Insulate Britain protester gets tied to railing by member of public

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Express.co.uk understands the organisation will target rush-hour traffic this morning when the protests resume after the “campaign of civil resistance” was paused earlier this month. Police are said to have already made plans to respond to any new protests accordingly.

The group is calling for the Government to insulate all homes in the UK by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.

Several injunctions against the protesters have been granted by the High Court in recent weeks meaning anyone blocking roads could face a prison sentence.

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Is the campaign losing public support?

The group announced it would pause its campaign on October 14. 

In the five weeks up to October 14, the group had blocked roads on 14 days, with activists often glueing their hands to the carriageway to increase the length of time it takes for police to remove them.

On the prospect of the campaign losing public support, a spokesman called for people to join protestors “on the road because the government are basically committing treason.”

They said: “It is becoming a binary decision whether people are resisting the facilitation of the destruction of their country, their families, their communities and everything they hold dear or whether they are going to go into resistance against it.”

‘Injunctions change nothing’

A spokesperson for Insulate Britain said the group will continue “until the government gives a meaningful statement”.

They said: “I don’t know why they have decided to use court injunctions. Injunctions change nothing.

“We will be back to continue until the government gives us a meaningful statement that we can trust and then we will be off the roads immediately, other than that the injunctions or the threats of prison don’t do anything.”

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