Just Stop Oil Protest

Bunch of losers. Superglue them to each other.

Hearing they caused damage to the grid above the orchestra meaning that some of it fell onto the pit members

They need to serve serious prison time

Carl Woodward has posted vid on Twitter. Audience booing.

It fails to win over hearts and minds on so many levels.

Counterproductive doesn't quite cover it

I agree with their right (and the need) to protest about this, but the way they go about it is so stupid. Why don’t they glue themselves to the gates outside Downing Street or an oil refinery? Do something that actually affects the people causing pollution, because all they’ve done is make a theatre full of people very angry at them.

Saw a similarly futile protest on social media. Russell Tovey, Peter Tatchell, various other LGBT people protesting Suella Braverman… in Westminster… while every Tory in the country is in Manchester.

I completely agree with others that their actions are completely counter productive - I'd be frothing at the mouth if a performance I was at was disrupted, and far from spreading their message my friends and family would take against them for it.

BUT

'Les Miserables' has been performing its ersatz revolution for nearly 40 years in the West End, it's rather easy to bask in the spectacle and be buoyed up by the tunes, while getting to feel just a little bit radical by siding with the student revolutionaries. Second hand radicalism, sitting on a velvet seat in the dark, facing a cast asking "will you join in our crusade, who will be strong and stand with me?", does look a bit absurd in the context of real protest.

Didn't Cameron say he wanted to "cut the Green crap"? 


Edit.  Sorry that was David Cameron.  Not Cameron Mackintosh.  As you were.

Not French-revolution-themed

Sooner or later things will turn ugly when the protesters target an event. It was ironic a lot of protesters were "rounded up" before the Coronation when it would have been quite funny if the Kings Guard had marched over them.

I do wonder why doesn't the Government just put this group on the banned list they did it with Wagner the other week and have done it with Al Qaeda, British First etc. They can soon ban things or tell people what they can post about when they want to.

I don't agree with Greenpeace as they have been going years but I'd do it to JSO in a hearbeat.

Surely protesting at the currently ongoing Tory party conference in Manchester would have been better? I know common sense is seemingly lacking when it comes to their choices in protest locations but still....

To mirror what others are saying: completely agree with the cause, but so many of their protests are pointless and seem to intend to annoy as many people as possible while making no progress except scapegoating themselves.

The message of the protest comes across as a smug ‘Oh you enjoy a show about a protest yet are upset at a real protest? It really makes you think, huh?’ - and it’s a lot of effort behind a kind of lame gotcha message.

But At The End Of The Day (haha) the show has nothing to do with oil, most of the people in the audience used public transport to get there - and also it’s putting extra work and stress onto the working employees of the theatre. Although I’ll admit some of the audience members did show themselves up by shouting ‘get a job’ at the protestors, read the room guys!

They wouldn't have been able to get close to the Tory Conference given the security measures. I would happily suggest they go and protest in China and even pay for the return ticket although that may have to wait about 30 years before they are free to fly back.