Finally some good news from the UK’s dire and turgid political scene; somebody is taking direct action on the most serious issue of the day. Nope it’s not the government sorting Brexit nor the House of Commons holding the ERG to account. Nope the grown-ups have messed it all up and the kids took to the streets all over the world to demand action on all our futures. Plenty of Bristol schoolkids joined in the action as well as all over the region including Bath and Somerset:

The protesters used some classic Reclaim The Streets tactics to make the city pay attention:

Earlier today. Kids climate change march College Green, Park Street Bristol #climatechangemarch #bristol pic.twitter.com/EZLWPojaRR — Mike Shawe (@hbsbristol) February 15, 2019

Bristol Cable has a good article on the protest that is well worth a read!

Another participant, Bethany, 18, explained that she and other young people are taking strike action to make their voices heard; “You can see the demographic here is young people, the majority, because we don’t feel like we have much of a voice, and right now we are coming together and showing that we do care about our future, and maybe the past generations have messed it up for us quite a lot and we want to make a change.”

Some Bristol and South West politicians tweeted thier support. One BBC reporter noted that ‘Metro Mayor’ Tim Bowles managed to look the other way to the significant political movement. Perhaps because kids in London were expressing their total contempt for Tim’s political boss, the PM:

Wait. Are these schoolchildren, out marching against climate change, actually chanting "Fuck Theresa May"?pic.twitter.com/sBpyt4L10j — Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) February 15, 2019

Fellow Tory Toby Young made himself appear creepier than normal as the 56 year old man used his media platform to insult the movement’s founder. Twitter responded:

In Toby Young’s latest bowel movement he describes the kids as “self-important”. #ClimateStrike pic.twitter.com/IxbrzF2f4U — PeteW91 (@wilsonp911) February 15, 2019

Final thing to say to the kids who took part – A+ all round and keep up the good work!

Image credit – @jennyurquhart