Defra invasion.

[Castle Farm]

Animal rights activists scaled the Defra and Home Office building in London today as they demanded 'government support for a plant-based food system' at Cop26.

Several activists from Animal Rebellion climbed up the structure on Marsham Street in Westminster, which houses both departments, from about 6am this morning.
They told a Sky News reporter at the scene: 'Ahead of Cop26 we are calling for - no, demanding - that the world wake up and switch to a fully plant-based diet.'

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: 'Police were called at 6.09am following reports that a number of protesters had scaled a government building in Marsham Street

Defra

 

[delilah]

Getting their message across. Fair play. We should try it. Someone remind me, what is our message ?

 

[Sid]

Getting their message across. Fair play. We should try it. Someone remind me, what is our message ?

According to the LWA its fighting for peasant farmers

 

[delilah]

According to the LWA its fighting for peasant farmers

Off thread, but they have an interesting take on that, in much of the World 'peasant' isn't in any way derogatory, quite the opposite. I think they are trying to reclaim the word and give it positive status.

 

[DrWazzock]

Bet they didn’t find anybody in at that time of the morning.

 

[le bon paysan]

Off thread, but they have an interesting take on that, in much of the World 'peasant' isn't in any way derogatory, quite the opposite.
Fixed that

I quite agree... The good peasant

 

[toquark]

Excellent news. Alienating the public from their cause with every step the climb. With any luck they’ll start glueing themselves to motorways.

 

[nick...]

Probably will all come down and head of to McDonalds for a bacon roll for brekfast
Nick...

 

[neilo]

They only had to call. I have a sharp knife that cuts through ropes quite easily…..

 

[Bald Rick]

Surprised that they had the strength.

Fire brigade should have hosed them off the side. Given them a bath at the same time.

 

[Treg]

Excellent news. Alienating the public from their cause with every step the climb. With any luck they’ll start glueing themselves to motorways.

They've missed a trick, if they glued themselves to the outside of buildings it would help insulate the building, they would then be part of the solution

 

[Sid]

They've missed a trick, if they glued themselves to the outside of buildings it would help insulate the building, they would then be part of the solution

I don't think they would have as great an insulation property as me , #toomanypies

 

[ski]

Off thread, but they have an interesting take on that, in much of the World 'peasant' isn't in any way derogatory, quite the opposite. I think they are trying to reclaim the word and give it positive status.

You're getting there! Read some Chesterton and it is difficult not to find his promotion of the peasant convincing.

Here is an paragraph from a letter on socialism and individualism penned a hundred years ago.

This is the hour of the English Peasant; he would be bound to conquer if he could only exist. Kings and nobles, capitalists and empires, would flee from the Peasant - if only there were any Peasant for them to flee from. The brute logic of events has shown that being bullied by employers and being bullied by officials is, in a solid and literal sense, the same thing. The employer has a stake in the Government. The Government has a yet heavier stake in the employer. The man who works with his hands has less and less part in such stakes with every sunrise and sunset. I can think of nothing else to give him except a stake in the country.

 

[Barleymow]

Getting their message across. Fair play. We should try it. Someone remind me, what is our message ?

Could we use a cherry please ,don't want to slip

 

[M-J-G]

They should have burned the place down

 

[delilah]

Someone remind me, what is our message ?

OK, seeing as no-one can answer that one thought i'd better check on the NFU and AHDB website. Our message is 'cows cause climate change'. Yeah, best we don't go hanging banners off buildings with that on eh. Muppets.

 

[Paddington]

The architecture reminds me of the scene in Goldfinger where Oddjob is touching the bars in Fort Knox and comes into contact with an electric cable, just saying, that's all.

 

[ski]

OK, seeing as no-one can answer that one thought i'd better check on the NFU and AHDB website. Our message is 'cows cause climate change'. Yeah, best we don't go hanging banners off buildings with that on eh. Muppets.

You are quite right, there is no message because there is no common cause that all can more or less sign up to.

Therefore you have to ask the question "why is that"?

 

[Treg]

OK, seeing as no-one can answer that one thought i'd better check on the NFU and AHDB website. Our message is 'cows cause climate change'. Yeah, best we don't go hanging banners off buildings with that on eh. Muppets.

My cows have booked New Zealand for their annual holiday, usually they spent a week in Funny Shape Long field this time of year but if their being blamed for Climate change they just as well take a long haul flight ✈

 

[delilah]

You are quite right, there is no message because there is no common cause that all can more or less sign up to.

save the planet, eat beef.
go green, eat red meat.

I don't know i'm just a peasant, ffs we have a communications budget of millions, pay Saatchi and Saatchi or whoever it is these days to come up with something. Just make sure the words 'sorry' and 'apologise' aren't in it.