“Doesn’t tooting your horn in our ear help? I’ll give you a ticket if you do that again. “The courts said if we arrest them it’s an illegal arrest, so it’s not the police’s fault.” A transporter with nine cancer patients inside was stuck in the mass lockdown for at least 30 minutes before being allowed to pass at the request of the police. A Met Police officer was heard by The Telegraph asking climate campaigners: “Can you do us a favor – there’s a van full of nine cancer patients, can you let it go?” When asked if he would apologize to delayed patients, Sean Irish, 25, who led the Just Stop Oil protest, said he would and said “disruption is obviously a consequence”. Mr Irish added: “They got through, hopefully their treatment goes very well, but there is no viable future on a dead planet.”
