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Union protestors blockade Mayor’s car

July 30, 2013 - Martin Hoscik@MayorWatch

Image: yourthurrock.com
Image: yourthurrock.com
Mayor of London Boris Johnson was trapped in his car after union protestors blocked it in and climbed over the vehicle.

The incident took place outside DP World in Stanford-le-Hope where the activists from the UNITE union were protesting over employment conditions.

Your Thurrock reports: “The group of twenty protestors then surrounded the car in which the mayor was a passenger and harangued him.”

According to the paper, the Mayor’s vehicle was then prevented from reversing by a protestor who stood behind it.

The paper says a DP World security guard “tried to reason with the protestors and they finally let the mayor on his way back to London.”

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