UKC

2019 edition...

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/transport/m1-and-all-major-road...

Will nobody think of the children?

Pounds worth of damage will be caused in Yorkshire.

But on a serious note, at least we will have a better expectation of a No-Deal Brexit and how it will affect British roads clogged up at ferry ports.

A go slow on the M1?

Who'd know?

I'm thinking probably anyone wanting to go to the people's vote march on Saturday traveling via the M1

Coincidence?

The Yorkshire Brexit Action Group’s Facebook page is hilarious 

https://m.facebook.com/Yorkshire-Brexit-Action-Group-516698528736093/?tsid=...

I'm not laughing.

Nah. We'll just walk there from the North East......

Ay, likely 100+ coaches southbound 0730, 0800 past Sheff/Doncaster, no coincidence. Everyone has a right to protest I suppose, bit scummy if your protest is designed to deny that right to others though.

Jk

<irony> Well JK I think the pro Brexit lobby have every right to show their complete commitment and belief in democracy and the right to peaceful protest.

Interesting, because not only are you being ironic (which I think's rather dangerous on the internet in that it can backfire on you), but what they are doing has a strong element of dramatic irony.

PS. Which I think's your point

I have no truck with them.

Regards

WTH

It is Gordon.

March details here: https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march

Hope I didn't come across as being a bit dim

Following Farage's hilariously poorly attended march, this kind of event strikes me as a tacit admission that they can't actually gather enough people for a normal protest so they're changing tactics to something that can get attention without needing many people to commit.

They have a sorry amount of 'likes' on their page - 16 for the announcement of their plot to disrupt the infrastructure of the UK. A handful of spiteful thicko's holding everyone to ransom.

Bit like being leader of a Political Party and never being elected to government?

How incompetent must a man be to frighten the Conservative Party, yet unable to persuade the plebs to vote him into the House of Commons?

Granted he was an MEP. Surely that is the very nature of an oxymoron?

Tacit admission it may be, but if it goes ahead it could very well be further up the news than the expected hundreds of thousands marching in London. Asymmetric campaigning, is, after all what brought us to this point, and the kippers have been at it a long time.

You’re giving them too much credit, from the FB page it’s just half a dozen blokes sounding off around the pub table. If they do their go slow I doubt anyone will notice, except maybe traffic cops if they’re bored

Maybe, but even 6 trucks driven at 5mph for a couple of hours blocking all the lanes on the M1 would cause massive tailbacks

A forced go slow...  I thought most of roads in the north already had that. They are dreadfully over crowded etc..  

"How incompetent must a man be to frighten the Conservative Party, yet unable to persuade the plebs to vote him into the House of Commons?"

Love him or loathe him, Farage is anything but incompetent. He has been remarkably effective in his mission, and all from a position of never being elected to a seat in parliament. This isn't an endorsement of my support, just an observation on the use of the word incompetent to describe him. Effective would have been a better word to use.

It's not just the north of England, it's pretty much the whole of the UK motorway network is near, at or above designed capacity.

Good point.

Maybe he should fade into the background and take Boris with him?

Another Brexit own goal?

If they plan well and show up 16 is all it takes to grind the A1, M1 and M6 to a near standstill in both directions with a rolling roadblock. As we can assume it's only southbound they're interested in then they have more than enough to choke the country's N/S arterial roads.

One person nightly cutting down pylons with an angle grinder could set the news agenda for a month. Asymmetric warfare/protest is hard to live with and very hard to prevent, that's its power.

jk

That would be illegal. The police will already be onto this and collar them