Just Stop Oil eco-activists took to Gatwick Airport this morning – but their attempt to disrupt summer holiday travellers appears to have failed dismally. Eight people were arrested after environmental protestors with ‘lock-on’ suitcases tried – and failed – to block departure gates.
An airport spokesperson insisted Gatwick is ‘open and operating normally’. The protest is part of an international attempt to force governments to establish a ‘fossil fuel treaty’ – but the eco-zealots appear to have achieved nothing more than, um, infuriating a few harried travellers. For the few not the many, eh?
Extinction Rebellion protestors also gathered outside Policy Exchange in Westminster this morning to call for the think tank to ‘cut the ties to fossil fuels’, slamming the organisation for associating with ‘climate deniers and delayers’. The Metropolitan police has since said that ‘criminal damage’ has been caused as a result of the protest, with one arrest made so far. Crikey. What a waste of police time…
Meanwhile, two Just Stop Oil protestors jailed for causing mass disruption to the M25 motorway in 2022 – delaying those heading to hospitals, flights and funerals – released a rather thoughtless statement from prison last week. Lamenting the ‘injustice’ of their arrest, the pair revealed that when they weren’t bemoaning the state of the planet, they had been ‘waltzing round our cell to music playing on our little plastic television’ in the meantime. Talk about tone deaf…
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