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Food activists occupy Palace of Holyroodhouse dining room
Activists have occupied the royal dining room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh as part of an ongoing campaign to slash food prices.
Nine campaigners from This Is Rigged entered the palace at about 1.15pm on Monday carrying banners with slogans including “Is treasa tuath na tighearna”, which is Gaelic for “The people are mightier than a lord”, and “change begins in the kitchen, not the boardroom”...
They claim that one in four Scots have experienced food insecurity while 1,000 children per year are taken to hospital with malnutrition.
They criticised supermarkets’ actions in increasing prices as an “act of corporate violence”.
A slogan in Gaelic? Children, children!
ReplyDeleteAlthough these are in themselves no better than all the other disruptive activist groups, I hope they manage to thoroughly embarrass the Scottish Government before being ejected. I bet the MSPs don't experience much food poverty.
ReplyDeletedearieme - seems odd to me.
ReplyDeleteSam - and embarrassing the Scottish Government is probably their most achievable result by far. It's a pity about the silly rhetoric though, reduces their impact.
Lock the doors, turn off the heating and lights, and go home. Next day, have them arrested for any criminal damage and for defacating and peeing in property they don't own.
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Penseviat - good idea, especially as it is still winter.
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