Have you got a good reason for not joining the campers at Heathrow?

Question

I am so pleased to see so many liked minded people! I thought I was the round peg in a square hole!!!!

Answer 1

I'll protest at the ballot box txs!.

Answer 2

didn't even know about it til they mentioned it in the news!

Answer 3

Yes...

There seems to be an ocean in the way

What the h**l is going on at Heathrow?

Answer 4

Yes, I drive 100 miles a day to work in order to pay my bills. I  don't get handouts from the State every time I want a few days off, I have to take somthing that is called a "Holiday" which I have earned throughout the year.  When on holiday I don't become a nuisance/pest to other people either! Before anyone erupts over my driving 100 miles a day, if I took the bus, it would take me four hours to get to work. But then I could leave that job and sign on the dole and get my rent, council tax paid, doctors prescriptions and anything else the State will give me.

I know which I would rather do!

Answer 5

Why are people who care about the Environment enough to get off their backsides, inconvenience themselves & protest, labelled "tree-huggers" (as if that is a bad thing) "hippies" (who were at least peace-loving and gentle) & condemned as being lazy, dole scroungers (when most of them are probably well educated and fully employed with good causes, which may not be terribly well-paid) !?

I admire these few brave people - good on them!

I even admire them for having the courage to camp-out in all weathers...

It's too easy to call these kind individuals rude names, swear at them and disregard their message - which voices  perfectly valid concerns.

We shouldn't be expanding airports. We should be developing new transport systems not based on burning fossil fuel.

Is that concept beyond our intelligence? I hope not cos time IS running out, re: Oil Peak + the implications of Climate Change...

Why haven't I joined them? I've been busy doing what amounts to my protest:

Answer 6

yeah,i don't give a flying **** about a bunch of hairy lefties talking bollocks about stuff they know nothing about.

these people are just following the latest big thing,they actually believe they will make the slightest bit of difference !.

they'll be moved on by the riot squad within the week

Answer 7

yes thanks for asking

Answer 8

It would take a lot of carbon for me to get there, which would defeat the objective.

Answer 9

Yes, because I will be leaving Heathrow this weekend to go to China - to stay and work - forever hopefully, away from such troublemakers, the like of which we get too many in this country.

I will be working there, but I will talk to them about climate change and other environmental concerns - Because they want to discuss such things - quite openly - on TV or wherever. They are concerned about these issues, but why should they forego some of the things in life that make life more convenient and comfortable, whilst many in the West continue to be greedy but accept poverty in other parts of the world.

However disscusion and action is done without breaking the law. Everybody with an education (and many without, ie countryside peasants) are increasingly aware of the problems, but they are pragmatic about things. The subject is really to big to discuss at length here, but these people at Heathrow would do better get there message across without resorting to violence. or the threat of it, or creating the perception of the threat of it.

BTW - What is there carbon footprint in all of them getting to the camp?

I bet none of them have got vehicles for getting there. Much! LOL.

Answer 10

i don't agree with them

Answer 11

I went off camping when a major river flowed though my tent.

Answer 12

i am a mother with kids off school and part time job.

i feel they is a better way to get the message across after watching the news some of these people are intent on causing trouble and openly spoke of their plans

regards x Kitti x

Answer 13

yes. couldn't bear the thought of sharing a tent with my 4 and 2 year olds. They are so messy and noisy, it would drive me mad. Now if I had someone to look after them for a couple of weeks....

Answer 14

Yes I have, I dont agree with it. Especially at this time with all the terrorism. Why do these lazy, do gooders, who look like the live in another era feel that they represent me. They are a minority and should be arrested and shot. And how did they all get there, in cars and buses, didn't see many walking or on horses. I personally would ban planes to keep out the immigrants and drugs and Chinese tourists.

Answer 15

I have a good reason yes.because I dont want to waste my time protesting about something that really does not exist global warming is a myth promomoted by gov and companies to ride on the back of and raise rev and profits.

and if they think that the protest will stop them building a new runway or new terminal they are living in cloud cuckoo land, nothing will ever change to world will just be the same next year and the protesters will turn something else to try and and get their misguided views imposed on someone else.

the world will still be the same in a thousand years no matter what the protesters do.  and Heathrow by then will have 12 runways and seventeen terminals and they will have demolished  Windsor castle to allow a runway to be built for the 2000 seater jets that take holidaymakers to australia for a day trip it is called progress and nothing will stop it, we will all learn to adapt to whatever happens to the world

I for one will no be at CAMP CLIMATE

BTW I only mentioned windsor castle as an example so ppl could relate to what I mean most ppl will understand I hope

Answer 16

work, children and 600 miles away and not interested anyway.

Answer 17

it wud b like being a hypocrite

Answer 18

Were I to desire to go camping Heathrow would not make on my top 100 places to go.

Answer 19

Not bloody likely I don't. These 'tree-huggers' really p**s me off. After it's all over, they will go back to their comfortable middle-class lifestyles. If you were to work all hours that G-- sends for a pittance of pay, you wouldn't have time to go out on these 'Green Political Jamborees'. These new phrases that have come up recently such as "Carbon Footprint" are just another extension of the disgraceful Political Correctness gone mad. I've never flown but drive a 1.4 engined car, does that make me a hypocrite? Get a Grip maties.... Utter Bollo**s

Answer 20

its to cold n wet

Answer 21

I have a real job which pays my bills

Answer 22

Well as you can see, most people either don't give a **** or see the camp as some sort of hippie trow back protest. That doesn't mean all those concerned people down there are wrong, it just means they have to find a more realistic and relevant way of making a good point.

After all , the jerks and *** wipes writing most of the junk on this question are still the people who will decide if our planet ultimately survives or not.

                       Scary huh?

Answer 23

I'm not a sheep following the latest fad.

Answer 24

Reducing the impact of air travel on the environment is a serious issue that requires complex international agreements and technical innovation.  Drawing attention to the issue is one thing, planning to mess busy people about is quite another.  The people at the Heathrow protests aren't campers, they seem (from their spokesmen) to be a rabble of losers, nutters and troublemakers.

Answer 25

Yes. They are just making a noise without actually doing anything about the problem.

They ought to be planting trees.

Basic biology. Trees absorb CO2 and release Oxygen.

Man cuts down Amazon rain forest and replaces with airports...

The answer is staring everyone in the face but no one can see it.

Answer 26

Yes there protest will achieve nothing, it will go through regardless of them . I only put my energy in to thing's that have over a 50% Chance of succeeding !! :)

Answer 27

Yes. Firstly, I would like to wager that, when their silly protest is over, most or all of them will carry on using aeroplanes to get abroad. Secondly, after the second or third day on camp, most or all of them will need a bath and I don't enjoy the company of people whose armpits smell like a gorilla's goolies. They are reminiscent of those Greenham Common idiots of the early 1980's (for those of us who are old enough to remember). They spent months, with their poor kids in tow, screaming through wire fences about something they knew very little about. It didn't make a scrap of difference and neither will this. It's a shame they have nothing better to do, Their problem is that they have too much time on their hands.

Answer 28

Too old and I live to far away!

Answer 29

Yes, I live on the other side of the world (New Zealand)

Answer 30

They should get a job the scum, anyway how did they get there and how big will there carbon footprint be for them being there.

Napalm the feckers and make there carbon footprint smaller!!

Answer 31

Yes! They are all undereducated muppets, and if they are ignored they will all return to their uninteresting and boring lives.

I bet half of them go on holiday by AIR!