It always does come down to this, doesn’t it?
Extinction Rebellion is planning to step up its campaign against the banking system with a series of direct action protests and debt strikes in the coming weeks aimed at highlighting the financial sector’s role in the escalating climate crisis.
Last week the group targeted Barclays Bank’s headquarters in London and the Bank of England as well as high street branches across the UK as part of its Money Rebellion protest.
One of XR’s founders, Gail Bradbrook, broke the windows of the Barclays branch in her home town of Stroud to kickstart the campaign.
You know, banks, financiers, the Joooos…….
If only someone would point out to them that the British banking system is largely a creation of the Quakers…..
Reading the article Barclays come over as a total bunch of pussies. They’re not alone in this but it tempers any sympathy I might have had.
One of XR’s founders, Gail Bradbrook, broke the windows of the Barclays branch in her home town of Stroud to kickstart the campaign.
That’ll show ’em Gail.
Maximum sentence for criminal damage of less than £5k is six months. I’m not holding my breath tho…
Now if someone would talk about crushing debt owed to the government in the form of tax.
I don’t think there’s anyone more fervently in favour of the Paris Agreement than the bankers.
in the escalating climate crisis.
Reminder that there’s no “climate crisis”, and the only escalation is in Salem Witch Trials style hysteria.
NB that unlike, say, President Donald Trump or a huge range of other figures on the mainstream “right”, Extinction Rebellion hasn’t been unpersonned from public communication and financial services. They’re freely allowed to coordinate illegal activities on social media, and have crowdfunders all over the internet.
That’s because XR isn’t a threat to TPTB, they’re more like Antifa/BLM – useful sockpuppets for the powerful.
The bottom line is that there is no “escalating climate crisis”, or even a climate kerfuffle, but then these people are first and foremost stinking commies. The climate crisis cloak is so that they can get gullible, useful idiots to help them in their anti-capitalism, anti-western crusade.
The way I feel about Barclays (f*****g) Bank, at the moment, I’d like to profoundly thank Gail Bradbrook for doing what I’d like to. No, let’s be fair. I’d like to machine gun their entire “personal banking team” (as they describe it their correspondence)
“This is an escalation in tactics,” she said. “As the suffragettes said, better broken windows than broken promises. What do we need to do to shake the system, to change the system that is killing us … I literally do not know what else to do.”
As you’re a bit stuck, are you open to suggestions?
Breaking the windows at Barclays Bank…that really takes me back. I was at Essex University in the days when it was a hotbed of rebellion. There was a branch of Barclays on campus, and students broke the windows with astonishing frequency, usually because of investments in South Africa and support for apartheid. Watching teams of glaziers turn up virtually every Monday morning, I noticed that they still took measurements before cutting the replacement glass to size. I remember wondering why they didn’t just write the measurements down, or even cut the glass to shape and keep it in stock.
From the article:
One group of activists have taken out loans totalling £4,000 from Barclays that they are refusing to repay and have instead donated the money to the human rights group Survival International.
Meanwhile, Barclays profit before tax last year £3.1 bn.
So, their non-paid loans amounts to 1.3×10^-4 % or 1 / 7750 th.
I’m sure the bank board will be crying into their cornflakes.
Though I’m sure the bank will go after them in court. And if they don’t, they bloody well should. It doesn’t matter that they gave the money to charity, they entered into a contract and should fulfill their side of it.
If these XR people were serious, they’d set up their own bank and use the profits to fund green stuff.
But that would be boring hard work and not as exciting or headline grabbing as getting tossed off the top of a subway train by an irate working class hero who wants to get to work/home.
Jail Gail.
“I remember wondering why they didn’t just write the measurements down, or even cut the glass to shape and keep it in stock.”
Because they hadn’t (or maybe had) gained an MBA from Essex University, obviously.
“I remember wondering why they didn’t just write the measurements down, or even cut the glass to shape and keep it in stock.”
Makes me wonder why Barclays didn’t invest in a protective roller shutter…
Does anyone know Gail Bradbrooks address in Stroud.
Asking for a friend, obviously.
I had a quick look at Barclays Stroud on Google Streetview. Hardly any glass in it. Gail should be more ambitious. Go to one of those branches got a luvverly 2×5 metre with a cut-out for the cash machine. I’d buy her a pair of steel toecap DM’s to do it in.
Decnine:
No such thing in those days! Business was the enemy. Until you had to attend the “milk round”, get a haircut, and buy a suit, that is. One of the most obnoxious rebels later became very successful as a personal finance wallah in the broadsheets.
Chernyy:
After a couple of years of it, they just sort of permanently boarded the windows up with plastic.
Last week the Times found Stroud was the best place in the UK to live.
Your friend could look at this website, Andy:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/4ZBMmoYqD_kwOnb_ZjEK9JaidmE/appointments