XR Political Party Launches With Stolen Food

Friday, 26th June 2020 at 10:52am

The Guardian website reports that a new political party was launched in London by a group of activists from Extinction Rebellion [XR] marking the event by shoplifting a haul of goods from Sainsbury’s.

Five members of the Beyond Politics party filled trolleys with food but left without paying, apparently to highlight the instability of global food distribution.

Party member Benedict McGorty said: “I’m not stealing food, I’m ‘gift-aiding’ it. We are changing the rules because the rules are plain wrong. This is not against Sainsbury’s but the profiteering of a basic human need.”

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