Leading Extinction Rebellion activist Robin Boardman-Pattinson says that air travel should only be used in emergencies, but has enjoyed multiple skiing holidays in recent years
By Jamie Johnson and Jack Hardy
18 April 2019 • 7:45 AM
A leading Extinction Rebellion activist who said that “air travel should only be used in emergencies” lives a jet-set lifestyle, taking skiing holidays, visiting global landmarks and enjoying walks along palm-tree lined paths.
Robin Boardman-Pattinson walked out of a television interview after being branded “incompetent, middle-class and self indulgent” by Sky’s Adam Boulton, but The Telegraph can reveal that climate change is not the only cause which he fights for.
The 21-year-old is a serial protestor, who has railed against Dominos Pizza, Bristol Magistrates court, Toby Young and Bromley Council.
He’s also campaigned against the expansion of Heathrow airport, supported Muslim women wearing Hijabs and Niqabs and asked for retail space in Bristol turned into a slave trade museum.
Worryingly, he also shared a post which calls the allegations of anti-semitism in the Labour party “a massive smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn by the Netanyahuite supporters in the party and wider media/society.”
Mr Boardman-Pattinson, far right, has been arrested for protesting before. Credit: Facebook
But while Mr Boardman-Pattinson rallies against climate change, he has taken at least three skiing holidays in recent years, and has posed for photographs in front of the leaning tower of Pisa. He was unavailable for comment.
But Mr Boardman-Pattinson is not the only protestor to have a coulourful campaign history.
Roger Hallam, who organised the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations has previously hosted at sit-down protest outside the London School of Economics demanding that they pay their cleaning staff a higher wage.
The 52-year-old is apparently researching a PhD in effective radical campaigning and once went on a two-week hunger strike in protest at King’s College London’s investments in fossil fuels, which they then agreed to phase out by the end of 2022.
Mr Hallam was keen to show his support of a spraypaint protest at the offices of The Sun in London Bridge, while he has also urged friends to sign a petition to lower rental costs for students at University College London.
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Funny these protests taking place during school and Uni Easter holidays. Time off from brainwashing the kids being used to inconvenience everybody. Will we have six weeks of this from end of July through to end of August I wonder?
They are threatening to bring Heathrow to a standstill over the Easter weekend while saying they don’t really want to inconvenience families but to hold airlines to account. Perhaps they could target routine business flights or stage sit-ins at airline HQs? The publicity would not be the same of course.
Actually, if viewed from behind, he is on the Far Left!!! 😉
21? Still a few years of brain development to go might explain. But going skiing in Europe is VERY VERY expensive. I certainly could not afford it at 21 and I was working fulltime and earning more than my step-father (With shift and overtime).
“Roger Hallam, who organised the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations has previously hosted at sit-down protest outside the London School of Economics demanding that they pay their cleaning staff a higher wage.
The 52-year-old is apparently researching a PhD in effective radical campaigning…”
Clearly a productive member of the community.
Here is the very middle class Boardman-Pattinson being told what he is by Sky’s Adam Boulton!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IPFRjLBqo8
Excellent stuff!
doesnt look like hes missed any meals
Hypocritical, pampered, Marxist, eco-terrorist mush-for-brains. I’d advise them to get a job, but really, who would hire them?
They are ALL hypocrites. Every single one.
Meet the ISIS deadenders of the climate doom movement.
So the usual collection of Bankrupts, and sociopath younger men who have figured that ‘Caring’ gets gratification with skads of not too shabby girls, not to mention the usual crop of guys in their late 50’s who still dress like teens 🙂
These people have always been about, but luckily progress kept them as noises off. The difference today is the number of potential recruits from what one could categorise as the part of the middle class who could expect to be pulled through the comfort hoop on the slipstream of others. Clearly things have changed since 08, and consequently we have the emergence and growth of this group who are unable to adapt ?
Absent any action by our politicians to return to a situation where capitalism once again starts to pull these people along with it, we can expect this group of the impoverished middle class to grow, and be easy meat for the demagogues and hucksters. There’s little doubt that the coming decade or so will see many more ears becoming receptive to the whole ‘Capitalism has Failed’ mantra that is being put about at this time.
Looking on the bright side, it may be the very emergence of this group, drawn as they seem to be from the group that have tended to be the mainstay of western political stability, that will prompt government to re assess the usefulness of the ‘Green’ agenda. Its instructive to say the least that its the Daily Mail that has led with exposing the organisers and backers of the ER lunacy.
Actress Emma Thompson has sparked fury after she flew 5,400 miles to join the climate change protests disrupting central London. The 60-year-old star touched down in Heathrow Airport on Thursday night and today was pictured joining the Extinction …
As usual with leftists, there’s one set of rules for the elite, and a very different set for the rest of us. This is obvious in each and every Socialist Utopia that has been created.
I see an ice pick in this idiot’s future