Eco zealots’ disruptive protests have inflicted misery for far too long – Rishi Sunak’s new clampdown is long overdue
Just stop ’em
FOR far too long Just Stop Oil and other eco zealots have inflicted misery via futile but highly disruptive protests. Rishi Sunak’s new clampdown is long overdue.
Extinction Rebellion at least have quit their roadblocking idiocy.
They finally realised it had achieved nothing except to alienate a nation already committed to a green agenda.
Not so yet for other extremist groups.
A new Public Order Bill will ban “locking on” to buildings and blockading major roads or infrastructure.
But cops need to be clearer about their existing powers to nick those stopping commuters getting to work, kids to school or patients to hospital.
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Police need an attitude change too. Too many go soft on middle-class hippies when their offences merit carting them off without fear or favour.
Britain has slashed its carbon emissions at world-beating pace since 2010. That’s down to determined politicians, not crusty vandals.
Cops should round up the next demo and relocate it outside the Chinese embassy, where it would actually be justified.
Race riddle
SPARE a thought for the bewildered organisers of the “Ripple of Hope” awards.
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Last month, at a dazzling New York gala, they handed Harry and Meghan a gong for their “courage” in challenging “structural racism” in the monarchy.
This referred to the Oprah show in 2021, where Meghan called out an unnamed royal for allegedly wondering how dark-skinned baby Archie would be.
Oprah’s jaw dropped. The Sussexes’ young liberal fans cheered the couple’s supposed brave stand against racism.
No one considered it to be about anything else. Millions of words were written about it.
Except Harry, incredibly, now says Meghan never called anyone racist. He wants the world to believe that the British Press, which he hates, invented it.
Will he now give back the anti-racism award, then?
Give tanks
THE fact we have so few tanks to give Ukraine is an indictment of defence spending over the last decade. But give them we should.
Other Western nations are set to supply tanks, fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers. If we can spare some Challengers we should.
Ukraine faces a spring offensive by the Kremlin which it must repel, before forcing the Russians back inside their borders.
That will need major new hardware.
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Lord Dannatt, our ex-Chief of the General Staff, says: “We have helped prevent Ukraine losing the war. Now we must help them win it.”
He’s dead right.