National Fuel Protest June 22

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ON SUNDAY THE 22nd OF JUNE 2008, AT MIDDAY, AT MAJOR CITIES AND TOWNS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE ARE PLANNING A PEACEFUL DRIVING PROTEST.



The aim to get as many vehicles of whatever age and type, cars, lorries motorbikes and taxis to central locations in the cities to paralyse the road network, hopefully since it's a Sunday more people can turn up, and show that it's not just the truckers that are angry at the situation. We need to show we are serious and want the government to do something, if they do not then we do it again and again and again until the message sticks, let us shake their ivory tower and show that we are reaching our breaking point.



More here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20777874045



and where it all started here:



London - 11am Heston Services M4 - Then cruise into London at 12noon
Manchester
Liverpool
Birmingham
Bristol
Glasgow
Edinburgh - 11am - Corstorphine road and then down towards castle at 12noon
Sheffield - 11am - Meadowhell - Then cruise to centre at 12noon
Plymouth
Brighton - Kingsway for 12noon
Leeds
Cardiff



More locations being added throughout the day. Sky news, BBC News, Tabloid newspapers, The Independant and The Guardian as well as local radio stations and national radio stations keeping updated.



Posted on over a thousand Car Club forums. Please come and join this Peaceful protest against fuel rises, it's about time we all did something.
 
Can't afford the petrol to get there. Hope it does some good though.
 
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Can't afford the petrol to get there. Hope it does some good though.

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It's got too big for me to organise now, so i'm out. Especially since seeing the news in Brussels. One good thing has come of it though. Theres some very interesting reading in this forum. Good Luck all, maybe we'll go back to Horse power eventually
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Typical, protest on a Sunday, the quietest day of the week, so as to cause as little REAL disruption as possible!! If this was a week day, I'd gladyly take a day's holiday/unpaid leave to protest, as by causing peaceful disruption on a WORKING day, some notice MAY be taken by the morons in Westminster!
 
I hate to be a killjoy, but why use up fuel you are complaining you can't afford, by sitting in a traffic jam, which you have to drive to and from? I just don't get it.

And on a sunday?? The protest in London was a nightmare as they shut the A40, caused everyone no end of problems. THAT had an effect. No one drives anywhere on a sunday, all you will do is piss off people like yourselves who drive lorries and trailers, as they'll be on the road....
 
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Typical, protest on a Sunday, the quietest day of the week, so as to cause as little REAL disruption as possible!! If this was a week day, I'd gladyly take a day's holiday/unpaid leave to protest, as by causing peaceful disruption on a WORKING day, some notice MAY be taken by the morons in Westminster!

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While I agree with you wholeheartedly, the police have a lot to do with when and where a march or protest can take place, particularly in London.
It's no coincidence that both the Countryside Rally and the Countryside March, both of which had the largest numbers ever recorded (only beaten by the Iraqi war protest) were both held on a Sunday because of that reason; we all would have been perfectly happy for it to have been any working day but the sheer weight of numbers expected, excluded that. The only weekday protest we've been allowed was for the last reading /vote of the Hunting Act I think which was limited for numbers voluntarily by the CA, I believe, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to have a protest at all that day.
 
No thanks, Ive got a BE event that day! And thankfully up Inverness way where I doubt there'll be any protests :P

TBH it wont work. When has the Government even given a sh*te about a one-day protest?! The lorry drivers did it a few weeks ago and nothing came of it. All it does it piss off all the drivers who have somewhere to go!
 
Oh the apathy! Honestly no wonder this country has gone to the dogs. It doesn't matter which day of the week or where. The point is to stand up and be counted. If everyone took to the streets across the country (as is planned) and combined with other proteters over recent weeks, then results can be achieved. One thing the Government does't like is bad publicity.

You don't have to drive a vehicle in these protests either. You can walk, cycle, run, ride a horse, it doesn't matter. But if you don't complain then don't winge when you next fill up your tank or prices go up further.

In Spain several years ago the Government put 2p on a packet of fags. The next day the whole country went on strike about it - the result? The Government took it back off the very next day.

If nothing else its a protest about the outrageous amount of tax we all pay!
 
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