Just Stop Oil protesters detained after spray attack on US embassy

Just Stop Oil supporters have sprayed the US embassy building in London in orange paint on the morning that Donald Trump was elected for a second term to the White House.

Two protestors from the environmental activist group were videoed dousing the entrance of the building in Nine Elms with the luminous coloured paint before being detained by armed police.

The act of protest was done so under the guise of demanding that governments 'work together to end the extraction and burining of oil, gas and coal by 2030', according to the group.

A Just Stop Oil spokesperson stated the only real winner of yesterday's seismic US elections were the 'corporate powers' who they claim 'control the major parties in both the US and UK'.

'Regardless of who sits in the White House, corporations and billionaires will ensure that the interests of the fossil fuel industry will continue to be prioritised over the wellbeing of ordinary people,' the spokesperson said.

The infamous environmentalist group went on to call for people to pool together and disrupt the 'business as usual' political system, arguing that it is the only way to force governments to intervene and minimise the effects of climate breakdown.

Going on to cite the mass flooding endured by large parts of eastern Spain over the last week, the spokesperson claimed that the hundreds of deaths in cities such as Valencia were just the start of climate-related disasters to come.

'In Spain this week, hundreds of bodies continue to be dragged from the mud - this is just a small portent of what is to come if we don't change course immediately,' they stated.

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Choosing today as the day of protest outside the US embassy was apparently a pointed act, with the group referencing newly-elected Donald Trump in their statement by branding him a 'fake populist'.

 'As long as democracy is hijacked by corporate interests and billionaires, it will fail to deliver the change ordinary people are crying out for. This will always leave the door open for fake populists like Trump to exploit the disaffection many feel.

The group concluded their statement on the spray paint attack by urging 'ordinary people' to step up and influence change because 'no political leaders are coming to save us'. 

The Metropolitan Police have since released a statement confirming that the two men, aged 25 and 72, were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and are currently being held in custody.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said: 'Officers from the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Unit arrested these two men within minutes, ensuring that they could not cause any further damage to the embassy.

'This activity is vandalism purporting as protest and we will continue to have a zero tolerance attitude to actions such as this.'