Police Fail to Arrest Left-Wing Shoplifting Protesters

The great thing about Left-wing activism is that it fills its proponents with a warm glow of righteous indignation and moral superiority while being at everyone else’s expense. Mobs of the usual suspects, last seen gluing themselves to roads and hanging off motorway bridges, took their crusade to supermarkets on Saturday, according to the Telegraph:

Left-wing activists have started a shoplifting spree across Britain in protest against “billionaires hoarding wealth”.

Members of Take Back Power, which is viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil, stole food from supermarkets in four cities on Saturday morning and donated it to food banks.

The activists claimed “liberating” produce from the branches of Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Tesco was “non-violent action to resist the super-rich”.

Daily Sceptic readers won’t be raising any eyebrows at the police response to this mob rule coordinated heist:

Police have made no arrests in response to the shoplifting, a spokesman for the activists said.

At 8.30am, activists walked into supermarkets in Exeter in Devon, Truro in Cornwall, Didsbury in Manchester and Lewisham, south-east London, and stole items.

They placed the items in cardboard boxes with signs which read: “These things are going to those who need them.”

Naturally, the thieves (for what else could one call them?) had their Robin Hood-style excuses at the ready:

Ruth Cook, 74, said she stole items from Morrisons on Prince Charles Road in Exeter because “we have a terrible situation in this country”.

“Families are struggling and children are going hungry, while the profits some companies make are obscene,” the company director said.

“The answer is to tax the super-rich. I’m taking this food and delivering it to a food bank collection point because we need to do something about this.”

Perhaps something could be done about shoplifting? According to the Dorset Echo:

The group said “what’s legal isn’t necessarily an indication of what’s moral or right”, and it was “necessary for ordinary people to be stepping into action given the scale of crisis our country faces”.

The Mail quoted from the organisation Take Back Power’s social media:

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.

However, the plot thickens. The police told the Mail that the activists had paid for the food taken, so no offences had been committed. But the group “told the Daily Mail this was not true”:

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.

Pictures of Saturday’s do-gooders showed the familiar line-up of young adults with dyed hair and pensioners, all presumably with nothing better scheduled or any other serious commitments on a March weekend.

Interesting to see how generous these Merry Men and Women can be with other people’s money, especially as their actions can only result in a further elevation of prices to make up for the rise in UK shoplifting.

The Telegraph’s piece is worth reading in full and so is the Mail’s.