This is the best summary I could come up with:
Greenpeace activists have climbed on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire mansion and draped it in oily-black fabric to “drive home the dangerous consequences of a new drilling frenzy”.
The climbers managed to get on top of Sunak’s empty constituency home in Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, on Thursday morning, after the prime minister flew to California on holiday.
After reaching the top of Kirby Sigston Manor using ladders and climbing ropes at around 6am, activists unfolded 200 sq metres of oil-black fabric to cover a whole side of the property.
Talking outside the house on Thursday, Greenpeace campaigner Philip Evans said the activists had made sure the prime minister’s family were not going to be at home before carrying out the protest, which is a response to Sunak saying he would “max out” oil and gas in the North Sea.
Greenpeace said the protest aimed to stop Sunak from approving Rosebank, the biggest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea, the operations of which would be enough to exceed the UK’s carbon budgets.
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Should have been shit coloured. He’s been shitting on the people for way too long.
Lifelong conservative but about to vote Labour for the first time due to him and bojo.
Lifelong conservative
That’s not something to brag about
Whoosh.
Good on you for being able to change your mind.
I personally will die before I place a tick next to a box that says’ conservative’.
Brilliant
Fire colour would’ve been better.
That’ll show those evil oil execs!
if you’re already gonna commit vandalism go 100 or go home
Break the windows and spray liquid ass everywhere. Make him clean or buy a new home with all of that dino sauce money
Smear Surstromming around everywhere
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That’s a mansion?!
I applaud the message but this is such a photo OP stunt. Fully geared up with hard hats and greenpeace hivis gear, carrying extendable ladders thst collapse to briefcase size fully extended…
In my mind, photos like this are super sus and feels like this was coordinated and approved to keep up appearances.
That’s obvious. Making History: How Greenpeace Visuals Win Campaigns | greenpeace.org They try to get media coverage because they think climate change needs more attention. What else could you possibly think? That they spontaneously made that fabric on site? Not coordinated??? I don’t get it.
Look, that’s presumably a high security home. They just walked on in set up ladders and climbing gear. Took a bunch of photos along the way, drooped what in-my-opinion is nondestructive black fabric over the house, took more photos and
leftwaited around until they got arrested.The article keeps emphasizing “oil black fabric” but oil is wet, and that fabric looks dry. Are there aftermath photos?
I’m suggesting this was coordinates by greenpeace and the person they “attacked”
I agree with this take. Imagine if Greenpeace did this to the US Whitehouse. There is no way it would work unless they coordinated with the President/Secret Service etc. But if I saw a picture of that and it was presented in a way that it was a guerrilla attack, then it’s obviously bullshit. And if you are greenpeace and coordinating with the targets of your attack then what are you actually doing?
Also greenpeace is still anti-nuclear, so they should be dismissed with prejudice anyway. It’s basically a club of rich fucks profiting off of climate destruction so that they can boat around the world on their boats and pretend they are activists.
My thoughts are to consider greenpeace a media production company. Coordinate a b-roll shoot under a pseudonym to access the property, stage your shots and leave. There’s no footage of the activists getting arrested on the story this post links to, and the fabric clearly isn’t oil drenched, it’s just “oil-black” (I. E. The name of the color, not the state of the fabric)
Greenpeace gets their marketing materials and the estate gets some cash.
Looks like plastic based fabric too. Not very eco friendly if you ask me.
