Extinction Rebellion said protests would continue throughout the week"escalating the creative disruption across the capital day by day".
The group said it planned to"bring London to a standstill for up to two weeks", and wanted the government to take urgent action to tackle climate change. In Parliament Square, protesters unfurled banners, held up placards and waved flags as speakers took to the stage.Since its launch last year, members have shut bridges, poured buckets of fake blood outside Downing Street, blockaded the BBC and stripped semi-naked in Parliament.
It has three core demands: for the government to"tell the truth about climate change", reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025, and create a citizens' assembly to oversee progress.One of the group's founders, Roger Hallam, believes that mass participation and civil disobedience maximise the chances of social change.
But critics say they cause unnecessary disruption and waste police time when forces are already overstretched.By intentionally causing more than £6,000 damage at the Shell headquarters activists aim to get the case into crown court to put their case to a jury, the campaign said.
Idiotic, conceited & delusional to think you can change climate....they are nothing but anarchists.
It’s only been a day what sympathy and patience there was is on the wain already.
Looks like a new hippie festival to me
Not sure what dancing to drum and base music is gonna solve 🤦🏼♂️
Selfish twats blocking London Bridge.....can we not get the water cannons and blast them off the bridge 🤷🏼♂️
BBCPolitics The UK is not progressing fast enough, ban the sale of new petroleum powered cars, and support new buyers to get into electric cars ffs
How much CO2 have the burnt getting to demonstrate in London!
Protesting is fine if you can also express what the solution is, and don’t just say electric cars because the energy has to B produced some how, and there are no electric planes so they will still be burning aviation fuel, suppose we can all just stay at home and sit in the dark?
Behold the white, middle classes. If only they had real jobs. idlerich
Politicians don’t know what to do! So protest is largely futile. Protest is not a substitute for a plan. Whether 16 year olds can vote is irrelevant. Get in touch to learn about and promulgate solutions climatechange extinctionrebellion
BBCPolitics So why did Boris's water cannon get sold off?
Right cause (Climate change), wrong method (terrorism).
BBCPolitics A few vans drive down a road at a reduced pace in support of Brexit and the police arrest the drivers, these people stop traffic in the middle of the capital and no arrests for stopping traffic. Where is the consistency of our police, mob rule take president by the look of it.
their time would be better spent checking their own lifestyles - any protest that's all about what they want others to do when they also contribute to the problem is a bit absurd
Great to see them wasting police resources!!
Haven’t they got jobs to go to.....ffs....
Good we need to take action now
When I read the streams of abuse aimed at ER it makes me think these are the same kind of people who would have complained about inconvenience caused by direct action against slave-grown cotton in the industrial revolution. Just admit you don't care and own it
BBCPolitics To heck with all those people going about their business, trying to do their jobs, to pay taxes so others can protest in our democracy,... 'E-R' should give grateful thanks they don't all live & protest in France.
This is virtue signalling at its worst with rich people protesting at what they believe to have caused. You cannot stop climate changing, you can only adapt to it. Deluded millenarians. King Canute at least made the point that seas were beyond his power.
They took the day off work then?
Are they sure it wasn't a protest about universal credit, as I'm sure I've seen most of them waiting outside the job centre.
Just wondering did all these protesters walk into London, or did they travel on transport that burns something to make it work?
What a load of vandalism motivated cretins- causing damage and difficulty for working people- bet most of them are unwashed and job shy and students- need a good dousing with water- heavy rain please
Interesting you report this but don’t report the pro Brexit marches, civil disobedience or yellow vest stuff. Why is that? BBC bias?
The BBC totally ignored the protest by over 20,000 bikers. Yet give these hypocrites air space.
I am sure that working class Britons will appreciate this and change their political opinions as a result!
They need to go and get a job I bet most are scroungers
Did they do it with cars
Go block the roads in Africa, India and China. Even if you succeeded in the UK, the effect on the world would border on insignificant.
Total idiots who are not doing this planet of ours any good at all.
And you refused to report on this. British Biased Company. The Establishments bitch...
But you didnt think 20k bikes blocking roads important enough to report.
If they only knew that theresa_may was away on holiday. It is the very next tweet. I wonder how many of the protestors drove there.
Climate hypocrites protesting is part of the democratic process smashing property is not How many of the get into their car at the end of the demo🤔 I suggest we all go for a long aimless drive st the weekend and fill up at Shell to show we won’t be pushed around by these hippies
Climate change is fake news. The planet is fine, the people are f****d
Nice job.
The idle rich telling us what to do again.
MASS IMMIGRATION IS POLLUTING BRITAIN & WHY THEY FUND POOR COUNTRIES TO HAVE MORE BABIES BEGGARS BELIEVE THE WORLD IS OVER POPULATED
UK officials ignored muslim grooming rape gangs for fear of being branded racist bigots
Turn the engine off, or if you thought about climate change, you’d already have a car with low emissions that turns off when idle.
I hope the damage they caused and all the replacement windows etc are shipped in on a huge oil munching tanker to get it over to the U.K
Interesting how the BBC can report on a few hundred ExtinctionRebellion determined to bring disruption and damage to London yet completely ignore the 20,000+ peaceful veterans on motorbikes, supporting Soldier F?
Yet you ignored this!!!!!!!
Middle class warriors - skanks the lot of them
Good
This is the only way people can force anything these days. Politicians need to be forced to act if they don't do it themselves.
selfish commies
Forcing people to sit in traffic with their engines running, smart move 👍
Make them all read this & then calm down a bit.
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