Rebellion

The peasants are revolting. Well at least according to the smug, misanthropic middle-class activists of the Extinction Rebellion. Except now, they really are revolting – against Extinction Rebellion and Brendan O’Neill is delighted, as am I.

For more than a week now the XR elitists have been disrupting everyday life. They’ve stopped flights from taking off, preventing people from going on well-earned holidays or visiting loved ones abroad. They’ve clogged up roads in city centres, irritating cab drivers and people on buses. And they’ve stormed Smithfield meat market and Billingsgate fish market – smug middle-class vegans lecturing hard-working traders about the correct way to think and live.

Precisely. These people claim, on the face of it, to be campaigning about climate change (it always has and always will), yet now we get the extreme vegan nutters clambering on the bandwagon in an attempt to bully, harass and intimidate ordinary working people. No one voted for these fuckers, yet they think that they can force their agenda on the rest of the population by disrupting their daily lives. Let’s be clear here, this is not legitimate protest. Gathering in Trafalgar square and having speeches and waving banners is perfectly okay – it’s an expression of free speech and I support it absolutely – even if I disagree with the message. But this activity is not legitimate and needs to be stamped on good and hard.

The police have made arrests, but I expect that the outcome will be limited – besides which, these people think that it makes them martyrs to their cause. Now it seems, ordinary folk are sorting it out for themselves and there are no martyrs.

But today their sneering campaigning went too far. Today they disrupted the Tube. Yes, this mass, largely electric public-transport system used by millions of people is the latest target of these arrogant disrupters of the masses’ lives. And people got pissed off. Really pissed off.

And this is what needs to happen. By and large, we are a tolerant people, but eventually we will snap and yesterday, we snapped.

Across the Tube system commuters confronted the XR irritants. In one videoed scene a commuter can be heard asking about people who have hospital appointments to keep. What about them? ‘The point is…’, replies a plummy XR protester, no doubt about to launch into a snooty green lecture for the little people, but she gets cut off by other angry commuters. One points out that the train she has glued herself to is electric. Why target this transport system? ‘Are you guys really THAT fucking stupid?’, he asks. ‘That’s why you ain’t got jobs…’

On the Tube train I was on the driver announced a delay ‘due to protests’. Cue an enormous groan from the teeming train-riders. In Canning Town an angry crowd of working people even dragged XR protesters off the top of a Tube train. The sight of one of the protesters kicking at the commuters to prevent them from reaching him really showed how nasty and contemptuous of the public these green extremists have become. This is the reactionary middle classes insulting and assaulting ordinary people – horrible.

This, if anything will, sends a clear message to these vile, self-satisfied arseholes that they do not have the backing of the British public. And the government needs to stand firm and refuse absolutely to concede anything to them, for once they do, then blackmail becomes a legitimate political tool.

People reject this elitist movement. They reject its alarmism, its snobbery, its anti-humanism, and its demands for crippling austerity. We saw that today. Commuters’ message was ‘Fuck Extinction Rebellion’. And that’s a positive, progressive, forward-looking political demand we can organise around.

I can run with that.

Meanwhile in Canada, Rebel Media notes that Saint Greta of Doomberg is poking about interfering in their election campaign.

She’s currently filming an anti-oil reality show with the BBC and she has come to Alberta to attack the oil-sands in the middle of an election campaign, even though she refuses to register as a third party with Elections Canada.

That it’s none of her goddamned business is besides the point it seems. Now that she has sailed to the Americas, she is intent upon doing as much mischief as possible while there. I wonder if she will get into trouble for truancy?

But Greta has never criticized China, the world’s largest polluter, or OPEC, the world’s largest oil producers.

She could go to China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran or Venezuela to preach, but she doesn’t… And why is that? Why does she choose to attack the world’s most ethical oil — Canadian oil?

Well, no. They would give her short shrift. These people always go for the soft targets.

If you listen to the interview, they really don’t like difficult questions. Well, there’s a surprise. Keean Bexte’s comments regarding the BBC are spot on.