Just Stop Oil (JSO) eco-zealots have seen two protests disrupted by members of the public this morning before being shut down by police – with a motorcyclist driving through a march.
Elsewhere in the capital, an enraged cyclist attempted to push protesters out of the road, telling them to ‘f****** move’ as he shoved them out of the way of a waiting car and bus.
The group is engaging in its tenth week of slow marches today and proudly announced that it had caused blockages on key roads across north, south and west London this morning.
However, in what is becoming a disturbingly common occurrence, there were ugly interactions between the group and fed-up commuters.
In Camberwell shortly after 8am, a motorcyclist refused to be held up by the rush-hour slow march, ploughing through their banner and tossing it on the ground as he rode away.
A Just Stop Oil demonstration has been thwarted by a motorcyclist in London
The unnamed motorcyclist drove straight through the group’s latest demonstration
After racing off, the driver was seen to toss the group’s crumpled banner away
A cyclist was also seen trying to remove the protesters from the road in London today
In ugly scenes the man pushed, shoved and swore at the demonstrators clogging up the road
The brazen rider was seen careering straight through two protesters holding up the JSO sign which he then gathers and disposes of.
Meanwhile in Islington, a lone cyclist took matters into his own hands and began to try and move all of the protesters off Holloway Road himself.
In a video released by JSO, the cyclist can be seen telling the group to ‘f****** move’. At one point, the man yells: ‘Go and protest properly you s******** *****.’
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 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.
Major events have also been disrupted by JSO, including the Rugby Cup final at Twickenham and the Epsom Derby, with Wimbledon suspected to be the next sporting event under threat.
‘It’s become disruption for the sake of disruption,’ Neilson told The Times. ‘Working people that are trying to get to their job, get their kid dropped off at school, survive a brutal cost-of-living crisis in the UK, you know, there’s a certain hierarchy of needs that they have.’
Mr Neilson was once an enthusiastic supporter of the controversial tactics employed by the climate groups, but said their activities have caused him increasing unease.
‘If at the same time they have a pink-haired, tattooed and pierced protester standing in front of their car, so that their kid is late for their test that day, that does not encourage them to join the movement,’ he added.
‘It’s just performative. It’s not accomplishing anything. I absolutely believe that it has now become counterproductive, and I just feel like that has to be said by somebody that was involved in the beginnings of what it has become.’
The incident is just the latest example of members of the public reaching their wits’ end with the protesters
The group were left visibly shaken following the angry intervention by the motorcyclist
JSO’s demonstrations have been hampered in recent weeks by the police’s ability to enact Section 12 conditions – making it an arrestable offence to stay in the road.
Today’s incident is just the latest example of members of the public reaching their wits’ end with the activists.
Last week, a furious van driver appeared to scream ‘get out of the f***ing road’ at relentless protesters.
The frustrated van driver honks his horn at the protesters before managing to get past them.
As the van drives past, he appears to shout ‘get out of the f***ing road’ at demonstrators – who remain unfazed.
In other video footage, one activist explains through a megaphone: ‘People shout at us “get a job”- we all have jobs, we have taken time off today to speak to you. We do not like holding you up in hot, sweaty weather.’
Previously protesters were drenched in water by a furious Londoner on a balcony during yet another traffic-halting protest.
The eco-zealots were seen walking in the middle of a busy road in the north of the capital during rush hour on Thursday morning.
Footage showed them dawdling along with signs as frustrated vans and buses honked their horns behind them in Camden.
The protesters were then sprayed with water from an upstairs balcony, after which the camera tilts to the homeowner who is seen shouting and pointing at the activists below.
Just Stop Oil protesters were drenched in water by a furious Londoner standing on a balcony on Thursday morning as they held up yet more traffic
The activists were sprayed with water from an upstairs balcony, after which the camera tilted to the thrower, who was seen shouting and pointing at the protestors below
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