Lock us up, beg M25 blockheads
Eco-activists want 300 in jail to spark Boris ‘crisis’
Insulate Britain is planning to fill prisons with hundreds of ecoactivists over the next month in an attempt to create a ‘political crisis’ for Boris Johnson.
the radical group again brought misery to motorists on the M25 yesterday – in clear violation of an injunction which carries with it a maximum sentence of two years in jail.
some of those involved in the latest protest at Junction 14, near Heathrow, have been arrested up to seven times over the past fortnight, but are yet to be charged. a further 53 arrests were made yesterday morning.
scotland Yard is ‘making inquiries to understand whether those activists are in breach of the High Court injunction’.
But Insulate Britain spokesman liam norton said: ‘throw as many injunctions at us as you like, we’re going nowhere... You can deny us our liberty and put us behind bars. But that is only shooting the messenger. the truth is that this country is going to hell unless you take emergency action to stop putting carbon into the air.’
activist shel MacDonagh claimed that 300 people would need to be jailed in the lead-up to november’s un Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow to ‘create a political crisis’ big enough for the group to be granted concessions.
she added: ‘no one is claiming that forcing the Government to start on [insulation] installation is going to sort out the climate crisis. the point is to get a win to galvanise the movement.’
Reverend tim Hewes, 71, was again among the protesters yesterday. He was joined by another ‘rebel reverend’, Mark Coleman, a former dean of Rochdale. Insulate Britain, an offshoot of extinction Rebellion, is calling for the Government
to insulate homes to help cut carbon emissions. A Home Office spokesman said last night: ‘The more Insulate Britain break the injunction, the more the courts will agree to tougher and broader injunctions and impose tougher sentences. These people are not martyrs. They’re idiots gluing their hands to roads.’