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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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