Offended protestors have thrown purple paint over the doorway of the Scottish Energy headquarters in Glasgow throughout a demo towards rising gasoline invoice costs. Activists focused the St Vincent Road constructing on Friday - simply hours earlier than a separate peaceable demonstration by campaigners and commerce unionists.
Footage from the scene present a handful of masked protesters - believed to be from the Younger Communist League - holding up a banner in entrance of the vandalised entrance. Their signal learn “make the wealthy pay” whereas one other branded CEO Keith Anderson a ‘class legal’, who they claimed was answerable for the power value hike.
It isn't at the moment identified who was answerable for the paint being thrown, nonetheless, Police Scotland have confirmed they're investigating to catch anybody who was concerned within the vandalism.
A power spokesperson mentioned: “Police had been made conscious of vandalism at a premises on St Vincent Road in Glasgow round 3.35am on Friday, 30 September, 2022. Enquiries are ongoing.”
A separate demonstration held outdoors the HQ constructing on Friday by Unite campaigners known as out the facility firm for his or her £924.6m revenue made throughout the first six months of 2022.
The commerce union mentioned that whereas £7bn in dividends had been paid to forgeign house owners over the past 14 years, greater than 152,000 Glasgow residents are fighting their payments.
Unite common secretary Sharon Graham mentioned: “How’s that for trickle down economics? £7 billion handed over from Scottish Energy to Iberdrola in Spain. That’s trickle down economics alright. Trickle down from Scotland to Spanish shareholders.”
She added: “The financial system doesn't work for staff and their households. Britain’s actual disaster isn’t rising costs, it’s an epidemic of unfettered profiteering.
“This is the reason we have to construct energy in our workplaces and concurrently organise in our communities. Unite will set up everlasting bases on the bottom in Glasgow to work with staff.
“Unite is driving a UK-wide technique to assist deliver change to ‘heartland’ communities.”
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