The British headlines have been overrun for the last while with Brexit, Brexit and more Brexit.

So it follows that some people feel like certain issues, like climate change, for example, are being sidestepped in favour of whether or not Britain should leave the EU.

And when people feel like they’re being ignored, they’ll do something to get noticed.

That seems to be the thinking behind the protest conducted on Downing Street this past weekend. Here’s The Guardian:

Extinction Rebellion activists have thrown buckets of “blood” outside Downing Street to call for greater action on climate change. About 400 demonstrators, including families with children, spilled more than 200 litres of red paint to make the severity of climate change “viscerally clear”.

The blood was meant to symbolise “the death of our children” and the hellish future young people faced, the group said in a statement.

Paolo, 61, a translator, said: “We are here to mourn the loss of life, and for the life that has not yet been born; and to protest the injustice of this for future generations. I have no children of my own, but I haven’t stopped loving the world.”

The Extinction Rebellion have a pretty hardcore outlook on climate change, and here they are on Downing Street:

I feel bad for the person who has to clean that up.

Police Scotland said its officers were deployed at 4.30pm on Friday. After the museum closed to the public, the protesters were asked to leave but refused. “Following a period of negotiation police provided a proportionate response to the protest and 13 people, a mix of men and women, have been arrested,” the force said.

I doubt that will stop them. They’re clearly here to stay – at least until the planet becomes uninhabitable.

[source:guardian]