Roll out the 'middle class protest' as the usual excuse for inactivity. There's always an excuse for doing nothing - the history of class politics is, perhaps, the most ridiculous of all.

I cam back here to catch up on julian gossip and made the mistake of straing into this forum; I can't beliebve the relative comfort of holiday makers is being used as a criteria of the legitimacy of a protest. The proles aren't on fucking foreign holidays mate, they're starving, they're watching family members being abducted by police, they're watching foreign troops invade their country. Yeah, there's plenty in this country who can't afford foreign holidays but even then most of us can still aford broadband access and enough bad food to stuff ourselves into obesity.

Good on the custard woman for doing *something* and not sitting on her ass on an internet forum bitching about who can protest and how.

If you think of three days there and the same back, then that's a week of holiday. So whislt the flight would be cheaper, there'd be all the costs of hotels and whatnnot at the other end to factor in, whereas in the train scneario the journey would *be* the holiday.

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It's not, actually. As I've said elsewhere on this site:

Firstly, climate change is a global phenomenon, and in global terms - the only way to look at climate change - anyone who flies is not poor.

Most people will never fly out of straightforward poverty. And if they did fly, the climate couldn't take it. It is intrinsically unsustainable and inequitable.

But even in the UK, cheap flights aren't the poor starting to fly, they're the rich binge-flying.

Even on budget airlines, around 80 per cent of trips are by people in the top three social classes, A, B and C1. Most of the growth predicted for 2030 by the government will be the wealthiest 10 per cent flying overseas at weekends.

People with second homes abroad take an average of six return flights a year. The richest 20% of the population take half of all flights, while the bottom 28% only take 8%.

The aviation industry's own figures show that the poorest 10 per cent of people rarely fly at all. Nor are they likely to fly over the next 30 years, because of the overall cost of trips.

The average income of a Stansted user is over £50,000 - and that's a 'budget airport'!

Budget airline Ryanair doesn't advertise at all in the Sun, Mirror, News of The World or the Star. It spends the majority of its press-advertising budget on a single publication - The Daily Telegraph.

Most people in Britain won't fly at all this year.