Tash Fairbanks, 73, a retired counsellor from Brighton, took part in a protest blockading one of Farnborough Airport’s gates on Saturday (21 May).
The veteran campaigner joined other protestors from across the South East.
Some locked on to cement pipes and lay across the airport’s entrances whilst others, including Tash, dressed as oligarchs, politicians and celebrities, sat at the “Table of Extravagance.”
There they toasted the 'super-rich' in fake oil poured from champagne bottles while blocking the elite from accessing their climate-destroying private jets.
Fairbanks highlighted what she described as the 'obscene wealth disparity between the airport’s customers and the general public struggling with the rocketing cost of living and soaring fuel prices.'
She said:
“Just the parking charges per jet at Farnborough are £500 a day, while food banks are now being used by one in five families.”
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