Topless climate protesters provided an unexpected distraction to members of Parliament debating Brexit in the United Kingdom Monday.
Police arrested 12 people for “outraging public decency” after a group calling themselves Extinction Rebellion chanted for about 20 minutes in a glass-encased public gallery in the House of Commons, reported The Guardian.
The activists said they wanted “to call attention to the ‘elephant in the room’ — Climate and Ecological Crisis,” and two of them had on gray body paint and elephant masks, reported Politico Europe.
“By undressing in parliament, we are putting ourselves in an incredibly vulnerable position, highlighting the vulnerability that all of us share in the face of environmental and societal breakdown,” one of the activists, Mark Ovland, said in a statement after the protest, according to The Guardian.
BREAKING: Extinction Rebellion activists strip off in House of Commons public gallery to call attention to the ‘elephant in the room’ — Climate and Ecological Crisis #ExtinctionRebellion #TellTheTruth @HouseofCommons pic.twitter.com/VO8l31XRne
— Extinction Rebellion (@ExtinctionR) April 1, 2019
The protesters reportedly glued their hands to the glass of the viewing gallery and turned their buttocks to the MPs.
Tory MP Justine Greening congratulated another MP for “fleshing out his arguments very well indeed” and Labour MP Peter Kyle thanked a conservative MP for a “cheeky intervention,” reported The Guardian.
Some of the protesters had to be carried out by police officers. The activists’ unusual demonstration comes as UK politicians continue to struggle to find common ground on Brexit after Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal was voted down by both pro- and anti-Brexit members of the House of Commons in a record-setting defeat in January.
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Extinction Rebellion? No just the Stupidity Rebellion. and modern Enviromentalists are nuts just plain nuts
When ever protesters are breaking the law for a political cause they are trying to force their minority position on the majority. Illegal protest is not the way democracy works and these idiots belong in jail.
It should be noted that in contrast to being nude in parliament there are sanctioned events where people can be nude. One such event is the naked bike ride in Seattle. The naked bike ride does not allow any messages to be displayed.
Never mind there is no Elephant in the room just 12 stupid liberal Eco-Wackos playing a big game of LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME I.M STUPID and of course the lap=dog press complies to these idiots just as stupid as the guy who was going to sail around on a Iceberg(holy Titanic Batman)more proof in what P.T. Barnum meant when he said THERE’S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE we have 12 suckers in jail i suggest they be made to plant trees build Birdhouses and clean up a highway
Consider that the American constitution was created by British emigrants. It was brilliantly written after a rebellion against injustice. Centuries later, these inbred miscreants called Extinction Rebellion remind me of the last surviving woolly mammoths, stranded on an island when the ice bridge to the continent melted.
Don’t panic, warmth is good for you. If you’re too stupid to appreciate that fact, well, rest assured that there is a cure for stupidity. You’ll have to wait for it
Illustrating one again that ignorance and stupidity hve no limits.