MSPeconomist

I suspect it became a meet market for some of them as vegans thankfully seem to prefer to hook up with other vegans.

I hope you bought a nice big steak or roast to support the marketplace.

Oxon Flyer

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KeaneJohn

They successfully closed LCY for a day or so by chaining themselves to the runway before. Here’s hoping their intelligence is better this time and they prevent this from happening.

PAL62V

I would have thought that anyone that determined to obstruct an airport in the name of climate change is unlikely to be worried about being put onto a no-fly list....

GrayAnderson

Yes and no. I'm more thinking of "nasty consequences for idiots who didn't think this through fully" [1]. Amending the CoC and suing any pax who do this for the disruption (basically, giving the ER protesters the same sort of treatment that stupid louts on RyanAir/EasyJet can get) might be nice, too. Granted a lot of the legal processes haven't worked their way through, but I'm not hearing too many stories about arrested protesters actually getting hit with heavy fines or more than tag-and-release sentences (though I've gathered that the drone folks may get the book thrown at them).

Also, I'm looking at this from the perspective of tying down future protests (e.g. if someone tries to shut things down once, the next time they show up they're just arrested for being there...as much as they're a lousy tool, perhaps throwing a new equivalent to ASBOs around).

[1] In the US, I remember a story of some anti-war protesters in about 2003 or 2004 who were (a) planning to get arrested and (b) simultaneously asking if they would make it back in time for their bus home.

lorcancoyle

Thanks for flagging, hadn’t seen this. I’m flying to DUB on Saturday morning but have a return to LHR on separate ticket (family event for the day)

Will keep an eye on things and be ready to ask BA for a Heathrow reroute (or anything with ORC!) - might check my insurance to see if they’d cover a cab in these circumstances...

Woodbinerich

Has the steak- out concluded?

allturnleft

seems to have done !

Interesting to see how effective the LCY one will be; or not!

The LHR one didn’t get off the ground literally

morges1

Are they having a barbeque?

DFB_london

Must be a uni reading week for this bunch of entitled middle class wasters. They all seem to have been to posh schools with posh names - getting in the way of people who actually have to work for a living.

I’m sure there is a strong green message to be made but this bunch of what the PM calls crusties are doing it great harm.

With the wider security risk I d suspect LCY will be ready - as will be the holding cells for those that try to interfere in aviation safety.

alexwuk

No sign of protesters at Smithfields on my run home yesterday - lots of security in hi-viz jackets and lots of refrigerated trucks full of meat waiting to be unloaded.

Globaliser

I think that the protestors' persistence, if they have enough, will ultimately ensure their success. If they're targeting three days of shutdown, I'm confident that after 2½ days they will have ground down the airport's, BA's and other airlines' resistance, and secured their desired shutdown for the remainder of the planned period.

Irreverent Medusa

Erm, the normal weekend curfew at LCY starts at 13:00 on Saturdays... So they're going for a 3 days shutdown when the airport is only open for 2 1/2 days anyway. Well thought-out there

tuonopepper

They couldn't even control a hose last week so I wouldn't expect them to be able to pull anything complicated off....

DeathSlam

Success at shutting down LCY not success at their stated aims.