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- Oct 14, 2018
You could try reading before just saying bullshit.No. Starmer's government caved and is adopting their policies as per their X post.
Businessman Dale Vince is to stop funding Just Stop Oil, saying further protests from the activist group would be "counterproductive".
Mr Vince, a major Labour donor, said further action was "pointless" because the government had shown it would drill for oil "come what may".
Further disruption, he added, would help "feed the Tories' culture-war narrative".
Instead, he said, he would divert funding to the anti-Conservative vote.
Writing for the Guardian, he wrote: "In order to 'just stop oil', first we need to just stop the Tories," adding that he wanted to dedicate his "time, energy and funding" towards increasing the youth vote.
"A vote for anyone other than Labour, or no vote at all, is a vote for another Tory government - this time with a mandate to pursue its anti-green crusade".
Mr Vince said he had supported Just Stop Oil since its foundation in February 2022, and given the group £340,000 to help its campaign against oil drilling in the North Sea.
He said he had always defended the group's tactics, which have included blocking major roads, as well as disrupting high-profile events including Premier League football games and Test cricket at Lord's.
But he added that the government - which granted 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences over the summer - had "made clear that no amount of protest will sway it".
"Our government is not only unmoved by these protests; it believes it has struck electoral gold," he added.
Mr Vince's green energy company Ecotricity has donated more than £1.4m to Labour since 2014, comprising donations to the party itself as well as leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner.
The company also donated £70,000 to the Liberal Democrats in 2015/16, and £30,000 to the Green Party in 2013.
Donations are drying up and retards like this are doing literally nothing but galvanizing people against their cause.


