General Article The majority of the public believe protests rarely, if ever, make a difference

Topic Selected: Being an Active Citizen Book Volume: 453

Most Britons – including protestors themselves – say that disruptive protests do more to hinder than help a cause.

By Joanna Morris

The vast majority of Britons (76%) say they’ve never taken part in a public protest and nearly eight in ten of those people (78%) say they are not very likely, or not at all likely, to do so.

The recent imprisonment of Just Stop Oil activist Jan Goodey, however, shows the kind of risk some members of the public will take to support the causes they believe in. She...

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