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Arrests after Charles Darwin grave spray-painted [two British "AWFUL"s]
BBC ^ | 01/13/2025 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: alysonlee; dibligh; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; eurabia; europeanunion; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; juststopoil; unitedkingdom
Nothing about them facing any repercussions - just affirmations about climate change.
1 posted on 07/11/2025 8:54:48 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

They look like lesbian “clergy” in what used to be the English church. Maybe “bishops”


2 posted on 07/11/2025 8:57:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

Old bags! “Retired teacher”. Figures


3 posted on 07/11/2025 8:58:21 AM PDT by albie
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To: simpson96

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”!


4 posted on 07/11/2025 8:59:25 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: simpson96

Idiots....................


5 posted on 07/11/2025 9:00:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: simpson96

“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.

L


6 posted on 07/11/2025 9:00:07 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: simpson96

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.


7 posted on 07/11/2025 9:00:24 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: simpson96

The words “Darwin” and “Westminster Abbey” go together like “eloquent” and “Kamala Harris”.


8 posted on 07/11/2025 9:01:08 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Lurker

“ So kill yourself and quite bothering the rest of us.”
This 👍


9 posted on 07/11/2025 9:05:49 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !)
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To: simpson96

How smug they look. Maybe they should try spray painting a mosque.


10 posted on 07/11/2025 9:09:01 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: simpson96
They remind me of an old, female version of "Akbar and Jeff" in Matt Groening's "Life in Hell".


11 posted on 07/11/2025 9:13:51 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (<i>"Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Tell It Right

At least they don’t have Karl Marx buried in Westminster Abbey. Maybe because he was baptized as a Lutheran, not an Anglican.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 9:15:02 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lurker

Bligh? As in Captain?


13 posted on 07/11/2025 9:29:08 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: simpson96

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.


14 posted on 07/11/2025 9:30:44 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: BenLurkin

If these women are not lesbians, they are wearing first-rate wigs and masks! 👩‍❤️‍👩


15 posted on 07/11/2025 9:47:24 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Old admiras who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart)
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To: simpson96

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.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 10:30:46 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: simpson96

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!


17 posted on 07/11/2025 10:34:26 AM PDT by BatGuano (Quantus Tremor Est futurus.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


18 posted on 07/11/2025 12:26:54 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: simpson96

It’s way past time to go after the people brainwashing these useful idiots.


19 posted on 07/11/2025 3:31:13 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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