Stansted airport - A quick message to the eco protesters.

So the great unwashed, the whiney student types decided to have a jolly fun day out and hold up flights at Stansted airport.

As it said in The Times

They came, under cover of darkness, to save the planet by shutting down Stansted. There was the grandson of a peer who served in Wilson’s Cabinet, a film animator and a hat designer, not to mention the undergraduates and postgraduate research students.
This was, in the words of one campaigner, “designer direct action”, and those taking part were adamant that there was no time to lose in tackling the peril of climate change. Tilly, 21, explained: “If we fail, it will be the people on this runway, and our children, who’ll live with the consequences.”

Inside the departure lounge would-be passengers were dealing with the more immediate consequences of her actions. By the end of the five-hour Plane Stupid protest, 57 people had been arrested and 52 flights cancelled, leaving thousands grounded.

Now unlike Labour who pass laws to stop folk protesting outside the Commons, I have no problem with protest. Hell if folk want to hang out waving placards and shouting slogans all the very best to them no matter if I disagree with their cause.

Mr Garman, who did not go to Stansted himself, said that people of his age who were drawn to Plane Stupid were “the Iraq generation who grew up trying to stop the war” and had now turned to peaceful direct action after their lobbying of politicians in that case fell on deaf ears

But no matter the rights according to them of "acting now" to stop planes and help save the planet, in this they were wrong. Maybe whilst looking at themselves as latter day rights campaigners like the women who fought for suffrage, whilst baying loudly about police abuse of their rights, whilst forcing their views on everyone down the pub and boasting of all the evil holiday travellers who they held up they might spare a thought for Anita Kelleher: 

Anita Kelleher was due to fly to Ireland for her father’s funeral, but her flight was cancelled: “His funeral is tonight, the Rosary is tonight. I’ve missed being at my dad’s Rosary tonight and I’m heartbroken.”

They might spare a thought for her loss but somehow I doubt it. 

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