The rebel demonstrators formed a human chain around members of Just Stop Oil, who were sitting on the floor.

Footage shows the environmental protesters sitting on the floor, encircled by a group of 15 to 20 people standing around them while they try to explain why they are slow marching in the capital. I’m slightly nervous we’ve given them an idea,” says Manners of his prank, which has been viewed nearly 450,000 times in two days, and was designed to mimic the sorts of antics that JSO has made their bread and butter.

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JSO filmed the encounter and said the counter-protesters dispersed after a short debate. In a brief exchange between the groups, JSO supporters can be heard trying to explain why they are slow-marching through the streets of the capital. It all points to the idea that JSO may finally be running out of steam. “Just Stop Oil isn’t the climate movement,” says Suzanne Dhaliwal, a veteran climate change activist who has never been a member of XR or JSO. “It’s one tactic, one demographic and maybe it has had its moment and now it’s time to move on.” From here, it looks more like a narcissist’s power game, a kind of recreational sociopathy. I mean, if someone gets their jollies from screwing over random people and watching their victims’ exasperation and pleading – if that’s what makes our mighty warriors feel powerful and important – then the term recreational sociopathy doesn’t seem inapt. The group of volunteer counter-protesters flooded into the banquet and disrupted it with the alarms, the footage shows.

Manners and Pieters began by planting a mole inside JSO. What did they find? A group of people largely intent on getting arrested. “They seemed so much more obsessed with the tactics and the game of protest than they did with the outcome of that protest,” says Manners, who gets the sense the group has begun to tie itself in knots. There was speculation that the counter-protest may have been a stunt carried out by JSO to allow it to explain to the public why it is carrying out the slow marches, but the organisation insisted they were “nothing to do with us”. Gleefully pouring large quantities of oil across a road is morally analogous to sabotaging the brakes on random cars and motorbikes.

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After encircling Just Stop Oil activists in south London, Archie and Josh sent their mole into the eco-banquet. Prowse, who worked with Extinction Rebellion when it was first established, says there are now “big divisions” between the two groups. “A lot of people in XR are frustrated by Just Stop Oil, because they just think these have been bad tactics.In a YouGov poll in April, just 4 per cent of the people surveyed said they looked “very favourably” upon the group. Manners told the MailOnline yesterday evening: “Climate Change is the greatest crisis facing our generation - but if we're going to solve it we need to work together. Piss Me Off Again & We Play A Little Game Called Duct Duct Tape | Adult T-Shirt | Halloween | Funny Quote | Funny T-Shirt The achievements of JSO are questionable. Have they succeeded in garnering widespread media coverage? Yes. But in doing so they have lost support. Dr Oscar Berglund, a specialist in climate change activism at University of Bristol, says Just Stop Oil is not popular. “It is disliked by about 60 per cent of the population. Don't Piss Me Off Funny Vet Tech Shirt, Neutering Vet Shirt, Funny Neutering Veterinarian Shirt, Vet Tech Shirt, Sarcastic Vet Shirt