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How Extinction Rebellion climate change zealots - including a baronet's Cambridge-educated granddaughter - are paid £400 a week to bring mayhem to our streets
Extinction Rebellion is paying activists up to £400 a week to lead the protests that have brought chaos to the streets of Britain, documents seen by The Mail on Sunday reveal.
Protesters have received payments totalling more than £70,000 in four months alone.
But the eco-protest group privately fears it could face a six-figure tax bill if the money, which is given as expenses, is deemed to be payment for work done on XR's behalf.
We've mentioned Extinction Rebellion in the climate change thread, but I just found this thread and after reading this story, I don't think this group is really interested in climate change or any other green issue.
Just to bring the thread up to date for those reading this thread in the future, this group has paralysed London's streets over the last week with their antics and they still have another week of "protests" to go. They seem to have a thing for planes, in particular. One of their people got on top of a plane this week and last month, another of their number was charged with plotting to bring Heathrow to a standstill with drones. I guess they never go on foreign holidays using planes...
As I said earlier in the year on this thread about these so called protestors being the sons and daughters off the elite, I wasn't too far off the mark, but when did protesters get paid a wage? And as they're doing a "job" they should be taxed as the article says and be billed for all the damage done and the total waste of police time, not that the police have done much, as usual.
About time this group follows the lead of the name of their group and become extinct themselves, but as their leader was on Question Time last night, I fear they've barely started, now that they're getting serious publicity.