Pray for Windsor. From today, Extinction Rebellion is descending on Windsor Home Park for ‘three days of creative, peaceful action to propose democratic renewal’. It sounds like a mini festival – offering a mix of politics, camping and amateur dramatics. There will be a ‘Massembly’, in which the assembled extreme greens will discuss and vote on how to ‘upgrade democracy’, followed by a ‘performance-action’, which will ‘dramatise the death and revival of democracy through theatre, large-scale puppetry and communal song’. Say what you will about XR, it knows its target audience.
Residents are at a higher risk of cringing themselves into a coma than being obstructed by this gaggle of art students and crusties
There are concerns about the camp disrupting life in genteel Windsor, perhaps by going over its allotted time frame and breaching beyond the area of the park it has been allotted. Local MP Jack Rankin has told the council to brace itself for legal action.
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