I have just posted this on Twitter:
I am deeply shocked by Johnson's choice of language.
He knows what the language of 'shirts' is all about. He is deliberately referring to fascism.
He is deliberately taking sides.
And he is deliberately opposing those who want action taken to save this planet and human life on earth.
He is siding with the black shirts as a result with the deliberate intention that they should silence the left, nominating The Sun to act as their voice piece.
Worse, by the use of this language he is stoking violence against those who think we have a duty to act for the sake of all our children.
I have little doubt that he is encouraging a mob; a mob we are already seeing being mysteriously allowed to act to clear Insulate activists whilst the police stand aside.
This is deeply dangerous rhetoric.
I had already written the thread I have just posted on whether we have a legitimate government by the time I saw this. Now I think we can safely provide an answer.
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The Sun has deliberately made a fact for some out of something so preposterous (that officials are going to kick down doors to remove gas boilers!!) that it’s just winding people up.
This is the usual gutter journalism from the Sun. They need to be censured.
And even as they mourn one of their own as a ‘kind man’ here once again is the combative, divisive, potentially explosive language being used by the far right.
Do you think that the possibility of Johnson’s BREXIT mode of political engagement will ever be seen as a possible contributory cause to the death of one of his own MPs?
You know – I think that that is asking too much of him and too many of his malign minions.
[…] it does contextualise Johnson's comments in The Sun. His language there confirms that he remains a climate sceptic opposed to the action required to […]
Pot calls kettle black.
You spend half your time calling the Tory party, or anyone who in general disagrees with you a fascist.
If anyone is inciting political violence and hatred it is you.
Telling the truth is not an incitement to violence.
Nor is it anti-democratic.
It is telling the truth.
That is the foundation on which society is built.
You think I should eschew it?
Why?
“I am deeply shocked by Johnson’s choice of language….He is deliberately referring to fascism”
Something you refer to on a regular basis.
Your faux outrage, double standards and hypocrisy are hilarious.
Still, as is often said of the left. If you didn’t have double standards you’d have no standards at all.
I call out fascism
He promotes it
It would seem you are on his side
Why?
Dear John and Dear Jane (yawn…………………..zzzzzzzzz……..good grief).
No one has ever suggested that someone has got to go around and forcibly rip gas boilers out of people’s homes in the pursuit of net zero or any green agenda.
No one – until that is – Boris and The Sun created that notion.
Richard is quite capable of looking after himself, but honestly I felt that I had to say something because you seem oblivious to the fact that your prime minister has just told another dangerous and damning lie with the help of one of his supporting media outlets.
Instead, why not ask yourself why Boris is only offering a £5K grant to people to change their heating to a low carbon version? Or think about the the complete hash his government has made over the storage of gas, or his deliberate underfunding of the NHS, and his cock up of Covid.
Please wake up eh?
You’re just being used.
You really are.
Does this mean that Boris will want us to turn against the Royal family? As they seem to have come out in favour of some action to avert climate disaster – as I would expect them to do. I too note the emotive language. He is again appealing to the populist response that these people are in the way – they should just go away and get out of my way – trouble is they don’t see where we are heading and chose to ignore all the signs until their children can not live on this planet. Who will their children blame when that comes to pass? The people trying to do something about it or their parents who allowed all their worst nightmares to come about because they are too busy in their mindless routines.
The Royal Family is espousing action to avert climate disaster BY THE OTHERS. They are not proposing any behavioural change for themselves, they are ‘above that’.
There is little doubt that the S** bollocks will have been directed by that organs particular oz wind up merchants utilising Bozo the clowns lip-moving affliction.
Their agenda that imposed BrexShit upon our island and has torn up the familial connections which two full European wars last century failed to! Except for a few decades of a east/west Germany and the iron curtain drawn by that other English racist murderer that Bozo the clown attempts to ape. Largely healed now no thanks to the perfidious – much thanks to mutti Merkel.
We are living in a desperate and Dominate late Empire that is behaving like rats in a corner. All that is left of our social Democratic covenant is being dismantled and sold to the Hedge Funds and secretive billionaires – just look at ‘US’ investments in Europe – we are at the top of that list along with the Dutch (it does seem that the attempt to destroy the EU didn’t start or stop with BrexShit and the button pushed BrexShitheads of the Bun / Kippers / Cummings and his troupe of social media and voter fraudsters in only England. As they try desperately to stop the Russians and Chinese dismantling their centuries old cash cows, slavery and ‘debt’ game upon the People’s of the World , claiming them and their resources as only their own personal god given right!
In their Brown Shorts, Skirts , yfronts or nazi Shirts there is only one answer to these shits who claim to speak for us – the Cable streets of our minds they daily defecate in and the physical spaces they aim to subjugate us by dividing us into their created little boxes of left/right/green/white/black/brown/yellow/rainbow etc etc
The pound shop Churchill and his gang of propagandists and DS thugs’ days are numbered, as the people slowly realise they have been taken for mugs – yet again but there will always be a few thick as mince proles who will slurp all the fetid stinking crap of the Sun and its stable mates and believe they have made up their own mind about an issue because they read about it there – for these are who will roam the streets to beat up innocents instead of punching up at their masters and propagandists so it falls again upon us that THEY will not walk through OUR streets terrorising.
I and others intend they will not do so.
There are no “greenshirts” threatening to break down doors. Just as the EU was never going to administer “punishment beatings”. It is a fervid fantasy; more red meat thrown to the redtops. He certainly know how to play a tune on his dog whistle.
Spot on. It is all politics as entertainment. Sadly it works.
Of course at the moment it isnt domestic heating in the hot seat, its aviation and roads.
What will be interesting though with both IC engined cars & mains gas equipment is things like the availability of spares, maintenance staff and of course fuel.
I suspect that petrol will become less available over time, diesel might remain more available as it is used in commercial vehicles.
I imagine that the Gas Network will gradually be pruned after the ban on new boilers.
These of course are down to the private sector
While there do not seem to be any ‘greenshirts’ poised to break down doors, Johnson is using language redolent of the Nazis. Although Johnson does not seem to me to be a fascist, he appears to be, rather, a fasicst enabler. I say this because there are in his cabinet people who could be viewed as being proto-fascist. While there do not seem to be any out and out fascists in Johnson’s government, using language akin to that associated with the Nazis is not the smartest move. Not that Johnson appears to be very bright. One does not have to travel far to begin to think of brown (SA) or black (SS) shirts. And then, once that far, if you know your recent European history, you are near thinking of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the Gestapo. Obviously this is a worst case scenario, but I don’t like the way Johnson’s government is disabling some of the civil rights protections that have taken years to put in place.
This is quite interesting, especially as it comes from someone who spent a lot of time talking to Albert Speer
https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/lord-puttnams-important-speech-in-full-by-kind-permission/
I love the way the MSM portray IB and XR activists as “eco thugs” and a “mob” then they actually cut to some footage and they are all pensioners just sitting in the road. 🙂
The language and the images just don’t add up.
Non violent protest dressed up as a subversive/militant danger to the fabric of our society. It’s just a shame that news commentators aren’t questioning the language.
A couple of weeks ago there was a “Giles” type cartoon in the Mail on Sunday. It showed a line of Insulate Britain protestors sitting across a road, trembling in fear but not of irate motorists. In the background of the cartoon an army truck full of soldiers were being instructed to fix bayonets, to “clear the obstruction”. Somebody somewhere thought that this was amusing enough to publish in a national newspaper.
People may criticize Professor Murphy for using the word fascist but what would they think if they saw a similar “cartoon” in a newspaper from say Eqypt, or Bahrain, or Burma?
Johnson reaches for the Trump playbook again looking to cultivate his very own Proud Boys with the help of his media outriders whilst the wholly frit Starmer looks impotently on.