Should we arrest Caroline Lucas MP (she was at the fracking
protests and said she was 'prepared to be arrested')?
Yes
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42%
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No
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58%
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Unsure
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0%
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Total votes: 12
Weirdly most of you think that Caroline Lucas shouldn't have
been arrested despite the fact she was clearly breaching the provision the
police imposed on the protest as it caused 'serious disruption to the life of the
community'. People were being terrorised in their place of work by the protest
and had their freedoms restricted. Arguably also she was blocking a public
highway and so is restricting people's freedom of movement as well. Her protest
may not have been violent but definitely restricted the freedoms of all the
people in the area and the ability for Cuadrilla to carry out its business. Hopefully
she faces a court of law for her criminal actions.
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See you in court Ms Lucas.
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There is no reason for anyone to siege proposed sites of
fracking, especially Caroline Lucas. As an MP the appropriate way to raise
issues is to do it through Parliament. Considering being an MP gives you more
voice than every other person you'd think she would be there all the time. Yet
she chooses to squander that voice and commit crimes. If people want to protest
about something they should do so where it doesn't restrict anybody else's
freedom. There are plenty of areas to organise protests nearby the site where
nobody is effected and people have their say. Clearly then protest was not the
objective of this demonstration instead it was eco-terrorist militancy using seemingly
old style flying pickets to close down businesses. The protesters recently had
success at Caudrilla's HQ which they successfully shut down and essentially
yesterdays protests was an attempt to shut down another site.
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Fracking protesters yesterday were stopping people from carrying out or leaving work.
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The justification for this protest from the protesters was
that it is democratic considering 85% of locals do not want fracking. However
that particular poll is very dodgy as it takes only a small slice of people who
replied back, those who answered on the whole had a clear interest in wanting it to be stopped. The
people of YouGov would frown on the green campaigners. Also a majority of
people support fracking in the country. It has been allowed by a government
which has the support of 60% of the British population and the actual planning
permission for Cuadrilla (who is actually looking for oil at this moment) was
approved by a democratically elected local government.
I won't even begin to majorly explore the arguments that the
anti-frackers are using because it is essentially bonkers. The water table doesn't get poisoned by
fracking and even if it did the UK water table is below the fracking seam so
there would be no risk of it happening. More gas on the market with less
transport costs means lower prices so how on earth can prices not fall with
shale gas, it fell by 1/3 in the USA where it is harder to extract shale gas. Also
wildlife nearby fracking sites are not damaged. In Nottinghamshire for
example a RSPB reserve is campaigning against the nearby turbines not the
existing fracking wells, which take up less than a 50th of an acre and power
20,000 homes.
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Fracking protesters are just a desperate mob of left-wingers who don't have any argument that stands up to facts about fracking. The protest in part yesterday was to vent off their political radicalism, thus the Iran placards and Unite banners.
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So go away Lucas and your eco-terrorist gang and let people lead better lives by not committing crimes and allowing fracking.
Vote in the New Poll.
