Eco-activist GLUES his hand to microphone during live LBC interview this morning [Video]
Moment eco-activist GLUED his hand to his microphone during a live LBC interview – forcing the station to cut its broadcast while host Tom Swarbrick moved studios
Climate activist Nathan McGovern, 22, glued his hand to the microphone The protester pulled the stunt over to inform listeners about climate crisisHe said LBC host Tom Swarbrick was not using his ‘massive platform’ to do so
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A protester from Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a radio microphone while live on air this morning.
Climate activist Nathan McGovern, 22, was speaking to Tom Swarbrick in LBC’s Westminster studio when he glued his hand to the microphone at around 11.40am.
Mr McGovern said that the station was ‘not using’ its ‘massive platform’ to inform listeners of the dangers of the climate crisis.
He said that he pulled the stunt because ‘people need to be aware’.
The climate activist said that he, an ‘ordinary person’, was having to tell listeners about the climate crisis
Mr McGovern, from Just Stop Oil, said that presenter Tom Swarbrick was not using his ‘massive platform’ to tell people about the climate ‘situation’
Speaking live, Mr McGovern said to Mr Swarbrick: ‘You have a massive platform, a microphone that you can use to tell people about the situation we’re in and you’re not using it.
‘An ordinary person like me is having to take the microphone and tell your viewers the situation we are in.’
The LBC presenter said: ‘For those of you listening wondering what the banging on the microphone is, Mr McGovern seems to have, you’ve glued yourself to the microphone? That’s fantastic.’
After the incident, LBC presenter Andrew Pierce took over the live programme from another studio, before handing back to Mr Swarbrick.
Mr McGovern invaded the Tottenham v West Ham match in a protest last week and was dragged off the pitch, the Metro reported.
The Coventry activist has flirted with XR and Animal Rebellion and disrupted the game after finishing a Masters degree in religion at King’s College London earlier this year.
He appeared as a spokesperson for Animal Rebellion advocating a ‘plant-based food system’ on Nigel Farage’s GB News show in October 2021.
Protesters were glued on to roads, suspended on bamboo tripods, and locked on to oil drums and each other from around 4am. There is no suggestion anyone picture was among those arrested
At least 34 climate change protesters have been arrested over the blocking of oil terminals across the country – as the activist groups warned they would become ‘more disruptive than ever’ from next week
Protestors from Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion obstructed 10 fuel sites in the Midlands and southern England in the early hours of Friday morning, to stand against ‘expanding UK oil and gas production’.
Protesters were glued on to roads, suspended on bamboo tripods, and locked on to oil drums and each other from around 4am.
Police said arrests were made for offences including aggravated trespass, criminal damage and obstructing the highway.
The Met arrested 14 activists who broke into a facility at Bedfont Road in Staines, Surrey, while Essex Police detained 13 demonstrators at various sites, and West Midlands Police arrested six people at a terminal in Tyburn, Birmingham.
