After Just Stop Oil’s recent attack on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery, the group has become emboldened by the international publicity their actions have earned. This is clearly the explanation for today’s field trip to Madame Tussauds where, after buying tickets like good little anti-capitalists, two of its activists covered a waxwork model of King Charles III with chocolate cake.
In a statement released by Just Stop Oil, the vandalism was justified by the protestors, who said: ‘We are here because we seek to protect our freedoms and rights, because we seek to protect this green and pleasant land which is the inheritance of us all.’
After buying tickets like good little anti-capitalists, two of its activists covered a waxwork model of King Charles III with chocolate cake
They noted that the Royal Family has form in expressing environmental concerns of its own, reminding us that ‘last year at COP26 in Glasgow, Queen Elizabeth said: “The time for words has moved to the time for action!”’ and that King Charles – a noted environmentalist for most of his adult life – made a passionate speech in November 2019 in which he said: ‘We are feeling the effects of all of this now, and disasters are increasing with terrifying frequency and intensity, and causing unprecedented levels of physical and economic damage.’
Charles concluded that ‘for the past, what, 40-50 years I have been driven by an overwhelming desire not to be confronted by my grandchildren – or yours, Ladies and Gentlemen, whom I mind about equally as much – demanding to know why I didn’t do anything to prevent them being bequeathed a poisoned and destroyed planet.
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