Commons exposure for climate change threat as protestors lay it all bare
Eye-opener: When you see what the Extinction Rebellion campaigners were doing, you’ll understand why Ed Miliband’s eyes were popping out of his head [This image from the Guardian‘s report, obviously].
They made their way to the front of the public gallery and pressed their posteriors against the glass partition as Labour’s Peter Kyle opened the debate for his motion for any Brexit deal to be subjected to a confirmatory public vote before Parliament acts on it.
Nude protestors storm public gallery in parliament pic.twitter.com/dm7Ymn9hqw
— The Independent (@Independent) April 1, 2019
MPs got into the swing of things with references to “the naked truth” and “fleshing out the argument”.
But police later said they made 12 arrests after having to use soap spray to peel parts of some activists off the glass. It seems they weren’t prepared to turn the other cheek (sorry).
In a tweet after the event, Extinction Rebellion stated: “Some of the MPs in the Commons might have been able to avert their eyes tonight but as the climate and ecological crisis worsens this will become increasingly difficult for them to do.”
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Those who say climate change is natural so human actions can’t affect it is a bit like saying because we all die so there’s no such thing as murder and suicide.