Velazquez Painting Attacked With Hammers

[Khandro]

....by two little cretins, beggars belief!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/06/just-stop-oil-protest-national-gallery-painting/

[naomi24]

Untitled, comparing these people to the suffragettes is simply ridiculous.  Firstly no one should be condoning wanton valdalism as you are anyway, and secondly the suffragettes cause, once agreed, was easily satisfied but these people are demanding the impossible.  The simple fact is we can't ''just stop oil'.  We just can't.  It's barmy.

[Untitled]

we can stop new oil operations though can't we... and that is what they mean when they say "stop oil"

[naomi24]

Oil operations?  What do you mean?

[Peter Pedant]

we can and did ( stop new oil) until Putin blew up the pipelines in winter and said to Ukraine - "you Roshan now"

and merkel ( conerning Ostpolitik) said - I have been wrong for twenty years

meaning Germany had traded with Russia and the lulu was meant to lead to greater harmony and civilisation but instead allowed Russia to re-arm

There you are - east european politics over 20 y expressed in 20 words

[Peter Pedant]

oil operation = new oil drilling. chrissakes

[naomi24]

Thank you, PeterPedant.  I missed the 'new'.  

 

untitled, //we can stop new oil operations though can't we//

 

Not if we need it.

 

[Deskdiary]

Given the Kings Speech has announced new licences for oil and gas, the narcissists have failed, so hopefully they'll slither away until a new bandwagon to jump on emerges.

[youngmafbog]

They are anarchists, bang them up and start a file on those that support them.

[dave50]

I've always wondered if this country agreed to do what they say, what would they want next? 

[fender62]

dave50 /I've always wondered if this country agreed to do what they say, what would they want next?/ probably all have to read mao's red book or marx's das kapital, or perhaps pol pot's year 0 and they could be the interrogators for the new think.