![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/watch-former-civil-servant-scared-of-heights-despite-hanging-from-m25-gantry-in-just-stop-oil-protest/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/maxresdefault-9.jpg&description=A visually impaired former civil servant hysterically claimed she was scared of heights as she blocked the M25 during today's Just Stop Oil protest. Jane Touil, 56, filmed a minute-and-a-half long outburst on top of a gantry between junctions 10 and 11 of the UK's busiest motorway. The politics graduate at Sheffield University gave up her job at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in Manchester earlier this year to become a full-time eco-activist. The Met Police said 16 arrests were made on the second day of the eco-group's disruption on the M25, which it has vowed to continue. Mrs Touil, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is part of Extinction Rebellion Rochdale and has previously been arrested blocking roads with Insulate Britain. In her video today, she said: "I'm Jane, I'm 56, I'm visually impaired and I'm scared of heights and I'm here, between junctions 10 and 11 of the M25, on a gantry and I'm terrified. "So why am I doing this? I'm doing this because I'm more terrified of if we don't stop new oil and gas, we are on the brink of climate catastrophe, runaway climate change, the collapse of human civilisation and the loss of everything we love and I cannot stand by and let it happen." Mrs Touil, who has deleted a Twitter account in which she described herself as a "Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester", went on to claim the government's energy policies were a "death sentence" for people facing the worst of extreme weather events. Addressing PM Rishi Sunak, who is taking part in the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt, she said "the time for words is over", vowing to continue protesting until "you stop new oil and gas licences".){kind=link}
Jane Touil, 56, filmed a minute-and-a-half long outburst on top of a gantry between junctions 10 and 11 of the UK’s busiest motorway
A visually impaired former civil servant hysterically claimed she was scared of heights as she blocked the M25 during today’s Just Stop Oil protest.
Jane Touil, 56, filmed a minute-and-a-half long outburst on top of a gantry between junctions 10 and 11 of the UK’s busiest motorway.
The politics graduate at Sheffield University gave up her job at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman in Manchester earlier this year to become a full-time eco-activist.
The Met Police said 16 arrests were made on the second day of the eco-group’s disruption on the M25, which it has vowed to continue.