Keir Starmer gets a home visit from Just Stop Oil. They’ll be called ‘extremists’, we’re sure.
Door-knocking for the planet
On Wednesday 28 February, a Just Stop Oil supporter who has been a constituent of Keir Starmer for 12 years delivered him a letter asking that he leave the Labour Party if, within six months of them forming government, they fail to revoke the Tory oil and gas licenses issued since 2021.
Labour: ‘not listening’ to Just Stop Oil
Clive Jennings, an artist from Camden, said today:
Our democracy is supposed to work by representation – where our elected Members of Parliament represent us in Parliament, fighting for us on a local, national and international scale. I’ve been a Labour voter and activist for 50 years, and for 12 years I’ve been voting for my MP Keir Starmer, but my voice and the voices of many other Labour voters isn’t being heard.
The new oil and gas licenses that Rishi Sunak has been giving away are doing nothing to cut down my energy bills, but they are putting us in massive danger. How can the UK be a global leader if we’re not even able to get started with an energy transition? If the Labour Party can’t get behind the public’s demand for safe, cheap renewable energy then clearly there is something seriously wrong with politics.
🚨 BREAKING: We Visited Keir Starmer's Home
🚪 Just Stop Oil supporter and @Keir_Starmer constituent Clive Jennings delivered a letter to Starmer's home this afternoon, calling on him to end Tory oil and gas.
🔥 Sign up and help us Stop Tory Oil — https://t.co/7BzUVS02dZ pic.twitter.com/lQfDjsFC84
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) February 28, 2024
It’s not the first time Just Stop Oil has visited Starmer. Last Christmas, the group held a carol concert outside his house – until scrooge cops got involved and forced them to leave.
Elsewhere in London, Just Stop Oil supporter Joe Aggarwal, a project manager from Shoreditch, delivered a letter with the same ask to the home of their local MP Rushanari Ali, of Bethnal Green and Bow. He said:
The Labour Party is more of the same: suicidal climate policy, genocidal foreign policy and oppressive economic policy. I say: ‘No more’.
🚪 At the same time Keir Starmer received his letter, Just Stop Oil supporter Joe Aggarwal delivered a letter to their local MP @rushanaraali.
💬 While delivering the letter, Joe said: “The Labour party is more of the same: suicidal climate policy, genocidal foreign policy and… pic.twitter.com/vY8RKe9Zps
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) February 28, 2024
Starmer is more of the same
Both these actions come after several Just Stop Oil supporters disrupted a fundraiser held by Labour frontbencher Anneliese Dodds. As the Canary previously reported, they also called on her to leave the party in six months for the same reasons:
🚨 BREAKING: Anneliese Dodds' Fundraising Dinner Disrupted in Oxford
🛢️ A letter was delivered to the Labour frontbencher, demanding the Labour Party ends Tory oil and gas.
🔥 Politics is failing. Join us and together we will change the system — https://t.co/7BzUVS02dZ pic.twitter.com/n0F4UVoJpC
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) February 23, 2024
As the world passes tipping points that threaten the breakdown of ordered civilisation, world leaders, captured by the interests of oil lobbyists and big business, are failing to protect our communities.
British citizens are sick of being led by liars and crooks – including by the looks of it, Starmer. Until we stop Tory oil, supporters of Just Stop Oil will continue taking proportionate action to demand necessary change. Sign up for action at juststopoil.org.
Featured image via Just Stop Oil
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Even under the new proposals no one could consider hand-delivering a letter as any kind of a protest never mind one where the politician felt ‘under threat’
This entire policy has only surfaced since Sir Lindsay Hoyle used intimidation (the prevention of) as the reason for torpedoing the SNP Opposition Motion last week. The suggestion was that the protesters outside were seen as intimidating and that having the Labour Amendment was meant to quell the anger from them. But this bears absolutely NO inspection at all. The protesters were ‘Pro Palestinian’ and therefore would have been most in agreement with the SNP Motion rather than the Labour Amendment which was much watered down and removed any reference to “collective punishment” This was not, therefore, the reason for the Labour Amendment being allowed and Hoyle’s assertion that it was is desperate and cynical.
But despite that the government has taken Hoyle at his word and decided they will spend money on this, make new legislation and perhaps assign security personnel to individual MPs. Perhaps (likely) the chance they were looking for to implement new laws against protest. It’s difficult to argue against improving security and safety for ordinary MPs when, in recent years, two have been murdered and many (women most particularly) are subject to sickening abuse. I’m thinking particularly of Diane Abbot and what she has had to put up with throughout her career. However I doubt there would be any REAL protection in this. The Tories would get to remove the right to protest anywhere near MPs, for their safety of course. But this would mean no protests not just at the homes of MPs but at their offices, meetings, visits/walkabouts and anywhere near the Houses of Parliament.
Labour would find themselves either having to rubbish Hoyle’s reasons or to get behind the Tory anti-protest law. Given the recent behaviour of the party then I assume it would be on the side of preventing lawful, peaceful protest. And none of this is likely to prevent anyone wishing to commit and act against an MP as none of those who committed the murders were involved in protests..