‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters have been receiving as much hype over the past couple of weeks as Matthew Perry and his new autobiography as their stunts become more and more out of control.
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The latest one went down this morning in the centre of London where they decided to spraypaint the Home Office, MI5 Building and The Bank Of England a bright shade of orange. They were targeting the pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy. Pretty poetic right?
Take a look at the footage and their demands below:
BREAKING: Just Stop Oil activists have sprayed paint on the Home Office, the MI5 building and The Bank of England. The group have again demanding a stop to new oil and gas licences. pic.twitter.com/xfLl5cTIGg
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) October 31, 2022
We are not prepared to stand by and watch while everything we love is destroyed, while vulnerable people go hungry and fossil fuel companies and the rich profit from our misery.
The era of fossil fuels should be long gone, but the creeping tentacles of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and the media, as they have for decades.
How else do you explain a Government ignoring sensible no-brainer policies like renewables, insulation and public transport, which would cut our energy bills and our carbon emissions, in favour of corrupt schemes to drill for uneconomic oil and gas at taxpayers expense?
Well we’re done with begging. We are acting to stop new oil and gas because it is the right thing to do.
Yeah for once I don’t actually think this stunt is that annoying which is in direct contradiction with most of the recent ‘Just Stop Oil/ protests. I think I’ve gotta admit at this point that I am pretty impressed with their relentless commitment to their cause as they’re doing stuff almost every day and making it fairly hard to ignore.
Even if a lot of their actions are still mainly just annoying people, I suppose they are getting their point across and more and more people are listening. Maybe their protests are working?
For more of the same, check out when ‘Just Stop Oil’ people threw paint over a priceless Van Gogh. That’s a bit different.
