Guest essay by Eric Worrall
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sharply attacked Extinction Rebellion in a speech at a London book launch.
Boris Johnson attacks climate change protesters blocking streets
Prime minister urges ‘unco-operative crusties’ to abandon ‘hemp-smelling bivouacs’Camilla Hodgson in London
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The UK prime minister’s comments, made on Monday evening, came hours after thousands of demonstrators led by activist group Extinction Rebellion took to the streets of London as well as more than 60 cities worldwide, including Paris, Sydney and Toronto, in what they billed as the start of a two-week “October revolution”.
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Mr Johnson made the comments on Monday while speaking at a book launch for a biography of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, whom he said had warned about climate change. He said he had been advised not to attend the event, since “unco-operative crusties” were “littering” the roads.
“I hope that when we go out from this place tonight and we are waylaid by importunate nose-ringed climate change protesters, we remind them that she was also right about greenhouse gases.”
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Labour peer Andrew Adonis called the prime minister a “total disgrace” for spending the evening making dismissive comments at the book launch while Brexit was at “crunch point”. Politicians including shadow chancellor John McDonnell, Green party MP Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Clive Lewis voiced their support for Extinction Rebellion protesters.
Read more: https://www.ft.com/content/ea02f806-e994-11e9-85f4-d00e5018f061
Its a shame Boris Johnson is such a green. His government might disagree with Extinction Rebellion’s methods, but it largely supports their objectives.
The Boris Johnson government has committed Britain to 100% clean energy by 2050, though to be fair the UK government is also making large investments in nuclear fusion research. As we all know practical nuclear fusion power has been just 20 years away since the 1970s.
Legendary British PM Margaret Thatcher, for all the good she did, was a significant advocate of climate action. Her 1989 UN speech urging climate action helped raise international awareness. Thatcher set up the Hadley Centre, one of the UK’s leading climate research centers.
“what they billed as the start of a two-week “October revolution”. ”
That should send a chill down the spine of any student of Russian History. The October Revolution is what the Soviet Communist Party called the coup d’etat that put them in power and launched the the 75 year reign of terror called the Soviet Union, and murdered about 50 million citizens.
Further proof, as if any were necessary, that warmunists are watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside, whose real aim is communism.
Ever wondered why the lib dems changed there mind from “another referendum ” to staying in the EU
Follow the money https://youtu.be/E3K1u9psdME
Nigel telling it as it is (in the last 24hrs)
https://youtu.be/gnpLDzuEFDQ
Ghalfrunt, just read that comment of fresh food, so 70% at least doesn’t come via the EU, and at least 51% comes from the UK
Key word here is via . I think we will survive, especially when they just bypass the EU
I think we should all keep calm about a no deal exit from the EU. There are millions of entrepreneurs with commercial interests who are not going to allow the politics to affect their businesses. See Calais for eg. So it will be just another Y2K alarm. Referring to the larger picture , I feel that the British majority subconsciously recognised the EU to be a misconceived socialist construct which is therefore bound to fail. It was our good fortune that the genius of socialist chancellor Gordon Brown kept us out of the Euro, from which follows today.
though to be fair the UK government is also making large investments in nuclear fusion research.
It would be far more useful to research nuclear fission, namely advanced sodium and/or molten salt reactors.
Tom Woods recently made podcast about that. It seems to became slowly regognized.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1486-want-abundant-clean-energy-we-need-thorium-not-wind-or-solar/
Watching this as an expat from a good distance, TWO vital fact about the current events in the UK escapes the BBC and MM.
This can only be deliberate.
1/ That the UK is sitting on very large amounts of fossil energy, which will have to be used, to change it’s current dependency on French electricity, & refinery products.
(coal, gas and new discoveries of oil at least as large as the north sea).
The greeny activity will have to be supressed by force, in order to make these vital resources available inc new nuclear, NOT supplied by unwiling French nor rent seeking Chinese.
2/ That the EU has stored up a toxic and dangerous series of countries which are essentially bankrupt.
If there were no other valid argument to support the UK leaving the EU this one alone would be enough.
Remaining a member of the single market forces the UK to fork out for the vast debts of the Italian state, and the French banks following the Italian ones forcing the French ones into a public bailout.
Read Bear Stearns on steroids.
Nothing Brexit could do, will be comparable.
Brexit should have been about the real issues above.
ie:-
A vast opportunity to get out of the suicidal EU CO2 hoax, and the vast EU banking pyramid ponzy scheme, all in one hit.
In 2016 I didn’t vote.
If the same referendum were held again I would – TO LEAVE, and there are lots more who think the same.
Go stuff that in your pipe and smoke it Griff!
Hear hear,
Especially about about the Italian Banks, and lets add the target 2 debts of the Italians running at nearly £450 billion, on top of the £ 2 trillion or so public debt, quite important if the Italians decide to bail out of the euro, which they clearly want to do.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/07/the-madness-of-extinction-rebellion/
Nice find
Ho-Hum! Just more of the same:
Daisy Lowe insists she’s ‘just trying to save the planet’ as she defends using private jets after joining Extinction Rebellion protests
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10097561/daisy-lowe-gas-guzzling-private-jets-and-globe-trotting-holidays-extinction-rebellion/
I wonder if she bought ‘carbon offsets’? That would make it all okay, wouldn’t it?
I’d like to know how to get in on this ‘carbon offsets’ game. It’s becoming so commonplace you could make a fortune from it. Why, you can even get paid for growing grass:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/07/28/the-stupidest-thing-the-federal-government-does/
‘Crusties’ in ‘hemp-smelling bivouacs’ – putting the ‘stink’ back into ‘extinction’.
There were some on my train home tonight.
Interview with a Climate Extinction crank confirms that they have no answers, no solutions and no idea what they’re talking about.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1182062423844544513
It’s a shame Boris Johnson is such a green – after all people like him never left the green, had to step out of the green.
Following the RGB / YMC concept he’s missing 2 components out of 3.