Just Stop Oil’s ‘Beyond F***ed Banquet’ was derailed today by counter-protestors, who set off alarms suspended in balloons.
The divisive climate activism group held an event in London to ‘step back, grieve for what will die and disappear but also to celebrate what we have achieved’, offering campaign updates, stories from people ‘in resistance’, plant based food and music.
But the banquet was thrown off course when ‘Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off’ protestors crashed the event with deafening ‘personal safety alarms’.
The group – which this week clashed with JSO as they prepared to march on London – was revealed to be led by British YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners.
They shared today how they had send a mole ‘undercover […] for the past few weeks’ to ‘help stop Just Stop Oil’ as public opposition to the group mounts.
Archie told MailOnline this evening: ‘Climate Change is the greatest crisis facing our generation – but if we’re going to solve it we need to work together.
‘JSO’s tactics over the last 18 months haven’t worked; indeed people across the country are put off this vital cause as a result of their protesting.
‘The people at JSO are well-intended; but they’re going about it the wrong way. Stopping mothers getting to hospital, or ruining people’s day out at the snooker isn’t doing anything to tackle climate change.’
The counter-protestors today shared all with their 1.44million subscribers on YouTube.
Josh Pieters says in the video: ‘I think it’s fair if we disrupt Just Stop Oil in the same way they disrupt us.’
