Now Just Stop Oil invade Fortnum & Mason: Eco-clowns protest in front of puzzled food shoppers after demonstrating at the Open and bringing streets to a standstill around London
- Non-surprise for London as Just Stop Oil were out protesting this morning again
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Activists from Just Stop Oil have stormed into luxury department store Fortnum & Mason in central London tonight as they continue their chaotic antics throughout the summer.
Activists were filmed holding placards stating ‘we will not die quietly’ at the flagship store in Piccadilly, while demanding the government ends all new oil and gas licenses.
Having made their way to the food aisles, the five activists sat cross-legged in a row as puzzled shoppers who circumnavigated around them.
Staff also kept an eye on the protest from the storey above, as security were called.
It follows a summer of disruption in the capital, in which the eco-group’s activities have served to rile up frustrated members of the public.
Having made their way to the food aisles, the five activists sat cross-legged in a row as puzzled shoppers who circumnavigated around them
Staff also kept an eye on the protest from the storey above, as security were called
It followed an incident this morning, a group of mothers united to give Just Stop Oil a dressing down, clashing with the eco-zealots over their tone-deaf disruption.
On The Westway in Acton, west London, a parent castigated one demonstrator, telling him: ‘I have got a baby in my car and we have to get to hospital.’
But this had no effect on the activists, who carried on blocking the road.
Separately, a second mother with a pram told the protesters: ‘Who are you to decide who gets to gets to go? You’re not f***ing God. People pay to be on these roads. Don’t tell me you’ve never got in a f***ing car.’
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The mother told him ‘I have got a baby in my car and we have to get to hospital’ at the protest
A group of mothers united to give Just Stop Oil a dressing down, clashing with the eco-zealots over their tone-deaf disruption
Then another mother joined in and berated the activists for blocking the roads again today
The Just Stop Oil protesters were unmoved by the plea to take the newborn to hospital
The climate crusaders say they have 160 people out on the streets today.
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They targeted Earls Court Road in west London, in the first of Friday’s protests. Eight people held up white placards, featuring campaigning slogans.
One read ‘Life over oil’, while on another was the phrase ‘I will not die quietly’.
At one point during the procession, fed-up bystanders pushed some of the group. The march then was brought to a swift end by police who issued a Section 12 notice, clearing the road.
Eight protesters were also spotted in Piccadilly and given the same treatment just after 8.25am, as was the case on Euston Road at 8.31am.
Another protest group, Animal Rising, joined the slow march action.
Not deterred by the near-universal dislike of the type of demonstration, they copied the tactic but used pink banners instead of Just Stop Oil’s orange.
Yesterday, Just Stop Oil were ridiculed by YouTube pranksters who wore similar hi-vis shirts with the phrase Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off on them. The counter-protesters surrounded them during a demonstration and made them sit on the ground.
A bystander exhausted by Just Stop Oil’s repetitive stunts pushes an activist out of the way ib Earls Court Road, west London
Just Stop Oil’s procession slow marched its way to Earls Court Road this morning
It came after a number of tense exchanges in the capital this week. One angry motorist confronted eco-zealots by telling them to ‘f*** off and get a job’ in frustration over their protest tactics.
READ MORE: Bizarre scenes as eco-zealots are ‘kettled’ by ‘YouTube pranksters’ wearing ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’ t-shirts which bear a striking resemblance to Just Stop Oil
Earlier, a pensioner branded the group ‘stupid idiots’ at the side of the road in Stratford, east London.
Yesterday saw tensions boil over into violence when climate protester Daniel Knorr, 21, from Oxford – who was hauled off the pitch at Lord’s by England cricketer Jonny Bairstow earlier this month – was punched to the floor by one motorist who blamed the eco-mob for crashing his car with his pregnant partner inside.
Today’s bizarre scenes culminated when the so-called shadowy JSPEO group camouflaged themselves in JSO’s traditional orange T-shirts to blend in with the do-gooders.
And as the climate change clowns began disrupting the traffic in Elephant and Castle, their new ‘nemeses’ struck.
Creating a ring of human bodies, JSPEO kettled them out of the street and on to the pavement.
There, the bewildered eco-annoyances sat subdued and cross-legged on the ground before one used a megaphone.
The woman, who said she was called Thea, said from the concrete floor: ‘I was arrested for peacefully protesting on the road.
Placards, inked with a childish scrawl, protested against oil and fuel and offered no alternative
The group were briefly removed from the road by the public but it took the police to stop them
The group were kettled by YouTube pranksters yesterday in a highly-entertaining stunt
‘We know that disruption isn’t comfortable, but it’s necessary.’
Moment bus driver nudges Just Stop Oil slow marchers to move faster along the road after angry bystander rails ‘they’ve never done a day’s work in their life’
Then gesturing to their new arch-rivals, she added: ‘We meet this circle of people around us and we do agree about the same things except we have that sense of urgency.’
As she continues to say she is from Canada and has ‘family in the south of France too’, JSPEO interrupt to say they are allowed to leave.
A spokesman adds: ‘We are not holding you hostage.’
Earlier a fed-up bus driver gently nudged Just Stop Oil protesters along a road after their march disrupted his journey.
The motorist could be seen crawling in his vehicle behind around 20 eco-zealots edging them along the blocked street.
It came after an angry bystander spoke for much of Britain this morning as he berated Just Stop Oil eco-zealots clogging another of the country’s roads.
The retiree shamed the protesters as they did one of their now-familiar slow marches through Stratford Broadway, east London, just after 9am.
This is the moment a fed-up bus driver gently nudged Just Stop Oil protesters along a road after their march disrupted his journey
The motorist could be seen crawling in his vehicle behind the eco-zealots edging them along the blocked street on Cromwell Road, central London, on Wednesday morning
Two police officers were visible on the street and were seen telling the man they would be moving them on shortly.
But the legal order to get them out of the road – which was issued at 9.17am – did not come quick enough for them to escape them being given a piece of his mind.
The man yelled: ‘They’ve never done a day’s work in their life.
‘I haven’t worked all my life for the likes of you. Stupid idiots. What planet do you live on? Hope you rot in jail.’
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