Thread by @clim8resistance

More people can be found going to a football match each weekend than are on any single #climateStrike action.

The numbers might make for exciting news footage. But they are meaningless.

The wider public has never been given the opportunity to express a view on climate policy.

Support for, and even *votes* for the kind of society-changing climate policies that are being demanded by the #climatestrike count for *nothing* if the public have no opportunity to express their dissent from that agenda.

The public have been given no choice whatsoever.

No criticism of the green agenda is allowed on university campuses, in academic literature, on BBC/Channel 4 News. If it is ever printed in newspapers, it results in complaints to the censor.

The public are not even given the opportunity to hear debate, let alone vote on it.

Academics and commentators openly, and shamelessly discuss in public whether people who express different views in public should be allowed to, or whether they should be punished under the law. Publications proudly boast they will give no room for debate.

So when I see a few thousand kids -- out of a population of millions -- claiming to be "striking", I feel confident in saying that they are not representative, that they are not there out of their own decisions, and that they are they because they have been misled.

They are there because degenerate teachers and NGOs -- and most shamefully, some parents -- have decided to use children as props in a political campaign.

They have put politics before the interests of the children.

It is green activists -- *not* fossil fuel companies -- who have stolen children's futures.

They have poisoned kids' minds. They have told them unscientific doomsday stories.