Just Stop Oil has claimed it is ‘hanging up the high vis’ and ending its campaign of stunts after years of protests that have infuriated the country.
The environmental campaign group have bragged that they are stopping their stunts because the government has caved to their demands.
They will be ‘hanging up the hi vis’ at the end of next month with a final protest outside Parliament on April 26.
‘Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now government policy, making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history,’ they said.
‘We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful.
‘So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets. But it is not the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison.’
They boasted that they ‘exposed the corruption at the heart of our legal system, which protects those causing death and destruction while prosecuting those seeking to minimize harm’.
They added: ‘Just Stop Oil will continue to tell the truth in the courts, speak out for our political prisoners and call out the UK’s oppressive anti-protest laws.’
The protest group said that they needed to a different approach and will be creating a ‘new strategy’ and that ‘nothing short of revolution is going to protect us from the coming storms’.
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Just Stop Oil has said it is going to stop carrying out its campaign of stunts.
