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Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m in six weeks (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Ninmi@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like"

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

49 rapes by ONE cop. Never forget.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.

Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?

[–] joelthelion@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, just stop oil then :)

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met's obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.

[–] BobApril@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov't and population.

[–] venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely - but that's 15% of the Mets budget. Screwed up as it is, it's also underfunded, and the result is that Londoners who are most affected by crime - predominantly low-income - will pay for this

[–] drjkl@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.

[–] Cian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Oh no... Anyway

[–] Nosferatu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sure they can sell or loan of one or two stolen artifacts to pay for what amounts to a drop of money in their annual spending.

[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

These figures are totally made up.

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