"Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base Almost Brought to its Knees by Kidpower!”

“Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base Almost Brought to its Knees by Kidpower!”

. . . said Eva in a very satisfied voice to the police at the end of a sunny, wet and wonderful family blockade she had organised with Aly and Beck. Her son, Jacob (5), asked another policeman why there weren't any rainbows (given the sun and rain)? And the policeman promised to look out for rainbows, and let him know as soon as he saw one. This was after Barbie had swung from scaffolding and Ken had wielded bolt cutters, as even tiny kids toys came out against the insanity of nuclear weapons.

Cookies were much in evidence - being distributed to the colourfully costumed kids by 2 year old Aran from a red bucket. Some kids were busy learning juggling skills, perhaps in order to try and be able to juggle the beauty of being alive, the threat of nuclear weapons, and the reality of poverty and climate chaos. One under sixteen year old dressed in black considered whether to try blockading the road on his own but took advice from Angie not to this time. Meanwhile 3 year old Bengie in a Scooby Doo outfit stood beneath a banner proclaiming that "you would have got away with it, if it wasn't for us pesky kids!"

Huge bubbles big enough for a kid to float up in, were blown by Chris and Cally and floated across the road in a surreal way. Elka, Rose, Ella, Imogene and Flossie's bright faces gleamed with shiny raindrops and held placards beneath high flying Muppet figures saying things like "Even the Muppets wouldn't spend £76 billion on Trident" and Miss Piggy commented "Somebody sensible like MOI would spend it fighting climate change"!

Hidden within a frighteningly realistic dinosaur costume, Blue leapt from rock to rock. When the rain got too heavy he took off the suit and the dinosaur hung from a pole like a warning to drivers entering the base: extinction can happen! Meanwhile Jem (9) and Saul (10) seemed to disappear for rather a long time and returned looking rather satisfied. We never found the hole in the fence they had cut, but are assured that they did indeed find a way of disabling the weapons of mass destruction that have previously been thought to exist there.