Operation London Banker
October 16th, 2007 by Capten CyboliToday in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, the Ceridwen Commando of the Real Clown Army carried out Operation “London Banker,” declaring RBS and their subsidiary Gnat West “Out of Order” and marked all of their cash machines in the town as such. Later on, activists from the Mid-Wales Climate Action Group “helped” Natwest to advertise its services as part of the “Energy” and “Aviation” bank by setting up their stall (complete with a lovely chalked information display on the adjacent pavement) outside the Gnatwest branch in the town centre, attracting a veritable horde of climate refugees from around the world (whose pleas for home loans and other assistance to rebuild their climate-change blighted lives were naturally greeted with a polite but firm refusal) and representatives of the local energy and construction sectors (whose requests for a slice of the climate action were, naturally, greeted with an invitation to discuss the matter at greater length over lunch!) The group ended the action with a helium propelled banner lift inside the branch, with a banner reading “Sponsoring Climate Change” hanging from the ceiling for nearly an hour!) Salud, Sgnt Sideshow Bob.