The group who should not be named.

Sounds like there will be some action from the Government at last

Climate change protesters who have repeatedly blocked traffic on Britain's busiest motorway face tougher sentences, including up to six months' imprisonment, the government said on Sunday.

Activists from Insulate Britain want the government to commit to providing insulation for 29 million homes. In recent weeks they have blocked slip roads, glued themselves to the road and poured paint onto the carriageway of the M25, which runs around London.

The government said it would amend existing legislation to increase penalties for obstructing a highway to an unlimited fine, six months' imprisonment, or both.

The police will also be granted new powers to seize equipment that may be used to "lock-on" protesters in the measures

Personally I think that as middle class protesters (plus probably a few champagne socialists amongst their number), fines don't worry them and in prison they think they'll be martyrs. What they don't understand is violence, having being brought up to assume that their hoooman rights mean that nobody can ever do anything bad to them. So a well placed bit of brutality - administered by either a passing officer or the general public, will have much more effect. XR have not returned to Canning Town tube station so far.

5 grand fine and 6 months maybe, but 250k and 25 years…whole different level.

I cannot find the original but I like it.  I caught a bit of NCIS while waiting for the lunchtime news and they were talking corn dogs.  Got me thinking it was a good idea for XR and IB but you would need a huge truncheon.  I would not want to use the truncheon afterwards either.

I suppose one point that they make is that the way they've been protesting has made us all talk about them. So in many ways its been quite a successful campaign. If they'd just waived a few placards outside downing Street it would have made the news but not produced a two page thread on a motoring forum, even if we are just slagging them off and thinking of fun and amusing ways of stringing them up. It's the same you could argue with extinction rebellion. You can argue with the way they've gone about things but they are getting their message out to a lot of people.

The fact is we do need to have a grown up discussion about climate change and I can understand their standpoint that the upcoming COP26 will probably just be a load of world leading coming in on private jets and delivering little in the way of substantial promises because any real changes will have to be paid for by the people they rely on to keep voting them into power. As much as we all say we want to do our bit, the overwhelming majority of people don't want to have to make any changes that will cost them money so all these world leaders will offer is token gestures that allow the can to be kicked down the road for the next leader to have to deal with.

The question was partly rhetorical, but I remember sitting in Pizza Hut in Darlington, watching the police in full riot gear disperse a large group of Hartlepool supporters by way of baton charge.

We have gone completely soft. These idiots need a good old fashioned kicking. Stopping an ambulance is inhuman.

Football supporters are considered fair game by police forces worldwide. 

We insulated our house years ago - didn't make a great difference to our fuel usage - let new tech heaters just installed in my mum's home seem to make a huge difference so whilst insulation is one tool to reduce fuel usage, not sure it should be top of the list of 'things to do'.