London Underground lines have been partially suspended as climate change protesters climbed on top of trains.
The Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway were affected after incidents at Stratford, Canning Town station and Shadwell during Tuesday's rush hour. Commuters were seen physically dragging protesters from the roof of a train in a video on social media. Four arrests have been made. Extinction Rebellion said the disruption was"necessary to highlight the emergency".Image copyrightBritish Transport Police tweeted:"At this time we have three separate incidents involving Extinction Rebellion protest action at Stratford, Canning Town, and Shadwell.Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said in a statement:"I strongly condemn the Extinction Rebellion protesters who have targeted the London Underground and DLR this morning.
"This illegal action is extremely dangerous, counterproductive and is causing unacceptable disruption to Londoners who use public transport to get to work."
BBCPolitics Arrest them, and lock them up! There is no excuse for his kind of behaviour. 😡
Underground Overground, protesting free.
If only they were living next to Venezuelan Oil, they could have the support of England France Spain Europe and North America in general, they love to protect Venezuelan Oil
What’s the difference between an ER protestor and an idiot? The idiot knows that public transport helps reduce pollution & the ER protestor obviously not. I do worry. What next ER protestors hijacking electric charging points- I do worry about the state of the nation
It's public transport you absolute plonkers
This IS now criminal behaviour. And they should all be slapped in prison for a couple of months and have their benefits STOPPED
Can you imagine if these dregs put this much effort into gainful employment!
Now as a result, the passengers who would have travelled with low emission trains, now take to driving 1 person/1 car causing more emissions, far more damage to the environment & adding to the 36000 people who die in the UK as a result of car pollution
So XR's standpoint is going after working class people using public transport whilst endorsing the rich and their excessive lifestyles as being acceptable... Sounds like they're becoming the Conservative Party.
That's not the road to go Read this carefully
Bravo to the the brave people here.... the bystanders who confronted the insane XRLondon participants
The commuters should block all the vegan aisles in Waitrose later so the protesters go hungry tonight!
Fckin muppets. How does disrupting public transport encourage more people to ditch their cars and use it? You're spoiling all the good work that your less extreme colleagues are doing, living up to stereotype, and fueling the Daily Mail headlines.
Some seriously brainless people involved with these protests. Targeting public transport? Good one guys!
Well that bearded man should be charged with GBH did yous see how he kicked that man. Well tonight people will have seen what to do, Well protested have decided that electricity is a problem, Hope they don't use it at home. they are all about DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO
Are they protesting about the people getting killed in Yemen or Syria or Afghanistan or....I've lost count now? KILLUMINATI VivaRevolution
BBCPolitics Crazy irresponsible way to demonstrate and loses rather than gains support for a critical issue for all
Ah yes, attack public transport, that’ll get people on side
Whilst it initially appears foolish & counterproductive to halt tubes, that's because the actual purpose of the action is less obvious. The intention is to apply economic pressure, because money has the loudest voice in politics. The cost to protester ratio is clearly very high
Well that's a good idea...
Drive off at high speeds with them on, job done 👏
Idiots.
Shouldn’t these idiots be standing in the middle of the road instead of stopping people using public transport! These crusties need to get their priorities sorted 🤬
This Rebellion has run its course. The people have had enough and will tolerate no more. These white, upper middle class, eco-loons have nothing whatever in common with normal people. Time for XR to become extinct.
In this way the rebellion will extinguish itself . People do not like their lives to be inconvenienced and disrupted !
To jail with them
Great to see them getting a good kicking.
Pull them off the train and beat them up.
So misguided. Lock them up!
So they go for one of the greenest modes of transport which will put more petrol cars in the road. I support your goals but not this! You should be encouraging public transport. Block roads! Not trains! Great thinking. logic
God this lot get on my fucking nerves, wish they would fuck off and do something useful with their time
Think this covers the protestors and the BBC. Come on stop giving these idiot the attention they are after and encouraging them
Glad the commuters are fighting back. Could be a person there who needs to get to hospital at Whitechapel to see a dying relative, or someone on their last warning for lateness due to of childcare issues, or someone attending a job interview. Not one protestor thinks about this
I must be missing something if I’m getting these activists wrong?
Does anyone know there history, you activist can try as hard as possible to get a message across to try and stop climate change, global warming etc.But lets go back to the ICE AGE , were there were no planes, no cars, no rockets in space, tell me what caused that melt down?
They are making a lot of enemies!
BBCPolitics seems like a silly thing to do - public transport is surely what they would rather we used!
Good for them. If it wasn’t for them most would have their head in the sand
I've got a BICYCLE you can glue yourselves to! I use it to travel 12 miles to work every day.
These nutters deserve public action, violence and retaliation because their direct action is driving the public patience up the wall. I would hit out as well.
BBCPolitics Knobs 😀
So all commuters take to the roads in diesel taxis 😄 fuckwits wrongtarget dontfuckwithacommuter
I don’t think XRebellionUK even care about public opinion anymore. They’re just out to have a good time at everyone else’s expense, and are the equivalent of football hooligans and those middle class thugs who defaced the Cenotaph. And their mate Pipsqueak Sadiq does nothing
Absolutely pathetic
Maybe next time they could stop the buses by throwing a polar bear in front of one.
The annoying thing here is that the 'protesters' will get a warning about disruption or some such but the commuters who took direct action against them will probably get charged with assault or something. The people who should be banged up are the people disrupting peoples lives
I don't get it these protesters are a bunch off idiots it will do no go pissing the people of the UK off the climate change has to happen in the bigger countries like USA Russia Africa Canada India etc we are a small island ffs
Best thing was seeing the twat on top of train being pulled off . Oh he got hurt. Good. Also the over luvvie protester being dealt with. Brill. Loved it.
freedom and democracy ,western double standard
BBCPolitics Donuts. Utter donuts.
bbcnews Stop giving these people the oxygen of publicity. They represent no one. They are terrorists trying to cause trouble for the sake of causing trouble.
The trouble is they don’t have jobs to go to.
night Unsuccessfully Canningtown
I wonder how many protesters would stay if the public turned and started giving them a good kicking for the disruption 🤔
These actions are moving from civil protesting to anarchic and agtongonistic behaviour.
BBCPolitics Just bloody terrorists doing their cause no good at all.
thatwentwellthen
I can see both points of view but violence negates both of them.
night Don't prosecute any commuters who batter protesters
No need to terrorise the nation and make life difficult for everyone. Planting more trees would help in reducing CO2 emissions. But we never hear XR talk about this. Odd.
Will the Met police refund the money lost because they can't get to work. Its their job to keep the law
They've lost their argument now.....and their brains.
Boo
BBCPolitics This will NOT help the cause!!!
Here you go sems you didn't play the full clip in your report and missed the bit where the gentle, peaceful protestir attempted to kick commuters. Well done London commuters, doing what the police should have done.
There’s gonna be a few fat lips if they keep going like this..
Trains are environmentally friendly so why target them?
Where do they get peaceful in this from? Only ever a matter of time.
BBCPolitics So they don’t want people to use public transport then 🤔 Those drugs have really got them all spaced out 😂
These people should be treated as terrorists. Life in prison. Then they'll know what an energency is. BBC should stop giving them publicity.
I do wish these people all started singing from the same page, we are told they want us all to use public transport, and yet here they are STOPPING us using public transport, please make ' YOUR F--KING MINDS UP ' WHICH ONE IS IT ?
Don't agree with this protesting, but the sight of people kicking that guy like a barbarian mob is eye-opening. Animalistic behaviour, kind of thing you'd expect of a medieval pogrom. Seriously hope the police will identify and charge them as well protesters.
Where is Law Enforcement? Lawlessness. Anarchy. Entropy.
Ruining their own case because now they're showing themselves up to be anarchists and trouble makers without the necessary brain power to approach the issue in a manner that will gain public support. Just alienating everyone.
night Finally, striking the electric, public transport which is destroying the environment... good job guys.
Winning hearts & minds. Bravo 👏🏻
I support u all the way. Well done.
They’re loosing their cause by turning public against them. We’ll see more and more angered response from public.
This is when public support for them begins to fade. wrongtarget
How can this group ExtinctionR of human species or any so called human, who protests on anything, say they are peaceful, if they block others from going about there daily journeys, damage anything etc. Cannot & will not support any form of protest.
if you try to stomp on a member of the publics hand and then kick him in the face,you`ll get dealt with. Defacing war memorials,urinating on them and now this. It would appear that the people have had enough now climatedeathcult ExtinctionRebellion
I don't get it. I thought using public transport essential if we're to tackle climate change. So why is public transport being targeted? Moronic.
Massive own goal
metpoliceuk please grow a spine & sort out this ridiculous situation! Treat these morons with the contempt they are treating you & the rest of us! Get tough like every other country in the world & stop pussyfooting about!
I believe that problems do exist with the the climate. These folks are now making sure the problems do not get addressed, by alienating folks, idiots!
What does targeting public transport achieve? Other than ensuring loss of support amongst people who already use greener alternatives to cars?
BBCPolitics They want everyone to spend half their day walking to work... or cycling...
iainjwatson How to alienate the public and target people using mass electric transport.
BBCPolitics Leave car at home, use a carbon friendly public transport train to get to work. XR are stopping the train! Like I said ages ago, these people have no interest in the environment. They’re anarchists pure and simple!
I’ve lost what remaining respect I had for XR. The tube is the cleanest transport in London, why disrupt it? The impact XR is having on normal hardworking people is not acceptable and it is not the way to win support. I would have pulled them off the train too
Isn’t public transport a more eco friendly way to travel? Now people are just going to take cars to work so they don’t get stuck in this. These protesters are dumb and have terrible logic
They should be fined and assets confiscated. Not prison, with free accommodation & free meals. Law is law. What they’re doing is too much now.
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There was always going to be a backlash ,surprised it took so long, best get street wise , not everyone is middle class , and terribly nice
Some people are on zero hrs contracts that means no work no pay, get real XR.
Will they target cycle lanes next? Come on, this is idiotic, PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS THE ANSWER NOT THE PROBLEM FFS!
The public have spoken.
I've said before, the public are now getting tired of this. Extreme acts like this and the airport fiasco are counter productive, stupid and a waste of effort. Not many brain cells between them I'm sorry to say.
Aren't these arseholes effecting the wrong form of transport?
And the MayorofLondon is just verbally reprimanding this outrageous protest. Verbally. Take note. Verbally.
Beyond a joke know
Their leaders need arresting for organising civil disobedience, they are getting paid to cause mayhem and it's the idiots who take action who get arrested, their fines paid for by the organisation. What is needed is prison sentences for the leaders.
So these assholes glue themselves to trains- just pull them off then they won’t do that gain in a hurry! These people are just anti-social work shy layabouts and deserve all they get from furious commuters!
Get pulled off train and roughed up. The workers fight back against these middle class poseurs.
BBCPolitics Not in London but hope the commuters give them a slap from me ! Expect they’ve had enough of the idiots !
Shower of wasters!! Maybe all those commuters should drive instead🤔🤔.
The public backlash against these Extinction Rebellion narcissists begins, and it’s going to get bigger
climate scientists tried to encourage discussion for said 30+ years and were ignored. now they are not being ignored. Weather you agree with it or not. The demonstrations are working.
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