A Just Stop Oil protest mob waving eco-banners were ordered to disperse after they began singing Christmas carols outside the home of Sir Keir Starmer. The eco-activist group that has caused misery blocking roads and gate-crashing sporting and enterntainment events this year staged the mock show of goodwill outside the politician’s residence last night.
In a statement, the organisation said members were belting out “climate-criminal” Christmas carols and that as the “likely leader of the next UK government” they were ordering Sir Keir to “commit to cancelling all new oil and gas licences” Officers from the Met Police attended and moved on the singers. The force said no arrests were made.
It’s not the first time the eco Christmas carol troupe have struck, having staged a similar protest outside the home of Rishi Sunak in November.
In a statement this time the group asked Sir Keir: “How do you want to be remembered, Keir? As the ghost of Christmas past? Or as the man who gave us a future? It’s time for action, not words.”
During a video posted on X by Just Stop Oil the protesters can be heard talking back to police officers saying: “yes, sing, that’s eaxctly my point. Do you realise how ridiculous it is that were not allowed to sing.”
It’s not clear what time of night the group were performing, but it is clearly after dark in the footage.
The Met Police officers, who have had to waste thousands of hours policing Just Stop Oil demonstrations across the capital this year, show they have little time for the stunt.
An officer takes charge and tells the singers: “Listen loud and clear, I’ll give you a warning and that is under section 42 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2021” before adding that the group must “disperse”.
The officer added, as the protesters continued to sing, that they must not return the area for a period of three months.
Reacting to Just Stop Oil’s gleeful post about the guerrilla carol stunt online, one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the group should: “Leave the man alone. This is his and his family home, and their family time. You do your cause no good.”
Another added: “How is Keir Starmer a climate criminal? What a pointless exercise.”
