Clegg gets giant viagra pill for climate inaction


by Sunny Hundal    
September 16, 2010 at 6:22 pm

Seven activists from the environmental group Climate Rush went to Libdem leader Nick Clegg’s Putney home at 6am this morning to offer him a human-size paper-Mache ‘Climate Viagra’ .

On the morning before the Liberal Democrats party conference, Climate Rush had painted across the ‘pill’: ‘Get hard on climate change’.

The reverse of the pill stated: Climate Viagra and a petition stating: We, the undersigned, petition Nick Clegg to re-acknowledge the pressing urgency of climate change as the single biggest threat facing humanity, and to use his position as Deputy Prime Minister to “get hard” on tackling the causes of climate change by placing it sensitively but firmly at the heart of all government policy..
Signatories included: Sue Perkins (television presenter) and Josie Long (comedienne). — Petition here.

At 6.30am police questioned the activists and asked them to leave the area.

Deborah Grayson, a member of Climate Rush who has previously been arrested for superglueing herself to a statue within Parliament to protest against unabated coal fired power stations , said:

We hoped this government would fulfil its promise to be ‘the greenest government ever’, but the withdrawl of support for a ‘Green Investment Bank’; the rumours that government will not commit to developing carbon capture and storage technology; and the cutting of key policy bodies, such as the Sustainable Development Commission, tell the opposite story.

The seven climate activists were wearing t-shirts with ‘Don’t be impotent, be important’ written across the front and all three wore a red ‘Climate Rush’ sash.

Climate Rush : Website / Twitter feed


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1. Cherub

The Green Investment Bank was shaping up be be a right stitch up by the usual banking scumbags, though, wasn’t it?

2. eco-warrior

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3. Tim Worstall

“Signatories included: Sue Perkins (television presenter) and Josie Long (comedienne).”

That you tell us who they are shows how famous they are.

That *I* don’t know who they are might simply show that I live outside the country. But that you feel the need to tell us who they are shows a certain worry on your part that they’re not, in fact, all that famous.

4. Tim Worstall

Sorry, forgot to add, maybe next time you could get someone really famous to sign in. I dunno, Sunny Hundal maybe?

5. Mr S. Pill

@3

Funny, I assumed the parentheses were there for the likes of you old fogies who might be reading…

~~

As for the protest – they were awfully polite, weren’t they? Couldn’t've been a nicer bunch, bless ‘em. All the best, say I.

6. Tim Worstall

“Funny, I assumed the parentheses were there for the likes of you old fogies who might be reading…”

Harrumph! It’s us old fogies who know what Viagra is useful for….you youngsters haven’t found out yet.

But you will, you will….snigger.

7. Chris

Nice idea, seems Clegg didn’t see the funny side; expect armed guards outside his front door from now on.

8. Mr S. Pill

@6

Touché, sir!

@7

I dunno, from what I can tell from the vid his missus didn’t mind too much, over-zealous coppers though! (I assume the coppers have an eye (or a spy…) on the house of the deputy PM 24/7)

9. Watchman

Well student stunts get a wider audience these days don’t they? Can’t see what good this will do – even less effective than supergluing yourself to things I’d have thought.

As for championing ‘Climate Change legislation’ – I thought the problem was the climate was changing anyway? Surely they mean anti-climate change legislation? (Sorry – that one’s been bothering me for a while.)


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