Moment eco-clowns pour jam porridge over Queen Victoria bust before spray-painting ‘c***’ on the plinth in bizarre museum protest

This is the moment eco-clowns poured jam and porridge over a bust of Queen Victoria before spray-painting the word ‘c***’ onto the plinth.

Eco-protesters from This Is Rigged, a ‘direct action campaign targeting the Scottish Government’, staged the bizarre protest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow today.

The National reported that activists Sorcha Ní Mháirtín, 30, and Hannah Taylor, 23, glued themselves to the plinth and were then removed and arrested by Police Scotland.

Sorcha, an Irish activist and community food worker in Glasgow, said in a video posted on social media channels: ‘We refuse to be dragged back to the Victorian era. Starvation diseases, including scurvy and rickets, are on the rise.

‘Freedom starts at breakfast and if you don’t understand that, we’ll shove it in your face. Food is a human right, and we call out the rotten systems under which we suffer.”

Eco-protesters from This Is Rigged, a ‘direct action campaign targeting the Scottish Government’, staged the bizarre protest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow today

This Is Rigged wrote in a social media post: ‘We refuse to be dragged back to the Victorian era. Diseases such as rickets, which once haunted Victorian slums, are now on the rise in Scotland, with 356 diagnoses last year in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde region.

“This public health crisis is a direct result of our government’s chronic inaction to Scotland’s food insecurity crisis, driven by greed and profiteering and exacerbated by climate collapse.

‘We are calling on the Scottish Government to meet with us to discuss the implementation of a community food hub per 500 households in Scotland. We do this to get your attention.”

The art gallery and museum were temporarily closed, but have now partially reopened their doors.

Officials are still assessing the damage to the bust of Queen Victoria and have kept the room where it was kept closed.

The art gallery and museum were temporarily closed, but have now partially reopened their doors

A spokesperson for Glasgow Life told the National: ‘On the advice of Police Scotland, we temporarily closed the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum earlier this afternoon after climate protesters covered a bust of Queen Victoria in porridge and jam and spray-painted an offensive word on the plinth below . the statue. Two people were subsequently arrested.

‘The museum has since reopened, but the Expression Court, where the statue is on display, will remain partially closed for the remainder of the day while our conservation team work to assess the extent of any damage. The profanity has been removed.”

The campaign group has grown in size and capacity in recent months.

Last month, activists staged a sit-in in the royal dining room of the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Nine protesters entered the palace, waving banners bearing slogans in Gaelic, including “is treasa tuath na tighearna”, meaning “the people are mightier than a lord”.

Another sign read: “Change starts in the kitchen, not the boardroom.”

Protesters crossed the barrier into the room, sat down at a table and began eating food from plastic containers and drinking tea from bottles, forcing the wing to be temporarily closed.

The group has three main demands: it asks that supermarkets reduce the price of baby products, that the Scottish Government fully fund a ‘community food centre’ for every 500 households, and that the Scottish Government create a fair and fully funded food supply. transition for Scotland’s oil workers.