General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Owdswint

I know how angry it makes you feel to watch that, especially earlier on in the week when the police closed the motorway, to allow the protesters to sit down and close the motorway, however it turned out that is not exactly what happened, and I am sure it will be the same in Dover, in that the police explained that about four policeman arrived on the scene at the motorway, just has about 20 - 30 of the protesters were preparing to run into the motorway to stop the traffic, and if that had happened and vehicles had struck the protesters, then it might not have been just the protesters which got hurt or killed, but swerving traffic on the motorway could have caused a pile up, and the carnage which followed could have resulted in the deaths of innocent motorists.
Four policemen could not hold back 30 nut cases, so in order to stop anyone getting hurt they stopped the traffic on the motorway, the nutters sat down on the motorway, and the police arranged for back up in numbers to come and arrest the nutters, which they did do.

Very very annoying, but I think the police did the right thing, and in Dover today they arrested the nut cases who stopped the traffic there.