Just Stop Oil set to disrupt summer holidays with airport campaign

Just Stop Oil protesters risk the fury of families by plotting a summer of disruption at airports, according to reports.

The climate change activists - notorious for blocking roads in central London, defacing artworks and disrupting sporting events - this week breached security at Stansted Airport to spray orange paint on private jets.

But a source told The Times that Thursday’s airport attack was only a “prelude” to action coming before autumn, adding: “This is just another way of us taking action in the theatres of life we exist in because we’re not politicians.

“Private jets are obviously mental for emissions and most people would agree they need to stop.

“It’s a wake-up call for government that we need big radical changes.

“If this incoming government doesn’t get us on war footing then we’re not going to have anywhere to fly to.”

Two JSO protesters were arrested on Wednesday after throwing orange powder paint at Stonehenge.

The following day, two activists - named as Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22 - gained access to a private area of Stansted’s airfield and were detained by Essex Police.

Singer Taylor Swift’s private jet had been there hours before the incident but was not affected.

JSO denied individual holidaymakers were being targeted, but failed to rule out action at airports this summer.

In response to Friday’s report, a spokesman told the Standard: “We have smashed through the 1.5 degree threshold that was supposed to keep us safe, the consequences of this are catastrophic and this is leading to runaway extreme temperatures that are making large parts of the world unable to support human life.

“We cannot continue business as usual.

“To protect our families and communities we need an emergency, international legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuel burning by 2030.”