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Eco-zealots including pensioners occupied London bridges and lied down in the middle of the road as they brought the capital to a standstill.
Met Police arrested 31 protesters today after they paralysed the City on the second day of a planned month-long campaign of mayhem
Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament.
The protests were the start of an ‘October uprising’ revealed last week in an undercover investigation by The Mail on Sunday.
Just Stop Oil boasted it had ‘brought central London to a standstill by blocking four key bridges to Westminster – Waterloo, Westminster, Lambeth and Vauxhall.
Members of the group Just Stop Oil occupied four bridges in the capital, causing gridlock on busy roads, before converging on Parliament
A demonstrator lies down as he takes part in a protest in front of police officers in London
The protests were the start of an ‘October uprising’ revealed last week in an undercover investigation by The Mail on Sunday
‘This is not a one day event. This is not a symbolic day out, this is an act of resistance against this genocidal government’. In Hatton, Derbyshire, supposed human excrement was poured over a statue of £32 million NHS fund-raiser Captain Sir Tom Moore by a young woman demanding an end to use of private jets.
Just Stop Oil is a rag-tag coalition of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project and other groups.
Just Stop Oil is a rag-tag coalition of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project and other groups
Protesters hold up flags and placards at a protest in London on 1 October 2022
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the Unite union, Labour’s biggest backer, is supporting Just Stop Oil
Police officers arrest a protestor as people from 'Just Stop Oil' protest in London
People from Just Stop Oil continuing to campaign and protest on October 2 as part of the planned October 'uprising’
Four officers detained a pensioner, who was pictured with her eyes closed
The mob who blocked bridges were eventually moved on by police.
At King’s Cross, former Labour leader Mr Corbyn addressed activists who then set fire to fake energy bills in metal bins in protest at rising gas and electricity prices. One Just Stop Oil member warned activists plan bigger disruption today, saying: ‘It will be more spicy. We plan to get more people arrested tomorrow. Today it is just getting started.’
In Hatton, former medical student Maddie Budd, 21, poured what she said was human faeces on the memorial to Captain Tom, 100, who became a national hero during the pandemic.
Posting footage of her protest, Budd, who belongs to a group called End UK Private Jets, said: ‘Every time one [private jet] takes off, it pours a bucket of s**t and blood on to everything Captain Tom stood for.’
More photos of police officers in Hi-Vis uniforms tackling a Just Stop Oil t-shirt
Police officers detain a protestor as people from Just Stop Oil
At an online meeting on Friday night ahead of the protest, a union official pledged to help pay legal fees for members who are arrested at protests or face trouble at work because of activism
The group began its project on April 1 and since then has seen 1,296 arrests as the protestors demanded the government end new oil and gas projects in the UK
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the crowds as his Peace and Justice Project group joined the action as part of the 'Enough is Enough' campaign
RMT boss Mick Lynch was also at the protest on October 1 after joining picket lines outside Euston station this morning
Her action was condemned as ‘disgusting’ and ‘sick’ by social- media users.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the Unite union, Labour’s biggest backer, is supporting Just Stop Oil.
At an online meeting on Friday night ahead of the protest, a union official pledged to help pay legal fees for members who are arrested at protests or face trouble at work because of activism.
The group began its project on April 1 and since then has seen 1,296 arrests as the protestors demanded the government end new oil and gas projects in the UK.
'The politicians have turned a deaf ear to petitions and protests and marches - they just don't seem to care,' David Pearson, who helped organise the march.
Speaking in front of the Palace of Westminster, he added: 'We're
