Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Just Stop Oil breaking onto a London airfield hours after Taylor Swift's private jet touched down

A pair of Just Stop Oil protestors painted two jets orange at a London airport, hours after Taylor Swift touched down for her next tour stop.

The climate activists carried out the vandalism with fire extinguishers, in an act reminiscent of their previous protest at Stonehenge.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says this will likely spark an investigation into the group.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady A UK correspondence with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, Hey Inda, Hey Hea, they're good to speak to
you again.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
And did you see what happened to Taylor Swift's plan?
Did you just see what happened to Tyler Swift's plane?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, So this is another headline by Just Stop Oil,
fresh from targeting Stonehenge yesterday. They've managed to get a
small group of protesters into Stanstead Airport. It's a private airfield.
Standstad is a huge public airport obviously, but there's a
private airfield attached to it, and there's a private jet

(00:32):
there used by Taylor Swift, and that and others have
been targeted by Just Stop Oil. So lots of paint
thrown about. I would imagine a major investigation underway now
and a lot of anger here. People really won't care
about Taylor Swift's playing very much, but a lot of
anger about what they did at Stonehenge yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Doesn't help at all. That the stuff is going to
wash off. Apparently it's like a water base. Paints will
just run off.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
So they're saying it's like made with torn powder or something.
But look, Stonehenge has been there five thousand years hasn't troubled.
Anyone doesn't contribute to climate change, is not involved in
fossil fuel extraction. Apparently, they said they were making their
point for the new government that they wanted to kind
of bring the UK to a stance they'll get people's

(01:17):
attention and get a confirmation from the next government if
it is going to be labor that they will stop
extracting fossil fuels in the North Sea. So look, they're
just making themselves deeply, deeply unpopular.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
You too, right now, have you got another Conservative candidate
who's placed a bit on the election?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, so female candidate for the Conservatives standing in Bristol
in the West of England. And the Gambling Commission are
now handing over information to the authorities because yes, another
bet went in predicting that there would be a July election.
So in the last couple of weeks we've found out
that Craig Williams, who is parliamentary Private sectory to SUNAK,

(02:01):
he placed a bet allegedly on there being a July election.
Last night we found out that a police protection officer
who works very closely with SUNAC he allegedly placed the
bet on there being a July election and now the
Conservative candidate in Bristol is trouble for in trouble for
exactly the same. You know. Obviously word was getting out,
its spread like wildfire, and some people thought they would

(02:23):
cash in and get down the bookies. It's going to
come back and bite them in the bump a big time.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, totally. Richie's going to lose the seat, isn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So the latest poll reckons that he will. That's by
three hundred and eighty two votes. It'll be extremely tight.
He's in Richmond in North Yorkshire, a very affluent area,
always conservative. He lives in a mansion and the latest
polling has not only electoral wipeout for his party, but
him having the utter, i mean ignantiny of being booted

(02:55):
out of Parliament and not even saving his own seat.
So I think of family trip to California and the
move out to the UK could be happening a lot
quicker than you think.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Here too, write I'm not surprised by this at all.
End of Thank you as always into Brady, our UK correspondent.
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