Echo Mob Will Return: Insulate Britain vows to restart road blockade campaign during half week before COP26 as they say Boris’ Net Zero strategy ‘fully able to meet challenges before us’ has failed’
- Insulate Britain has warned they will resume their road blockade protests from next Monday
- Further performances are set to cause misery for families on a half-baked holiday
- Group says it will ‘rise up against atrocities’ in response to new Net Zero report
environmental campaigner insulate uk warned today that they would resume their road blockade protests next week, leaving families in trouble on a half-baked holiday.
The group said it would ‘rise up against tyranny’ in response to the government’s Net Zero report, which said it ‘completely failed to meet the challenges we now face’.
Insulate Britain previously said on 14 October that it was halting its protest – which has caused trouble for motorists London – until Monday, October 25.
Since September 13, hundreds of protesters have been arrested for blocking motorway junctions and roundabouts by running on the road when there is a red light.
They have focused their protests to create maximum effect on rush hour, when motorists take it upon themselves to clear them away from the slow arrival of police.
Insulate Britain workers have been removed from an M25 roundabout near Heathrow last month
A spokesman said: ‘Insulate Britain has agreed’ British GovernmentHeat and Building Strategy, Net Zero Strategy and Cost of Net Zero Report.
‘We concluded that, while this would have been a good first step 30 years ago, they are a complete failure to meet the challenges we face now.
The mother who drove the activists out of her car called them ‘terrorists’
Sherlyn Speed, 34
a mother who entered insulate uk Activists with their Range Rover this week labeled the group “terrorists” as it claimed the women he killed were fakes of their ‘ow’ cries.
Sherrilyn Speed, 34, of Purfleet, Essex, was charged with an ‘attempt to murder’ by a climate activist after she drove her car into protesters blocking a traffic light at Junction 31 of the M25 near Thurrock on 13 October.
Footage – filmed by another man at the protest – showed Ms Speed exiting a Range Rover to confront protesters after being blocked while bringing her 11-year-old son to school.
She said: ‘I was absolutely furious that they were stopping me from taking my son to school. How dare they do that?’
What we need in ‘this ‘period of consequences’ is a wartime-style national effort, a united front of shared sacrifice, not a plan to keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.
‘Therefore Insulate Britain will continue our campaign of nonviolent civil resistance.’
Insulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, claimed the government’s ‘plan to decarbonize our homes has failed on almost every measure’.
It said the £450 million a year allocated for grants for heat pumps would help only 30,000 households, which is ‘a drop in the sea’ compared to the 900,000 per year required by the Climate Change Committee by 2028.
A spokesperson concluded: ‘Our ancestors fought a civil war to remove such tyranny from these islands and sacrificed their lives to win the rights and freedoms we now enjoy as citizens.
‘Today is our turn, it is our responsibility to rise up against tyranny. We are indebted to our ancestors, our fellow citizens and those who came after us in the great chain of life.’
On Tuesday, an injunction aimed at preventing Insulating Britain protesters blocking streets in London was extended by a High Court judge.
London’s transport network was ordered out earlier this month, aimed at preventing activists from disrupting cars on some of the capital’s busiest streets.
Members of the protest group have already been affected with three other injunctions given to national highways, banning demonstrations on the M25, major roads around the Port of Dover and around London.
Members of Insulate Britain were given an opportunity to address the court during Tuesday’s hearing.
Police remove Insulate Britain activists as they block Junction 31 of the M25 on 31 October
Despite his campaign being temporarily halted, he has repeatedly shown his contempt by defying prohibitory orders and burning copies of papers.
Violation of a court order can result in contempt of court, which, if proven, can lead to up to two years in prison and an unlimited fine.
The judge, Mr Justice Lavender, said on Tuesday that the injunction had been extended either until a hearing in the case or a further court order, or until April 8 next year.
Dr Diana Warner from the group said national highways should lower motorway speed limits to 10mph when Insulate Britain protests on a carriageway.
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