Thread by @clim8resistance

Deidre Brock MP telling the house that climate change means that *we* are going to have to accept lower living standards.

No disagreement from other MPs.

That's because they won't have to accept lower standards of living. They will be fine.

#ClimateEmergency

This is such a degenerate @UKParliament that it is debating, not ways of making life better, but actively seeking ways to make it worse, deliberately.

That is its consensus.

That is all that MPs have to offer the public.

They hide their absolute vacuity behind 'future generations'.

Brock: "Changing our society will cause discomfort..."

None of them have a mandate to "change society".

Where did they get the idea that they do have a mandate to "change society" from?

Sarah Newton MP -- a wet green tory -- saying that the #climateemergency "debate" matters to 'hundreds of thousands of people', followed by a stream of platitudes that fail to acknowledge the lack of democratic legitimacy of the cross-party consensus on climate change.

Newton lives in a fantasy -- a bubble, which is entirely divorced from the lives of millions of ordinary people.

Newton argues to put "politics" to one side, and for MPs to agree with each other about how to make life for ordinary people harder.

The wet, weak and wobbly Newton is followed by another climate champion MP, Ed Miliband.

Miliband grew up in Primrose Hill to millionaire Marxists, but his coronation was in Doncaster North.

Such was his longstanding personal connection to the people of that constituency, he decided that climate change was more important than their lives, jobs, wealth.

"Sacrifices are going to have to be made", says Miliband, but that this will enable people to have better lives.

This means retrofitting people's homes.

How is retrofitting a home a *better* life?

Ed Miliband mow claiming that a better life means walking.

Aside from disability, is there anything that stops people walking already?

In what way does walking more mean a 'better life'?

If you think walking would make your life better, more power to your feet.

I don't. And I am amazed that 'walking' has become a political ambition.

Miliband now banging on about China, completely oblivious to any sense of proportion.

He really is an utter cipher.

Miliband now celebrating the cross-party consensus on climate change.

They *hate* democracy. They absolutely hate it.

Now Rebecca Pow -- another wet, weak, wobbly green Tory, citing her green credentials, having been an anti-nuclear protester and Friends of the Earth activist.

That's our MPs.

Pow says that we should make 'sustainability' the thing that governs EVERYTHING.

Sustainability is IDEOLOGICAL. It is as ideological as any ism.

Yet it won't be seen or debated as such.

It is no less a colonisation of politics than it would be if every MP arrived at Parliament tomorrow, as avowed Maoists.

They have agreed to NOT debate.

The entire 'debate' has been about Great Leaps Forward.

What could possibly go wrong.

Pow concludes the 'debate' by announcing the 'green revolution'.

It is.

It is a revolution in which a political elite turns against the public.

MP Cat Smith... "young people"... "Climate emergency"... Blah blah.

They just read from a list of green platitudes.

Now she's banging on about 'sustainable transport policy'.

There's no such thing. Miliband just told, you, it's about walking.

Walking. And anyway, there will be no jobs to go to.

Another MP voicing her support for the XR.

They have no balls, no brains, no guts and no spine, our MPs.

She thinks it is brave and visionary to propose policies to make people vegetarian.

Now Philip Dunne MP - another wet, weak and wobbly tory green.

Emphasising cross party consensus and 'global leadership' and hoping that the UK will host next years climate meetings.

He wants to cover 25% of the UK in forests.

Because that's exactly the problem younger generations are facing: not enough trees.

Not not enough houses... Not enough trees. This means paying farmers more, of course.

That's how in-touch these MPs are.

Now he wants to regulate behaviour.

MPs discussing 'behaviour change'.

It's f***ing dark, weird and nauseating.

Jeff Smith MP celebrating Glastonbury's banning of plastic bottles.

George Freeman MP -- wet, week, wobbly tory -- arguing that it's important for MPs not to disagree that there's an environmental emergency.

Debate cannot be allowed. Democracy is forbidden.

There is no difference between MPs and green NGOs.

There is no difference between MPs.

They are *all* completely hiding behind alarmist bullshit.

The entire chamber is like a really shit sixth form.

There is absolutely no evidence of independent thought, no critical understanding of the issues and debates, and no scrutiny of the most obviously bullshit claims, nor any interest in their origins.

Andrew Selous -- wet, weak, wobbly Tory -- citing PWC and arguing for more walking and cycling.

That's British @Conservatives for you.

He's chair of the "all party cycling group".

It's a bold claim, but I don't think Britain needs an all party cycling group of MPs.

Oh, now he's on about electric planes.

Absolutely nuts.

There is an urgent need for an alternative to these zombies.

That's as much of this 'debate' as I can take.

If you want to know more, just paint a face on your hand, and have mouth the words as you endlessly recite vapid green platitudes.