Designer Storms Through David Cameron’s Home In A Military Tank

74-year-old fashion designer and political activist Vivienne Westwood drove a tank to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s constituency home in Oxfordshire to demonstrate against the government’s pro-fracking policy. The dramatic protest was held in response to government’s ‘undemocratic’ plan to offer licences for fracking in 27 locations across 1,000 square miles in Yorkshire, the east Midlands and the north-west. Areas near Leeds, Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham are to be offered to companies in an expansion plan that some green groups predict will trigger “hundreds of battles” over the future of the countryside.

Taking aim at the PM, she said, “Cameron accuses foreign leaders such as President Gaddafi and President Assad of supposedly using chemicals on their own people as a justification for regime change. But he is doing precisely that here in Britain by forcing toxic, life-threatening fracking chemicals on his own people against the advice of his own chief scientist. It’s time for regime change in Britain. Cameron plans to force householders to surrender their land and endure fracking underneath their homes. Britons no longer have any choice but to fight back.”

Westwood was accompanied by fellow anti-fracking campaigners wearing gas masks as she stormed through Cameron’s home village in the white tank calling for the government to change its policy on the controversial plans. “I declare war on fracking,” chanted Westwood as she got down from the tank’s turret. “It’s just so irresponsible. The people are not only criminal, they’re actually idiots,” she told RT.

Fracking involves blasting dense shale rock with a mixture of sand, water and chemicals, opening up tiny fissures in the rock to release microscopic bubbles of methane gas trapped within, which can then be gathered at the surface. Some fracking operations in the US have been associated with pollution and it has caused minor earth tremors in the UK. Shale gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was stopped in Britain in 2011. Some European countries like France and Germany have already banned the practice due to environmental concerns.

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