Just Stop Oil protesters today threw chocolate cake in the face of a waxwork of King Charles at Madame Tussauds - as it emerged some of the mob are paid to continue their idiotic stunts by a group of wealthy Americans including an oil heiress.
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Footage shows two of the eco loons walking up to the waxwork at the famous London attraction at around 10.50am before taking off their tops to reveal Just Stop Oil t-shirts. One of them shouts, 'This is a time for action' before they both smear it with cake.
As onlookers shout 'stop', the female protester begins a finger-wagging lecture about climate change while her male counterpart stands awkwardly with his arms crossed.
Just Stop Oil identified the pair as Eilidh McFadden, a 20-year-old from Glasgow and Tom Johnson, 29, a painter decorator from Sunderland. They had bought tickets to Madame Tussauds and wore black tops to cover their t-shirts. This morning, the Met confirmed they had been arrested for criminal damage alongside two others. Nearby waxworks of Camilla, William and Kate emerged unscathed.
McFadden 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. Last year, at Cop 26 in Glasgow, Queen Elizabeth said: ''The time for words has moved to the time for action''.'
She added: 'The science is clear. The demand is simple: just stop new oil and gas. It's a piece of cake.'
King Charles III is a passionate environmental campaigner who has long spoken about the dangers of global warming. He had planned to travel to Egypt for Cop27, but has since abandoned plans to do so after it was claimed former prime minister Liz Truss warned him against attending.
McFadden was among a group of 20 activists who, in May, blocked the entrance to the Nustar Clydebank oil terminal near Glasgow. They were eventually forcibly removed by police.
Today's incident is the latest in a long list of disruptive stunts by Just Stop Oil in recent weeks. They have previously blocked the Dartford Bridge, tipped tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers, spray painted the iconic glass frontage of Harrods orange and glued themselves to London's Abbey Road crossing.
It recently emerged the group is being funded by a coalition of wealthy individuals from California, including Aileen Getty - the granddaughter of oil tycoon J Paul Getty - and that some of this money is used to pay activists. In response to a report in The Times this weekend, a spokesman for the group confirmed that 'some people supporting Just Stop Oil do receive a small income'.
Aileen Getty, who lives in the United States and can draw on her family's estimated $5.4 billion (£3.7 billion) fortune, has been helping to fund the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), a US nonprofit that gives grants and funds to activists around the world, including Just Stop Oil.
This has sparked accusations from one MP that 'foreign millionaires' are funding eco mobs 'to do their dirty work without any intention of coming out of the shadows and exposing themselves to democratic accountability'.
To date, Ms Getty has thought to have given more than £800,000 ($1million) of her own money to the organisation, which has also counts Hollywood director Adam McKay among its supporters. The CEF in turn has given out more than £6million to groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, the latter of which have caused havoc in the UK in recent months.
Ms Getty's grandfather, J Paul Getty, was at one time the world's richest man.
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