Fuel Protest

I supported it Tuesday maybe wednesday. I was stuck in one Tuesday and passed up the hard shoulder in my van beeping and thumbing in support and was beeped back. Fair play I thought.

Even ignoring the blocking of fuel depots, I can not support them when they are aligned with **** oxygen thieves like pepper, Dwyer, Duffy, blighe etc. There is an immigration problem in this country sure but I absolutely abhor racism.

This needs to be ended now and by force if necessary because it's taken another turn and you will have violent riots over the weekend by the usual mob.

Problem is the scale of it and how quickly it happened took everyone off guard most likely. It was advertised as a protest NOT a blockade after all. It also helps to at least publically try and reason all while investigating the background of them. That they turned out to be smooth brained idiots and fascist tools is not a surprise. Give em enough rope and they hang themselves and threats to emergency fuel meets the criteria for what I can expect to be some serious charges down the line.

Through incompetance and arrogance, this is turning into something potentially much bigger.

All can argue about the rights and the wrongs of what has happened, but there is a surprisngly large amount of people tacitly supporting the protesters.

Not necessarily because they explicitly support the movement, but because it is giving the government a kicking.

The arrogance of how this has been approached is not going down well.

The government, and members of Fianna Fáil in particular, have.made a bad situation so much worse.

Thwy have made a bo****ks of the whole thing.

Argue all you want.

But this escalation is laid squarely on Michael Martin and some of his party colleagues.

Fine Gael, at least, had the smarts to keep a little quieter.

so you just cave in to their demands after day one to prevent the situation from escalating….🤔

Apparently they are planning to blockade all major routes into and out of Limerick city today. Calling these peoples protestors are this stage is almost disingenuous, they seem more like insurrectionists or even economic terrorists.

I'm beginning to think the government don't have a plan and don't have the grit to make a stand.

As for these insurrectionists I don't think they have a long term plan either, depends on who is being interviewed the goalposts change in terms of their demands. If they collapse the government I don't think they would have a clue on how to proceed.

If it gets much worse that government should ask for external assistance from our EU partners in term of manpower and equipment.

"when"? They organised the fùcking thing.

Wonder what would happen if the fishing industry start protesting. If they blocked the ports there would be very little the gardai or army could do I would imagine?

I guess that would fall to the navy. Admittedly not a very well equipped navy but they have enough to dislodge a fishing industry blockade. One problem would be debris if some larger boats were sunk or scuttled near the mouth of ports, which would then need to cleared.

But let's not give people ideas, things are bad enough.