Designer Vivienne Westwood has joined anarchists planning mass protests in the run up to the general election.
The fashion legend met the Hackney-based activists responsible for last year’s G-20 protests in Shoreditch earlier this week.
Last spring, around 5,000 people protested at the Bank of England on “Financial Fool’s Day, April 1”.
Hundreds of people were injured in clashed with the police and one bystander, Iain Tomlinson, died after being struck by a police officer.
Dame Vivienne has been a political activist since the 1970s and set up in 2005 her own project, Active Resistance, to encourage engagement with humanitarian and environmental issues.
Recent fashion collections have been named Chaos, Active Resistance, Propaganda and +50, a reference to the temperature scientists predicts the Earth will increase by when carbon dioxide exceeds certain levels in the atmosphere.
On Sunday Dame Vivienne joined the Election Meltdown group to plan a march to Parliament Square on May 1.
In a post on her website Dame Vivienne said: “The election is planned for May 6.
“But which party is talking about climate change?”
“This urgent issue seems to have fallen to the bottom of the political agenda.”
On May Day demonstrators will begin four planned marches at the headquarters of the three main political parties, and the site of the former trade union headquarters at Clerkenwell Green.
From there they will march to Westminster where effigies of the party leaders will be put on trial.
Camilla Power of the Election Meltdown group said:
“We want to ask the public what we should do with the traitors”.
“They will probably be sent to the stocks or even the gallows.”
The radical group, who campaign against war, climate change and financial chaos, will set up a direct democracy village.
The demonstration will be followed by an English May Day carnival with a difference, including a carnival parade and zombie Morris dancers.
Power said: “It will be a blooming blossoming carnival of life.”
The Election Meltdown group is also planning to protest at the trial of three MPs and a Tory peer, who have been accused of making false expenses claims, at Southwark Crown Court on March 30.
