Just Stop Oil is selling the T-shirts in orange or white (Image: Just Stop Oil / Getty)
Just Stop Oil was last night slammed for “hypocrisy and double standards” after shipping in T-shirts made by low-paid workers from 4,000 miles away to sell to supporters.
The eco-warriors, notorious for shutting down Britain’s roads and interrupting sporting events, are selling anti-fossil fuel merchandise produced in and transported from the Dominican Republic to help fund their disruptive work.
The Just Stop Oil store is selling “iconic” T-shirts with its logo emblazoned across the front, for £20 in orange or white.
The garments are described on the website as being 100 percent cotton and customers are assured they are made with “no oil” – but with no mention of the long carbon-creating journey they have tyo go on to reach the UK.
Cross-party politicians lined up to criticise the climate group over its “blatant inconsistency”.
Senior Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith said Just Stop Oil was demonstrating a “do what I say, not what I do” attitude.
Just Stop Oil sells the T-shirts in two colours for £20 each (Image: Just Stop Oil)
The T-shirts are made more than 4,000 miles away in the Dominican Republic (Image: Express)
Reform UK MP said the eco-group were “hypocrisy personified”, adding: “Just Stop Oil uses just cheap labour and just fossil fuels to make its merchandise.”
Former Tory MP Bob Seely said that Just Stop Oil using an overseas T-shirt supplier “sums them up really”.
He added: “They drone on about saving the planet but fly in T-shirts from 4,000 miles away. Perhaps if they practised what they preached they would get them made in the UK.
“The words hypocrisy and double standards spring to mind. Being a responsible person should mean buying stuff made closer to home, not [on] the other side of the world.”
Sir John Redwood, who represented Wokingham from 1987 to 2024, said: “More hypocrisy from Stop Oil as they use marine diesel to bring T-shirts in from 4,000 miles away. Just like the protesters stopping cars who drive to the protest and eat food delivered by diesel truck.”
The product description warns buyers against purchasing similar T-shirts from rival stores as “any other shirts are a knock-off and may contain oil”.
However, there was no mention of the fact the shirts were made in the Caribbean country some 4,200 miles away before being shipped or flown into the UK.
Workers in the country earn an average of around £630-a-month meaning many of the poorer paid textile workers are paid less than £30 a day.
Just Stop Oil, which in March said it wanted to spark regime change via a Lenin-inspired “political revolution”, also sells luxury artwork, £40 soup tins and a brand new £25 protest-themed calendar, released just before Christmas.
The calendar features pictures of Just Stop Oil activists who have been imprisoned since 2022, as well as court dates for those accused of committing crimes.
The shop also sells a £15 mug, which is “perfect for those in low-key resistance against oil-based politicians and police”, according to the product description.
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Just Stop Oil is selling novelty soup cans for £40 (Image: Just Stop Oil)
The mug carries a secret “conspiratorial message” which is only revealed when heated. The message reads: “Every time I use this mug I’m conspiring to commit thoughtcrime and the police can’t stop me.”
Cans of soup are also being flogged, carrying the message “Just Stop Oil: Mother Earth Fights Back”.
The novelty tins come in a variety of colours and are a nod to Just Stop Oil’s infamous attack on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which saw Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, fling tinned soup over the masterpiece in October 2022. Both women were jailed over the incident.
The soup cans, which are sold for £40 – discounted from £50 – come in green, orange, blue, red and yellow. It is unclear if the tins actually contain soup, but each one does claim to be made of “20% courage”, “20% love”, “20% humour”, “20% hope” and “20% camaraderie”.
In Bed with Big Oil is one of the artworks being sold by Just Stop Oil (Image: Just Stop Oil)
‘Untitled’ by Andrew Lumsden is on sale for £900 (Image: Just Stop Oil)
Artwork is for sale too. One piece, ‘Untitled’ by Andrew Lumsden, is being sold for £900, reduced from £1,000.
Another, which takes a swipe at former Prime Minister , is being sold for £400. The piece has Mr Sunak’s surname written on a tongue which is making contact with another tongue carrying the words “fossil fuels”.
A third piece, ‘Board Room’ by Peter Kennard, is being sold for £750, down from £1,500. The artwork appears to carry BP’s logo.
Just Stop Oil told the Express: “We need a war-style mobilisation to end fossil fuel use by 2030, so all T-shirts can be made, shipped and sold without risking our traditions, our heritage and our hard-fought rights.
“To this end we call on the T-shirt buyers and wearers of the UK to join us in April 2025 at Westminster [when Just Stop Oil are planning a major demonstration outside Parliament].”