Sunday Sport

These ‘urban warriors’ are just daft, posh tw*ts

- email: simon@sundayspor­t.co.uk

TWO “activists” stormed a town hall and ruined a wedding while protesting against the “gentrifica­tion” of an area where they didn’t even live.

Freelance journalist Sapphire McIntosh, 27, threw eggs as Joshua Virasami, 26, – who calls himself an “activist, writer, musician and photograph­er” – pushed police when a peaceful protest in Brixton, London, got “out of control”.

Anger

The Reclaim Brixton demo in the spring of 2015 was organised in protest of rising rents and house prices. But a couple getting wed at Brixton Town Hall, which functions as a register office, were caught up in the chaos, when it became the focus of the crowd’s anger.

McIntosh and Virasami ( left) each pleaded guilty to a public order offence at the Old Bailey and got paltry fines.

It’s a shame there’s no offence in English law for “being a complete and utter c** t”.

Look at McIntosh, for example. For an “anti- gentrifica­tion activist”, she’s pretty bloody gentrified.

Far from being a downtrodde­n member of the urban proletaria­t, she’s a f** king TV researcher who’s worked on shows like Come Dine With Me and Gogglebox.

Not exactly dawn ’ til dusk toil in a coal mine is it?

And what, exactly, is wrong with a bit of gentrifica­tion?

As I see it, “gentrifica­tion” means “a place becoming less of a foul, drug- infested, crime- ridden cesspit”.

What would McIntosh and Virasami prefer? Brixton to remain the sort of place where even nuns won’t go out without an armed guard and a bloodstain­ed riot in the offing every summer’s evening?

Ruck

Not that they give a hoot; they don’t even live in the area!

They are simply middle- class meddlers who are jumping on the “Hate the Rich” bandwagon because they fancy a ruck to add a little excitement to their dreary little lives.

They should be forced to pay for the wedding they ruined for starters.

And then put in the stocks where they can reflect on the folly of being utter, utter c** ts.

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