XR raid supermarkets ‘to show food supply instability’

EXTINCTION Rebellion activists ransacked supermarkets yesterday in a move they claimed was to highlight the instability of food distribution.

Five members of the anti-climate change group walked out of Sainsbury’s in Camden, north London, yesterday with shopping trolleys filled with food they hadn’t paid for.

While inside the store, they put stickers on various items which read: “New lower price: free. Because poverty sucks.” After leaving with the stolen goods, they then used a loudspeaker to tell passers-by that they had free food for them. They said their stunt aimed to draw attention to the instability of global food supplies due to the climate emergency.

The activists are members of a new political party called Beyond Politics, which was launched at the same time yesterday. “While the Government gives billions to its corporate buddies, millions of families don’t have enough money just to feed their kids,” said a spokesperson for the party.

“We want to establish a participatory democracy. We want to engage everyone and for people to be able to have their say. The current political system is incapable of making the structural changes necessary. We need a complete transformation of politics.”

Roger Hallam, Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder, is a driving force behind the new party.

“We are seeing complete incompetence of the governing class,” he said.

“There have been 20,000 unnecessary deaths from Covid. The crowning glory is the inability of the political class to respond to the extinction of the human race.”