Greta Thunberg tweeted over the weekend that she would be taking part in the city's youth protest
Avon and Somerset Police say they expect thousands of people at the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate on College Green on Friday to hear the 17-year-old climate activist speak.Parents and carers were advised to make their own safety arrangements. But in a letter addressed to parents of school-age children, Supt Andy Bennett said the force was"unable to accurately predict how large this event will be".Social media has gone viral with interest which leads me to believe it will be thousands of people," he wrote."I am told in Hamburg approximately 60,000 came to see Greta speak. Whilst I am not suggesting it will be this big, you can see the scale of the potential attendance.
"The event has grown so large that the usual controls, stewarding and safety measures that are routinely put in place are unlikely to be scaled up adequately."
Police as usual being anything but useful, trying to make the numbers less significant. ACAB.
Why? Just how many BBC News people will be attending?
They are busing people in. You could not create the irony. I hope someone can get hold of policing costs as well. And by the way the UK is 1% if global CO2. We are not the problem.
The 2 most annoying things in the world are......in second place....Coronavirus. And in first place, and the winner, is.....Greta Thunberg!!
Give the kids free booze, and stand back and watch.
Well make sure Bristol pay they want her there
Spread the virus why don’t you 🙄🤬
It's not nicer to attend to school and then seeking a career for changing the world?
How very dare you
She’s just a short term gimmick like Tamagotchis, it’ll soon pass 🙄
Then plan accordingly please.
I can see polar bears returning to the Avon Gorge already. Just one more protest march should do it.
She’d have been better going to China to protest rather than coming to a country that only produces just over 1% of the worlds pollution
Just another sign of underfunding from central govt.
Want to save the planet, stop having children!!!!!!!
A gathering of children should be in the soft play area, should be ok as long as they take their shoes off. GretaThunberg
We seem to police royals okay sith taxpayer cash... its a 17 yo for ffs and they are worried about 'slips and falls'... fucking hell..
St Greta will save them.
Clearly two points here: 1. If Police cannot ensure public safety the protest should be made illegal and cancelled. 2. If teachers allow kids to walk out of school mid morning then they are neglecting their duty of care & rightly should be prosecuted. GretaThunberg stopgreta
So bored of her already
The best thing to combat climate change is for the kids to get educated in schools and not standing in protest. Get back to school.
As long as they clean up...
GretaThunberg try asking school kids to protest on a weekend and see how many don’t bother to turn up. Holding protests on school days, denying kids of their education -as what kid doesn’t want an excuse to bunk off school. Your parents are exploiting you GretaThunberg
In reality there was probably no one turning up but now they've told the sheep it's a sell out, the sheep will think they're missing out and wet themselves,😷🤔🤪
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Protection against child indoctrination activity.?
More fear mongering courtesy of the ... get out there in droves people. Do your thang!
GretaThunberg try asking school kids to protest on a weekend and see how many don’t bother to turn up. Holding protests on school days, denying kids of their education -as what kid doesn’t want an excuse to bunk off school. You’re parents are exploiting you GretaThunberg
If that's the case it will be banned, simples
If the police can't guarantee public safety (of school students) in a city centre, the event should be cancelled.
Yeah let's forget Beijing or Delhi which both have deathly thick smog. Lets protest in the most middle class, lefty, green city in the UK. Who needs to go to school when you can land yourself a token Nobel prize and multi million dollar book deal.
Good, so ban the protest and stop parents from forcing their kids to bunk off school.
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Why the fuck does this protest have to happen in this country when there are so many more countries that just ain’t listening. Does she not understand which countries are the worst polluters. Greta get back to school me thinks
Please don’t step into the road in front of my car on my way home on Friday 🙏
She is the coronavirus
Wonder how they all getting to the protest ...? curious
Well, did she pay for the security?
Put her back in school. Give the puppet a break
I feel sorry for the way GretaThunberg is being manipulated, from what i have seen she is already demonstrating poor mental health indicators. The adults taking advantage of her for their own gains should be ashamed of themselves
All for peaceful protests,but allowing this to happen when we have a pandemic on the horizon is highly fucking illogical,has common sense been replaced by ignorance and stupidity, just postpone until this virus fucks off,like they have done for sports events.
Isn't it the job of police to provide 'adequate safety' for protest crowds? So the police are criticising themselves in advance. Strange.....
She should go back to selling expensive chairs...
Well, you know, the police have lots of perceived hate-crime to deal with so poor Greta can go & f...
So why isn't it stopped 😡😡😡
Bothered? Nope! Goodnight!
What do we learn, don't protest. And Greta, fo something better than that.
I hope its planned out of school hours , no one should miss school for this, as parents we are told any day out of school is unacceptable.
The world doesn’t need revolution, all we need is some responsibility 🙏🏽
And instead of police performing their police work, they have to babysit her on the expense of the taxpayers.
Monster
Some of these followers are adults....what are we heading for if adults are listening to the voice of an intellectually challenged teenager.
She talks shit most of the time so the methane output must be high
This is her
This girl is becoming a menace!
She might learn something if she is going to school, little brat
All hail the mighty Greta, she has spoken. Ignore and it will be a warm world, with lots of tasty meat and creamy coffees and cars and trucks to transport fresh food. Less population because we will be busy working and not bonking because there's nothing better to do
Trying to shut her down
go back to finland!
Glad to know that under normal circumstances the police can help prevent me from tripping, slipping or falling.
Let's all try and ignore it.
She's achieved so much in her young life waterstones publishing author of the year and time magazine person of the year
Sick of hearing about this young buck
I'm not going to fall, because I'm not going to follow a muppet...
Who pays for Greta’s gallivanting?
Why are we putting up with this unhinged child disrupting our society . She is encouraging law breaking , she needs to be stopped not accommodated !! patel4witham get a grip of this please !!!
Police still allowing human trafficking to go on with Greta wow and she's autistic.
Ban it then
Oh well, never mind
Hope they don’t catch anything
Of course the police are worried about their 'safety' because it will be non-black middle class privileged kids taking part. And of course they will be pardoned for skipping school, unlike working class BME children who get penalised for skipping school
Poor Greta ☹️ it’s not going to end well Mental problems and being used
What suggestions has Greta made to tackle climate change? I'd like someone tackle her on this - otherwise, without lack of a clear ideas, she's just ranting
GretaThunberg warns ClimateEmergency
Greta, turn the boat towards Sweden!!!
Very poor interviewer, the police man told him of the restricted space problem and he was not listening. Or was it he was an idiot as he kept on about it. typical poor bbc
Chuckie is back....🥴
It’s funny, because I bet lots of the people complaining about Greta being allowed to say what she says are the same people who lose their minds and go on a rant about free speech when someone is criticised for being homophobic/racist/islamaphobic etc
What other person that is not a British citizen would be allowed to encourage our children to skip school? And what happened to the law that states parents are required to apply for permission to take kids out of school during term time? First warning?
If safety precautions are not good enough then cancel th protest.
Whoever built this child is a marketing genius
Fear is a virus. Keep stoking fear in all things. Want to derail and thwart progress, and keep the people under control? Keep stoking fear.
Yep I heard she can be violent.
The freak show has come to town😷
Well done Greta 👍🏼 take no notice of all these moaning, sad Gammons, they are mostly bungalow brains. Nothing upstairs !!
Have the protest on a saturday and see how many students bother to get out of bed.😴😴😴
Not to worry, she’s strong and brave enough to take care of herself.
Why allow her in the country!
Go home and go to school.
You're going to let that rude brat come in and cause a public menace and you are whining about safety?
She pays no tax to deserve police there, so forget it
wow they're really that afraid of Greta.
Send her packing .
Wish she would go back to school
Anyone else now agree that climate change isn't the biggest threat to humanity. A deadly virus and antibiotic resistance is by far the biggest issue facing us. That's what we should be tackling first.
It’s good to see the young so engaged. Safety important though. I just hope the site is not left littered with disposable plastics afterwards 🙄
Current temperature anomalies less than 4000 years of the Holocene, which the IPCC conceded in 2013. So the climate is changing but there is no crisis. Enjoy the rain tomorrow.
No school?
I hope CO2 levels will be monitored. The worse offenders are kids breathing while shouting.
Well they will just stand by and let them do anything they want. So why the concern now
Should be in school learning things
Just ban it
Isn't this a risk at any large gathering of people anywhere in the world?
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