Handcuffed activisits from the group Just Stop Oil lie on the road as they are arrested after they blocked a road in London,
(Picture: AP)It’s 8am last Wednesday and 10 people in orange hi-vis vests stroll out onto one of the busiest roads in the City. They aren’t doing emergency roadworks but their actions will still cause miles of traffic jams. The bright orange banners they unfurl bear a crude black skull logo. As they chant “no coal, no oil, no gas”, police mill about, explaining to angry drivers that they are unable to do anything, as the group aren’t causing “serious disruption”.
Last week’s slow marches through London are just the latest wave of action from the protest group Just Stop Oil. Since forming in February, they have climbed onto overhead gantries on the M25, causing tailbacks and accidents, thrown tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and covered a memorial to Sir Captain Tom Moore in faeces.
