JAN MOIR: My Christmas was all the more cheery because the Just Stop Oil protesters are still behind bars. Let's hope the courts keep it that way
JAN MOIR: My Christmas was all the more cheery because the Just Stop Oil protesters are still behind bars. Let's hope the courts keep it that way
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Don't know about you, but my Christmas was improved immensely by the cheering thought that the Just Stop Oil protesters who blocked the M25 in 2022 are still behind bars. Every spoonful of festive sugar made all the sweeter by imagining a grim jailscape featuring JSO ringleaders feasting on gruel and darning mailsacks in their freezing cells.
![[Princess Charlotte walks alongside Mia Tindall as they attend a Christmas Church service with the rest of the Royal Family on Christmas Day]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/27/01/93500877-14227703-Princess_Charlotte_walks_alongside_Mia_Tindall_as_they_attend_a_-a-54_1735264184014.jpg)
You'd think they'd be glad of the undeniable climate crisis benefits of incarceration – living communally, consuming fewer megawatts, burning fewer fossil fuels, not driving cars and being exempt from boarding gas-guzzling public transport... but no.
![[BetterUp pays Prince Harry a reported £1million a year to be their Chief Impact Officer]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/27/01/93500899-14227703-BetterUp_pays_Prince_Harry_a_reported_1million_a_year_to_be_thei-a-55_1735264184016.jpg)
The wretches want out and are appealing their sentences. Now Friends Of The Earth and Greenpeace UK have been allowed to intervene in support of the famous five when they challenge their jail terms in court next month. But why? Surely the law must concern itself with only the effect, not the cause – no matter how righteous and justified these fanatics consider their actions to be. Few need reminding that for their roles in disrupting traffic on the orbital motorway around London, JSO leader Roger Hallam was jailed for five years while activists Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were given four years each.
![[The Gavin & Stacey The Finale aired on BBC1 on Christmas Day]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/27/01/93500903-14227703-The_Gavin_Stacey_The_Finale_aired_on_BBC1_on_Christmas_Day-a-53_1735264184009.jpg)
You might recall Cressida's mother poshly complaining outside the court that her daughter's sentence 'means she will not be present at her brother's wedding next summer'. Well, that still makes me weep – with laughter. It also perfectly illustrates the sanctimony and selfishness at the heart of modern-day activists and their supporters. They can disrupt your lives for the sake of their cause, but God forbid they should suffer any inconvenience themselves.
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