Does Extreme Protest Work - Just Stop Oil? Or Just Stop?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
When Liz Truss was looking to galvanise not just the Tory party but the nation in her conference speech, she turned to Just Stop Oil protesters for help. She believed their fractious, disruptive, an d potentially dangerous tactics would make her 'anti growth' point better than any positive messaging she had hitherto used. As it turned out, she's now gone and they are still here - this morning blockading several more parts of the M25 motorway in the UK as the COP27 climate conference got underway in Egypt.
So on today's The News Agents we ask whether extreme protest makes you sit up...or throw up. Jon and Emily have a (mini) row about whether shock tactics can ever bring the public on side.
And we have veteran protestor Peter Tatchell in the studio- recently detained in Qatar - who has a message of his own for Just Stop Oil.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | This morning, if you were trying to get to work across the M25, you may have found there were one or two problems. |
| 0:18.7 | Because just stop oil protesters have blocked parts of the motorway again. |
| 0:24.8 | Let's hear from this young woman. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello, my name is Louise. I'm 24 years old and I'm here. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm here because I don't have a future. |
| 0:39.2 | And you might hate me for doing this and you're entitled to hate me. |
| 0:44.7 | But I wish you would direct all that anger and hatred at our government. |
| 0:49.3 | Do you hate Louise or are you grateful to her for standing on a gantry over the M25 talking about |
| 0:57.8 | climate change for the just stop oil protest. Today we're asking whether you have to be extreme |
| 1:04.5 | to make protests work or whether that just puts people right off. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:13.6 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:15.6 | Hello, it's Emily. |
| 1:17.4 | And it's John in Newsagents HQ. |
| 1:19.5 | Yes, not Australia, not our Southeast Asia Bureau, but John Soapel is back with Tim Tams, penguins in brackets to you and me, |
| 1:30.8 | and some vegamite flavoured snacks. |
| 1:34.0 | Vegetamite and cheese flavoured. |
| 1:35.5 | Right. |
| 1:36.2 | To prove that he has actually been to the other side of the world and not just hiding a bunker in a North London townhouse. |
| 1:42.2 | Yes, and these vegmite and cheese snacks, |
| 1:44.9 | we opened in the office just before we came into the studio. |
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