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Chris Packham Urges Barclays Customers to Set Themselves on Fire

by Toby Young
17 August 2024 1:00 PM

Will Chris Packham be arrested for his ‘inflammatory’ comments he made last weekend? The 63 year-old BBC presenter made bizarre speech at an Action for Wildlife Day event in Derbyshire in which he told Barclays customers to self-immolate. The Telegraph has more.

The environmental campaigner urged people not to bank with financial institutions that invest in “fossil fuels, weapons and poverty”.

Speaking at the event last weekend at Carsington in the Derbyshire Dales, he said: “But, if anyone here is banking with Barclays, then, I suggest you stick your head in a bucket of fuel and set fire to it because you’re burning our planet down. And, it’s time to put this stuff behind us.”

His comments have been criticised as incitement, amid claims they are inappropriate for a leading BBC broadcaster.

Barclays declined to comment on Friday.

Tim Bonner, the chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: “It appears that in an increasingly desperate bid to stay in the media spotlight, Mr Packham is resorting to saying more and more bizarre and outlandish things to get noticed.

“Few are taking much notice, but it does pose serious questions for the RSPB, RSPCA and BBC about how much longer they can justify turning a blind eye to this behaviour, while allowing him to continue playing a significant role in representing them on the national stage and in family-friendly broadcasting.

“The respectability of all three organisations is on the line”.

A complaint about Packham’s comments was also made to Derbyshire Constabulary.

The complainant, a country sports enthusiast who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote to officers asking how the BBC presenter’s comments could be legal “given the recent spate of civil unrest which we have seen across the country” and those “inciting people to take direct action.”

A police spokesman said: “The video has been reviewed and no offences have been committed.

“Each incident that takes place is reviewed based on the language used as well as the specific set of circumstances in which the comments are made.

“In this instance, while there is legislation covering individuals encouraging or assisting a person or persons to cause serious harm to themselves, there is no suggestion that this is a serious attempt to influence anyone to commit any such acts.

“The words used in this instance do not reach the threshold for an offence and no action will be taken in relation to this incident.”

Worth reading in full.

Meanwhile, a 61 year-old man who chanted “Who the f*** is Allah?” at a protest outside Downing Street has been sentenced to 18 months.

Two tier policing?

Tags: Action For WildlifeBarclays BankChris Packham

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Gezza England
Gezza England
5 months ago

The Tories continually bleating that a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour is as tiresome as Labour droning on about 14 years of Tory decline and the mythical £22bn black hole magicked up by Rachel from Accounts.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago

“A digital counter on the Reform website showed its membership tally
before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past the 131,680 figure declared
by the Tories during their leadership election earlier this year.”

After its woeful election performance and betrayal felt by so many of its core voters, the Conservatives must have been haenorrhaging members since the Summer. In terms of numbers of members, Reform probably passed the Conservatives a few weeks ago..

Last edited 5 months ago by DickieA
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JXB
JXB
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

“366,604 members as of March this year…”

And how many now after nearly six months of Starmer-Charmer?

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

Good point. And many of the members to whom ballot papers were sent by the Tories have probably died since they joined!

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JXB
JXB
5 months ago

134 094… just now.

“A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Reform has delivered a Labour Government…”

Not delivered by a Conservative Party 14 years in Government whose policies were and still are those of authoritarian Left-wing Statist rulers?

Last edited 5 months ago by JXB
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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  JXB

I’ll say it again – I despise the treachorous bastards. 14 years of betrayal. How anybody with right of centre political views could still support the Conservatives, beggars belief.

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Solentviews
Solentviews
5 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

And that’s the key point. How could anyone trust those lying bar stewards ever again? They delivered on virtually nothing, and to cap it off lied their way through Covid from beginning to end. It’s frankly amazing that they have any supporters left at all.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  Solentviews

spot on.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago

There’s reportedly thousands waiting in France to cross the Channel. I suppose they must get sick of living in a tent, freezing their arses off, when they know they’re guaranteed a comfortable hotel with central heating and hot food, so not much to deter them really, is there? You just need a calm day at sea then Bob’s your uncle;

”451 migrants in 11 dinghies ILLEGALLY crossed the channel yesterday ‘Christmas Day’

100s more are crossing TODAY

35,489 migrants in 708 dinghies have now crossed the channel this year

21,924 migrants in 390 dinghies have so far crossed since the Labour Party took control.”

https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1872278460489482352

Bit like this hotel, then;

”Festive lunch at the Fownes Hotel!

Heating on blast & food stacked high,
We take you inside for a game of pool”

https://x.com/Truthhurts101UK/status/1871256062655152355

Last edited 5 months ago by Mogwai
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
5 months ago

“A Conservative Party spokesman said: “Reform has delivered a Labour Government that has cruelly cut winter fuel winter payments for 10 million pensioners, put the future of family farming and food security at risk, and launched a devastating raid on jobs which will leave working people paying the price.

“A vote for Reform this coming May is a vote for a Labour council – only the Conservatives can stop this.”

A Conservative Party spokesman said:

“Firkin excellent weed this Christmas.”

The Tory barstewards had 14 years to sort things out. They managed only one thing successfully – opening the floodgates to unlimited immigration. Treasonous Next Tuesdays the lot of them.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

They have some bloody cheek expecting loyalty or credibility from anyone. It’s a miracle anyone at all still expresses support for them. Any of them still chirping are clearly utterly deluded and have understood nothing from the their drubbing at the polls. When somehow SIX MILLION dupes voted for them and they became Her Majesty’s Opposition I did fear this would fuel their delusion. I believe I was right. They should be offering nothing but contrition and grovelling apologies.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
5 months ago

All I can say is I’ve just read an interview with Kemi Badenoch in the Spectator.
She doesn’t have any ideas. She has nothing to say. If you take out the cliches, there is nothing left.
Nigel, in contrast, has something to say and knows what he wants to do.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  MajorMajor

I’m not sure I want politicians with “ideas”. I don’t want to be saved by politicians or have my life improved by them. I want them to leave me the hell alone and keep the peace and protect our borders.

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DickieA
DickieA
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve been a Minarchist for the past 20 years.
From Wikli:

A night-watchman state, also referred to as a minimal state or minarchy ……. has also been popularized by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974).[6] The United Kingdom in the 19th century has been described by historian Charles Townshend as a standard-bearer for this form of government.[7]

19th Century United Kingdom would seem a better alternative than what we have now.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I agree entirely. Politicians with “ideas” are a walking bloody disaster. If they only managed to control our borders properly they would perform an enormous service to this country and thereafter we will look after ourselves.

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JohnnyDownes
JohnnyDownes
5 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

“control our borders properly”
That’s an ‘idea’ isn’t it? A good one, even.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
5 months ago
Reply to  JohnnyDownes

Well it’s just doing the bare minimum that any government must do to be considered a government. Instead our government regulates bloody football.

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Myra
Myra
5 months ago

I hope Reform are the grownups in the room. Kemi’s childish behaviour about a counter does not do her any favours.

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RTSC
RTSC
5 months ago

Cameron, May, Johnson, Sunak – and 14 years of lies and broken “promises” delivered the Labour Government.

But why would they care about that? All that’s happened is that their Masters at the WEF have the Red Branch of the Uni-Party in power.

The Uni-Party is like a 3-legged stool. It is very stable (and will deliver for the WEF) until one of the legs is broken. Then it cannot stand.

Reform is breaking the Blu-Green leg.

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
5 months ago

Stop stop press – the Reform Party seems to have convinced the Telegraph at least that their numbers are genuine.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/27/reform-uk-threatens-legal-action-kemi-badenoch-members/

Kemi is the distinctly unimpressive leader of the rump of a once-great but now shrivelled party. They long since abandoned everything “Conservative” and became simply a vehicle for careerist hacks.

They are in fact quite sad really. Like a crumbling and rubbish-strewn abandoned factory.

The future of the Centre Right belongs to Reform.

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