Priti Patel tried to blame the opposition Labor Party for fuel shortages as filling stations close across Britain.
Some yards have run out of fuel over weekend in the middle of the perfect storm of environmental protests, increase post-quarantine demand and war in Ukraine.
Just Stop Oil activists group blocked the entrances outside key terminals throughout the country and made This is hard to move fuel in and out.
Warehouses hit include those in Warwickshire, Hertfordshire and Essex – Disruption of further deliveries to filling stations in the South East and midlands.
But talking to a conservative-supporting daily mail The newspaper Minister of the Interior said it was “selfish” to protest. against and destroy the polluting industry.
And she tried to link the protests to Labor, stressing that party did not support new Draconian new police powers in Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
The bill was repeatedly rejected by colleagues from different parties. in house of Lords on on the grounds that it undermines the right to protest, including the prohibition of loud and annoying demonstrations and the criminalization of withdrawing protesters.
But the Minister of the Interior said: “The industrious people throughout our country, their lives are being stopped by selfish, fanatical and downright dangerous so-called activists.
Keir Starmer’s Labor Party has repeatedly voted against our proposals that would give the police additional powers to deal with with this eco mob. The police have mine full support in doing everything necessary to solve this public trouble.”
The statement is misleading because the police already able arrest such protesters under existing laws such as public disruption or obstruction of highway.
Protesters say they have dug a tunnel under a road to block supplies to the Kingsbury oil terminal. in Warwickshire; they have also locked in the gate of Buncefield Terminal in Hertfordshire and destroyed the Exolum warehouse terminal. in Grace, Essex.
group wants ministers to agree to stop everything new investment in fossil fuels in light of climate emergency, but government This year said he’s moving forward with new drilling and asked the industry to write its own set of environmental regulations.
The Department for businessenergy and industrial strategy stated that “all fuel supplies points fully operational” in explicit application for reduce panic shopping and gas stations run dry.
