Some Conservatives in the UK aren’t covering themselves in glory right now.

A video is doing the rounds of MP Mark Field behaving in a less-than-gentlemanly manner when a group of Greenpeace activists disrupted Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Mansion House speech.

Dozens of Greenpeace activists, mostly women, dressed in all red and wearing sashes bearing the words “climate emergency”, attempted to read out a message and “drown out” Hammond, reports The Guardian.

Keep in mind that the Extinction Rebellion recently stood, naked, in parliament singing ‘Nelly the Elephant’. A few red dresses and a bit of polite shouting is tame in comparison.

Here’s the protest.

Before we move onto the video of Mark Field, you should probably know that he tweeted this last month, following a speech at a Westminster Hall debate, in which he condemned violence against and intimidation of female activists across the world.

Okay. Clearly ‘the world’ doesn’t include Britain:

Not a good look.

There were calls for Field to lose his position as a Foreign Office minister. In a statement, he apologised to the woman and said he would refer himself to the Cabinet Office over the incident.

By ‘apologised’ they mean that he tried to justify his actions.

In a statement Field said he reacted “instinctively” and had been “genuinely worried” that the protester may be armed. He said he “grasped the intruder firmly in order to remove her from the room as swiftly as possible”, adding: “I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologise to the lady concerned for grabbing her but in the current climate I felt I needed to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present”.

Where exactly would she have been hiding a weapon? In her sash? Maybe her hair clip?

People are also wondering why nobody intervened.

It looks like Boris Johnson’s car might be the least of the Conservative Party’s problems.

[source:guardian]