Cowardly Jenny Jones does not care for debate about the origins and philosophy and MO of her political tendency.
Greens don't do debate. There is no culture of debate in environmentalism. It expects only obedience.
Bizarre Jennie Jones doesn't mind her coreligionists depriving you of your freedom of movement, and the means by which millions make a living, but she is bothered by robust, free, open, democratic debate.
In the green view, debate is 'abuse' and having a different opinion is 'lies'.
Greens are people who didn't hear the word 'no' until it was far, far, far too late for them to understand what it means.
It is a developmental disorder.
I am serious.
Leaving aside the democratic problems of the HoL, she is not equipped to be in a position of responsibility.
She has no answer to challenges to her position. She doesn't think it needs to be debated. She doesn't think there can be a valid criticism of her ideas.
Jones thinks that blocking traffic is a 'democratic right to protest'.
The right to protest may well include routes that require closure to traffic in order to accommodate a march.
But it doesn't include blocking traffic as "protest".
The right to travel is democracy, too.
Simply not equipped for debate...
The fact and the problem for Jenny Jones and XR is that *vastly* more people want to use the roads than adhere to their extreme ideology.
If anyone disagrees, or dares to point out the fact, Jones' only answer is to screech "BIGOT!" at them.
For example, this is her answer to the point that blocking the roads obstructs access to one of London's most important hospitals.
It doesn't matter what the protesters let through, it's the traffic jam that obstructs.
Jones believes it is her 'democratic right' to kill people.
XR and the Green Party have made their case. Nobody in the country has not heard it. But after hearing it, very few people are moved by it sufficiently to vote for her party or to abandon the things that are necessary for their day-to-day lives.
Let's have a vote on it.
Greens are manifestly insane, unhinged, not capable of reason.
I don't think Dale Vince really understands how the green movement was conceived, founded, and pushed to the top of national and global political agendas.
Many interesting comments from @DaleVince in this Telegraph piece. But this one struck me...
"There’s always been a funding gap between the two main parties and I wanted to level the playing field… I felt it essential to do all that I could to help Labour win the last election."
@DaleVince As with many of Dale Vince's claims that involve numbers, an inspection of the data reveals the opposite case. Between 2013-22 inclusive, the "funding gap" was in Labour's favour in all but one year.
@DaleVince The article says, "listen to any of his interviews and Vince – who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 50 – is clearly highly intelligent."
"He claims his IQ is above 150".
I find both of those claims rather difficult to believe.
This was very well known and understood in the decade before last, when exactly this phenomenon occurred with solar PV dumping undermined US and European manufacturers.
There is no need to prance around in front of infographics to explain European deindustrialisation. The fact is that UK/EU policies created a market for these products while undermining domestic manufacturers.
"Oh wow!", said the green lobby. "Look how cheap solar power is getting! Isn't China amazing!" They said we needed stronger climate targets to be imposed sooner.
And the fact is that Sky News took it upon itself to abandon proper criticism of that policy agenda, to become an advocate for green policies. It even had a daily climate news show. It committed itself to becoming a political campaigning organisation, to lead its audience towards supporting climate policies.
This PowerPoint-contemporary dance performance tells the story that critics were pointing out two decades ago.
No. It's not a perfect storm, Ed.
Perfect storms are unpredictable. Nobody knows quite how and when the meteorological forces will align and multiply.
Many people were warning of this outcome. Why did Sky news prefer instead to produce propaganda?
1. The Quadrature Foundation, which gave a £4 million donation to the Labour Party, and from where the government's new Climate Envoy, Rachel Kyte emerged.
2. The European Climate Foundation, which turns dark money from green billionaires into grants for climate campaigning organisations, including XR. It does not declare who its grantors or grantees are, but is largely controlled by hedge fund billionaire Christopher Hohn.