A motorcyclist in a hurry refused to be held up by Just Stop Oil’s rush-hour slow march in the capital by ploughing throw the protesters’ banner before tossing it on the ground as he rode away. The Mail has the story.
The shocking incident happened this morning in Camberwell, south London, as the group marked its 10th week of disruptive ‘slow march’ demonstrations.
The brazen rider was seen careering straight through two protesters holding up the JSO sign which he then gathers and disposes of.
Protesters looked visibly shaken following the incident, which is the latest example of frustrated members of the public taking matters into their own hands in the face of the disruption caused by the activists.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed enforcement actions had been taken after today’s slow march, which saw four groups march in different locations on the capital.
A spokesman said: “Officers issued a Section 12 condition to move out of the carriageway to Just Stop Oil protesters on Holloway Road, Islington, at 08.28.
“The road was cleared two minutes later, and traffic is now moving.”
The embarrassment comes following a difficult week for the group, who were slammed as “performative” by one of their original funders.
American entrepreneur Trevor Neilson co-founded the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), a group that bankrolled Extinction Rebellion and JSO.
Mr. Neilson has has since resigned his position and described their methods as “unproductive”.
The 50-year-old Californian businessman stepped down in 2021 but has since decided to speak out to criticise the groups’ protest tactics, which include ‘slow marches’ and blocking roads.
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“The shocking incident happened…..” No. it was not shocking, it was inevitable.
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inevitable and welcome
Wait until things get really violent. The public has nearly reached boiling point.
Not advocating it, but if you provoke the majority of people long enough…
Which is exactly where they want us as they know how to control a violent uprising but have no plan for peaceful disruption & the coming together in love of the population. Can’t send the troops in to quell peaceful acts of pushback now can they? Would upset those who are still blissfully ignorant of the agenda….
Who are “they”?
For clarity for the hard of understanding or the new to the site, ‘they’ refers to the government. Following the diktat of the evil cabal.
Sir Graham Brady admitted in a meeting back in early Autumn 2021 with Mark Sexton & John O’Looney that they were expecting & prepared to deal with a violent uprising, that peaceful protest was happening rather than violence had successfully thrown a spanner into the expected playbook.
Surely after reading the DS for as long as you have, you’d know who ‘they’ are….
Don’t engage BB.
I tried not to… Failed obviously but the extra information is useful. Tried not to be too sarcastic…. Leave that to others to decide whether I succeeded!
huxleypiggles, do you want to cancel me, do you want no debate?
So to be clear, you’re saying the Conservative government want us to get really violent in response to ‘Just Stop Oil’, “as they know how to control a violent uprising.”
I find that highly implausible, and I am not a supporter of this Conservative government.
I’m sorry if my opinion hurts anyone’s feelings. Not really!
I’ve lived in Northern Ireland through 30 years of violence, and honestly no British government is that crazy to want to open the Pandora’s box of ‘violent uprising’ from it’s own citizens.
The government (it’s not a conservative government by any stretch of the imagination) is anticipating a public backlash due to the lockdowns, the increasing cost of living, the lack of police action over JSO & other pet groups protests etc (all brought about by government action). So far they’ve resisted going in mob handed like happened in Ottawa against the truckers & anyone who supported the truckers early last year. All the governments who are following orders from the hidden evil cabal are primed & ready to act.
How you find it is your choice. I’m stating how I find it from information I’ve received from numerous sources, including directly from the mouths of John O’Looney & Mark Sexton.
The government doesn’t give a stuff about us, they only care about what taxes they can bleed out of us. If they cared none of the horrors of the last few years trampling roughshod on our common law rights, committing acts of terrorism on us, terrifying the population with military grade psych-ops into a medical experiment & then using smoke & mirrors to avoid scrutiny would have happened. But it did. They are still doing all they can to divert scrutiny & avoid responsibility whilst continuing with the plan to hand the country over to the WHO & UN for a one world government.
If you still think the government wouldn’t do this, then do some due diligence or respect that other folk are further along the path of learning about all this than yourself.
We’re posting here to try to inform & help folk catch up rather than be taken out by what is coming down the line.
A violent uprising is easier to quash & gives a perfect excuse for further lockdowns & to bring in UN troops. Are you prepared to risk that happening, believing that the government is benign? Or are you going to join with throwing spanners into the works in a peaceful manner to disrupt enough that the control grid isn’t able to be imposed?
You don’t have to accept my interpretation to do the latter. But if anyone cares about the country, society that they wish for their children & grandchildren to live in, they should be pushing back peacefully with all their ability.
The political class
At what point does an ordinary politician, growing up and living in our community like the rest of us – who comes through the ranks of the party, maybe starting off standing as a candidate in a local election – become a member of “the political class” which wants to provoke its citizens into “violent uprising”?
Is there an initiation ceremony?
I’m sure you’re being disingenuous, but I’ll answer you anyway.
Firstly, the chances are that your ‘local’ MP is someone parachuted into your constituency by a party’s head office. The days of someone local working hard because he wants to help his community, doing time on the local council, then being persuaded to stand for Parliament, because he’s such a ‘good egg’ are long gone. This is a game for the hard-nosed, extremely ambitious and probably sociopathic.
Most local government is corrupt and works as an in-and-out ‘sin bin’. People vote for the same Tories until they get fed up with them, then vote the same Labour people back in, back and forth for what seems like decades – and often is! For a small number, it’s an opportunity to get into the national party machine and be sent somewhere in the country as a candidate.
As soon as someone is elected an MP, he has a guaranteed substantial pension for life. He can do very little and walk away with security for life. That immediately changes one’s outlook. Most of us fear poverty in old age. Your local MP doesn’t unless he’s very foolish with his money.
Then other things come into play: offers of non-executive directorships, lobbying firm deals, agreements to become something important in a business once he leaves his MP position, the ability to build a property portfolio to make ordinary people green with envy… it’s monetised ‘public service.’ That’s before we get into the patronage of the modern House of Lords, where people are effectively sold peerages to pack the house with people who will do the present administration’s bidding and agree to sabotage the next administration’s work. Consequently, we have the second biggest assembly in the world after Red China that never stops growing.
The political class is a relatively recent phenomenon in the UK that comes from Blair’s reconstruction of UK governance into something more ‘EUropean.’ It’s akin to the cult of lackeys we see running the French Fifth Republic. It extends from the Commons to the reformed House of Lords to the politicised modern Civil Service. Moreover, its tentacles creep into big business and especially state media, who now claim to run a ‘disinformation’ unit, which is the height of arrogance and actually one of the most terrifying ideas imaginable: that a government has to send people out to tell us what the ‘truth’ is.
There were always crooked MPs – the dreadful, destructive Ernest Marples springs to mind – but in terms of a separate class from the rest of the public, we’ve had that since the turn of the century. Prior to that, an MP, or even a PM, was out the door at once if he quit. No ‘victory laps’: a PM was shown the door and a caretaker put in until a replacement was found. As we’ve seen in the last few months, the political class will even collude with big business and the Bank of England to remove a PM voted in by the grassroots of a party and put in their own man.
As for provoking citizens, there have been plenty of claims about false flag operations from police and intelligence services. The British are the most surveilled population in the free world and the third most surveilled in the entire world after Red China and N Korea. I’m less conspiracy-minded and more of the view that politicians like to take advantage of a crisis. So, if JSO and others do happen trigger violence, all the better to pass legislation to put a bit of a kibosh on the activists, but an even bigger one on the wider population. Because control is desperately being sought. It’s a symptom of the immaturity, inexperience and lack of competence of modern politicians that they can’t leave people to live their lives and have to interfere in every aspect in or out of the home.
So we do have a political class. Without restoration of the old checks and balances, which is likely impossible, especially with an openly political monarch, we’re stuck with them.
Excellent commentary, thank you
All it will take to turn the masses against these deluded fanatics will be for blood to be on their hands, as in an incident such as the truck driver in the video described, where his daughter tried to kill herself the other day, and he had to rush back home from the job he was on – in his words, if this march had been on that day, then… who knows?
Let’s pray it does not come to that.
You cannot just presume to know the circumstances of the people whose day you are deliberately disrupting. People travelling in ordinary vehicles have to get places urgently, not just emergency crews. But oh no, your slow walking is definitely having the effect of stopping 1.5C warming and saving my grandchildren! Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
Go buddy, go, go ,go
Presumably, the ’50-year-old Californian businessman’ has never used a drop of oil to amass his millions?
Just saying …
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That’s a scooter not a motorcycle.
Once again mods giving us rockers a bad name!
It was ever thus.
Ain’t that the truth
Haha – I thought the same thing! Us rockers would be out on the open road…
It’s only a matter of time before someone is killed. Is that what JSO are seeking; a climate change martyr?
A martyr would no longer be able to protest – I see that as a good thing
“It’s only a matter of time before someone is killed.”
And the responsibility for deaths and injuries will belong firstly to Plod but ultimately with HMG. Never mind lessons will be learned.
The ‘Just stop oil’ protestors remind me a bit of the those people who used to walk around with ‘The end of the world is nigh’ sandwich boards, although the latter kept off the roads.
They’ve truly lost the plot when they infuriate cyclists and I don’t know: is that an electric bus they are obstructing?
Since time immemorial, people have prophesized doom one way or another. But in the end, nothing much came of the Y2K bug, the 2012 Mayan End Times, or Greta Thunberg’s groundless hysterical twitter prophecies. Yes, we have navigated and comfortably come out on the other side of many, many prognostications of our imminent demise!
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‘Protesters looked visibly shaken following the incident’ – get out of the road and stop obstructing the traffic then!
What I find distressing in all this is that some poor bugger could end up in court on a manslaughter charge simply for trying to get to work.
JSO are a sideshow. The real
menace is the consensus among most powerful bodies on the planet that there is a climate emergency to be solved by “green” policies. Or the pretence of it.
Absolutely also don’t the IHR/WHO world government takeover much more frightening than these irritating clowns.
“ploughing… shocking incident…brazen rider … careering…visibly shaken…?
Seriously?
Visibly shaken? I would imagine that the poor guy on the scooter was pretty upset at having to take such action.
Our security services were pretty efficient at finding out, and pre-empting, lockdown protests. Why can they not arrest these terrorists in advance of their actions? After all, we pay millions for them to snoop on people and these terrorists must be using something to co-ordinate, so how come they even get onto the road in the first place?
Surely they should be arrested without bail as any other terrorist would be.It is time these groups were proscribed and their funders, wherever they are, arrested and have their assets frozen and confiscated.
Did they not consider what their hi-viz jackets and silly banners are made from?
They aren’t that bright.- thick, paid, shit-stirrers.
Yes, and the only reason they have the luxury of the internet to spread word of their cause, is because they use computers that use power provided by the National Grid which, if it wasn’t kept viable by energy supplied by coal-fired power plants, would see the occurrence of frequent blackouts. JSO are every bit as reliant on fossil fuels as the rest of us!
Fossil fuels of course also providing the power to the servers on which the internet is based!
If you push someone out of the way with a vehicle who is breaking Section 12 are you liable? Since they should not be there in the first place would a case against you stand?
Should have ridden a steamroller. Would be a great match for a slow march supposed to obstruct traffic.
A steamroller is maybe too slow. I would prefer Mike Tyson
https://www.globalresearch.ca/41-year-old-model-hollywood-actress-katerina-pavelek-ended-her-life-assisted-suicide-clinic-basel-switzerland-june-17-2023-due-covid-19-vaccine-booster-injuries-me-cfs-als/5823440
Absolutely dreadful.
Don’t care – she was a volunteer. Darwinism in action
And totally unnecessary waste of a young life.
J S U I ————–Just Stop the Useful Idiots
SPAM!
Nothing shocking about it ….. good for him.
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In law, a legal defence to murder is ‘provocation’. Another one is called ‘impossibility (to perform a duty, or to avoid an incident…’.