Posh Activists Plan Mass Shoplifting in Waitrose
A posh pressure group that threw custard at the crown jewels is planning mass thefts from Waitrose. The Telegraph has more.
Take Back Power (TBP), viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil (JSO), has vowed to shoplift from the high-end supermarket in the coming months.
The group suggested it would redistribute the stolen food to the needy, in a protest at economic inequality.
However, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said TBP was “trying to dress up criminality with some kind of moral purpose”.
The newly formed activist group, which describes itself as a non-violent civil resistance group, announced itself with two stunts in December.
Four people smeared crumble and custard on a case containing the State Crown at the Tower of London before unveiling a sign reading: “Democracy has crumbled – tax the rich.” [Do they mean their parents?]
Members of TBP also emptied bags of manure under a 25ft indoor Christmas tree at the Ritz Hotel in central London in protest at wealth inequality.
At the group’s formal launch at Limehouse Town Hall, east London, on Saturday, founder members set out a three-pronged strategy for further disruption this spring. Reporters from the Telegraph attended the meeting.
Arthur Clifton [Latymer Upper], co-founder of TBP and a former prominent JSO activist, said the first approach would be a series of “take-backs”.
He told an audience of around 200: “We have seen that food is locked behind skyrocketing prices. Less and less people can afford less and less food.
“So what we do is actually pretty obvious – we go in there, we take it out and we redistribute it to the local community. This is what we are going to be doing in March.”
He added: “We’ll be coming down to London in April for a week of action – a massive take-back with 50 to 100 people just going in and clearing out a Waitrose.”
Mr Clifton, originally from Chiswick, West London, said the group was also planning “takeovers” of high-end stores in areas such as Oxford Circus.
“This is standard, bread-and-butter civil resistance occupation of high-end stores… the places that are getting more and more expensive on the same streets that people are starving,” he said.
The former English literature student at Exeter University said the group would also carry on performing eye-catching “stunts” such as its Ritz and Crown Jewels interventions.
He compared the group to the Suffragettes and led the crowd in a chant of “revolution”.
Mr Clifton was previously found guilty of causing criminal damage after spraying orange paint onto a building at University College London.
The group has set a target of mobilising 10,000 people to the streets in the year of the 2029 election.
Worth reading in full.
Arthur Clifton is the privately-educated son of a megayacht insurance executive. The Mail has more.
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There’s nothing that shows virtue and Taking Back Power like creating problems for all the minimum wage staff working in Waitrose. C***ts.
Tazer them. And chuck them in a prison camps with the illegal migrants.
A friend of mine (who is anything but ‘mega-rich’) has worked as an unpaid volunteer in Christian soup kitchens (not sure what they’re called these days as ‘soup kitchen’ is apparently considered too judgemental a term for something that actually serves the genuinely needy) for many years. He could tell these spoiled brats a few home truths.
Great DM comment from the public on this:
“Just what we all thought, an insulated little p r k with a trust fund. What’s up, your dad said No to something ?”
He probably serves them “soup” so they don’t have to buy and prepare it.
Oh no. By the ‘genuinely needy’ I mean just that. Some have no doubt ended up in the plight they’re in partly as a consequence of their own weaknesses and follies, but we’re none of us perfect. Apart from the aforementioned ‘spoiled brats’ of course.
I see they have picked a conviction free crime given that the little khant’s goons have decided they don’t turn out for shoplifting.
Ain’t London law-breaking grand ?
Food prices are going up….. energy prices are key to all production, that combined with anti farming net zero insanity from government, topped off with Covid psychosis inspired inflation.
Every one of these issues these txxts would have cheered for without fail.
‘less and less people can afford less and less food’ what do they teach at these posh schools?
Fewer and fewer English grammar lessons, by the look of it.
And yet people get fatter and fatter… Hand up, I could do with losing some weight as well but they do have such good food at Waitrose.
What do they teach? How to pretend to be working class.
Yes, it’s a double negative. If this is taken literally, then it’s a good thing and there’s no problem at all, because the number of people being able to afford “less and less” food is decreasing according to this statement.
When at university in 1980, I can remember the prominent SWSO (socialist worker student organisation) leader being driven “250 miles up North” from the home counties – by his daddy’s chauffeur.
He’s now a very prominent member of black lives matter. He’s very lucky to come from a wealthy background so he can afford to be a communist in the UK – like Mad Ed Milliband, Susan Michie and 2 tier Starmer.
Isn’t that why we have stores such as Asda and Aldi? Those that compete on price.
Take Back Power have never heard of any supermarkets other than Waitrose 😀😀😀
Lol
Not one they’d want to be seen in anyway..
Whut? I wonder if that means the same as ‘2029’? Well done Tellygraf.
— “What if he bumps into his mum in aisle three?” 🙂 Nice one!
— “on the same streets that people are starving,” he said.
NOBODY IS STARVING in the UK, except those who choose to spend their welfare benefit money on drugs instead of food for themselves and their helpless children. And even then, they can get free food from all the food banks, and Christian soup kitchens.
— “take backs” is the shiny new term for copying the BLM rioters LOOTING.
The US stores that closed their doors due to rampant theft | Daily Mail Online
Isn’t it strange how none of the hundreds of British Patriots arrested & imprisoned for Protesting against Aliens Raping & Murdering British Children were LOOTING SHOPS like the BLM, and the Pro-Palestinian mobs that were smashing & looting shops even as long ago as 2012?
Rioters attack Starbucks and loot shops in anti-Israel demo | London Evening Standard | The Standard
Aisle three? Tinned goods? Oh really! And why would his mum be reduced to doing her own shopping?
(I realise the above is completely unfair to his mum. I hope she is not offended or to blame for her son’s behaviour.)
JUST
STOP
RETARDS
would be my t-shirt
Oh to be young again, when I knew it all and had everything figured out…
And as for “Take Back” Power, I think you’ve already got it, Sweet Pea.
The fact that this article, and the arrogance personified by this virtue signalling fool’s picture, is immediately above another detailing the slaughter by the Iranian regime of 16,500 of their own people and the wounding of more than 330,000 others, give some perspective on the type of people involved…
Why not already arrested?
Perhaps Waitrose should taker out a pre-emptive injunction against Take Back Power so that any ‘shoplifting’ becomes treatable as Contempt of Court?
Stereotypical communiat: wealthy. Privileged. Low intellect. Just like Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc.
I have a solution for this problem but it’s currently illegal.
“Tax the rich.” [Do they mean their parents?]……is the quote of the day 😃
English Literature student comes out with “less and less people”. Ignorant w-anker.
A bit of national service is what he needs (from the days before the army went woke and bearded).
“Redistribute food to the needy in protest at economic inequality”——Do these acivist morons not know that millions are forced into energy poverty entirely due to energy policies of silly pretend to save the planet politicians?—–Obvioulsy they don’t because they are infected with a severe dose of confirmation bias around the alleged evidence free “climate crisis”.—– Our electricty costs are now the highest in the world meaning many have to choose between food or energy.
They may not know as many Trustafarians have ever paid an energy bill. But if they do know, they don’t care.
Firstly, Waitrose is no longer a high end supermarket. That train left when the shoehorned in that useless woman ceo of John Lewis under equality and diversity.
secondly, if it was genuinely poor people doing this I might have some sympathy.
But posh tw*** just don’t cut it!
Trama informed protest – the protest is not about George Floyd, Gaza, the enviroment or anything else apart from their Childhood Emotional Neglect and the fact that daddy didnt love them enough, so they are projecting their childhood pain onto authoritiy figures; the British state, the monarchy .. and Waitrose, where mummy shopped before the divorce.
The only thing you accomplish by introducing economic measures to stimulate equality of wealth, such as changes in tax rules, is that you achieve that equality eventually, but EVERYONE’s average take-home earnings are less than before. So the richest sacrifice a comparatively small portion of their wealth while still remaining extremely well off (that is if they don’t react by leaving the country), while at the same time the poorest also become poorer by a much larger increment!
Fair enough that the richest should have to pay tax. But if you’re going to throw a spanner in the works and change the rules to this end, I think the equal and opposite thing needs to happen at the other end of the spectrum, for example Reform UK’s proposal to raise the minimum tax threshold to £20,000 would help stimulate economic growth and fill the void left by the ensuing exodus of the rich overseas.