Watch: JustStopOil protesters attack more Van Gogh paintings

It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after JustStopOil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” a trio of JSO protesters have again targeted the artist’s work at the National Gallery in London. How very tiresome…

The climate protest group tweeted out a video of the group’s latest stunt, urging Brits to “support people in resistance.” The clip of the art attack, which was recorded this afternoon, shows passers-by remonstrating with the JSO activists. Shouting at a room of livid art enthusiasts, the protesters raged:

There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas, something which is now government policy after sustained, disruptive actions, countless headlines and the resulting political pressure. Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.

Earlier today, Plummer and Holland were locked up for causing £10,000 ($13,000) worth of damage to Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting during the 2022 attack. Plummer received a two-year jail term at Southwark Crown Court, while Holland was caged for twenty months. Judge Christopher Hehir told the pair: “You had no right to do what you did to ‘Sunflowers.’”

A rather shocked frame conservator Isabella Kocum told the jury that: “The frame was specifically chosen for Van Gogh’s painting because of the matching coloration. I remain amazed at how corrosive the soup was to the frame. Even once the majority of the soup had been removed, I was alarmed to see that the remainder was acting like a paint stripper in front of my eyes.” Twenty-two-year-old Plummer told the court that the soup was chosen “because it would stand out.” It “symbolized the link between the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis,” she said. Er, right. The guilty activist went on:

I don’t think that action like this fits the black and white letter of the law. Sometimes morality is different from the law, different from justice, different from legal directions. We caused some damage to the frame. The painting was returned to the gallery the same day. The frame has not been further restored since then. The frame was not damaged enough to warrant further restoration. It is still deemed worthy to encase a precious, priceless work of art. I intended to shine a light on the climate crisis and on the cost of living crisis.

She’s certainly shone a light on, um, how extreme the environmentalists are willing to get about their whole cause. Will the eco-zealots ever learn? Don’t hold your breath…

Watch the clip here:

This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.