Police have broken up a “wide awake” demonstration by Just Stop Oil protesters outside the Prime Minister’s London home calling for a halt on fossil fuel exploration in the UK.The protest group said that about 18 supporters gathered outside Rishi Sunak’s home and beat pots and pans while carrying placards stating: “COP Failure=Crop Failure”, “No rest for the Wicked” and “Arrest the Real Criminals”.They were joined by musician Louise Harris who played her protest song We Tried – which has previously reached number one in the iTunes singles chart.Just Stop Oil said that police attended and detained the protesters at the scene.
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00:00 But I, I can't work out why
00:16 So take me when the bloopers sing
00:23 While we lose everything
00:27 [Sounds of traffic]
00:31 Yeah, so basically we were doing a bit of a protest outside Rishi Sunak's house
00:35 The local police came, they said "What are you up to?"
00:38 We said what we were doing, they said that we could stay till 9
00:41 So we stayed till 9 and as we were leaving the, are you the Metropolitan?
00:46 The Metropolitan Police arrived, saying something about
00:50 "You may have committed something antisocial, we need your details"
00:54 "We need to take it down, investigate, if you don't give the details you'll be arrested"
00:58 They then, myself and some others, have given details
01:02 And then they said "Ok, you can go, we have no power to keep you here"
01:06 And then we started walking away, and then another police officer says
01:09 "Sorry no, you can't leave until we've done our checks or something"
01:12 So, it's a bit confusing and I don't know when we're going to be allowed to go
01:16 That is confusing, what kind of checks are being undertaken?
01:20 I don't know, I think we'll go to them
01:24 Reason not given, ok, thank you very much
01:27 I've been arrested for absolutely nothing
01:48 Apparently silence is now a crime as well
01:51 They've made protest illegal and now remaining silent is apparently illegal
01:55 My experience is that...
01:57 I've been arrested for absolutely nothing
02:00 Apparently silence is now a crime as well