UK PM Explains how Old Soviet Catchphrases Apply to his Green Revolution

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

According to UK PM Boris Johnson, the words of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, who ushered in seventy years of famine and oppression, offer worthwhile guidance to supporters of his British green revolution.

Absolutely a Conservative, Honest! Boris Quotes Lenin to Promote Build Back Greener

Speaking at the Port of Tyne in South Shields at the opening session of the annual Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on Monday morning, Mr Johnson used a quote from the former Soviet Union dictator to frame his vision for a “green industrial revolution”.

“Lenin once said that the communist revolution was Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country,” Johnson said.

“Well, I hesitate to quote Lenin at the Confederation of British Industry, but the coming industrial revolution is green power plus the electrification of the whole country,” he continued.

Mr Johnson said that his green agenda is a “moral mission”, explaining that he has become “more idealistic” as he has grown older.

“It’s a moral thing but it’s also an economic imperative. Because if this country could achieve the same kind of geographical balance and dispersion of growth and wealth that you find in most of our most successful economic comparators… then there would be absolutely no stopping us and what we would achieve,” the prime minister said.

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/22/boris-quotes-lenin-to-promote-build-back-greener-agenda/

What can I say – Lenin was a very persuasive speaker, the only problem is he was wrong about pretty much everything. Reminds me of someone.

I look forward to next week, when Boris Johnson will no doubt quote Joseph Stalin’s advice on the best way to implement Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Maybe one of Stalin’s more famous quotes, like “Education is a weapon …”.

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Mickey Reno
November 23, 2021 1:56 pm

Bernie Sanders just came.

uh,that is, uh, to the same conclusion. Yeah, that’s what I meant.

November 23, 2021 2:04 pm

BoJo let the cat out of the bag.
Where did Karl Marx write his tomes? Why, at the London Library under David Urquhart’s tutelage. Urquhart who – why none other than Ali Bey of Chechnya infamy, the founder of Communism.

Hey guys, the chickens come home to roost!

November 23, 2021 2:10 pm

Ghaddafi also had a green revolution.

John Kelly
November 23, 2021 2:40 pm

Australia is very lucky that Gough Whitlam is long dead. Just imagine the damage he would do to our economy over the climate change stuff. And he too was a very persuasive speaker.

November 23, 2021 3:05 pm

BoJo missed the essence of Marxist economics in practice:

  • From each according to gullilbility
  • To each according to cuplability
Lark
November 23, 2021 3:41 pm

the coming industrial revolution is green power plus the electrification of the whole country

Given that a) green power is de-electrification and b) we’ve already had the industrial revolution, it sounds like his Socialist masters are looking forward to the past.

Thomas Gasloli
November 23, 2021 4:08 pm

And you need the electrification because the “green power” provides no power. So, Boris, skip the “green power” and just go with fossil fuel & nuclear power electrification.

John
November 23, 2021 4:39 pm

he has now taken up the first position of imbecile replacing Joe Biden

November 23, 2021 5:21 pm

What we used to call dementia is now called leadership.

November 23, 2021 10:14 pm

“Trust but VERIFY” – President Ronald Reagan’s watch phrase when dealing with the USSR…



In 1975 the CIA’s CounterIntelligence Staff (CI) chief, James Angleton, was fired along with the purge of 80% of his CI Staff, cementing the Marxist control of the CIA, explaining how in 1980 Marxist John Brennan was accepted into the agency, even though he told his polygraph examiner that he voted for CPUSA candidate, Gus Hall, for change.

Hence why…

(1) The West conspired to not VERIFY the ‘collapse’ of the USSR, even though the survival of the West depended on verification should the ‘collapse’ be a ruse, which proves (1) there was no ‘collapse’ of the USSR, because if there had been a ‘collapse’ the West would have immediately VERIFIED the ‘collapse’; and (2) the West’s institutions were co-opted by Marxists, explaining the West’s enabling of the fake ‘collapse’ of the USSR…quod erat demonstrandum.

Hence how…

(2) “On the initiative of the KGB, an army of Soviet vigilantes five million strong, the so-called ‘druzhiny’, was recruited from among the Komsomol activists. Their units were led by retired Chekists. They have been patrolling and policing the streets of all the Soviet cities. Their primary task has been to prepare the Soviet people to ‘behave’ during the forthcoming ‘liberalisation’.” – KGB defector Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, ‘The Perestroika Deception‘, March 1989, pp. 14-15.

Hence why…

(3) Leningrad Oblast (Province) is still named Leningrad Oblast! Engels City is still named Engels City! Engels Air Force Base is still named Engels Air Force Base! Russian military personnel still refer to each other as “Comrade”! Kaliningrad Oblast is still named Kaliningrad Oblast! The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is atop the Duma building, and illuminated at night for clear viewing! Soviet Red Stars are still attached to the bows of Russian naval ships! The Hammer & Sickle logo is still on Aeroflot commercial aircraft! Not one statue to Lenin has been destroyed in Russia, where out of the 3,000 still standing throughout Russia, only a handful have been carefully taken down (in locations where tourists frequent) and hidden away in parks and museums, the remainder of these monstrosities to Russian nationalism/Russian Orthodox Church rubbing historical salt into still open wounds of Russian nationalists! The Russian ‘electorate’ are only ‘electing’ for president Soviet era communist party member Quislings, who persecuted the 85% of the religious population held captive by the Communist Party during the ‘Soviet era’! 

…and…

(4) When the USSR officially ‘collapsed’ on December 26, 1991, thereby liberating the 91% of the population that were held captive for 74 years by the 9% of the atheist, religion suppressing, civil rights suppressing, population that were Marxists, there were ZERO celebrations throughout Soviet Russia, when thousands of celebrations were supposed to have taken place.

…and…

(5) When the USSR ‘collapsed’ in late 1991, the KGB controlled Russian Orthodox Church was never purged of its KGB clergy, once again identifying the (a) fake ‘collapse’ of the USSR; and (b) Marxist co-option of the West’s institutions that conspired to not VERIFY the ‘collapse’, even though the West witnessed the KGB-led vigilantes patrolling the streets of Soviet cities, ensuring that the Soviet population “‘behave’ during the forthcoming ‘liberalisation'”.

The Historical Backstory

(6) The World War I Allies conspired to not immediately send a naval expedition to Petrograd to easily topple the Bolshevik coup of November 7, 1917 when the Bolsheviks were weak – bereft of a professional military force that wouldn’t be created until January 28 the next year – thereby promptly returning Russia to the war, Russia’s involvement in the war being a critical variable for the Allies’ victory strategy against the Central Powers, proving (a) that the Allies knew they were going to win the war; (b) that the war was set up to (i) weaken the West’s influence in the world; (ii) weaken the West’s people’s confidence in their institutions and what those institutions stood for; and (c) one objective of the war was to settle into power the first above board Marxist state, with more to follow. In fact, there already was an anti-Marxist force in Russia at the time that if ordered would have conquered all of Bolshevik Russia during this period when the Bolsheviks were very weak. The unit was the 60,000 strong Czechoslovak Legion (soon to be 100,000 strong) but instead of sending the legion 700 miles north to Petrograd, the Allies sent it on a 6,000 mile odyssey across Russia to Vladivostok for evacuation to Europe(!), once again proving the Allies knew they were going to win the war…that the war was a Marxist operation.

(7) Even more telling is neutral Denmark’s laying mines off its coastal waters in international waterways in August, 1914 [thereby violating the 1857 treaty opening the Danish Straits to all shipping, where, “No ship of any kind may, under any pretext whatsoever, be subjected to detention or obstruction at the passage of the Sound or the Belts”] at the prompting of Germany (Germany too lays mines in the Danish Straits) and Great Britain does nothing! Not a word from the Allies (and the usual deafening silence from the Marxist co-opted press), in fact, even though access to the Baltic Sea is critical for the Allies to roll up Germany quickly by (a) closing the Baltic Sea to all German surface/subsurface vessels; (b) denying German access to trade with Sweden; (c) bringing the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy together; (d) forcing Germany to relocate critically needed infantry divisions and heavy armaments away from the Western Front for the new Baltic Front; (e) allowing British and Russian troop landings across the Baltic coasts, preventing German forces from moving eastwards towards Russia; thereby (f) knocking Germany out of the war before one shot is fired.

Vincent Causey
November 23, 2021 11:55 pm

“No man, no problem.” Or “Beat, beat and beat again.” Stalin.

November 24, 2021 12:09 am

Mr Johnson said that his green agenda is a “moral mission”, explaining that he has become “more idealistic” as he has grown older.
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Usually it’s the other way around:

“If you’re not liberal when you’re 20, you’ve got no heart and if you’re not conservative when you’re 60 you’ve got no sense. “

Reply to  Steve Case
November 24, 2021 2:08 am

I read this bollox dressed up badly by a conman.

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“The disciples of (BBC hyped) David Attenborough,-

Not just in this country but around the world,
Who can see the consequences of climate change and who will be demanding better from us….

And I confidently predict that in just a few years’ time it will be as noisome, offensive to the global consumer to open a new coal fired power station as it is to get on a plane and light up a cigar.
And as the world reaches this pivotal moment, post Glasgow,”..

err…
All he has succeeded in doing is exporting all the jobs from the successful industrial revolution based, UK – which used to have its own successful nuclear, gas and coal based reliable cheap electricity…

to Xi’s china, now powered overwhelmingly by coal….and building more of it by the day….
So all he has done is export all the smog from London to central China.

Can’t anyone see this bollox and hubris?
As a journalist and ex-eton scholar, he claims to be, I am also astonished at the text of the speech I read…it is littered with grammatical errors of the most elementary kind.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-at-the-cbi-conference-22-november-2021

Egs.
It is forbidden to start sentences with “AND”, WHO cannot be used to start a sentence unless having the sentence finish with a question mark…
“We are blessed,” finishes with a comma…then starts a new sentence with a capital letter.

A patent inability to master childhood schoolboy grammar (from an expensive private school),reminds me of my father who died from the worst stages of dementia.
There is something wrong up top with Johnson, – it must come from brain damage from Hypoxia, and it’s not getting better.

November 24, 2021 12:43 am

It’s a tight race! Biden had been leading but now BoJo pulls right up in the Idiot Leader Championship! But don’t forget the rest of the field! Ever the ‘dark horse’ favourite, Justin Trudeau is warming up the shoe polish for another Al Jolsen rendition…

Richard S Courtney
November 24, 2021 2:50 am

Eric Worral,

Thanks for your above article.

In support of your above article I copy to here a post I recently made to this WUWT thread
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/16/bbc-believes-a-conspiracy-drives-climate-conspiracy-theories/
where it enraged trolls – especially the politically right-wing trolls – who infest WUWT.

It seems that truth hurts totalitarians so some of the trolls continued to vilify me in other WUWT threads for days after I had posted this comment

Richard S Courtney

Reply to Eric Worrall

 November 17, 2021 3:09 am

Eric Worral,

I agree that “Britain is teetering on the brink of tyranny” and add that we ‘dodged a bullet’ when Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament in attempt to prevent any dissent from his intentions. We would now be a dictatorship ruled by Boris and his appointed Cabinet were it not for the Courts and the Crown removing the prorogation.

Boris still had over 30% public support in Britain after he had prorogued Parliament in attempt to obtain dictatorship. ‘Court and Crown’ corrected the power-grab.

AH retained over 30% public support in Germany after he had burned the Reichstag in attempt to obtain dictatorship, but there was no ‘Court and Crown’ to correct that coupe.

We live in dangerous times.

Richard

Richard

November 24, 2021 3:34 am

BORIS JOHNSON was alleged to have told dinner guests he has “buyers remorse” over marrying Carrie Symonds, a claim which has been fiercely denied by Downing Street.
Subsequently, number 10 threatened to sue, then withdrew the threat!!

It’s in multiple UK newspapers:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1524060/boris-johnson-news-carrie-symonds-buyers-remorse-denial

kcrucible
November 24, 2021 5:01 am

It’s a moral thing but it’s also an economic imperative. Because if this country could achieve the same kind of geographical balance and dispersion of growth and wealth that you find in most of our most successful economic comparators…”

And there you have it. Admission again about the real goals, which have nothing to do with climate at all.

atticman
November 24, 2021 5:58 am

God save us from “moral missions” (if she exist).

Wharfplank
November 24, 2021 6:25 am

This one track locomotive is barreling down the line and thanks to Millennials and GenZedians will arrive ay its destination despite all efforts to slow it…best to plan wisely for what is on the other side of this. I see the Elitist Ants harvesting our aphid honeydew for decades to come.

edward
November 24, 2021 7:34 am

Of course there was no shortage of “famine and oppression’ under the Tsar. This article is utter trash … Have you ever read Lenin? And as for Boris Johnson, he called for the “bodies to pile up in the thousands” (a reference to the pandemic). he certainly has more in common with Hitler … and nothing in common with Lenin.

Olen
November 24, 2021 7:48 am

Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”

A better quote from someone who accomplished something useful to people. Green energy cannot make that claim. And electrification that attracted industry and jobs had to be reliable.

spock
November 25, 2021 8:47 pm

Please read these books, the two best books debunking climate change crap. Click the links to download a free copy. Please share with your family and friends.

The moral case for fossil fuels
http://library.lol/main/95AC3FC1E1D3768A2FF58A9556284B4E

Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom
http://library.lol/main/62F19352A7FD8FA7830C90D187094289

Nick in Vancouver
November 26, 2021 12:57 pm

You could hook Mrs T up to an alternator for the “green industrial revolution” as she is surely spinning in her grave right now.