Now even kids have had enough of Just Stop Oil: Students late to school and facing detention because of eco zealots kick off and rip banners away as they hold up traffic yet again on the morning commute
- Just Stop Oil’s never-ending series of protests continued yet again this morning
- The campaigners did their regular slow walk in London before police stepped in
The funereal slow march of Just Stop Oil protesters blighted London again this morning – enraging children trying to get to school.
Orange-dressed eco campaigners this time selected Stratford and Ealing for their now-familiar street shuffle.
But police at the east London demo appeared to be unworried this time as at first the highway hijack was not adjudged to be causing serious disruption.
Moments later as the congestion got worse, they imposed a Section 12 order.
One motorist, who the campaigners explained their cause too, seemed fairly unimpressed.
He told them: ‘I don#’t give a f*** get out of the way.’
A school pupil remonstrates with Just Stop Oil protesters as they carry on their actions of bringing traffic to a standstill to the streets of London this morning, this time in Stratford.
A furious commuter rips off Just Stop Oil posters from the protesters as they carry on march
This motorist seemed particularly aggrieved by the march and told them he ‘didn’t give a f***’
Meanwhile at the west London agitation, officers were much swifter and slapped the area with the legal imposition immediately.
It means they can arrest them if they do not stop blocking the highway.
Just Stop Oil say they are going to be carrying out the same tactics and actions forever unless the government and huge multi-national corporations cave in to their demands.
The campaign wants an end to new fossil fuel projects, yet have so far failed to target any of the countries who are the worst environmental offenders.
Just Stop Oil have angered motorists since they came into existence in February last year.
Just Stop Oil’s never-ending series of protests continued yet again this morning in London
Police eventually turned up to stop Just Stop Oil by putting in place a legal order against them
The legal order makes it unlawful to walk in the road and gives police the power to arrest them
Their outfit has recently become something of a hot potato.
The Tories say Labour are in the pocket of them, due to both organisations receiving donations from the same eco-entrepreneur.
Ecotricity tycoon Dale Vince even joined the protesters last week for one of their infamous marches.
It comes after measures to tackle eco-zealots were approved by the House of Lords last week.
Peers voted against moves to throw out Suella Braverman’s proposals, which will give police wider powers to tackle road-blocking protesters.
The Home Secretary said groups such as Just Stop Oil were ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ by blocking ambulances and stopping patients from getting to hospital appointments.
The result of the vote means the measures will become law – but a separate vote in the Upper House criticised the way the Government introduced the powers.
Peers said similar measures were already dropped from the Public Order Act earlier this year, and that ministers had not allowed scrutiny of the new attempt. Crossbencher Lord Pannick KC described it as a ‘constitutional outrage’.
The leading barrister said he supported the aims of the legislation and that the public should not have their daily lives interrupted by road-blocking protests.
But he added: ‘This is a constitutional outrage. The issue is whether we are going to approve regulations which defy the will of Parliament.’
Lord Hogan-Howe, a former Metropolitan Police commissioner, agreed that it was the ‘wrong way’ to introduce the measures but insisted police need more ‘clarity’ on when they can act to remove demonstrators.
What is Section 12 of the Public Order Act?
A Section 12 order under the Public Order Act 1986 relates to ‘imposing conditions on public processions’. It states:
- If the senior police officer, having regard to the time or place at which and the circumstances in which any public procession is being held or is intended to be held and to its route or proposed route, reasonably believes that –
- (a) it may result in serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community, or
- (b) the purpose of the persons organising it is the intimidation of others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do, or to do an act they have a right not to do, he may give directions imposing on the persons organising or taking part in the procession such conditions as appear to him necessary to prevent such disorder, damage, disruption or intimidation, including conditions as to the route of the procession or prohibiting it from entering any public place specified in the directions.
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