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Rebel rabble
WITH each increasingly grotesque stunt Extinction Rebellion further harm the battle to save the planet.
We have seen their reckless, destructive antics many times.
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But to abuse the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day for their latest witless “statement” is a new low.
Two idiots stepped over wreaths meticulously placed by others to jam their own political statement in pride of place.
And police, presumably pathetically paralysed yet again by fears of a woke Twitter backlash, let this tasteless, disrespectful, moronic protest proceed.
You could barely design an act more likely to harden ordinary people against environmentalism.
Yet most of us DO want a cleaner planet.
We are concerned about emissions and the climate.
The key is to provide constructive ideas on how we can all help — as The Sun’s own Green Team campaign launched last month does.
It is to keep the cause in the public consciousness via encouragement and education, as Prince William, his dad Charles and TV’s David Attenborough do so well.
It is not to close roads, vandalise property and disrupt lives and businesses to stoke panic over an imminent apocalypse not backed by reputable science.
And certainly not to hijack the most poignant and meaningful moment of our year and violate with cheap slogans that most sacred monument to our war dead.
Many sane environment campaigners, former XR activists included, fear the damage done by this middle-class cult.
Its remaining members should hang their heads in shame today and disband.
Thin evidence
THE madness of the proposed ban on online ads for treats and snacks is laid bare.
It would even kill Government adverts boosting our own exports post-Brexit.
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And what would this unprecedented totalitarian clampdown really achieve?
Officials calculate it might cut every child’s daily calories by 3.64: That’s five per cent of one digestive. It’s a crumb.
No one voted Tory for such rash, ill-considered, business-wrecking nanny-state interference.
Britain’s weight problem must be tackled by better education about diet and more exercise.
Bans and punitive taxes on grub simply make life worse for Sun readers.
And they won’t work.
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Biden seek
DONALD Trump wouldn’t do it — but incoming President Biden should be asked to send Anne Sacoolas back here for trial.
The public on both sides of the Atlantic want justice for teenager Harry Dunn.
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And Mrs Sacoolas’s diplomatic immunity is now hotly disputed.
She flew back to the States after her car killed Harry.
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And Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab got nowhere trying to retrieve her.
He should try to convince Biden to do what everyone knows is the right thing.
British Armed Forces veteran Donald Bell explains why he took part in Extinction Rebellion's hijack protest at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day
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