Chanting stag party hijacks Just Stop Oil's latest slow march protest

‘We love you oil, we do!’: Chanting stag party RUINS Just Stop Oil’s latest slow march protest and run off with their banner – leaving the eco-clowns very unamused

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This is the moment a chanting stag party hijacks Just Stop Oil’s latest slow march protest and run off with their banner.

The eco-activists were holding their latest demonstration near London Waterloo station when suddenly the group of young men took over.

Footage shows one of the men, dressed head-to-toe in pink, running behind the group’s orange banner, chanting: ‘We love you oil, we do!’

His friends then cheer as he rips the sign out of the hands of the protesters and runs away, twirling it in the air before throwing it on the ground. 

The demonstrators are then seen continuing their march, looking displeased. 

Footage shows one of the men, dressed head-to-toe in pink, running behind the group’s orange banner, chanting: ‘We love you oil, we do!’ 

His friends then cheer as he rips the sign out of the hands of the protesters and runs away, twirling it in the air before throwing it on the ground

The demonstrators are then seen continuing their march, looking displeased

In another video, an onlooker can he heard reprimanding the group and saying: ‘You’re stopping people going to the hospital who need treatment.’ 

READ MORE: Three Just Stop Oil protesters are charged with aggravated trespass after storming the Lord’s pitch

The Metropolitan Police’s Events Team tweeted today: ‘Police were made aware of 15/20 Just Stop Oil #protesters walking slowly in York Road at 12:20hrs, causing serious disruption today, Friday, 30 June. 

‘Officers were on scene at 12.23hrs and issued a condition to move off the carriageway, which was complied with immediately.’

A JSO spokesman said: ‘Today, 25 students are marching in Waterloo to demand that the UK government immediately halt all new fossil fuel licences.’ 

It comes just days after a JSO campaigner was carried off the wicket at Lord’s by Jonny Bairstow during England’s second Ashes test with Australia.

Daniel Knorr, a 21-year-old biochemistry student from Oxford, Jason Bourne, a 26-year-old from Leeds, and Judit Murray, a 69-year-old grandmother from Surrey, ran onto the world’s most famous cricket ground while hurling orange powder into the air.

England wicketkeeper Bairstow was forced to take matters into his own hands by physically stopping Knorr and carrying him across the outfield – to cheers from the crowd.

Knorr, who was arrested in April trying to scale and cover ‘Dippy the Diplodocus’ with orange powder at a Coventry gallery, looked utterly delighted as a quietly determined Bairstow lugged him away before dumping him on the boundary for security to deal with. He was then dragged off by police.

The student will appear alongside his two co-defendants at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on July 31. The charges carry a maximum penalty of three months’ imprisonment.

In another video, an onlooker can he heard reprimanding the group and saying: ‘You’re stopping people going to the hospital who need treatment’

The group also held up traffic in Hammersmith yesterday, resulting in a passer-by throwing milk over the group. 

In a video posted online, a man can be heard muttering to himself before he approaches the group of around six protesters in the road and throws an open bottle of whole milk over them.

READ MORE: Furious bystander hurls milk over Just Stop Oil protesters as they perform road-blocking slow march 

Before that, two people in a landscape gardening truck got sick of waiting for police to arrive and remove JSO protesters at another London location, as they swerved across the road and hurled abuse at the activists.

On Monday, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist told LBC that policing the action has cost £5.5 million since April, on top of the £7.5 million spent policing the series of protests Just Stop Oil staged between last October and December.

Earlier this month, protest laws were tightened up to allow officers to intervene earlier when protesters are marching in the road, forcing them on to the pavement where disruption is felt to be more than minor.

The group’s actions have led some frustrated motorists to take matters into their own hands in the same way as Bairstow did on Wednesday, but Downing Street said the situation at Lord’s was an unusual one and dealing with protests should usually be left to the police.

‘There is a reason we empowered the police to take action and that’s what we see day-to-day,’ Mr Sunak’s spokesman said.

‘Obviously these were unusual circumstances.’

JSO has been staging daily protests since April 24, disrupting high-profile events including the Chelsea Flower Show, the Gallagher Premiership rugby final at Twickenham and the World Snooker Championship.

It is calling for an end to all new coal, oil and gas projects in the UK.

When Londoners fought back against Just Stop Oil protesters 

Milk attack – June 29

As Just Stop Oil protesters held up traffic by slow marching in Hammersmith, London on Thursday, they were stopped in their tracks by a passer-by.

In a video posted online, a man can be heard muttering to himself before he approaches the group of around six protesters in the road and throws an open bottle of whole milk over them.

The man, whose identity is unknown, poured the milk over the protesters and hurled verbal abuse at them

Moped ploughs through banner – June 26

In Camberwell, a motorcyclist refused to be held up by the rush-hour slow march, ploughing through their banner and tossing it on the ground as he rode away.

The brazen rider was seen careering straight through two protesters holding up the JSO sign which he then gathers and disposes of. 

The unnamed motorcyclist drove straight through the group’s latest demonstration 

Water soaker – June 22

Ryan Davis, 60, emptied two buckets of water as half a dozen protesters slow marched in the middle of the road past his flat in Camden, North London. 

Mr Davis said his only regret was that he did not have more time to administer a soaking from the balcony of his third floor flat.

Just Stop Oil protesters were drenched in water by Mr Davis who stood on his balcony  as they held up yet more traffic in north London 

School pupils respond – June 19 

Just Stop Oil became so unpopular earlier this month that children – who its protesters repeatedly claim are the generation whose futures they are campaigning to save – have started berating the group in the streets.

Pupils were seen reprimanding slow-marchers in Stratford, east London, for making them late for lessons. 

A school pupil remonstrates with Just Stop Oil protesters as they carry on their actions of bringing traffic to a standstill to the streets of London this morning in Stratford

Sign ripper – June 16

Just Stop Oil’s protest in Kensington earlier this month proved too much for one man, whose temper exploded leading to him snatching signs off protesters and ripping them apart.

While in another video, a furious white van man caught up in the snarl-up raged at the eco-mob ‘you should be arrested for doing this,’ before adding: ‘Why are we the victims? Go to the Government and stand outside 10 Downing Street. Go outside Downing Street and do your thing there like normal people do.’

But the scene prompted fury this morning, with one man being seen to snatch the signs from protesters and rip it up

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