Insulate Britain: We have failed but we'll be back with 'bigger' protests
7 February 2022, 10:32 | Updated: 7 February 2022, 11:03
Insulate Britain activists said they have "failed" but are planning to return with an "even more ambitious" campaign.
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The group, which orchestrated a number of protest roadblocks on the M25 and other key roads in 2021, said on Monday they are "just getting started" as they promised to continue demonstrating.
After a number of activists were handed prison sentences after breaching injunctions, the environmental campaign group said in a statement: "It is with an extremely heavy heart that today we have to announce that as Insulate Britain we have failed.
"We failed to move our irresponsible Government to take meaningful action to prevent thousands of us from dying in our cold homes during the energy price crisis.
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"We have failed to make this heartless Government put its people over profit and insulate our homes to do our part in lowering the UK's emissions.
"We have failed to encourage our Government to get up from their drinks parties, go to their desk and get on with the job.
"And we failed in getting enough of you to join us on the roads to hold this treasonous and corrupt Government to account."
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Insulate Britain blocked roads several times between September 13 and November 20 2021.
The group said its mission was to urge the Government to insulate all of Britain's homes by 2030 to cut carbon emissions.
"We will continue our campaign of civil resistance because we only have the next two to three years to sort it out and prevent us completely failing our children and hitting climate tipping points we cannot control," the group added.
"Now we must accept that we have lost another year, so our next campaign of civil resistance against the betrayal of this country must be even more ambitious.
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"More of us must take a stand. More of you need to join us. We don't get to be bystanders. We either act against evil or we participate in it.
"We haven't gone away. We're just getting started."
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Insulate Britain staged around 30 protests up and down the country in the second half of 2021, blocking major roads including the M25 to pressure the Government into insulating Britain's social housing stock.
The Government responded with several injunctions, banning the activists from Britain's highways.
A number of protesters were jailed for breaching the injunctions.
