Council calls for more power to stop 'illegal Just Stop Oil protest'
Lancashire County Council has called for “the rights and safety of residents” to be made a policing priority in the face of “illegal protests” by groups like Just Stop Oil.
“Attempting to ruin events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon and the Ashes test at Lords shouldn’t just be dismissed as childish antics,” said County Cllr Maxwell-Scott, alluding to recent high-profile Just Stop Oil protests nationwide. However, he told the meeting that the Conservative motion appeared to imply that Lancashire’s Tory Police and Crime Commissioner, Andrew Snowden – to whom the authority will now write with its push for uncompromising policing measures – was “not doing a very good job”.
County Cllr Fewings told the debate: “I’m in full agreement [with] stopping those protests and the disruption that occurs. However, the route to getting there, I believe, is actually tackling climate change – tackling the cause rather than the symptom. She said that the hottest global week on record earlier this month was a threat to food supplies and called on the government to “take some action that will actually meet the needs” of the planet.
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