{"id":98697,"date":"2023-10-06T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/?p=98697"},"modified":"2023-10-06T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:40:19","slug":"green-multi-millionaire-dale-vince-abandons-just-stop-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turbocelebrity.com\/world-news\/green-multi-millionaire-dale-vince-abandons-just-stop-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Green multi-millionaire Dale Vince abandons Just Stop Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"
Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince has abandoned his support for Just Stop Oil, so he can plough all his money and effort into getting Labour elected.<\/p>\n
The Ecotricity founder and Forest Green Rovers owner\u00a0said that future protests by the eco-zealots would be ‘pointless’ and\u00a0‘counterproductive’ to the aim of protecting the environment.<\/p>\n
Mr Vince has made headlines this year after it was revealed he made donations worth \u00a31.5million to Labour and Sir Keir Starmer while bankrolling the green group behind a string of annoying stunts.<\/p>\n
Most recently they struck at a performance of Les Mis\u00e9rables, having also interrupted Wimbledon, an England cricket match and the Chelsea Flower show, as well as bringing London roads to a halt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement Mr Vince applauded ‘the conviction and the commitment of these activists and their bravery in the face of an increasingly hostile state’.<\/span><\/p>\n But he went on to add: ‘R<\/span>ecent actions by this government make it clear that no amount of protesting will prevent them drilling in the North Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n The Ecotricity founder and Forest Green Rovers owner said that future protests by the eco-zealots would be ‘pointless’ and ‘counterproductive’ to the aim of protecting the environment.<\/p>\n Mr Vince has made headlines this year after it was revealed he made donations worth \u00a31.5million to Labour and Sir Keir Starmer while bankrolling the green group behind a string of annoying stunts.<\/p>\n Most recently they struck at a performance of Les Mis\u00e9rables, having also interrupted Wimbledon, an England cricket match and the Chelsea Flower show, as well as bringing London roads to a halt.<\/p>\n And while I understand the frustration that people feel, I believe that further protests and the disruption that comes with them are pointless. I would go further and say they would be counterproductive. This government is intent on drilling come what may and will welcome further protest as it feeds their new culture war.’<\/p>\n He said he will instead\u00a0focus on a new campaign called Just Vote, which aims to encourage people to exercise their democratic right.<\/p>\n ‘It’s a fact of our electoral system that only one of two parties can form the next government; we want to bring a focus to this reality and to the opportunity that we have – to elect a green government, one that will embrace the opportunities we face, rather than make an enemy of them – and use them to tackle the long list of issues we face as a country.’<\/p>\n Labour has come under pressure over its financial links via Mr Vince to JSO, whose protests earlier this year regularly brought parts of London\u00a0and other cities to a halt and whose members were behind a string of stunts at high-profile sporting events.<\/p>\n In May he\u00a0said he would\u00a0<\/span>double all money given to JSO in a 48-hour period after senior Conservatives urged Sir Keir to return the funds the green energy entrepreneur gave to the party.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And in June he took part in a JSO slow walking protest that brought Westminster to a halt by processing down Whitehall to Trafalgar Square.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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