Furious Van Driver Berates Just Stop Oil Protesters Blocking Road: “My Wife Needs to Get to Hospital”
Angry road users resorted to dragging eco-protesters out of the road this morning as Just Stop Oil blocked busy Shoreditch High Street in East London, stopping a fire engine from getting through, with one furious driver telling the eco-loons, “My Mrs is not well, she needs to get to a hospital”. The Mail has more.
At least 26 people were arrested at the junction after Met Police arrived to unglue and remove the dozens of protestors blocking up the streets on the 15th consecutive day of disruption by the eco-zealots.
In one clip of the disruption, caused by 29 protesters who glued themselves to the road just after 12pm, a van driver claims he desperately needs to get his sick wife to hospital.
Tensions between the driver and activists reached boiling point when he drove towards members of the group sitting in the middle of the road.
Several protesters jump up as the van approaches while a woman is heard screaming “No! Don’t do it!”
Members of the public film the driver as one asks him “Where are you going to go?” before he explains: “My Mrs is not well, she needs to get to a hospital.”
“Have some respect for other people,” he added during the intense exchange.
“There’s other people who need to get to places.”
Meanwhile, another driver pleaded with the activists to get out the road before physically trying to remove them.
The fuming man can be seen snatching a banner off the Just Stop Oil protesters before yelling: “You all use fuel in some way or another… this is ridiculous get out the way!”
He then lifts up one protester and drags him across the road, without any resistance from the man.
“You need to be arrested… you are a public nuisance,” he shouts while carrying the man across the road – to beeps of support from other drivers.
He does the same with another man while the other returns to his position in the middle of the road, before giving up.
He continues to shout: “Do you think you’re helping anything?” he shouted. “This is a local community… go outside BP, go outside Shell, go and do this somewhere useful.”
A fire engine with blaring sirens was also blocked from getting through the east London junction. Protestors eventually moved to let the fire truck through before sitting back down to block the road.
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Can’t someone just sit down with them and explain thermodynamics and entropy?
And then kick them out to live off-grid without the use of hydrocarbons. They would soon come back, wet and cold and sick.
not just without the use of hydrocarbons but without the use of anything made from them also. Won’t last too long with no clothes or tools.
I do not think they are interested in the facts. They are using a convenient story line to push their political agenda. the MSM and the political class are either intentionally supportive or completely ignorant of what is going on.
O was at University in the 1960s and the student protests then were well organised on a national basis with ample funding but no one in politics recognised it as anything other than exuberant youth making fashionable protests. It was a very well organised and focussed campaign.
I think it’s now become a case of gaining kudos from your clique for being “as daring as possible” e.g. by throwing soup at a priceless masterpiece rather than trying to make a genuine point.
They don’t want to know. It’s a religion …. and they are left-wing Eco anarchists.
I don’t get it. Just buy a very loud fog horn and blow it in their ear, tip water on their heads, break wind in their faces, I can think of a whole range of things you can do back to these passive aggressive monsters.
Just run over them.
Nah, you’ll turn them into martyrs and end up in jail.
You just have to be an even bigger nuisance back to them.
Of course the police are too busy investigating non-crime hate incidents to allow people to take their sick wives to hospital, or allow fires to be put out.
Today it is spilt milk. —-Tomorrow it will be spilt blood.—- The political class need to WAKE UP or people are going to be seriously hurt or worse. We are allowing these brainwashed dreamers to run amok. Perhaps if our silly governments had not brainwashed them with endless talk of “The Climate Crisis” and the “Climate Emergency” they would not be laying down in the street and throwing cans of soup at paintings. It is now time to tell these people that the UK is doing way more than virtually any other country as regards the phony emergency. We have the Climate Change Act that forces us in law to reduce emissions of the CO2 that is allegedly causing the global warming. We just waved Net Zero through Parliament with no questions asked as to the cost/benefit (Possibly one and a half trillion quid for virtually no useful purpose since the UK is only 1% of the problem). We have built thousands of wind turbines and we force energy companies to use that energy when the wind is blowing. We have installed millions of Smart Meters. We are getting rid of coal, petrol and diesel and absurdly want to be… Read more »
I watched Mark Steyn beclown himself on his own GB News show the other day, in a face-off with a 20-year old “Just Stop Oil” ringleader.
All the young chappie had to ask is “you’re not a climate denier, are you Mark?”
To which our hero could only respond with some mouthful like “Well, I don’t have any opinion on it either way”.
At what point are we going to decry the absurdity of the argument that “man”, through his contribution to the carbon dioxide that makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere, is impacting the weather in any meaningful way?
It’s a scam. Scapegoat industry as the culprit of the have-not’s woes and let the mechanisms of central bank finance deprive everyone except the select few of anything.
Then you’ll have saved the planet.
The thing is, they have a large percentage of the youth and all the guns on their side. What do we do about it?
“you’re not a climate denier, are you Mark?”
To which the sensible reply is:
‘Not at all. How can anybody deny the existence of climate?’
Yes, it was not Mark Steyn’s finest hour.
J H-B keeps giving them airtime. They are both making a mistake, you cannot argue facts against a brainwashed cult.
The protesters need introducing to a baseball bat
The photographers (“impartial observers”) scurrying around, recording the scenes for posterity…
There were clearly far more bystanders than protestors. If only they had helped to clear the road the whole thing would’ve been over in minutes.
Since I learnt that Aileen Getty, descendant of You-Know-Who Getty, is a major supplier of funds to these crackpots, I think I understand…
Environmentalism is essentially anti-moral misanthropy, was at the very core of Nazism, and has already led to the deaths of hundreds of millions (as well as the Holocaust look at the Killing Fields of Cambodia).
What then the snuffing out of a few planetary-superfluous resource wasteful ambulance occupants?
Instead of ‘checking out your privilege’ look to the rationality and compassion within.
Enough is enough.
PS – this is not a desperate appeal but rather advice; love will out and there is a price to pay for all attempts to overthrow or subvert the fundamental power of compassion.