Jace Tyrrell, chief executive of the New West End Company, said the first two days of protests had so far caused a loss of £12m in trade in the West End.Image copyrightOxford Street has been empty of traffic since activists parked a pink boat in Oxford Circus on MondayOrganisers said protests had been held in more than 80 cities across 33 countries and wanted to continue"shutting down London" until 29 April.
Joao Verga, who works at a printing company, says the protesters at Oxford Circus have caused him disruption. Three men and two women, in their 40s and 50s, arrested on suspicion of criminal damage at Shell's headquarters in London on Monday, have since been released while inquiries continue.What is Extinction Rebellion?Since the group was set up last year, members have shut bridges, poured buckets of fake blood outside Downing Street, blockaded the BBC and stripped semi-naked in Parliament.
The government said it shared"people's passion" to combat climate change and"protect our planet for future generations".
Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)
We are doing something about climate change so why don't they go and protest in a country that isn't doing anything
Hope they climb onto a train with overhead wires.
Poor choice. Flames are far more dramatic.
Probably been sniffing it before
BBCr4today How does he explain to his boss why he’s not in work? Oh he doesn’t have a job does he? Yet can only live his life because of the system he hates so much
BBCr4today Misguided sheep most of them! The rest are just having what they call fun. Water canon them all.
All bloody Vegans!
Lol. Now drive off!
UK is working hard to cut emissions - why are these militants not protesting in China and India where coal-fired power stations are actually being built, where pollution really is a problem?
Should be arrested.
For those against Extinction Rebellion listen to David Attenborough on the BBC tonight,he gives civilisation just 10 years to sort out our climate or face Armageddon!
Our wonderful planet has an extinction crisis - Caused primarily by it having to support too many people, if we cull the useless wastes of space that inhabit the planet some 5 billion of 'em we might stand a chance.
Move the train see how fast he can run stuck to it to keep up
2019 heroism
Blimey, everyones at it
Tossers
I wish these protestor fellows would respect the bobbies
Protest yes but don’t obstruct if they do just arrest them for obstruction get them off the streets
Hahaha
Nice one BBC: a few over privileged idiots block traffic and disrupt rail services and your all over it: 20,000+ military veterans ride legally and peacefully through London in protest on the 12th but you ignore us. You are a disgrace and your bias is insulting.
RIP his hand off the car, he won’t do it again. Scumbags
Too bad the tosser never electrocuted himself.
All the oil based products they are using makes them all hypocrites.
No seats inside?
There’s intelligence for you. Good grief.😡
BBCPolitics Middle class hippies. Should be at work
I just watched your 6pm coverage of the Extinction Rebellion action and then watched Sky’s coverage. I hope you get to see their pieces and fairly in depth interview. I think you might be ashamed of yours in comparison.
Getting out of hand
What a dreadful lot of responses here. These people are protesting so that your children & grandchildren have food and a planet to live on. In the next century if all the insects are extinct, they will have neither. Go and inform yourselves!
Im fed up with everything.
I’d leave the fecker glued to the train and operate a normal service. climateprotest
Now that’s an unexpected headline
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Love this
SAVE THE PLANET
What these people need is a job
Vote UKIP and they will sort out the problem
I wonder how many of the so called protesters have one or more cars, drive their kiddies to school instead of walking etc.
Wondering, instead of protest with banner, they could ask for some free garden plants to plant that produce Oxygen like a baby asking fruits🌱😞 Added to environment, isn't it🤔 thoughts
Causing chaos to those trying to earn a living, just shocking.
Idiots
Jail them immediately.
Should glue them to a prison cell
Ok I am all for awareness on climate change but there is a fine line between awareness and being utterly stupid idiots as these people are.
Absolutely brilliant thinking by IDIOTS, get Electric Trains stopped & FORCE People back into petrol guzzling Cars, & cause congestion causing MORE exhaust fumes to harm to the Environment, what a bunch of clowns, these Protesters could organise a booze up in a brewery, STUPID!!
They should have left him glued on and run the train anyway. First they cause congestion on the roads thus increasing pollution now they disrupt one of the main forms of green travel. These idiots are clueless and causing the campaign more harm
More pertinantly stop giving them air space and reporting about them
Hope these scroats are being billed for these stunts
I don’t think they have got a grasp of this getting public support thing.
Environmentally friendly glue?
Wankers
Perfect opportunity for makers of Superglue to test their product. Run the train and see if the soap dodger stays attached.
Imagine someone urinating on you whilst you're glued to something and can't move ?
BBCr4today If you’re against pollution it real makes sense to stop the cleanest method of transport and force people to use their diesel cars instead
Stop there benefits
Just an excuse for mayhem
Just leave him there
I’m pretty sure the first section of tunnel should take care of that. I hope it’s natural glue they are using. And is that yellow vest made from all natural materials? 🤔
Hardly the blitz then.
Well done, there were only parasites on the train: bankers, greedy fat cats.
The DWP should be there interviewing them for work.
I would make him stay glued to it!
Moron in more ways than one
Should have left them glued and have trains pull out of station on time. See how good super glue is.
Why don’t these twats go and protest somewhere it matters, i.e. the USA or China. Countries that aren’t a drop in the ocean in terms of environmental damage like the UK
Super
BBCPolitics Why are they not stockpiling tinned food and builds Arks? 🚢
Nice to see all the coverage this bunch of over privileged retards are getting on mainstream media when no one mentioned 20,000 + military veterans riding peacefully and lawfully through London on the 22th protesting the Governments abandonment of the country’s veterans.
Wait till they want to travel to the USA with criminal records.
BBCPolitics Stop all social security payments till they get proper jobs, see how long they protest then 😂😂😂
Bring in the French fuzz, they know how to do deal with these idiots.
Why is this allowed. There is a great deal of difference between protest and obstruction. Instead of locking them up fine them heavily and get them to clean up their mess.
'📢 The man arriving at platform three...'
Their cause is good but the way they get it across and execute protests is borderline retarded
No the best way to get people on side 😡😡😡😡😡
surely public transport is part of the solution, not the problem?
I would park the train up and leave him to rot bloody soap dodgers all they are doing is screwing with decent people trying to get to work, bet 95% are Labour voters and claiming
Selfish sods! You are harming working people from reaching work!
Why are the police tolerating this - the protestors have made their point unhindered ... time to move them on now
How flaming ridiculous this has gone too far why don't these people get a job and stop stopping others carrying out there's.
Stupid stopping traffic it just causes more pollution
Start billing these idiots for the costs incurred! Police time & resources for a start. The lost time incurred by people not getting to where they need to, businesses will have lost money!
Shut down all transportation including bicycles. Make em walk
These bell whiffs won’t go to China or Russia and protest where it’s needed. They stay in the UK to protest about a country that has an output of 1%
BBCRadio4 So? 🤣
Glueing yourself to a train in protest 🤔 probably not the best option. Although I’d probably be inclined to send the train to the nearest tunnel and leave it in there for a day or 2....
Leave the twat glued to the carriage and come back in a few days to see if he’s still there.
So sad that the BBC are covering this story in this tone and the response of the public even worse. I hope climate change kills everyone. We deserve it.
BBCPolitics Pity it couldn’t take him for a ride. 😂😂😂😂
Get a ladder, arrest them and get them off
the government does nothing waiting for other countries to do something while the climate is disintegrating, just look at subsidies for electric cars. They don’t even cover the tax on the car, while in Norway the uptake on electric cars has been substantial thanks to subsidies
Oh no. This is a bit too extreme!
Are any of these protesters Remainers as well by any chance ?
Disgusting.. Use Water Cannon & Tear Gas on em! 💩
A little confused, are they campaigning now against mass transportation methods? Closing down these would surely put more into taxis (cars) to get about.
Jail them for 10 years
Leave the prick there and carry on as normal. Won’t do it again.
Disgusting!
Leave him there!
Water cannon the bunch of bellends.
Who sold Bumblewit Boris' water cannon.............? 🤣🤣🤣
They are just professional activists,probably doesn't matter what the cause is!
Why aren’t they at work? School? Colleague? University? & why are they gluing themselves to trains & standing on top of trains stopping workers going to work? Why are the police simply removing them & arresting them? The state of this country is a joke.
Yes stop that dirty polluting ''ELECTRIC'' train from taking people about the business! Idots!
The tube would be the last thing I’d glue myself to. I can’t wait to get off the things...
BBCPolitics Clear the train, take it an open bit of land that the track goes to, then bomb the bugger.
BBCRadio4 Did he have a ticket ?
Start the train!
BBCRadio4 Thats just silly, achieves bugger all
Drive it to the nearest low bridge.... he won't do it again after that ... these are just disruptive idiots who are neither informing nor educating and probably don't have to worry about anything other than avoiding soap ! ..
God bless these Brits....we need to do more.....
When will this people learn that climate change is a natural phenomenon and not caused by human activities? Blaming climate change to human activities is a big fat LIE! the devil is a liar and the father of all lies 🤔
BrexitAssembly Water canons on them. LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
BBCr4today I’m surprised Jeremy isn’t down there giving them his full support..
Glued to a train? Cut his feet off or take him for a high speed ride lesson learned 😂😂😂
Climate Change is a serious concern to this planet but unfortunately fought by some of the dumbest in the society..
I thought trains were one of the cleaner modes of transport? Perhaps he really is just a rabble rouser who’ll turn up for a ruck whatever the protest, or he doesn’t really understand what the protest is about.
Super glued do not pull me, just use an axe
Do any of these actually have a job or is this there job, pathetic.
This is what starts making me angry when you these idiots sit on top of the train , if they were poor kids doing this they would be called thugs so what are these posh thugs I hope they are heavily fined and the train company takes them to court , but I doubt it .
Idiots
GREAT HANG ON -----GLUE TEST -------------GO
BBCr4today Denying the public use of public transportation and forcing them to drive...not sure they thought this one through... idiots
Do not stop the trains. When they see a tunnel coming they will soon get off!
BBCPolitics Will they be charged with damage to public property
Protesting is one thing, but being complete arses is another
BBCr4today So this is what it takes for the BBC to finally start covering climate chaos?
Vote UKIP who will scrap TV License so BBC has to improve or lose customers which will mean Goodbye Biased BBC:
The return of rent-a-mob. Not a good portent for the future of this country. This sort of behaviour actually diverts attention from their cause and destroys all support for it. Waste of their and everybody else’s time.
Climate protester using glue which is a processed substance which requires a lot of co2 to manufacture, irony
BBCPolitics So to protest climate change they target public transport that's designed to reduce the number of cars on the road...... these are not the sharpest tools in the box
I hope they all walk home?
This idiot is targeting people doing their bit for climate change i.e. they use public transport, causing all those passengers to get off the train for other forms of transport. Emergency services will be used to free and treat him and arrest him, causing more pollution. Genius!
👀 on the news today they didn’t use much glue knobs
Wher do these fools come from? How does that exactly help your cause? Bloody PLONKERS
They’re a disgrace totally unnecessary thing to do. A large fine & jail term.
Fooken weirdo
They are getting silly, but I mean come on why isn't more being done. I live in flats, but even I could benefit from a shared solar panel and a few small turbines, but no it has to be fossil fuel all the damned time!
Stop Giving Them The Oxygen Of Publicity!
Thus creating even more concentrated pollution cos of standing traffic shotandfoot
Is it organic glue?
Drive train away see if they can free themselves if not oh well not to worry I'm sure first low bridge will free them This sodding country !!!!!!!!
IDIOT!😡
So... they're going to stop climate change by... stopping people from using public transport? 🤔 Extinction rebellion is a false flag operation to give governments an excuse to severely restrict public protest. Change my mind.
Not sure why protesters gluing themselves to a train should stop the train from running - it shouldn't affect the aerodynamic drag too much so I say carry on as normal!
The Church of Climate-ology is out in force in London, these braindead disciples of this religion are 100% certain that our world is coming to end and they are trying very hard to ensure we implement Socialism before it is too late;Cynically it is just a RUSE,to justify Socialism
Does he know that glue adds to climate change? Bit of hypocrisy setting in there!
Drive the train towards the nearest tunnel.
Pretty much everyone at my office drove in today. Normally no one does.
Train should have pulled off out of the staion. Three less unwashed fuckers to worry about!!
Meanwhile....Mohammed is the most popular baby name in the UK LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder
Surely all the additional disruption, increased police involvement, and the arrival of protesters, will have made the carbon footprint of this day even greater.
Glued guy can have free travel while sticked. These activists are wasting their and Londoners time campaigning in London City.
Pathetic.
BBCPolitics Run the train
Tit
I believe that you will find that the current protests are some 30 years too late. The tipping point was past at least 15 years ago. The future weather patterns and global storms and ice cap melting are and have been under way for years they would be better at a beach clearing up
Does it stop the train from moving? If not, ignore him. KeepLondonRunning TFL
Walk and protest about anything ask them to walk for work and they are liable to shoot you
Leave him up there and walk away.
In retaliation to these protests I've left my diesel van running since 7am and will be using my washing machine at 90°. ClimateChange
Why don’t they protest in the Muslim no go zones?
Well leave him there! Be the last train he glues himself to!
BBCPolitics Should have let the tube run as normal
Enough now. They’ve made their point. But now it’s time to remove them.
Get back to university
Leave him stuck to it arsehole
About time these idiots were jailed.
Why did we get rid of those water cannons?
Ah yes, let’s shut down public transit and create hardship to win people over and make the point that we want to save the planet......not clear on the concept.
I don't have anything polite to say about their behaviour ExtinctionRebelion
Round them all up ,dont let them eat it drink ,remove all the obstacles
Don't suppose he's got a job move the train whatever happens happens only got himself to blaim
Is super glue eco friendly?
They all seem terribly middle class, I wonder if there’s a waitrose pop up shop to feed them all.
The police should just rip him off the train.
BBCPolitics Attacking public transport is a very quick way to lose everyone
What a Bellend
I am sure there are more productive ways of protesting which other people are getting on with. These are time wasters whose actions are polluting London even more.
Marvellous mayor of London says we are short of police we're not now there's plenty there
This will be glue he collected by hand from tree sap and not one of those mass produced in chemical factories tubes of glue?
Max sentence for this damage is 6 months in prison. Hope he gets it.
There is no need to inconvenience people travelling... do these silly wankers not realise people need to go to work, medical appointments etc... line the wnkers up and put them in the stocks for 12 hours, throw bird seed at them and allow the pigeons to shit on them. 💯💩👍
Dopey useless human being jumping up and down over one of the worlds biggest hoax...but in this case got really stuck up on what they believe
BBCPolitics Full steam ahead driver,one less waster on the planet that will cut dowm global warming a tad.
BBCPolitics Ok, I’m not defending that one.
Why not just take the train for a spin... they'd soon get off?
Call me a conspiracy nut but I’m beginning to think climate change, although true is more of a global distraction. Why is it there no experts talking about “pole shift”. Since 1990 magnetic nth has moved 970kms. It’s moving faster as if recent times. I smell a rat.
What a Prit.
What the hell are the police playing at, sitting back and allowing all this to happen. Law and order is down the pan in this country. Get some water cannons !
Reroute the trains to one of the other platforms and leave them there so they can make their point. Probably gets pretty boring after a while. Also, not very wise to block DLR and force people to use buses and taxis, but what do I know?
Making more people get off the trains and jump in buses and taxis causing more pollution. 🤦♀️
Let him stay there, once less fuckwit running the streets
BBCPolitics Wonder why the Suffragettes didn’t think of that one?
Seeing that trains are likely the most CO2 friendly mode of transportation, I have a hard time seeing the purpose of that particular protest.
Start the engine
We need more protests like this then maybe the power to be will start listening to us.
BrandonLewis Number10press Sadiq Kahn permits these protests to take place.. 300+ arrested.. excuse for a ‘punch up’ - hundreds of police involved- London closed for business. Absolutely disgraceful.. no leadership at all. Doesn’t represent Londoners !
It is about time we imposed severe, and I mean severe, like years in prison and unlimited fines for this sort of lunacy. To do anything else would only open the floodgates. They only do it because they believe they won't get hurt.
Any person willing to give up their liberty to fight for a cause that will affect us all should be applauded ClimateChange
Chose half term!!
Set the train running he'll soon move his bloody hand.
Anyone affected by the protests in London should take a bar of soap to work in the morning ~~~ ThrowSoapAndPrayForRain RT
extinction rebellion was set up by the met police and is run by the met police. Its purpose is to get details of valid protestors and pave the way for bringing in new laws to stop or limit genuine protest. 🤡🤡
BBCPolitics Anarchists on benefits
The UK with less than 1% of the worlds population is going to solve so-called climate change.
A train powered by electricity. I hope he doesn’t fall off and hurt himself. If he doesn’t then send him the bill for the delays. Then he’ll be wishing he had
Pathetic attention seeker, other ways to protest than ruining everyone else’s day, id just drive the train with him stuck to it
Absolute wasters..
How exactly does glueing himself to 1 train ‘shut down london’ let alone have any impact on climate change? Do he have a job? Does he use plastics & aerosols? Does he travel? What impact is he personally making? I support climate change but certainly not in this way
Congratulations to that little Kahn’t in the Mayors office. London is officially a laughing stock!
Just drive the train away. Look at the state of the tramp!! I bet he stinks
These protesters are so dumb. Police should shield the stuck campaigner. NO ONE helps him or her. Give it few days then see what happens Help me, I need to pee etc..
And what 🤔 drive the train 🚂 off Bollocks to the soap dodgers
Water cannon
Muppets.
Strange they should pick London Transport to protest on. Isn't that what they want us all to do? Save the planet and give up our cars and use buses and trains. I certainly won't today. Like the rest of us, don't they have JOBS to go to?
Just think if all the passengers decided to smack the crap out of him, he would be made into a victim by the bBC
Activists are very stupid people who take the law into their own hands! We need to protest of course but in a different way like Virginia McKenna or Sir David Attenborough The Times
Yeah? Wow. Aaron Banks paid for fake ads and videos making migrants look like criminal's before the Brexit referendum. It was on Channel4News last night and I notice the BBC have not reported it at all. But yeah, superglue, bad, terrible people.
You can smell them before you see them!
If anyone dies as a result of an ambulance or fire engine being unable to reach its destination due to blocked roads the organizers of ExtinctionR should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. I guess the irony of blocking the tube, forcing people on to roads is lost on them.
pathetic, obviously denied attention, he must have learnt there is a price to pay for actions....pull him off and start the train
Please step on the third rail.
Darwinism. These protestors are getting dumber and dumber
I never pay attention to what people are protesting about. I just think about how stupid these people look.
All the power to them. They obviously believe this is endgame. Much respect to people who don't compromise their integrity like most liberals.
All probably unemployed wasters and all hypocrites
He’s definitely sticking to his word 😂
Soap dodgers.
Twats
Start the damn train!
Made me laugh... Thanks! Glued himself to a train, wild.
Crazy doesn't get you anywhere.
Arrest everyone of them scumbags..........
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