Police confiscate giant white pantomime Stop HS2 elephant in
The police have this morning arrested a giant pantomime white elephant in
(Yes, really!)
The police initially claimed they were confiscating
A timely reminder that all elephants in
The MET police does "have form" when it comes to targeting works of art linked to protests. In June this year they raided an art factory and arrested a group of women who were making art for an Extinction Rebellion parade. They also raided the Antepavilion charity art gallery.
This does not seem to be a worthy way for police to spend their time, or our taxes, and is indicative of the desperately over-the-top nature of policing at this year's peaceful protests. Particularly in light of the Ziegler Ruling, in which the supreme court stated peaceful assembly which causes disruption should be tolerated.
After four days of protests, in which the police have been regularly out-manoeuvred by "uncooperative crusties" it is perhaps sign of desperation that the police are now targeting pantomime animals.
Adam, a spokesperson for HS2 Rebellion, said, " It is disappointing that while the corrupt criminals at the dark heart of HS2 continue their brutal ecocide unabated, the police busy themselves taking away artistic pieces of street theatre .
"The recent IPCC report made it clear that we need to turn around our carbon emissions by 2025. But HS2 will not even be completed before the late 2040s and will not be carbon neutral for 120 years .
"In fact, HS2's construction actively harms our ability to achieve the government's aim of being carbon neutral by 2050.
"If we do not act now, we face environmental and societal collapse. When food crops start to fail and we have mass climate migration, getting from Old Oak Common to
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