"Jingle Bells, Fracking Smells"

We decided to celebrate Christmas this year with some divestment campaigning, by joining Red Leicester Choir to sing anti-fossil fuel carols in three banks in Leicester. 

In Barclays, we sang ‘We wish you would stop drilling’, in HSBC we sang ‘Jingle bells, fracking smells’ and in Santander we sang ‘Dirty energy, dirty energy’ to the tune of ‘Oh Christmas tree’. All three banks invest their customers’ money in dirty fossil fuels and we wanted to voice our objection to this and encourage people to move their money. We hope these banks will make a New Year’s resolution to clean up their investment policy!