Activists have kicked off a nationwide shoplifting spree, walking into Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons stores and “liberating” groceries from the shelves. The Mailhas more.
Take Back Power, whose stated aim is to ‘tax the rich to fix Britain’, shared footage of activists stealing products from a Morrison’s store in Exeter on Saturday morning, saying they planned on taking on stores in the capital later in the day.
The anti-capitalist group wrote on social media: ‘All the food we liberated this morning was delivered to food bank donation points, to go to the people who need it most.
‘The CEO of Sainsbury’s pays himself 239 times that of an ordinary full time employee in his company.
‘The super rich don’t need a “magic money tree” when they freely pick the pockets of working people every single day. It’s theft. Nothing more, nothing less.’
The group said they had ‘redistributed food from supermarkets to local foodbanks across the country’ today, beginning at around 8.30am and targeting supermarkets in Manchester, London, Exeter and Truro. …
The group had announced their plans to ‘paralyse’ the capital back in January. They had previously made headlines with high-profile stunts including pouring manure onto the floor of The Ritz hotel in Mayfair and smearing custard on a case containing the Crown Jewels.
Organisers of the group told an open launch event attended by the Daily Mail that activists would ‘take over’ high-end stores and raid food stores as part of a week of action in April.
Co-founder Arthur Clifton, 25, told more than 140 would-be activists who attended the launch the plans were part of a long-term aim for the ‘mass-mobilisation’ of 10,000 supporters he hoped would carry out acts of ‘civil disobedience’ at the 2029 election. …
Privately-educated Mr Clifton, who attended Latymer Upper School where fees are £30,000 per year, said up to 100 activists at a time plan to enter food stores such as Marks and Spencer in the capital and ‘strip the shelves’.
Mr Clifton has also previously been convicted for his role in protests with Just Stop Oil.
Any food bank that accepts stolen goods must be investigated. Anyone remember when “antique” shops carried stolen goods. In our town, the owner went to prison.
As someone from the “hard left” I resent the association with these liberal, woke, virtue signalling, bed wetters.
The supermarkets will just up their prices so the poor will be harmed even more.
Meh. I hope the supermarkets prosecute – though I know they rarely bother these days.
More and more people have their groceries delivered. For those who go shopping more is paid for ‘contactless’… I can imagine for the fewer numbers who actually go to the shops supermarkets reversing the self-chuckout systems and heading back towards counter service. Obviously not completely – but a hybrid where the meat counter or off-licence sections or other high-cost sections require payments before you get the goods in your hands.
Here they are in action, calmly taking the stuff from the shelves and walking out the door at their leisure. Why did nobody stop them? If any of these shops employ security guards then I suggest they cease and desist as they are evidently surplus to requirements. As a young teenager I got led astray by a wayward friend ( because it was totally her idea and therefore all her fault ) who thought it would be a good idea to shoplift from M&S Foods in Newcastle because she wanted to give food to the guy sleeping rough outside. So there we were half inching ready-to-eat king prawns and all manner of goodies and when we left the store we got collared by the security guard and dragged back inside the shop to the office, which was beyond mortifying and fully within ‘shitting bricks’ territory, because we thought we’d just get a telling off but they rang the police! 😮 Long story short, we ended up at the police station and got a caution as a result of our ”liberation” of fancy food, and no amount of pleading it was for the homeless man made a blind bit of difference.… Read more »
I used to give food to the lad who slept on a footbridge over the River Aire in Leeds. Usually it was a Cornish Pasty, warmed up in the office. Bridges are prone to getting a lot colder than other spots, but he chose to rest there because it would vibrate when people walked on it, and early in the mornings this served as a warning that possible attackers were approaching, and he would be woken to stand a better chance of defending himself. First time I chatted to him I asked him if there was anyone – anyone at all – whom he could live with to get his feet back on the ground. He said he only had his father, but that they were really not on speaking terms. Another time he told me it wouldn’t matter anyway, because he had become so accustomed to living outdoors that sleeping indoors would cause him the unbearable stress of feeling trapped and imprisoned.
Yes, donations to foodbanks or directly to those in need paid for by those concerned about it is a good thing in my opinion. Many in need want someone to talk to them almost as much as decent meals; others, of course, don’t.
However, stealing from the ‘rich’ to give to the poor is just a conceit.
And, a reminder that not everyone who is homeless wants a home… I have no idea how, beyond the occasional pasty, you might help someone like this, though it occurs, as with most things, the answer probably involves dealing with the cause and not the symptom?
The difference was, that was back then, we lived in a high trust society. We no longer do, although if you tried that stunt today, you’d probably still get prosecuted, since you’re one of those with something to lose.
Ah yes, the missing discipline that starts in the cradle these days. On a slightly funnier note, I was working at an upmarket deli in Kensington and would commute home via Waterloo station. At the end of the day the staff got the scraps from the cold meat counter to take home. There was an old vagrant sitting on a bench at the station (rather the worse for wear from drink – in those days you could be sure it was drink). I felt sorry for him and offered him my pack of offcuts of ham, thinking he might be hungry. He said he didn’t want them, he only wanted money. I probably had less money than him. That taught me a lesson too!
These nihilist buffoons are the enemy of our country and our people.
Dave Summers
28 days ago
They don’t look the sort.
BevGee
28 days ago
‘The super rich don’t need a “magic money tree” when they freely pick the pockets of working people every single day. It’s theft. Nothing more, nothing less.’
Yet here you are; the epitome of white privilege 😀
Do they not understand that they themselves are only hurting those they profess to care about?
Heretic
28 days ago
It turns out that Looting has been a hallmark of the beginning stages of Communist Revolutions:
“These revolutions were marked by significant civil unrest and LOOTING, as a response to perceived oppression and the establishment of Communist Regimes.”
“The Russian Revolution of 1917 saw widespread riots and LOOTING as the Bolsheviks seized power, leading to a civil war.”
“In China in 1949, Mao Zedong’s regime also experienced riots and LOOTING as part of the revolutionary process, reflecting the discontent with the previous government.”
“The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was characterized by violent protests and LOOTING, as Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew the corrupt regime.”
So who is organizing this LOOTING by “UK Anti-Capitalist activists” as a prelude to Communist Revolution? George Soros?
Judging by my local Lidl – which used to be a pleasant supermarket, staffed by humans – they’re turning supermarket checkout areas into a bleeping, synthetic-voice Babel, full of frustrated customers and barriers that literally shriek if someone tries to go through them. Something like a cross between a Ryanair “departure lounge” and a maximum-security prison in the middle of a prison-riot/lockdown.
Everybody hates British supermarkets, but these loons aren’t helping…
CircusSpot
28 days ago
I thought Lord Sainsbury was a Labour donor??
Jaws
28 days ago
I’d like to see them try this in the supermarkets we visit during our occasional jaunts to France and Spain in our camper van.
Most of those places have a security guard carrying a metre long baton who looks like he’s spent 30 years as a PTI in the French Foreign Legion and still does twenty pull-ups every morning just because he can.
“To the people that need it most” who get a taxi to and from the foodbank, and who stop on the way home to buy 2 bottles of Irn Bru, bags of crisps and assorted chocolate bars, twenty Silk Cut and a packet of Rizla, then tell the taxi drive to “keep the change”—–Such unimaginable hardship in BENEFIT BRITAIN where if you don’t work you are actually better of than the guy next door that gets up at 6 am and spends all day in the p…ing rain digging up the street for a living.
I am a JLP Pensioner if I see any of these people stealing merchandise from any of our stores or shops they will regret it. Waitrose being part of The Partnership is owned by their employees they will therefore be nicking stuff from those very employees which affect their livelihoods. Once again left wing activists making the lives of the poorer in society even more miserable. What plonkers!
Rusty123
27 days ago
So someone who had a £30.000 per annum education,in a private school, is still too stupid to realise that these imbecilic stunts will be paid for by “joe average”, bet his parents are thrilled they wasted their money, also why are they not being charged, whilst others go to jail for fb posts
marebobowl
27 days ago
Did you mean thieves and stealing in your first paragraph. Your inflammatory language only glamorises what these people are doing. Don’s bE afraid to call a spade a bloody shovel. Thanks.
Covid-1984
27 days ago
A citizens arrest is still legal. Any libtard shoplifting wouldn’t get past me 👊
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So the food banks are guilty of receiving stolen goods? Doesn’t sound great for their charitable status.
Any food bank that accepts stolen goods must be investigated. Anyone remember when “antique” shops carried stolen goods. In our town, the owner went to prison.
As someone from the “hard left” I resent the association with these liberal, woke, virtue signalling, bed wetters.
The supermarkets will just up their prices so the poor will be harmed even more.
Exactly – or they will cut the wages of all their staff which will affect the poorest the most
Not to mention the unpleasantness experienced by the staff
How about locking the store doors and calling the police. What is everyone paying so much tax for?
“How about locking the store doors and calling the police. What is everyone paying so much tax for?”
To have the piss taken out of us. Plenty of police during “covid” telling people not to sit on park benches.
Consumers decide prices, not producers.
Why aren’t your police doing their job? What is wrong with the Uk?
I wouldn’t waste my piss on these people if they were on fire.
I could probably spare some napalm though….
Meh. I hope the supermarkets prosecute – though I know they rarely bother these days.
More and more people have their groceries delivered. For those who go shopping more is paid for ‘contactless’… I can imagine for the fewer numbers who actually go to the shops supermarkets reversing the self-chuckout systems and heading back towards counter service. Obviously not completely – but a hybrid where the meat counter or off-licence sections or other high-cost sections require payments before you get the goods in your hands.
Here they are in action, calmly taking the stuff from the shelves and walking out the door at their leisure. Why did nobody stop them? If any of these shops employ security guards then I suggest they cease and desist as they are evidently surplus to requirements. As a young teenager I got led astray by a wayward friend ( because it was totally her idea and therefore all her fault ) who thought it would be a good idea to shoplift from M&S Foods in Newcastle because she wanted to give food to the guy sleeping rough outside. So there we were half inching ready-to-eat king prawns and all manner of goodies and when we left the store we got collared by the security guard and dragged back inside the shop to the office, which was beyond mortifying and fully within ‘shitting bricks’ territory, because we thought we’d just get a telling off but they rang the police! 😮 Long story short, we ended up at the police station and got a caution as a result of our ”liberation” of fancy food, and no amount of pleading it was for the homeless man made a blind bit of difference.… Read more »
I used to give food to the lad who slept on a footbridge over the River Aire in Leeds. Usually it was a Cornish Pasty, warmed up in the office. Bridges are prone to getting a lot colder than other spots, but he chose to rest there because it would vibrate when people walked on it, and early in the mornings this served as a warning that possible attackers were approaching, and he would be woken to stand a better chance of defending himself. First time I chatted to him I asked him if there was anyone – anyone at all – whom he could live with to get his feet back on the ground. He said he only had his father, but that they were really not on speaking terms. Another time he told me it wouldn’t matter anyway, because he had become so accustomed to living outdoors that sleeping indoors would cause him the unbearable stress of feeling trapped and imprisoned.
There but for the grace of God go I…
Yes, donations to foodbanks or directly to those in need paid for by those concerned about it is a good thing in my opinion. Many in need want someone to talk to them almost as much as decent meals; others, of course, don’t.
However, stealing from the ‘rich’ to give to the poor is just a conceit.
And, a reminder that not everyone who is homeless wants a home… I have no idea how, beyond the occasional pasty, you might help someone like this, though it occurs, as with most things, the answer probably involves dealing with the cause and not the symptom?
The difference was, that was back then, we lived in a high trust society. We no longer do, although if you tried that stunt today, you’d probably still get prosecuted, since you’re one of those with something to lose.
Ah yes, the missing discipline that starts in the cradle these days. On a slightly funnier note, I was working at an upmarket deli in Kensington and would commute home via Waterloo station. At the end of the day the staff got the scraps from the cold meat counter to take home. There was an old vagrant sitting on a bench at the station (rather the worse for wear from drink – in those days you could be sure it was drink). I felt sorry for him and offered him my pack of offcuts of ham, thinking he might be hungry. He said he didn’t want them, he only wanted money. I probably had less money than him. That taught me a lesson too!
Given there is plenty of video evidence of exactly what they did, it should be a very easy arrest and prosecution…
Only to be let off by a sympathetic jury?
Jury?
These nihilist buffoons are the enemy of our country and our people.
They don’t look the sort.
‘The super rich don’t need a “magic money tree” when they freely pick the pockets of working people every single day. It’s theft. Nothing more, nothing less.’
Yet here you are; the epitome of white privilege 😀
Do they not understand that they themselves are only hurting those they profess to care about?
It turns out that Looting has been a hallmark of the beginning stages of Communist Revolutions:
“These revolutions were marked by significant civil unrest and LOOTING, as a response to perceived oppression and the establishment of Communist Regimes.”
“The Russian Revolution of 1917 saw widespread riots and LOOTING as the Bolsheviks seized power, leading to a civil war.”
“In China in 1949, Mao Zedong’s regime also experienced riots and LOOTING as part of the revolutionary process, reflecting the discontent with the previous government.”
“The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was characterized by violent protests and LOOTING, as Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew the corrupt regime.”
So who is organizing this LOOTING by “UK Anti-Capitalist activists” as a prelude to Communist Revolution? George Soros?
The Bolsheviks soon ended the looting by shooting anyone participating.
And what are the supermarkets doing to stop them?
What are they doing? Waiting to see which way social media opinion is blowing.
Judging by my local Lidl – which used to be a pleasant supermarket, staffed by humans – they’re turning supermarket checkout areas into a bleeping, synthetic-voice Babel, full of frustrated customers and barriers that literally shriek if someone tries to go through them. Something like a cross between a Ryanair “departure lounge” and a maximum-security prison in the middle of a prison-riot/lockdown.
Everybody hates British supermarkets, but these loons aren’t helping…
I thought Lord Sainsbury was a Labour donor??
I’d like to see them try this in the supermarkets we visit during our occasional jaunts to France and Spain in our camper van.
Most of those places have a security guard carrying a metre long baton who looks like he’s spent 30 years as a PTI in the French Foreign Legion and still does twenty pull-ups every morning just because he can.
Those guards are as hard as this country is soft.
Bloody cheek
“To the people that need it most” who get a taxi to and from the foodbank, and who stop on the way home to buy 2 bottles of Irn Bru, bags of crisps and assorted chocolate bars, twenty Silk Cut and a packet of Rizla, then tell the taxi drive to “keep the change”—–Such unimaginable hardship in BENEFIT BRITAIN where if you don’t work you are actually better of than the guy next door that gets up at 6 am and spends all day in the p…ing rain digging up the street for a living.
I am a JLP Pensioner if I see any of these people stealing merchandise from any of our stores or shops they will regret it. Waitrose being part of The Partnership is owned by their employees they will therefore be nicking stuff from those very employees which affect their livelihoods. Once again left wing activists making the lives of the poorer in society even more miserable. What plonkers!
So someone who had a £30.000 per annum education,in a private school, is still too stupid to realise that these imbecilic stunts will be paid for by “joe average”, bet his parents are thrilled they wasted their money, also why are they not being charged, whilst others go to jail for fb posts
Did you mean thieves and stealing in your first paragraph. Your inflammatory language only glamorises what these people are doing. Don’s bE afraid to call a spade a bloody shovel. Thanks.
A citizens arrest is still legal. Any libtard shoplifting wouldn’t get past me 👊