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Greenpeace activists protest Trident plan
FOUR Greenpeace campaigners scaled a crane beside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster to protest at the government’s plans to update Trident.
Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner claiming PM Tony Blair “loves” weapons of mass destruction.
The two men and two women were harnessed to the 200-ft crane for two days until the Commons votes on the issue on Wednesday.
The crane was fixed to a barge on the River Thames and is being used to replace cast-iron fascias on Westminster Bridge.
The Government suffered one its most humiliating days in the Commons after 95 MP voted against plans to spend £20 billion on replacing its submarine-based nuclear weapons system. Police were called to the scene at on Monday after one protester was taken to hospital with a leg injury.
According to Greenpeace, the injured man was a cameraman travelling on the boat that dropped the climbers onto the barge.
He said: “As the boat left the barge and came up the Thames he hurt his leg as it hit a wave.”
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