extinction rebellion protest in London

ITV London news talking to taxi drivers stuck in the traffic jams and complaining. Talk about pot kettle and black. How many times have taxi drivers brought the roads to a standstill over their disputes with TFL and Uber.

I can't wait to tell them they are complete hypocrites if they try to stop me from getting into or out of the Tube station tomorrow...

Also with people climbing on top of trains or gluing themselves on. I think the trains or buses should start up just to see the panic on the protesters faces.

Maybe our police are a bit too stand offish, I'm not advocating violence but in other countries they don't mess around and will get the water cannons out etc.

Maybe they should have got a fuel guzzling car to pump out fumes over the tree huggers.

The message is obviously important, but the way they are attempting to get it across is so misguided it's laughable. They are getting more publicity about how stupid they are being than anything else, and alienating the very people they should be trying to get on side - the ordinary general public.

The government have got more important things to sort out (Brexit) before they will be in a position to do anything meaningful about climate change, and a couple of people climbing on top of a DLR train that was heading out of central London isn't going to change that. Neither are the number of pictures showing the amount of plastic being used by the camping protesters, the gas-guzzling lorry they have brought onto the bridge or the fact that many of them will have used non-environmentally friendly means of transport to get to the protests in the first place.

They have the right to protest, obviously, but they clearly haven't thought this through at all, and so history is more likely to remember this (if it does at all) as the complete disaster it has been so far rather than anything else.

I wouldn't say that Brexit was more important than climate change (sea levels will rise whether we're in the EU or not), but it's certainly true that no politicians are going to do anything about climate change until Brexit is sorted.

I'm on the side of those who think that tackling Brexit and Poverty etc are more important than some melting Ice Cap just because David Attenborough and William Windsor have got on their high horses about it. David is an icon and we all respect what he says but William's carbon footprint is probably bigger than most of ours and he is a hypocrite who hunts but then backs wildlife campaigns.

Adam Boulton really owned a snowflake millennial protester on Sky News today.

Like these rich kids who live in squats etc, I can understand the homeless squatting and think it is a sad state of affairs when they have to but the rich dropouts I have no time for. If you are rich enough not to work and can enjoy life then great but don't make out you are doing it for the cause or to try and make a difference.

Adam Boulton didn't "own a snowflake millennial protester" at all. He played to the Daily Hate Mail crowd and was unprofessional and downright rude. So much for impartiality on the news. Adam Boulton is a dickwad.

Thanks Mr Farage. What does his financial state have to do with it? And Adam Boulton didn't question the young man at all, he merely insulted him and expected him to sit there and take it. I think that makes Adam Boulton the Tw*t, not the person he was "interviewing".

Please don't assume those of us who think this is ridiculous don't understand the point of it. I do, I just think that it achieves absolutely nothing.

They haven't managed to get the Government to listen to them, they haven't managed to get a mass uprising of people in support of their cause (in fact they were on Twitter this morning begging for more people to join because their numbers are so low), the media is largely against them, and the methods they have chosen leave them open to valid criticisms of hypocrisy and doing more harm than good. That's not a successful protest, not by a long shot.

I don’t see what’s wrong with ANYBODY protesting that not enough is being done to halt climate change.....that is obviously true to all of us? So what if they are old, young, white, black, rich, poor....we need to take action NOW and our government are not interested. If people are inconvenienced then that’s the whole point of it....I’ve been going to London for long enough to know that really large peaceful protests are ignored by the press (there is one every weekend but never see them on the news when I get home), so they needed to do something different to get press coverage.
And when did it become Sky news policy to patronise the young? That’s twice in as many days!

I think the problem is that they're coming across like children throwing a tantrum, and that makes the protest counterproductive. People who aren't already convinced that we need to do something about climate change aren't going to have their minds changed by this, and people who are already convinced will now want to keep quiet because they won't want the protesters claiming their attitude only came about because of the protests. This action has done no good, and I fear the best we can hope for is that it's done no harm.

The protesters’ financial status is important because people in that position - according to the Mail, this guy has an expensive private school education and takes numerous foreign holidays (I’m not even going to get started on the hypocrisy if that’s true) - can often rely on mummy and daddy to bankroll them. If they get arrested, it’s no big deal because often they end up working for daddy’s firm. Or a friend’s firm. Or not really ‘working’ at all.

Yet they encourage others to protest and get arrested - people who, if they’re charged and found guilty, could face a serious risk to their future earning capacity if potential employers see a criminal record on their job application.

I do have to laugh at these people who make out they’re open to debate, but when they’re actually asked to do that they flunk it. You see it so often these days, usually from the noisiest activists. Most of this lot couldn’t make a coherent argument if they tried. They’re not interested in debate, just in causing havoc.