Allegra Stratton, spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit, courted controversy when she told Times Radio on Monday that she continued to use a diesel car because of taking long journeys to Scotland, Wales and Gloucestershire for family visits.
Are we so used to the utter hypocrisy from these people that no one's calling for her to be hounded out of her position?
How did she get there, anyway?
...she is a friend of the PM's wife, Carrie Johnson, who is said to be something of a climate change zealot herself. Come to think of it, Boris sounds increasingly that way inclined. Nor should one forget that Ms Stratton cut her journalistic teeth at The Guardian before moving to that newspaper's acknowledged finishing school, BBC2's Newsnight.
Ah! Still, she's clearly in good company:
Britain's climate tsar was accused of hypocrisy last night for flying to at least 30 countries – and not isolating afterwards.
Alok Sharma has travelled tens of thousands of miles over the past seven months to prepare the ground for the COP26 global environment summit this autumn.
But despite visiting at least six countries on the travel ‘red list’, he has been given a ministerial exemption from hotel quarantine each time.
They are just spitting in our faces now, aren't they?
The big problem with Bogus Johnson is that he is in bed with the enemy.
ReplyDeleteAlok Sharma has travelled tens of thousands of miles over the past seven months to prepare the ground for the COP26
ReplyDeleteObviously internet-incapable.
Was she named after a car? The Austin Allegra Stratton.
ReplyDeleteCould account for her attitude.
"...she continued to use a diesel car because of taking long journeys to Scotland, Wales and Gloucestershire for family visits."
ReplyDeleteTo me this just highlights the gulf between these people's green utopia and reality land. There is nothing wrong with a modern diesel car, they are clean and fuel efficient and they get the job done. Only in delusional green fantasy world are they the epitome of evil. So yes, hypocrisy but mainly due to an ICE car being the only practical solution to her transport problems in the real world.
Why is anyone surprised? She is or sees herself as a member of the entitled ruling class. It's only us low lives and plebs that they intend to inflict a medieval life on they will carry on as always. The rich man in his castle and the poor man at his gate is exactly the way they believe things should go back to.
ReplyDelete"The big problem with Bogus Johnson is that he is in bed with the enemy."
ReplyDeleteIt remains to be seen for how long...
"Obviously internet-incapable."
Astonishing how Zoom and Teams has kept groceries on the shelves and waste collected..isn't it?
"Could account for her attitude."
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"There is nothing wrong with a modern diesel car, they are clean and fuel efficient and they get the job done."
But the Greens seem stuck in the bad old days of particulates and acid rain. Hey! Acid rain! Remember that?
I wonder what happened to it..?
"She is or sees herself as a member of the entitled ruling class."
At least with the Royals, you got some pagentry to bring in the tourists...