Climate activists try to cover Treasury in fake blood...but it all goes VERY wrong - VIDEO
CONTROVERSIAL climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion hired a fire engine to spray fake blood on the UK Treasury building in their latest protest stunt.
Extinction Rebellion spray Treasury blood-red in protest
The activists used a fire engine hose to spray the UK Treasury building in Whitehall this morning with 1,800 litres of fake blood, leaving red liquid flooding the streets. Videos showed demostrators squirt the dyed liquid at the building while others stood on top of the fire engine behind a banner reading "stop funding climate death". But other footage showed the stunt backfiring when the hose seemed to break, firing paint on themsleves.
Another videos shows an activist lose control of the hose and dousing herself with the liquid.
After hearing the story live on air while on Sky News, Times columnist Melanie Phillips scorned the climate change, activist group.
She said: "I am not impressed by the argument that we should all regard them as the saviours of democracy.
"They are a revolutionary nihilistic movement.
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"The idea that we should take Greta Thunberg as a role model as how we should react.
"I very much share the concern about the way democracy is going.
"I share the concern about the instability and unspoken and actual violence that we are seeing.
"But the idea that Greta Thunberg is a role model, this child.
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"First of all, we are being asked to emulate a child, a vulnerable child as a role model.
"Secondly, her performance at the United Nations there was hardly a model of restraint.
"She was incredibly angry and burst into tears, she said the end of the world is nigh.
"This seems to me to be an example of how we have collectively been experiencing a crisis in democracy, but a crisis of reason."
Greta Thunberg's speech proved to be divisive however she has received support for her impassioned climate change speech.
She said: “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you!
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones.
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"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
“We are at the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"
The Countryside Alliance, a British organisation committed to promoting issues related to the countryside, farming, rural services and small businesses were quick to denounce the actions of the protesters.
Mo Metcalf-Fisher of the Countryside Alliance said: “It’s incredibly concerning that a vehicle can get so close to a major government building to spray it with an unknown substance. It is almost certainly a security and health concern for staff and members of the public.
“These so-called protestors should also clean up their mess, rather than relying on a taxpayer-funded clean-up operation. Once they’ve snapped pictures for Instagram, they couldn’t care less about the trail of devastation they leave.”