h/t Breitbart; “Insulate Britain” apparently think mainstream Extinction Rebellion is not doing enough to dictate home renovations to ordinary people.
M25 protests: Crash blamed on Insulate Britain activists blocking motorway as woman is airlifted to hospital
Angry drivers remonstrated with 89 protesters from the climate group, who are demanding Government action on home insulation
By Izzy Lyons, CRIME CORRESPONDENT
and Gareth Davies, BREAKING NEWS EDITOR
15 September 2021 • 1:12pmClimate protesters have blocked parts of the M25 for the second time in three days and a crash on the motorway has been blamed on activists.
Insulate Britain, which is demanding Government action on home insulation, stopped traffic at two sections of Britain’s busiest motorway.
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A crash involving four vehicles led to a woman in her 50s being airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Surrey Police have said the investigation into the collision is ongoing, adding: “It is too early in the investigation to know if these two incidents were linked.”
‘One car was squashed into half its size’
But witness Steve Glenn, who was commuting to work clockwise on the M25, told The Telegraph: “The cars ploughed into the back of each other. It was so blatantly obvious what had happened. The standstill traffic was caused by the protest.
“One car was squashed into half its size.”
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Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/15/m25-protest-insulate-britain-block-britains-busiest-motorway/
The following tweet is from the Breitbart article;
I mean I just about got Extinction Rebellion, funny pantomime street theatre where people get to pelt them with rotten food. Grand old British traditional and all that. But these ecoloons seem so far around the bend, its difficult to know what to say about them. Maybe if I upset them they will insulate my house?
Angry art critics turn on Extinction Rebellion Street Theatre Performers
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This could be considered a breach of the terrorism act as someone other a member of the group has been injured.
Section 1. –
(1) In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where-
(a) the action falls within subsection (2),
(b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation][3] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and
(c) the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious[, racial][4] or ideological cause.
(2) Action falls within this subsection if it-
(a) involves serious violence against a person,
(b) involves serious damage to property,
(c) endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action,
(d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or
(e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.
(3) The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.
On reflection …better not.
The moment plod gets it between his 2 thick ears, there’s a little bit of extra power available, he will abuse it, then lie to cover any errors up.
(Echos of Hillsborough, etc etc).
pity the police were there to halt traffic really
Insulate Britain? They’ve just been insulated from French nukes and no doubt that will please these folk-
Power prices soar after key electricity cable between UK and France catches fire (msn.com)
Seems to me that what the UK needs are some pumper fire trucks to rinse the dirt off the road.
Have they insulated their own houses ?
The odd thing is that there is already, and has been for several decades, a tranche of Government grants, readily available to UK householders, to pay for upgrading insulation in their homes. So what was the point of this protest?
Bill,
As commenter upthread noted –
To prove, beyond doubt, that a negative IQ actually is possible.
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Treated nicely. I mean, it’s not as if they sent out a mean tweet or something.