Protest group Just Stop Oil says it’s ‘hanging up the hi vis’. The group’s activities have left 15 protesters languishing in jail following a series of high profile demonstrations since 2021 that some think set back environmental causes by alienating public support.
Announcing an end to campaigning after “one last action”, the group claims to have “kept 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground”, apparently taking all the credit for the UK government’s decision to halt further gas and oil developments.
The group says that equates to “over 1.2 million barrels per arrest”, but while Just Stop Oil appears still to be celebrating the disruptive methods that caused grief and consternation for millions of ordinary citizens, its plea for support for an action day in London’s Parliament Square suggests that criminal punishments meted out by the courts to its members have been effective.
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