Are there no limits to Just Stop Oil’s capacity for self-satire? In my Spectator column last week I described eco-protestors as being like pro-Communist demonstrators in Soviet Russia – no amount of obeisance to their dogma is ever enough. But even I didn’t expect them to stage one of their sophomoric protests at Glyndebourne, a monument to liberal, bien pensant groupthink. Here is the Telegraph, scratching its head over why the pink-haired militants targeted the upper-middle class opera festival:
It is unclear why the protesters chose Glyndebourne, which prides itself on its environmental credentials. The opera house has committed to halve direct carbon emissions by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2050.
In 2012, to the dismay of some locals who argued that it was spoiling an area of outstanding natural beauty, Glyndebourne installed a 67-metre wind turbine that was officially unveiled by Sir David Attenborough.
Glyndebourne said at the time that the turbine “provides a visual reminder to us all to do all we can to tackle climate change”.
It makes you wonder who’s next in Just Stop Oil’s sites? The headquarters of Greenpeace? Greta Thunberg’s house in Sweden? The set of St David Attenborough’s next eco-propaganda series?
Worth puzzling over in full.
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Just Stop Oil are irritating twats, but the entire rich world establishment is bought into the climate change/net zero folly and evil and censoring dissent and they are way more dangerous. Having a pop at JSO kind of deflects attention away from the real enemy. Probably that is their intention and purpose. Time to start ignoring them?
Fair enough tof but where JSO are guilty of committing criminal acts they should be charged and sent down just as you and I would be.
Yup totally agree there, I just think DS and any mainstream media that reports on them disparagingly should either ignore them or make clear that the policies of more or less every rich world political party in the area of climate and energy are actually just as extreme and dangerous. I don’t want Joe Public thinking that JSO are just some isolated nutters whose ideas will go away then they are sent to prison.
“Just Stop Oil are irritating twats”. Nailed it.
Time to start ignoring them? Yes, a long time ago.
It’s interesting the protests that MSM cover and the ones that they ignore, almost as if they have an agenda to promote.
MSM promoting an agenda? No…ooo.
I don’t believe it.
They are “irritating twats”, but who filled their heads full of the phony climate crisis junk science in the first place? ———–It was pretend to save the planet Eco Socialist Governments all over the western world pandering to the world governance people at the UN and WEF. These brainwashed dreamers gluing themselves to stuff are to be pitied for falling for the biggest pseud scientific scam ever.
There’s a lot of pro-Communism going around. This author makes good points;
”As for those who still think they can get away with saying that they have no clue as to why decent Americans are objecting to the “LBGT” movement, they need to be reminded that most Americans didn’t give a damn about gay people, trans, and drag queens until they targeted children. Americans truly have a live and let live attitude, but leftists in America, who’ve embraced the foreign idea, leftism, don’t have that live and let live attitude. They not only want to drive electric cars, but they want to force all of us to do that. They don’t only want to take covid “vaccines,” they want to force all of us to take them. And so on. Leftists crossed the line when they explicitly went after children, and they can’t now pretend that they haven’t done that. That was the flashpoint for Americans. And I see that even some gays, notably the group, Gays Against Groomers, understand that the communist gays simply cannot resist crossing the line and upending years good will from average Americans.
In sum, the LGBT movement is a gay communist movement that now expresses a triumphalist attitude about their position in 2023, where they moan about how “marginalized” they are, while shoving their lifestyle in our children’s faces. As one of these gay supremacists put it the other day, “Straight sex is just not natural. Those are biological facts.” I would tell this gay supremacist that without natural straight sex, he and billions of people wouldn’t exist.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/06/the-lgbt-pride-flags-true-colors-are-blood-red-with-a-splash-of-gold
“Gay supremacists” That’s a good description of the woke LGBT movement these days.
Its a new category of human, the ‘Concerned Ignoramus’. I am very, very concerned about something that I haven’t really understood, or thought about at all in fact. However one of my friends was talking about it, and it sounded really serious, well the bit I listened to did. None the less, its essential that we start doing it, or stop doing it, whichever it is, and for that reason I will be doing my utmost at every chance I get.
As Boney said, ‘never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake’.
Just Stop Oil would have us believe that at lower levels of CO2 and lower temperatures the climate would be much more safes. This 4 min video lists some of the deadly hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, and heat waves of exactly 70 years ago when CO2 levels were much lower. North Sea flood etc. Looks to me like it was worse then. If a theory does not fit the facts, it’s wrong.
It is nothing to do with climate, it is about hatred of people who are better off than these individuals and who don’t constantly lament their wealth and perceived privilege.
Agreed. It has never been about climate. People have been jumping on this bandwagon for all sorts of reasons. Anthropogenic climate change has always been the tool used to keep the population under control. In ancient times we had to appease the gods, today we have to appease a bunch of Marxists and their useful idiot followers.
Given that some of their more prominent members such as Phoebe Plummer soup thrower extraordinaire went to £40,000 a year private schools it isn’t about hatred of people who are well off. It’s much more about hatred of the “lower orders”, plebs, uneducated masses etc. who don’t agree with them or think they’re wonderful for “saving the planet”.
How about stopping the spraying of our skies with toxic $hite. How about noticing something that’s real and going on directly above your head. JUST STOP SPRAYING US
Sweltering humid heat today here in Brittany under an ionised sky. They’ve been at it on and off all day.. the photo I’ve enclosed was taken to one side of my house at 19.55pm French time.. an hour ahead of YUK.
Danger – nutter alert.