Just Stop Oil says it is quitting direct action in shock statement

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/just-stop-oil-direct-action-parliament-square-climate-change-b1219191.html

by LoquaciousLord1066

42 comments

  1. “In a statement issued on Thursday, the group said: “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. 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.”

    JSO added: “As corporations and billionaires corrupt political systems across the world, we need a different approach. We are creating a new strategy, to face this reality and to carry our responsibilities at this time. Nothing short of a revolution is going to protect us from the coming storms.””

  2. I felt they harmed their own cause at times with the direct action. Green energy is big deal now thankfully, and is wrapped up in national security not just environmental concerns. So I think there’s broad support from different areas of society.

  3. Is there evidence that their actions were in any way effective ? Or were they just a nuisance

  4. This is standard protest group strategy. Cause an absolute public shitstorm for a few years, and then morph into a more run-of-the-mill protest group who now has a ton of media exposure.

  5. Their original demand was to stop North Sea Oil drilling, and they have succeeded in that as Ed Miliband announced that the UK is not going to issue new licences. Not a terrible surprise for them to wind down operations.

  6. They’re going to start a revolution now? I’m interested to see this.

  7. This feels very similar to CND claiming they were a big reason for the nuclear weapon limitation treaties. Minutes of debates of the time show they were really never even considered to be relevant to the government, but they claim they were. This feels similar, did the government even care too much about JSO or did they actually have a positive effect on top of angering the public

  8. I hope they don’t get any Amazon deliveries or any deliveries at all.

  9. I’m going to miss how much piss they boiled on this sub.

  10. I have since stopped buying VHS as my protest as I claim my victory of stopping blockbusters operating

  11. Good. I’m largely on their side but their tactics were beyond obnoxious. Attacking some of the more beautiful things we’ve done as a species stuck in my craw.

  12. Don’t think people disagreed with the sentiment but their methods just meant their message was lost, before they began.

  13. The organisation is decentralised and non-hierarchical, so I don’t think this statement can be an official statement of group policy.

  14. Good. Their antics were fucking annoying. I generally agree with their message but their behaviour was a turn off for me.

  15. This country loves to moan about the state of what it’s become but gets rattled anytime someone does anything about it lmao

  16. The only success here belongs to the criminal justice system. Well done to everyone at the MOJ and Home Office.

  17. All they accomplished is pissing everyone off, best kind of conversation they made out of anyone is.

    I don’t want to ruin the planet but blocking traffic is just going to make people hate the cause.

  18. Never understood why they didn’t blockade the roads leaving places like Coca-Cola factories ect.. hitting them in the profits, where it hurts.

  19. They were instrumental in getting the government to bring in much harsher protest laws with the Public Order Act.

    Job done MI5 I guess lol

    > In 2023, Parliament passed new anti-protest legislation under the Public Order Act.
    This gives powers to prosecute someone who interferes with the operation or use of key national infrastructure in England and Wales – including roads, railways, and air transport.
    Previously, the police could generally only restrict a protest if they could show it may result in “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63543307

  20. “We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels in the ground”

    Nope – UK demand hasn’t changed, so we’re just importing the same amount at far higher financial and environmental cost. All imports are more carbon intensive than new UK fields.

    Just stopping *UK* oil means the UK is emitting far more for our same demand, just abroad. The green groups are greenwashing.

  21. I mean attacking famous art and national treasures just makes people dislike you and also by proxy dislike your cause… even when its a good cause. they might have done more harm than good.

    glad they’ve stopped though.

  22. Fair cop, the oil lobbyists pretty much own the government anyway, everyone else should give up and support our patriotic multinational oil companies too

  23. My view is that if they had never done any acts of sabotage, nothing would be different to how it is now. They just pissed off a lot of people and soured many against their cause.

  24. Theatres and art galleries everywhere breathing a sigh of relief. 

  25. in this thread: the exact same people who said every contemporary historical protest movement ‘achieved nothing’ and ‘made things worse’ – from suffrage to unions to civil rights – it’s always the exact same line

    plus ca change

  26. Don’t forget that woman who got paralysed because your group blocked the ambulance trying to get to her on time.

  27. They were only successful if we reduced our oil usage as a result of their actions. If all they’ve done is to get us to import more from other countries, using fuel to transport it to us, they’ve actually made things worse.

    Not to mention the increase in prices the consumer has to pay.

  29. So they finally found out that annoying the general public isn’t a good idea if you want them to support you.

    I’m sure they would be way more popular if they used all the orange paint on oil company executives’ homes rather than historic national landmarks.

  30. JSO causes more harm then good, good riddance the group of idiots

  31. Total tosh

    They did nothing. 

    Really – nothing.

  32. In my opinion, they did very little to shift the conversation, damaged their cause, and became known for unjustifiable direct action which harmed thousands of people. Their actions undermined any positive arguments for green energy. The conversation started way before they existed and has gathered momentum due to geopoligical undertainty and energy becoming a national security priority. Add to that the extraction costs in the North Sea and younger politicians and diversification was enevitable. The group give themselves, as per usual, far to much credit and importance.

  33. Not a single action by them made me want to support them.

    I am on the side of climate change, but after seeing their actions I wanted to dump car batteries in the ocean

  34. The guy who bike locked his head to a goal post at goodison park was probably the most exciting thing to ever happen there

  35. Thats right folks tarquin and gemima will be holidaying in provence this year instead of blocking our roads

  36. That’s a shame. I was looking forward the day seeing a video of a truck plough through them as they lay in the road.. Oh well, maybe next time.

  37. As someone that completely agrees with their messages I think they are completely fucked if they think they have done anything to help the cause.

    As someone raised in Malaysia and the middle east I’ve seen first hand how the population is destroying nature but doing the shit they pulled made me want to buy a Humvee. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if these brainwashed morons weren’t funded by Shell.

    Complete twats

  38. They’ve never had anything to say on environmental damage from overseas and the exporting of our carbon production. Nothing the U.K. does internally can put the slightest dent on what happens in China and India. These aren’t serious people.

  39. Lol, imagine being one of those people who got suckered in by this group and is serving years in jail because of what they convinced you to do, and now you hear that they’re just giving up.

  40. Just stop oil another braindead movement, let’s vandalise art work and glue ourselves to the road because oil = bad.

  41. They achieved next to fuck all other than pissing people off.

    Before they started all of this, the vast majority of the UK knew and believed about climate change with the majority believing something had to be done.

  42. This won’t be it. There will be civil war now within their group and even more radical members will take charge and reform. I bet half of them know that this was planned anyway and this won’t be enough for them.

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