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The recent shenanigans carried out by Extinction Rebellion over a fortnight in and around central London marked the nadir of British politics as heretofore understood and practised.

Waving placards,demonstrating en masse and venting vacuous platitudes on any matter is of course de facto guaranteed by our unwritten constitution.Largely because any given demonstration by itself doesn't herald much if any of a change in government policy or challenge any set of accepted legal norms.

Unless,that is we have a government in meltdown and we're in the midst of an unprecedented fully blown crisis of constitutional legitimacy.Which we are.

Up pop a mysteriously funded,fully formed campaigning organisation capable of launching a planned,co-ordinated two weeks long disruption of daily London life and traffic flows. An eco-millenarian cult that has metastasized across the european continent and has its own High Priestess/Delphic Oracle in Greta Thunberg.

In the face of this largely gentrified,professional middle class mob espousing veganism,population eugenics and gluing themselves to train carriages and Ministry entrance doors,the Metropolitan Police in collusion with the Home Office nakedly surrendered and were manifestly brazen about their cowardly dereliction of duty to maintain and enforce the Law and public order and safety.

Barely two weeks after this eco-millenarian cult withdrew,the following  headlines sprouted up, a further clarion call for capitulation to the Vegan AlQaeda.

Scotland declares ‘climate emergency’ following school strikes

The Independent

19 hours ago

'Climate emergency' declared by Welsh Government

BBC

9 hours ago

 

Labour to force Commons vote on declaring environmental and climate emergency

The Independent

2 days ago

 

Whilst the Pravda of Greens,LibDems and Labour - The Guardian just blatantly made it all up as they usually do:-

 

Two-thirds of Britons agree planet is in a climate emergency.

 

 

The lunatics are indeed in charge of the asylum.

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For an apparently inchoate protest movement, Extinction Rebellion certainly seem to have caught the limelight.

Here's what the inveterate, smug metropolitan Labour cultural elitist hack Polly Toynbee spewed forth on Thursday April 18:

" Day four of Extinction Rebellion, which has been a phenomenal success, as climate protesters occupy four pressure points in Britain’s congested capital. Everything has conspired to maximise attention for their climate cause, with the news unnaturally quiet in this pause in Brexit hostilities.

 

Extinction Rebellion: trio charged over train protest in Canary Wharf

 

Climate protesters are the soul of peace and goodwill, their pink boat welcoming Oxford Street shoppers, who mainly stop to talk. The surprisingly few police are friendly, with the 400 arrests curiously voluntary, people well-warned in advance so those who can’t be arrested step back. Is it true the police cuts have left too little capacity to arrest everyone? Two officers laugh: “You might say that, we couldn’t possibly comment”.

The sun shines on them as Waterloo Bridge is magically transformed into the Boris Johnson £53m garden bridge that never was, with a long line of trees in big pots down the middle and rows of flowers. The calm of the carless river crossing is a good advertisement for how cities might be. “Come and join us, take time off work,” Gail Bradbrook, one of the organisers, exhorted Today programme listeners this morning. She’s right. All who can should be there. "

And on and on the haggard bien pensant hack drivelled ad nauseam. 

The strapline " trio charged " refers to three eco-vandals who unlawfully endangered the health and safety of passengers and sabotaged the efficient operation of the light railway by having two trespassers on a train carriage roof and a third who super-glued themselves to another carriage on the platform.This is criminality pure and simple.

BBC Radio 5Live in particular was / is being pimped out to be the broadcasting arm of XR ( as the  Occupy/Anonymous/Green  Soros EU funded hackers and activists like to abbreviate their own extinction rebellion moniker ) .
On April 17th ,( day 3 of the Eco-millenarianist take over of our capital city) the Radio 5 presenter Rachel Burden hosted a phone -in where over population and increasing material consumption were repeatedly identified and demonised as the primary cause of the ecological apocalypse that only hordes of lecturers,teachers,sundry academics,lawyers and other intelligent left wing middle class virtue signallers could help avert.

For educated people, not one of them mentioned the 18th Century polemicist Malthus on whose 1798 writings on population numbers they so clearly base their entire deranged,paranoid belief system.The state sponsored eugenics policies of the Scandinavian countries right up to the 1970s never got a mention nor did China's utterly insane Maoist " one child " policy.
And yet somehow the Green,vegan Islington hipster Labour intelligentsia insisted that  people needed to have fewer children.No doubt they'll be the ones enforcing such policies;out of necessity obviously and not just because they believe that ordinary folk and the lives they lead are a scourge upon Mother earth.

And then there's the XR ,Green,Vegan,LIb-Lab veneration of the pseudo-prophet David Attenborough. An evergreen on the BBC with his wide-eyed manic stare and pseudo biblical pronouncements; but discussing him or them any further would be environmentally damaging.

There's already more than enough horseshit to go round.