lawn than many of their other disruptive stunts.
This one’s misguided.

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