Eco protesters from Just Stop Oil blocked a major route in east London today, sparking angry scenes as they disrupted ordinary people’s lives yet again
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The group, who are calling for the Government to halt all new oil and gas licences and consents, sat in the road with colourful banners and glued themselves to the tarmac. The man later could be heard shouting: "Have some respect for other people not just yourselves, yeah? There are other people who have to get places."
On Friday, protesters from the group were arrested after soup was thrown over Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery, and paint was spayed over the rotating New Scotland Yard sign in London.
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