Defiant Just Stop Oil eco rebels arrested by police after causing mayhem in London yesterday were back on the streets snarling up traffic this morning in another chaotic slow-march protest.
In an online boast, the eco-mob declared some of the eight activists detained by the Metropolitan Police on Wednesday ‘and held overnight’ had this morning ‘marched on Tower Bridge’, in flagrant defiance of the authorities.
Among them was a 21-year-old activist from Melbourne, Australia, who was pictured being led away by police following a shambolic slow march through Parliament Square on Wednesday.
The woman, who previously identified herself as ‘Hannah’, was filmed shouting on a megaphone while queuing traffic behind her is blocked from the bridge.
‘The police are trying to prevent us from our basic right to demand justice and fight in defence of our lives and liberties,’ she says, as police officers attempt to remove the protesters from the road.
Pictured on Wednesday, this campaigner called Hannah, from Melbourne, Australia, was detained by police in Westminster. Today, she was back out causing mayhem, this time joining a slow march across Tower Bridge (pictured below)
The 21-year-old, who has taken part in marches on Tuesday and Wednesday, joined about 24 other Just Stop Oil activists in London on Thursday
Just Stop Oil appeared to boast about how some of those detained by police yesterday were back on the streets and protesting again
Another male protester, seemingly arrested during Wednesday’s slow-march in Parliament Square, Westminster, was also filmed leading today’s demonstration.
The Tower Bridge demonstration was promptly dealt with by police. But activists resumed their campaign of chaos by marching on streets in Kensington later in the morning.
The disruption triggered a furious response from motorists, with one white van man unleashing a verbal tirade at campaigners.
The irate driver was filmed screaming at the group of 24 eco-warriors as they clogged the roads.
Pointing out of the window of his van as he drove past, the angry motorist yelled ‘get them c***s out of the f***ing road’ before screaming ‘c***s’ as he drove away.
Seconds later, another frustrated driver caught in a queue of traffic behind the climate change fanatics, is filmed accelerating past them.
The incident took place in the swanky Cromwell Road, where flats can sell for £2.4million, and was the fourth day of carnage caused by Just Stop Oil in London this week.
Today’s mayhem began shortly after 8am on Tower Bridge near the City of London financial hub.
Protesters are pictured marching across Tower Bridge on Thursday
The eco-warriors caused mayhem during the march this morning across Tower Bridge
In familiar scenes. the group were forced off the road about 20 minutes later by police after causing rush-hour delays.
Then, at about 10.50am, demonstrators staged their second protest by slowly marching through the streets of Kensington.
Again, police imposed a Section 12 public order banning notice on the protesters, who were forced from the road shortly after 11am.
The action this morning came after a day of chaos on Wednesday, which saw eight protesters arrested and five other kicked out of Parliament during a stunt in the House of Commons.
Among those taking action in this morning’s rally was 21-year-old student Sasha Stone, from Edinburgh.
She said: ‘As a student, I feel this sense of hopelessness looking into the future. How can we continue on this path?
Police were already on the scene and broke the demonstration up within minutes before it moved to Kensington
Officers were again scrambled to Cromwell Road to force the protesters out of the street
‘The government has been bought by oil and gas companies and is making decisions which will inevitably lead to mass destruction, famine, and death for the many ordinary people in this country and around the world.’
‘It is not an exaggeration to say that as a species we are playing with fire.’
Just Stop Oil activist Imogen Robertson, 22, a student from Stirling, added she was worried about the climate crisis
‘I have two much younger siblings, and so the unpredictability of the future weighs on me heavily,’ she said.
‘Because of this, I cannot and will not be complacent in the face of inaction by our government.’
Almost 30 protesters descended upon Westminster on Wednesday in the eco-mob’s third day of targeted mayhem in the capital this week.
Five activists were kicked out of the House of Commons after attempting to disrupt the Home Affairs committee hearing.
While in chaotic scenes outside parliament, eight activists were detained by police after allegedly refused to get off the road during their latest slow-march in Parliament Square.
Video footage showed one eco-warrior, who on Tuesday identified herself as a 21-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, being led away by two officers as she slammed the Government for ‘restricting us of our basic right to protest’, and saying: ‘We are not the first people to march and demand liberty.
One Just Stop Oil protester is seen appearing to be led away by police, after Met officers were forced to make eight arrests following a demonstration in Parliament Square
Eight protesters were arrested by police on Wednesday morning. Pictured is one activist being detained
The action came minutes after a group of almost 30 campaigners were moved off Westminster Bridge following a slow-march there at rush-hour. Pictured is a protester being detained in Parliament Square on Wednesday morning
‘This police officer doesn’t want me to speak to you because they do not want the truth to be heard.
‘The police, the Government, the courts are all complicit in the continued licensing of new oil and gas in the full knowledge that this is a death sentence for my generation [and] for billions of people globally.
‘This is criminal and I cannot stand by and do nothing.’
A spokesman for the Met Police told MailOnline: ‘Police placed a section 12 condition on the procession to move out of the road, as serious disruption was likely, and to continue protest lawfully on the pedestrian areas should they wish to do so.
‘Eight people refused to move out of the road and were arrested for breaching the conditions specified.
‘They have been taken into custody to a central London police station.’
The arrests came after Just Stop Oil protesters staged a stunt in Parliament as they disrupted an MP probe into Scotland Yard’s crackdown on anti-royal protesters at King Charles’ Coronation.
The activists, wearing white t-shirts emblazoned with the group’s name, sat behind the Met’s Temporary Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist as he gave evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee this morning.
The senior officer told MPs the force was not put under political pressure to crack down on anti-monarchists amid criticism of what has been described in some quarters as ‘heavy-handed’ arrests during the historic ceremony earlier this month.
However, the hearing was interrupted when the activist Dr Kush Naker, 33, stood up and shouted before the infectious diseases doctor from London was hauled out of the room.
One of the activists prepares to stand up during the group’s protest in Parliament on Wednesday morning
Protesters were escorted into a police van during the drama in Westminster on Wednesday
This activist, left, was among those arrested on Wednesday. During an earlier protest on Tuesday, she identified herself as a 21-year-old called Hannah from Melbourne
A number of officers were seen surrounding some of the activists on Wednesday morning
Activists gathered in Parliament Square with orange banners during their latest demonstration
The live feed of the proceedings was abruptly cut as someone in the room was heard to interrupt MPs as they questioned Mr Matt Twist about the arrests.
Once the video footage was restored, Tory MP Tim Loughton, who was seen rolling his eyes and shaking his head, said: ‘To be clear, they were Just Stop Oil protesters who tried to undermine the activities of this committee with our witnesses today.’
The mayhem in the capital began at 8.43am when activists clogged Westminster Bridge at rush-hour for their latest slow march.
But they were surrounded by police within four minutes and by 8.53am, the group had been kicked out of the road by the Met Police.
But minutes later, the group resumed their protest, marching through Parliament Square in Westminster, were officers detained eight campaigners.
The swift action came as eco-warriors from the group compared their chaotic marches to the trailblazing efforts of the suffragettes, who fought for women’s rights in the early 20th century.
Graduate Hannah Taylor, 22, from Derbyshire, is part of Just Stop Oil. She said: ‘Yesterday, I was asked to march on the pavement. Would the suffragettes have marched on the pavement?’
Activists ignored orders by police to stop their protest, which prompted officers to make a number of arrests, the Met said online.
A spokesperson added: ‘We’ll continue to tackle serious disruption where it occurs.’
A large number of officers were pictured in Parliament Square, Westminster as they rounded up protesters
Police are seen searching one protester in Westminster during the latest Just Stop Oil demonstration
But the group of climate change protesters were forced off the road by police after just 10 minutes as they tried to make their way towards the Palace of Westminster
Almost 30 Just Stop Oil campaigners were involved in their latest protest in London, marching along Westminster Bridge on Wednesday morning
Taking to Twitter, Just Stop Oil – which is campaigning for the UK Government to slash its use of fossil fuels – said: ‘This government has chosen to stop protests instead of stopping new fossil fuels. Who are the real criminals?’
On Tuesday, furious scene were ignited in the capital as angry motorists lashed out at the protesters.
One man was seen yelling at campaigners, telling them to ‘get out the way’, ‘go and have a wash’ and ‘go and get a job and do something useful’.
He was one of a number of road users who were pushed to breaking point by the activists, including others who hit the demonstrators with a lorry, tore banners from their hands and threw water over them.
Dressed in a white hoodie and tracksuit bottoms, the dark-haired man jumped out of the car he was travelling in to tell the group: ‘Get the f*** out the way now, get the f*** out the way now, you f****** c****.’
He then adds: ‘Go and have a f****** wash, you c****.’
As the driver of the black Nissan he gets back into remains stuck behind the protest, he then yells at the group again from out the passenger window.
‘Go get a job you f****** c***. Go and do something useful you f****** tramp.
The man was seen yelling at the eco-warriors, telling them to ‘get out the way’, ‘go and have a wash’ and ‘go and get a job and do something useful
Another frustrated road user threw water over the protesters as they blocked vehicles
Protesters on Wednesday were swiftly surrounded by police as they marched along Westminster Bridge. They were forced off the road by officers within 10 minutes (pictured)
‘What do you think of all these f****** cars sitting here causing f****** pollution, you silly f****** c***.
‘Use your f****** brain…you know I’m making sense and all, don’t you, you silly f****** old c***.’
Earlier in the day, police officers were seen chuckling with the protesters during the group’s third slow march in just two days.
One man confronted the climate change fanatics by tearing banners away from protesters and pushing them as tensions flared.
Dressed in a white polo shirt and shorts, he appeared to shove protesters as they caused traffic chaos in Elephant and Castle, marching slowly in front of a lorry.
‘Get out the f***ing way before you get run over,’ he shouts before adding: ‘Get out the f***ing way you p****s’ as he apparently pushes a group of eco-zealots and then yanks an orange banner off another.
