LONDON FUEL BLOCKADE

[Mac_Black]

I'm thinking that London needs to be brought to a complete standstill, that means meeting before rush hour and totally cutting off the routes into the capital, Many Bikes and Many Heavy Vehicles.
The bikes should go in and swarm the important places, the commerce areas, whitehall, tube stations, airports, around downing street and basically make an very noticable racket...
The city would be brought to a standstill and it would be chaos, I think it should last for several hours and the goverment would then really start to feel the pressure.
Anyone with me? Any London natives or resident anarchist's up for a spot of warplanning?

Note: Also posted in the 'UK National' Section for more awareness.

[ms51ves3]

Be warned.

[Shay HTFC]

Need to get around Downing Street and outside the Houses of Parliament.

However, there is a 1km 'protest ban' around the HoP where you can be arrested for having a protest in this area.

So the solution is just to get a load of bikes and cars etc to drive through, more than usual and pretty slowly if you want. Go round Parliament Square a few times maybe. If a copper pulls you over for protesting it's a case of, "me? Nah, I'm just going to work". They can't arrest every single person driving within that 1km radius as there are normal people there as well. As long as you have nothing that identifies you to a protest, you should be alright.
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[Scouse]

[Pickle]

Cyclists hold protests like this all the time, and they're not arrested. Roads are even closed off beforehand. If the right permits were given surely there wouldn't be a problem?

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[ms51ves3]

[Itchy]

The trick is to announce a massive protest at location X and hold it at location Y, hence if you announce the staging area will be say Cockfosters, and have the real protest at Heathrow or Bricklane, with horrendous traffic it will take the police storm troopers 30 minutes to get through to the real location.

You would just have to be clever though in organising it so that the real location is not disclosed before the event and hence have multiple prestaging areas which are 'supposed' to go to the announced area but go somewhere else entirely.
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[krebsy]

reminds me of something in the late 80's.

The police were tapping the phones (or some organisation was) of CND/ Youth CND so they "organised" a protest over the phone, confirmed numbers, attendances and all that malarkey, then organised the real protest by post.

Sent the police to completely the wrong place..

K.
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[Fnatic]

Count me in.

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[ms51ves3]

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[Catalyst]

I'd be up for it mac

Let me know if you want help trying to set something up as i'm willing to try and arrange one. Got lots of mates around my area who ride so could get a big group together.

Jack
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[carvell]

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[Mac_Black]

[Phoenix]

Out of touch with reality a tad, any idea what kind of numbers you'd need to "Cut off London" as you say, go count how many roads go into London. Then the other problem is the police don't need to get into London, they're already there, again good luck blocking every road in London. You honestly think the police will be powerless to stop you, all they'd have to do is start arresting a few people and your 'militant blockade' as you put it would disintegrate very rapidly.

[karidian]

I think the way to do it would be to have loads of Manchester size protests all over the country all timed to start together. Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, London etc all setting off at 9am on a specific day would cause chaos countrywide.
You might also find that more would attend. Id have loved to be part of the Manchester protest but getting from Glasgow just not really feasable.

[TechJinx]

[Stelmer]

What we need is a General Strike. Time has come for such a drastic measure.

If as many as possible book the same week off work, do not buy fuel, do not use any service at all for one week. Probably would need sustaining for longer to make an impact but it's the only way to make a difference.

Nothing will happen as long as the Government get a revenue from fuel and all the other stealth taxes. We buy it so simple way is to cut off their revenue and stop buying it.

I believe something similar happened in the USA. Most hauliers went onstrike and halted the country as nothing was delivered.

[Fnatic]

Hmmm,

Just organise a general drive by at a slow speed... Maybe Circle Central London at 15mph. Well Actually thats the normal speed but the sheer mass of us would cause them to be overwhelmed. Hmm, anyone up for it.... seriously?

[TechJinx]

yup
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[growler]

may be stupid but surely to block London the easiest way must be to block the M25
It would only take small packs of bikes spaced along it to bring it to a crawl effectively trapping all London traffic inside it forcing it across London instead of around and stopping any outside traffic getting in
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[Shay HTFC]

Like Techjinx said, block the main arteries going into London and you will cause disruption.

M1, M2, M3, M4 + M25 at certain points and you will already cause a massive situation. A well organised protest could easily do this.

Oh and you'd have to do it without Police compliance as they would demand that if you are going to do it, you have to leave at least 2 main motorways clear and in stay in the inside lane for the others.
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