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  1. Marlon

    Marlon Well-Known Member

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    His generation in which I’m one actually have done more to protest at unfairness and injustices than any of the current generation .
    Protests were common in the sixties , seventies and eighties . Where are the protests now ?
    Whether we did any good or not is opinion, mine is we wore them down on some and lost on others . Anti Apartheid, Poll Tax, etc were all successful protests .
     
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    Better :D
     
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    Hmmmm, this is going to have to stop.
     
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    Folk with your attitude are dangerous you clearly don,t give a **** about anybody else but yourself.
     
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    All I can think of is this:

     
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    Did you not see the pro-EU or climate change marches? Those folk were criticised for protesting then.
     
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    Yes I did see some footage on telly , not as active now as I used to be .
    People pulling them off underground trains and assaulting some of them weren’t from my generation we’re far too old for that .
    Came against some very fierce opposition to protests from the public myself especially in London by seemingly well to do sorts in the miners strike .
     
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    Meant the Greta Thunberg kids who do great protests. I’d forgot about extinction rebellion lot, think they went too far on many occasions to be honest.
     
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    My life, career & everything I've worked for is finished. Would like @Dragon Tyke to give me his assessment 2 metres away.
     
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    Nor me
     
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    Other than killing someone you never go too far in protests lol.
    Most times your pushed into it ,the police have a knack of doing their dirt before cameras go on them just as you’ve lashed out .
    Never showed the police thumping miners sat in their cars at roadblocks or smashing windscreens etc.then herding us like cattle .
    I’ve been to many protests,picket lines , football matches where there would have been no trouble if police hadn’t riled them then point cameras at them . It’s as if they wanted to justify the overtime or summat but that’s just the cynic in me (or is it)
     
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    My daughter has friends in the final year. It's been a real anticlimax for them.
     
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    Fortunately my daughter and others in her year had done the minimum 1000 hours of act
    Fortunately my daughter got her 1000 hours of practical physiotherapy* study in so all being well will graduate this summer. Hopefully there will be a graduation ceremony in the autumn.
    As a student she has spent more time with her mates than with her family these last 3 years - they've lived together - found digs together - partied together! - supported each other - and done some work! Three years ago she was an apprehensive 18 year old - now she's a confident 21 year old.
    I think they're all planning a get-together at some point but it's not the same as all leaving together.
     
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