Do we need a new law for Extinction Rebellion?

HOME Secretary Priti Patel is considering a new law to curb Extinction Rebellion. Yet there are plenty of laws on the statute books to allow police to deal with such situations. If cowardly senior police officials will not act to maintain order, as seen in London, Bristol and at newspaper printing sites, they should be replaced.

DAVID NORRIS, Quorn, Leics.

WE’RE told Priti Patel is going to come down hard on Extinction Rebellion. Just like she has on migrants coming from France?

TERRY CALDON, Thanet, Kent.

EXTINCTION Rebellion is just a mob trying to disrupt lives. The Home

Secretary is right to change the law, but she should tell police chiefs they are there to protect the public. They should deal with these anarchists with every means at their disposal.

TREVOR BASON, Southend, Essex.

ChiEF constables slow to act should be disciplined by the home Secretary. hertfordshire Assistant Chief Constable Owen Weatherill instructed officers to take a ‘softlysoftly’ approach, which gave protesters time to lock themselves in position, halting distribution of newspapers for 12 hours. Fines of £10,000 would wipe the smirks off their faces. A previous Extinction Rebellion demonstration cost the

Met police £50 million. Those who glue or lock themselves to buildings should be left there to be pelted with eggs by the public!

CLARK CROSS, Linlithgow, West Lothian.

WE ALREADY have plenty of public order laws to control Extinction Rebellion anarchists. What we don’t have is a police force with the guts to enforce them.

JOHN SMITH, Warrington, Cheshire.

ThESE activists should be sent somewhere to experience the pre-industrial world they seem to want: no electricity, internet, NhS, supermarkets, running water, heating or flush toilets.

D. ROBINSON, Chesterfield, Derbys.