Posted on 07/11/2025 8:54:48 AM PDT by simpson96
Two women have been arrested after climate protesters spray-painted over the grave of Charles Darwin inside Westminster Abbey.
Climate protest group Just Stop Oil (JSO) said two activists used chalk paint on the grave of the famous naturalist, who is best known for his theories on evolution.
The Met Police was called after the incident on Monday at 09:30 GMT and said two women were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and remained in police custody.
Westminster Abbey said it was taking "immediate action" to clean the memorial.
Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of Reading Council, from Rode, were involved in the action, JSO said.
A Westminster Abbey spokesperson said: "The Abbey's conservators are taking immediate action to clean the memorial and do not anticipate that there will be any permanent damage."
They added it remained open for visiting and worshipping.
Ms Lee told the PA news agency: "We are trying to get the government to act on climate change. They are not doing enough."
'Darwin would be upset'
The other activist, Ms Bligh, said: "We've done this because there's no hope for the world, really.
"We've done it on Darwin's grave specifically because he would be turning in that grave because of the sixth mass extinction taking place now."
Ms Lee added: "I believe he would approve because he was a good scientist and he would be following the science, and he would be as upset as us with the government for ignoring the science."
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed on Friday that last year was the warmest on record globally and the first calendar year that the average temperature exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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They look like lesbian “clergy” in what used to be the English church. Maybe “bishops”
Old bags! “Retired teacher”. Figures
It is a bit curious why they chose to paint Darwin’s grave because he cruised about on an eco-friendly sailboat.
The HMS Beagle.
The it hit me: it was named after a dog and dogs contribute to “climate change”!
Idiots....................
“The other activist, Ms Bligh, said: “We’ve done this because there’s no hope for the world, really..”
So kill yourself and quite bothering the rest of us.
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Disgusting. At least they used chalk, which sounds like it can be cleaned.
It’s the people who deface and damage fine art that I’d like to see become role models of what proper punishment really is. These idiots are just annoying.
The words “Darwin” and “Westminster Abbey” go together like “eloquent” and “Kamala Harris”.
“ So kill yourself and quite bothering the rest of us.”
This 👍
How smug they look. Maybe they should try spray painting a mosque.
At least they don’t have Karl Marx buried in Westminster Abbey. Maybe because he was baptized as a Lutheran, not an Anglican.
Bligh? As in Captain?
maybe we shoul put Ms. Bligh and her friend in a small boat in the South pacific and see if she can find her way home.
If these women are not lesbians, they are wearing first-rate wigs and masks! 👩❤️👩
Why would Darwin be mad, he believed that life can evolve into another form of life so accordingly people should just evolve into beings that can withstand climate change, a more robust person if you will, Man+ to steal a phrase.
Crazy old bitches need to be put out on a farm or in a padded room and tied up in straight jackets.
Darwin had nothing to do with OIL or the Hoax of Climate Change!
They look like lesbian
Yes crazy people have more than one fault their skull it’s a bee hive of crazy going on 24/7/365.
It’s way past time to go after the people brainwashing these useful idiots.
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