Over the years @UKBLM has pursued some bizarre campaigns, many of which have little obvious link to race relations. Their very first public protest, after being formed in July 2016, was to blockade several major airports on the basis climate change is ‘racist’. Since the demonstrators arrested at one such protest at London’s City airport were white and middle-class, the move was widely derided. Lee Jasper, former race adviser to the mayor of London, dismissed the protesters as ‘publicity-grabbers’ who were ‘all called Tarquin’. Stafford Scott, of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign, said the only black thing in the protest was the Tarmac on the runway. In more recent times, @BLMUK has lent support to ‘can’t pay won’t pay,’ which lobbies for people who rent property to stop paying their landlord, and a campaign to shut all construction sites because of Covid, saying: ‘The Government and councils are placing development, property and capitalism over people’s lives.’
Western Culture under Attack Part 15
