Eco-protesters Simply Cease Oil brought on extra distress for drivers caught in snow chaos at this time as they blocked a highway in south London with yet one more gradual march.
From 8.15am, 20 individuals walked onto the A24 close to Clapham South and continued alongside Clapham Excessive Avenue ‘to demand that the federal government halts all new fossil gasoline licences and consents’ – and demonstrators will head to Camden City, north London, later this morning.
In a tweet the group mentioned: ‘The federal government has threatened new laws earlier than Christmas to ‘shut loopholes’ that enable Simply Cease Oil supporters to march within the highway, thus confirming the suspicions that the one protests that the federal government will enable are people who no one notices.’
It comes as Brits already confronted journey chaos after heavy snowfall in a single day changed into icy circumstances, with many drivers caught in lengthy queues.
Simply Cease Oil activists marching slowly by way of Clapham in south London this morning
Adam Beard, 53, a gardener and carer mentioned: ‘I am taking motion to spotlight our authorities’s whole disregard for human life and struggling within the pursuit of short-term revenue.
‘Not solely are they issuing new fossil gasoline licences, however they’ve now given the go-ahead for a brand new coal mine which is able to produce the dirtiest form of gasoline there’s, nearly all of which can be exported.
‘This exposes the large hole between what authorities ministers say and what they do.’
A spokesperson from Simply cease Oil added: ‘Greenlighting a brand new coal mine alerts that our Authorities doesn’t care about on a regular basis individuals or democracy. Their assist and backing of latest coal, oil and gasoline, is a plan to destroy our freedoms, our rights and the rule of legislation.
Protesters brought on extra disruption for drivers already caught up in visitors chaos as a result of icy circumstances after an evening of snow
Police may be seen monitoring protesters out on their march, as temperatures hovered at freezing
This time they’re within the streets of south London close to Clapham South station
A driver seems fed up with the protesters blocking the road
‘It’s a plan that may end result within the deaths of numerous hundreds of thousands and lots of extra not realizing if they need to keep the place they’ve lived for generations or in the event that they depart the place they’ll go.
‘The actual savagery hits house whenever you realise that most individuals on this nation, and internationally need what Simply Cease Oil is looking for ‘no new fossil fuels’.
‘Authorities is silencing dissent by locking up abnormal individuals, calling for an finish to new oil and gasoline, bringing in new legal guidelines and taking away your proper to stroll down the general public freeway. You do not get to cheerlead dissent overseas whereas demanding heavy handed techniques at house.
‘We ask that you just be a part of us, the time to stand-by has handed, we should resist or lose all the things’
Commuters had been suggested to remain at house after snow and ice wreaked havoc throughout the entire of the southeastern railway community, whereas the London Underground was additionally hit by delays.
Yellow climate warnings for snow, ice and fog are in power throughout a lot of the UK, together with an ice warning in japanese and south-east England till 11am on Tuesday.
