Protest In Waitrose, Ecclesall Road

[Man in Crete 104]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

My bold. 

 

Now, now, everyone has the right to peaceful & legal protest but I do get what you mean. 

 

I wasn't down that way Saturday morning but usually when one of these Palestinian protests are taking place, the meeting point in our area is the corner of Moncrieffe Rd., at Nether Edge while waiting to catch the 56 into the city. 

 

There's usually a small gathering of approx 8 to 10, average 60+, mainly women, (only ever seen one man), a placard or two, some with Palestinian flags drapped over shoulders.   All white, all very middle class, all very polite as you'd expect from Nether Edge residents.   

 

I'm surmising here but I'll take a punt & say retired lecturers & social workers in the main & during the week, 'ladies who lunch'.  I will guarantee though that having protested outside Waitrose yesterday, today like me, they'll be shopping in there for their quinoa, Himalayan pink salt & perhaps their Israeli dates. 

Exactly! Same saddo nether edgers with nothing else to do… need to get a life . Recall being confronted by them way before the current situation at Waitrose and had to run over one old gits foot with mi trolley

[Palomar 309]

What a bunch of snowflake bedwetters there are on this thread.

 

Well done the protesters for bringing it out in you all.

 

What do we want - Protests, when do we want 'em - Now.

[SquirrelFeeder 1]

Was in the store when protesters were there, more tuneful song and less annoying than Xmas carol singers I had seen in Waitrose previously. I walked round the group of protesters outside, one lady stopped shouting as I did so which was good 👍  they seemed alright to me.

[Beechwood_S6 101]

10 hours ago, Man in Crete said:

Exactly! Same saddo nether edgers with nothing else to do… need to get a life . Recall being confronted by them way before the current situation at Waitrose and had to run over one old gits foot with mi trolley

 

Yjey have a list 😱

[WarPig 78]

On 16/03/2024 at 12:58, Pyrotequila said:

But that would mean actually doing the job they get paid for? Are you mad? 🤣

Couple of days ago I watched an off road bike, no plates on it, spewing smoke, two riders, no helmets just hoodies pulled tight ride past a junction right in front of a police car, up onto the pavement and across the grass.

The police car turned the opposite direction.... zero F's given.

This country is broken.

You're never going to see a panda car chasing a motorbike, if the bike crashes the police get the blame and the police driver goes to court, risks losing their licence, dangerous driving death by danger out driving etc.

 

Their policy will be to never chase them. Not much they can do really, even if they follow it the bike will soon speed off out of their sight. There isn't really a safe way of stopping a motorbike, so the police car was right to not go after it.

[peak4 282]

16 minutes ago, WarPig said:

You're never going to see a panda car chasing a motorbike, if the bike crashes the police get the blame and the police driver goes to court, risks losing their licence, dangerous driving death by danger out driving etc.

 

Their policy will be to never chase them. Not much they can do really, even if they follow it the bike will soon speed off out of their sight. There isn't really a safe way of stopping a motorbike, so the police car was right to not go after it.

Some officers in SYP do have the required specialist training
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11077011/Moment-plain-clothed-South-Yorkshire-police-drivers-RAM-road-bikers-motorbikes.html    The Mail

 

The SYP Motorcycle and Rural Crime Team  are pretty on the ball too.  Link to their Facebook page

[pfifes 309]

3 hours ago, SquirrelFeeder said:

Was in the store when protesters were there, more tuneful song and less annoying than Xmas carol singers I had seen in Waitrose previously. I walked round the group of protesters outside, one lady stopped shouting as I did so which was good 👍  they seemed alright to me.

Aye, what fun is going shopping without a bit of in-store protesting.  Tuneful singing too eh?  Perhaps you should ask them back to your place to sing and protest in your garden to entertain the neighbours and share the love.  

[mafya 250]

On 16/03/2024 at 13:35, HeHasRisen said:

Bet they wouldnt try the same protest at Asda on t'Cross.

Why’s that then? I know there are quite a few racists in px and  yes I live near there and I have lived in PX back in the 90s so I know the area very well.

Would the local thieving scrotes on the motorbikes give the protesters hassle or would it be the EDL types that are scattered around the area?

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[Irene Swaine 1,072]

Flaming nuissance, it's the same outside City Hall every Saturday.

[Anna B 1,417]

On 17/03/2024 at 01:02, ECCOnoob said:

Has it hell. 

 

A handful of busy bodies waving some flags and trying to get people to boycott Israeli fruit is going to have zero impact on stopping a war, which were not even engaged in, thousands of miles away.

 

The protest was so insignificant our normally desperate for stories local rag of a newspaper hasn't mentioned it nor has any of the local radio and even people in store couldn't even be bothered to film it or post it on Twitter or Facebook.  The only reference to it was a couple of photographs on the campaign group's own page itself having only 26 likes and been shared a pathetic five times.   I bet more clicks were drawn to people taking selfies or TikToks of their shopping than bothered to notice this protest.  

 

Like I've said multiple times before, if people  want change and want to be taken seriously, let's see them first actually properly engage with our political system. Let's see them taking the time and effort to read reports, read statistics, read transcripts of committees, attend their MPs, attend debates, attend and arrange proper campaigning and lobbying...  Actually take the trouble properly engage with our elected leaders and public consultations.  

 

That's how action gets done. Not flag waving in a supermarket car park.

Sadly, the more engaged people become with our current political system, the more they realise it is a sham to fool the people into believing they have some sort of control over things.

 

 I've said it before; a tick in a box once every 5 years for a pre-selected candidate who then ignores their manifesto and the wishes of their constituents, does not equal democracy. Neither does a government who is possibly elected with as little as a third of the vote, (meaning two-thirds of the voters are against them,) represent the majority of the people. 

 

Politicians could and should measure their success by the temperature of the electorate and the number and frequency of protesters on the streets. In a fair and working Democracy, protests should be a very rare last resort, but they are happening with ever more frequency and increasing numbers of participents. Which is why politicians, Tories in particular, are moving to shut protests down completely or make them totally ineffectual. 

 

Protests are a measure of discontent in the population. If nothing else they act as a safety valve for letting off steam, but they are actually a vital difference with us and the likes of Russia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

[pfifes 309]

6 hours ago, mafya said:

Why’s that then? I know there are quite a few racists in px and  yes I live near there and I have lived in PX back in the 90s so I know the area very well.

Would the local thieving scrotes on the motorbikes give the protesters hassle or would it be the EDL types that are scattered around the area?

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I know this reply isn’t to me but I know why Parsons Cross Asda was mentioned.  There was a thread about a protesters in Sainsburys on Archer Road a while ago.  It was about eggs that time and nothing to do with the recent protest.  It was suggested that these protesters were being a bit selective about where they went and wouldn’t dare go to Parsons Cross Asda as the customers there might be a bit more direct with their opinions on the protest shall we say.  As it was about eggs, I’d say that racism does not to come into it.

[HeHasRisen 3,410]

1 hour ago, pfifes said:

I know this reply isn’t to me but I know why Parsons Cross Asda was mentioned.  There was a thread about a protesters in Sainsburys on Archer Road a while ago.  It was about eggs that time and nothing to do with the recent protest.  It was suggested that these protesters were being a bit selective about where they went and wouldn’t dare go to Parsons Cross Asda as the customers there might be a bit more direct with their opinions on the protest shall we say.  As it was about eggs, I’d say that racism does not to come into it.

Yes essentially this.