Angry driver forces protesters off busy London road as they ‘swarm’ capital

A fuming driver has been pictured dragging protesters out of the road in central London amid a ‘swarm’ of protests.

Youth Action, a spin-off from Just Stop Oil which ended its campaigning earlier this month, have vowed to fill the capital with a ‘swarm’ of protests throughout April.

This morning, protesters formed a road block on Buckingham Palace Road in central London, one using a megaphone and another holding a Palestinian flag.

But the block didn’t last long as at least three people grabbed the protesters and dragged them out of the road.

A man and a woman were seen grabbing protesters by the shoulders or using their clothing to try and pick them up and drag them off of the road.

The man was pictured apparently pushing a protester who was stood right in front of a car.

Other protesters holding banners stood directly in front of buses and other vehicles to stop them from continuing on their journeys.

One bus even reportedly drove slowly through the road block to try and get them out of the way.

Youth Demand are currently campaigning for the UK government to impose a total trade embargo on Israel, saying the UK is ‘supporting genocide’ by providing arms to the country.

They also want the government to raise £1trillion by 2030 from ‘the super rich and fossil fuel elite’, to pay damages to communities and countries ‘most harmed by fossil fuel burning’.

Youth Demand took part in several road blocks on Monday, temporarily stopping traffic on Kensington Gore, Poultry, Elephant and Castle, Holborn and Vauxhall Bridge.

The group says it has been out taking part in ‘cat and mouse’ roadblocks ‘day after day’ this week, and has organised a ‘shut it down for Palestine’ event at Russell Square at 11am on Saturday.

Publicising the event, a spokesperson for the group said: ‘Last Saturday over 100 people came together to shut London down! So this Saturday let’s double our numbers!

‘Our cat-and-mouse roadblocks work: we have been out day after day this week.

‘We have no time to lose. Palestinians are starving. They are being pushed into smaller and smaller death zones in Gaza.

‘Our business-as-usual enables this genocide, so we have a duty to shut it down. We must resist.’

Earlier this morning, they shared a video on their Instagram stories of a fountain outside London’s American Embassy stained red with the words ‘blood on your hands’ imposed over the top.

Greenpeace has taken responsibility for dying the fountain red.

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