INKSULATE BRITAIN!
Fed-up motorist leaves eco mob feeling blue
MOTORISTS hit back at eco-zealots yesterday – with one group of activists doused in blue ink and another having bagpipe music blasted into their faces.
The hostile reception came as the Insulate Britain protesters ignored an injunction and once again blocked a slip road off the M25 in Dartford, Kent. They also blockaded the busy A40 in west London.
Police made 49 arrests, but tailbacks had already grown because of the time it took officers to remove those who had glued themselves to the road.
One motorist in west London walked along the line of protesters spraying them in the face with ink, while others threatened to run them over.
The unnamed bagpiper, who was caught in traffic near the Dartford Crossing, played his pipes directly into the activists’ faces, later explaining: ‘What I was doing, bagpiping obnoxiously in your face, is what you’re doing. You’re obnoxiously holding up people’s lives.’ The protests came despite National Highways securing a High Court injunction banning the obstruction of its 4,300 miles of motorways and major roads.
Insulate Britain has blocked roads on 16 days since September 13. It also revealed that just 146 individuals have taken part in a campaign that’s brought misery to thousands of road users. Drivers have become furious at the blockades, dragging protesters out of the way or even trying to shove them with their cars. ÷ Climate activists also invaded the Science Museum overnight. Members of the UK Student Climate Network said they were holding a vigil for ‘the victims of the museum’s fossil fuel sponsors: Shell, BP, Equinor and Adani’.
The group tweeted yesterday that it had ended its ‘occupation’ after 18 hours in the museum in South Kensington. There were no arrests.