‘Insulate Britain’ protesters to suspend disruptive campaigning

Throughout the campaign, thousands of people who use motorways around London to commute to and from work have had their journey halted by traffic built up over the course of several hours.

This has led to the government taking out court injunctions to prevent further action. Possible future actions to target these specific types of protests have also been announced.

At Thred, we fully support campaigning for a great cause (check out this video of our day out at Fridays for Future for example), but disrupting major roadways and the livelihoods of people who are unable to enforce policy directly is not a good look.

As a result, major fed-up motorists have exited their vehicles to express their frustration with being stuck in traffic for a number of hours.

 

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The UK’s transport Secretary Grant Shapps urged ‘Insulate Britain’ to cease their campaign.

He tweeted: ‘sitting on roads & preventing everyone else from going about their lawful business is downright dangerous & counterproductive. Rather than apologising to the motorist now and returning in a week & a half, they must call off their reckless campaign forever.’

The group has threatened to restart its campaign if significant developments and ‘trustworthy statements’ aren’t made towards implementing greener insulation in the UK at COP26.

In addition, Insulate Britain has threatened that without a response from Downing Street, they would not hesitate to continue ‘blocking roads, blocking motorways and breaking court injunctions.’

While the activist group has definitely gotten their point across, we hope for the sake of everyone living and working on the outskirts of London that the government does their job by responding to these demands.

After all, everybody’s got things to do.