GB News’s Charlie Peters has seen the security failures at RAF Brize Norton first hand.
Our National Reporter recalled his staggering experience, which happened just last month, at the major British stronghold after campaign group Palestine Action were able to break in and spray two military planes with red paint.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is preparing a written statement to put before Parliament on Monday which will make becoming a member of the group illegal, should it pass.
Charlie says while the action is necessary, heads should roll.
Charlie Peters witnessed RAF Brize Norton's security failures first hand
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“I think it’s quite a severe action from the Government, but it comes because they have done nothing for so long to deal with this”, he said.
“Palestine Action was conducting these very severe interventions into the defence industry sector and many businesses. They’ve been forced into this severe move because they’ve given them so much time and opportunity for so long.
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“If you read the Palestine Action website, it’s very clear they are calling for criminal activity and calling for legitimate businesses to be damaged.”
Speaking about the base’s security itself, he commented: “I was there last month for some filming ahead of VE Day.
Charlie spoke to co-host Miriam Cates about his experience
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“The escort that took us onto the base got lost. There was just a bunch of journalists driving around Britain’s largest air station.
“There was no observation of us whatsoever. We had no security checks on our vehicles or any of our kit.
“I remember me and my camera operator were saying, ‘thank God that we are here with GB News and there is no one nefarious in our group', because that’s a huge risk.
“Lo and behold, next month someone just waltzes onto the station. I’d like to see someone sacked for this.”
Red paint sprayed onto an RAF jetREUTERSA spokesperson for Palestine Action said: "When our Government fails to uphold their moral and legal obligations, it is the responsibility of ordinary citizens to take direct action."
The Government is moving to proscribe the group and effectively brand them a terrorist organisation.
A security review at military bases across the UK has been launched in light of the breach.
Images of one of Britain’s most strategically important military airfields show a large section of the eighty-mile perimeter was secured only by fencing similar to that used in a home garden.
Two protesters were able to penetrate the base and approach two of the most vital aircrafts it houses.
During the incident, activists sprayed ted paint on two military aircraft, in what Sir Keir Starmer has branded a “disgraceful act of vandalism”.
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