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fauny fergus Mar 7, 2009 08:50:41
Replying to shanshee_allures

shanshee_allures wrote:
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For part of the charge made by enviromentalists to justify blockading airports is that 'we never used to have the luxury of foreign hoildays'.
In effect they are doing exactly the same thing as the Easy Jet passengers.
EDIT: With added impunity of course.
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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.

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shanshee_allures Mar 7, 2009 09:07:40
Replying to fauny fergus

fauny fergus wrote:
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.
You don't see a hypocrisy there?
Many of the generla public will. Unless it's not about getting people on side, which is puzzling.
Greenpeace are heroic, always have thought so.
But this lot...
And I'm not bitching. I'm saying what I think. I won't resort to any launguage like that back to you. If I've got you heckles up then don't take it out on me, please. Discussion is great though.
Your average 'working class' family (sorry, the expression prole was used as a term of comradery) WILL travel to Italy or Spain or even Morrocco (hell I work with them, they do exist! I see the holiday snaps!) but they'll use the 'EasyJet' optoin.
Ms Deen goes by train, it will be a far more pleasant and far, far more expensive journey option, so to say in its way it ain't about 'class' is rather disingenuous.
And I ain't classist. That's unfair. If I was I'd have to throw 3/4 of my music collection out;-)
I'm bringing something into the discussion that I think is relevant if we're to broaden the picturure somewhat
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