Elected Representatives

Following on from yesterdays protest by academics from across the world and students from Oxford, Cambridge, Sussex and Edinburgh Universities, today has seen elected representatives from across the political spectrum converge on Faslane in protest against nuclear weapons. Yesterdays protest saw academics hold seminars on papers they had researched on the subject of nuclear weapons, which started on the pavement but eventually moved onto the road. Overwhelmed by sheer numbers, with over thirty students and roughly fifty academics, the police had no option but to leave protestors blocking the main entrance to the nuclear base. When it was clear that police were in no position to clear the road any time soon, and due to the cold temperatures and heavy rain, protestors erected tents, set up a tea table with a gas powered urn and eventually brought a brazier and lit a fire in the main road. After five hours Strathclyde police managed to mobilise enough officers and along with roughly twenty MoD police officers spent a further hour clearing the road of people. Protestors managed to keep the gate blocked for just over six hours and five minutes, which works out as three-hundred and sixty five minutes, an obviously significant record for the Faslane 365 project. There was a total of seventeen academics and eighteen students arrested.

One World 8th january

Daily Record 13th January

Edinburgh Evening News 6th January

New Statesman 12th January

Press release: 5th January 2006

MPs, MSPs, MEPs to Blockade Faslane Monday 8th January

A group of elected representatives, including members of the Westminster, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch and European Parliaments, and local councillors, will on Monday 8th January play their part in the Faslane 365 continuous blockade of the British WMD base.

The Herald 10th January