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Protesters scaled the roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s historic country home Thursday morning, draping it with black fabric in a protest against the government issuing new oil and gas licenses this week.
Greenpeace signaled their displeasure at the UK’s bid for energy security announced by the Prime Minister this week, climbing the walls of his Yorkshire Georgian-era Manor House and draping black fabric over the elevation. They said this was an action against Sunak’s “new drilling frenzy”.
Played out to the cameras, the PM is unlikely to be directly impacted by the action as he departed with his family for a holiday in California yesterday, saying it was the first family trip in four years.
Greenpeace said: “After reaching the top of the building using ladders and climbing ropes, the activists unfolded 200 sq metres of oil-black fabric to cover a whole side of the luxury mansion. At the same time, two activists unfurled a banner emblazoned with the words “Rishi Sunak – Oil Profits or Our Future?” across the grass in front of the manor house.”
The group claimed doing do would expose the “dangerous consequences of a new drilling frenzy.” One Greenpeace spokesman said: “We desperately need our prime minister to be a climate leader, not a climate arsonist.
