Protesters say they will be back following eviction (From The Argus)

Go back to mummy and daddy's until it gets warmer.Failing that try and get a job.

Pity they were let home over night. Should have left them there in the cold, their choice and their risk. This project has been through the democratic process so a few dissenters should not be allowed to disrupt it.

It's pathetic. It will change nothing as construction has started. They're just wasting taxpayers money. Not that they pay tax themselves. Send them to prison until the road is finished.

All the time they are sitting up a tree, they are not sitting in a tent in The Steine or chained to a fence outside EDO, or outside Top Shop in London come to that, because they are the exact same people.

Any protest will do, just as long as it is a protest.

Ben James, I know you're only a work experience teenager, but PLEASE try and learn the difference between "hyperthermia" and "hypothermia".

Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here.

This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development.

When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

HJarrs wrote:
Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here.

This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development.

When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

For once I agree with HJarrs,alternatives like the Ashford rail link were not given due process.The Tory government like Labour have been under intense lobbying pressure from construction firms like Balfour Beatty et al who then come up with persuasive arguments for this project and that....

nosolution wrote:

HJarrs wrote:
Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here.

This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development.

When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

For once I agree with HJarrs,alternatives like the Ashford rail link were not given due process.The Tory government like Labour have been under intense lobbying pressure from construction firms like Balfour Beatty et al who then come up with persuasive arguments for this project and that....

I too agree.Great post.

HJarrs wrote:
Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here. This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development. When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

Luddite's. While you waste this countries money protesting about a short road improvement the rest of the world is burning more carbon every day than good Old England could in fifty years.

People like you should move to ?
'O' yes, the rest of the world likes progress, 'Pandora'.

Thetruth666 wrote:

nosolution wrote:

HJarrs wrote: Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here. This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development. When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

For once I agree with HJarrs,alternatives like the Ashford rail link were not given due process.The Tory government like Labour have been under intense lobbying pressure from construction firms like Balfour Beatty et al who then come up with persuasive arguments for this project and that....

I too agree.Great post.

More 'Luddites'.

Nosfaratu wrote:

HJarrs wrote:
Good on the protesters, they are far braver than me or the rest of the keyboard warriors on here. This is the scheme that will not die. A scheme that could have paid for the electrification of the railway from Hastings to Ashford and vastly improved train service, not to mention improved bus and cycle facilities. A scheme that blights an area of stageringly beautiful countryside and encourages future strip development. When the original scheme was overturned the talk was of spending the money on other infrastructure projects to meet the same objectives, it is to the then Labour government's shame that this did not happen as this would have brought far more prosperity than this road ever could. The Tories are in the pockets of large construction firms, developers and financiers and to endless growth. We appear to have reached peak car yet we are planning for, and encouraging growth in car use. The Tories road building program is no more sensible that that canned in the 90's due to pressure primarily from anti-road protesters (sorry, I forgot they are not supposed to ever achieve anything!).

Luddite's. While you waste this countries money protesting about a short road improvement the rest of the world is burning more carbon every day than good Old England could in fifty years.

People like you should move to ?
'O' yes, the rest of the world likes progress, 'Pandora'.

Ah Ned Ludd and Enoch's hammer. They did have point though. However, I fail to see what is Luddite about resisting a policy that was discredited in the 90's having run for 40 years. Ned Ludd was fighting change as you are, in his case it was modern technology, in yours it is outdated practice. We have to get out of the mindset of concreting over the countryside. There were other alternatives not pursued.