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The JSO protesters then ask the group how long they are going to keep them there for, adding: “What’s your plan, because when you leave we’re going to go on the road again.” It comes as public frustration with the group, which has vowed to ‘paralyse London’ with slow-marching columns in a bid to force the government to scrap new domestic oil and gas licences, has started to boil over into violence.

Just Stop Oil’s raison d’être (widely slammed by fellow environmentalists) has been “raising the alarm” about the climate crisis. The prank did an effective job of highlighting how untethered their tactics have become. In a summer where wildfires in Europe have led the news, says Prowse, “I don’t think disrupting the snooker is informing more people about the problem than we already are via the news reports we’re seeing.”I’m a working-class woman who really cares about the environment for my child and their future. It’s losing people like me — mums who care because we’ve got kids.” The video was shot in Elephant and Castle, south London, by JSO. The organisation later said the counter-protesters dispersed at 9.40am, after a debate of about 30 minutes. The group of volunteer counter-protesters flooded into the banquet and disrupted it with the alarms, the footage shows. You need some kind of long-term strategy and I think most people in the environmental movement will agree that [if you’re] just disrupting things — what are you going to achieve?” Prowse, who worked with Extinction Rebellion when it was first established, says there are now “big divisions” between the two groups. “A lot of people in XR are frustrated by Just Stop Oil, because they just think these have been bad tactics.

I’m slightly nervous we’ve given them an idea,” says Manners of his prank, which has been viewed nearly 450,000 times in two days, and was designed to mimic the sorts of antics that JSO has made their bread and butter.The people that they’re targeting are not responsible for their cause,” says Manners. “A single mother trying to get to work to feed her kids during a cost of living crisis, who might be on a zero hours contract, who might be late for work and therefore earn less money. That achieves precisely nothing when it comes to solving the climate crisis.” Manners and Pieters began by planting a mole inside JSO. What did they find? A group of people largely intent on getting arrested. “They seemed so much more obsessed with the tactics and the game of protest than they did with the outcome of that protest,” says Manners, who gets the sense the group has begun to tie itself in knots.