The Green Jamboree, COP26, will be upon us in three weeks. It’ll start on Sunday 31st October and will last until the 12th of November. The Times has provided us with two short articles today – I’m sure these are the precursors of much more green PR stuff to come. We know by now that this is Johnson’s and his wife’s dream event where they aim to strut around the international green stage, demonstrating that no nation is as green as the UK. The gas crisis, the petrol shortages affecting us common little people: who cares, certainly not all those green and good delegates.
The first of the plebs going to face extra discomfort in the name of ‘green’ are the Glaswegians. It’s a Lockdown of the security kind. Under the title “Fences go up to protect Cop26 delegates” Marc Horne writes in The Times:
“The area around the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow has been locked down, with a high security fence being erected to guard against attacks by terrorists or violent protesters.
“Extra security measures have been introduced where the partition crosses roads to prevent vehicle attacks, alongside a network of temporary road closures and restrictions.” (link, paywalled)
I well remember the disruption to normal life caused by that NATO Summit in Cardiff in 2014. The NATO fences cut off traffic from North to South, from East to West, and the main shopping centre in the middle of Cardiff was more or less inaccessible. That summit lasted only two days while the fencing was up for three weeks before and after. The Glaswegians though will get ‘value for money’ for their discomfort because those green delegates will be there from the 31st October to the 12th November. I adore how this disruption is being described:
“A Glasgow council spokesman said: “Due to the scale of the event, we will experience temporary changes to the movement of traffic around the city.” (link, paywalled)
That’s not all. Those delegates will be kept safe inside and outside those fences. There’ll be a veritable army to protect them:
“More than 10,000 officers from across the country will take part in one of the largest policing operations seen in the UK for Cop26 next month.
“Armed officers and search dogs will patrol the city’s underground and overground rail networks for the duration of the two-week UN event.
Specialist police divers and officers, using cameras which can capture underwater footage, will be patrolling the Clyde and its banks.
“The army has been brought in to assist with security, while UN troops will be on duty inside the main conference area.” (link, paywalled)
Are the green organisers afraid of revolting, non-green peasants? Surely those ‘Extinction Rebels’ won’t try and terrorise the delegates? Won’t they be safely inside that fence where they’ll have nothing to fear, given how gentle our police farce has dealt with them?
Why nobody has made a fuss so far about UN troops inside that fence, to ‘keep the peace’, is inexplicable. Has that area of Glasgow now become ‘extra-territorial’? Or has this government kowtowed to the UN, accepting that our own police and Army would be unacceptable to keep the greenists ‘secure?
And who, if I may ask, is paying for all that ‘security – before and after? Those fences don’t come cheap and need to be put up – three weeks before the start and God knows how long it’ll take to take them down. Perhaps La Sturgeon will ire-use that fencing for a proper, covid Lockdown should Glaswegains succumb to the flu and covid ‘surge’ predicted by yon Ferguson.
There’s one other ‘article’ on COP26 which is so obviously PR, pushed by one of Johnson’s ministers that I had to pick up my jaw from the floor when I saw this headline in The Times while I was innocently having my first cup of coffee: “Cop26 leaders will use fuel made from sewage to fly home”. The author, Caroline Wheeler, informs us:
“World leaders will have their private jets filled with sustainable aircraft fuel when they leave the Cop26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
“Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, wants the UK to become a leader in sustainable aviation and pioneer “guilt-free travel”.
“He will use the summit, which starts on October 31, to showcase the new green fuel, which can be created from household waste, sewage and recycled cooking oils. More than 150 world leaders will fly home with the eco-fuel.” (link, paywalled)
The irony of ‘world leaders’ using private jets to get to that festival of green bovine excrement seems to have escaped both the author and Mr Shapps. However, nothing is served as hot as it’s been cooked, so the understandable if gruesome joy of all those rich, private jetters perhaps not reaching their homes is premature:
“Shapps, an amateur pilot, wants airlines to use 10 per cent eco-friendly jet fuel by 2030, rising to 50 per cent by 2050 — when Britain aims to be carbon-neutral.
A source close to the minister said: “There is already a word in Swedish for flying guilt [flygskam] and we all know people who no longer travel because of their concerns about the impact. But the transport secretary is pragmatic and doesn’t think we should stop flying to save the planet. He thinks we should just find a more sustainable way to do it.” (link, paywalled)
In other words, replacing 10% of jet fuel with this ‘eco-friendly’ sewage concoction absolves all those world leaders with their stable of private jets from “flying guilt”. Isn’t life easy when one’s rich and green! Isn’t it wonderful how all those green overlords can now preach water while drinking wine because their wine is diluted by 10%! It’s even more wonderful that an ‘amateur pilot’ minister is so helpfully providing ‘green labels’ for those with excessive wealth!
What happened to all those trees the green flyers were going to plant? Has anyone seen Greta and her acolytes planting trees, anywhere? And why could his whole thing not be done by Zoom? Will all those delegates have to be double-jabbed and show a ‘covid passport’? Will there be an ‘outbreak’ amongst Glaswegians who’ll have to do the work of serving all those delegates, muzzled up of course? An outbreak like the one happening after the G7 summit in Cornwall in June this year?
There’s one other paragraph in this PR article. There’s nothing about fencing and UN troops – the Met police seems to be quite capable to keep those people ‘safe’:
“It can also be revealed that the world’s richest financiers, including the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the philanthropist Bill Gates, have been invited to a global investment summit and will be hosted by the Queen.
“The event at the Science Museum in west London will be held next week as a precursor to Cop26 and to drum up green investment.” (link, paywalled)
Good gawd – is it now a ‘revelation’ when a simple PR text is copied and pasted into an article? Never mind – applaud how this green government, hauling in Queenie as figurehead, is trying to get a few crumbs from the table of the global rich ‘philanthropists’ for greenery. I’m sure Mr Bezos will shell out to alleviate his ‘space flight guilt’. Will that other ‘philanthropist’, Mr Gates, promote nuclear energy as forcefully as he’s promoted vaccination for the world? That would be the only silver lining to this whole festival of green bovine excrement.
Meanwhile we plebs better prepare for the real-life consequences of ‘going green’. The petrol shortages and the ‘gas crisis’ are only a warm-up …
Anyone seen a cyclist in the bike lanes ?
Will HS2 trains have bike racks ? if not why not ?
It needs a political party to stand up to tsunami of green crap…there must be one out there ?
One way to make a personal stand against the nonsensical demonizing of CO2, the scam of a treatable equivalent of flu and the continuing fear mongering is to have a large Gin and Tonic. The tonic will add CO2 to the atmosphere and provide quinine and the gin will take away your fear. Of course you may need more than one.
Thats about the best advice I’ve heard for some time
PS Before TPTB decide that us arrogannt little proles shouldnt be having luxuries like that
Wish I’d read that yesterday Kim. With your encouragement I would have succumbed to temptation when I went shopping today!
We should acknowledge how extraordinarily brave these people are, flying all over the world in the middle of a deadly pandemic! We should be grateful that we have committed and selfless ‘leaders’ at such a time, willing to risk contracting a deadly viral disease just so that they can spread hope and light in the darkness caused by this terrible, rampant, death-dealing plague that is still resulting in so many piles of bodies on every street corner.
Thank you, all you COP people, for putting your own safety on the line – while we timorous plebs skulk at home, muzzled and cowed, and you carry on partying, regardless of your danger. Well done, chaps and chapesses! It’s tough but somebody’s got to do it.
You forgot to mention Viv. October 31st is Hallowe’en !!
(And the clocks ‘fall back’ that weekend too.)
I’m hoping the Hallowe’en ghoulies and ghosties will sneak aboard the jets along with the sewage fuel and attack on the way home.
This COP 26 in Glasgow is another episode in the pandemic of mental illness in Western countries known as environmentalism or “greenery”. The demonisation of carbon dioxide is as irrational & superstitious as the Witch Craze in the 16th & 17th centuries. We are seeing mass psychosis replacing science here in the West.
In the grip of this mass psychosis governing classes in the West are crazy for “decarbonisation” and the industrial collapse it will bring. “Decarbonisation” will accelerate the growing ruin of Western countries and their colonisation by people from the East.
Green psychosis has been a crucial factor in the fall of the West. Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make madly ecomental. This Green insanity has marked the end of the Age of Reason, as Green religion replaces science and the West falls back towards the Dark Ages.
I agree that, for many, it is a form of mental illness but for too many it is a cynical ploy to destroy life as we knew it and decimate the population. They are every bit as evil as Hitler, Pol Pot, Mussolini and others. They don’t have to believe in the Green Crappery but take full advantage of it for their evil plans.
Jack De-population. All for it. Britain has at least 20 million too many people. Let’s aim for a 40 million population by 2199.
So the delegates (and presumably their entourages) will be flying home on ‘green’ fuel made from sewage!
Well I heard about 30,000 people will attend the event. They’ll be here for 11 days. During time a lot of $h!t will be produced by themselves (as well as spoken – but I guess the verbal kind won’t count!). So if they have an effluent processor to hand they really can be self sufficient in fuel! Just don’t stand downwind if the departing aircraft!!!!!
Are people beginning to wise up about Johnson at last and why He needs to be removed from office ASAP
Um…er? I am not a scientist but doesn’t ecofuel produce CO2 when it burns?
It’s extra-special green CO2 which won’t do any harm, innit like!
John Poynton. You are right. According to todays ‘The Daily Sceptic’, Drax Power Station in Yorkshire receives millions in subsidies for being green and burning biomass. Since 2019 burning biomass has produced more CO2 than burning coal. Burning biomass also produces toxic air pollution particles – PM10.
(CO2 of course, is harmless!)
What a great opportunity for those opposed to the Green Crappery and suitably “tooled up”. Where are they in our time of need? Democracy has failed us and that, usually, is followed by direct confrontation sometimes with a military coup.
JT – HOW has democracy failed us? Whenever have we had democracy?
Yes Michael D but even ‘Bourgeois Democracy’ was better than Covid Dictatorship or WEF Great Reset.
You might find this interesting particularly what they say re Democracy, towards the end
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/one-ring-rule-us-all-global-digital-fiat-currency
Were you thinking Jack of how while the cat’s away the mice might play?
I just hope for the sake of all these important leaders that this new eco-jetfuel is all it’s cracked up to be …
So now they are literally flying on BS not just talking it. You have to laugh to stay sane.
Agreed Matt up North.
Why all that security for leaders and policies that are sooo popular, or so they and the media tell us?
When journalists, even from the media wing of the Left, the Biased Broadcasting Co, (Kuensburg) and their own MPs (Duffield) are not safe from their own at a Labour Party Conference, and the Tory Conference has to have a ‘ring of steel’, to protect them from the kinder, gentler type of supporter, just from which side of the political divide is the threat to law and order?
It’s all part of the myth of the nasty right. The irony is that they are more likely to be attacked by the religious Gaia (and Greta) worshipping fundamentalists (with the accent on mental), the green hysterics of the left, for not going far enough.
I have said many times that there is no corner these days that is not beyond satire.
“FUELLED BY SEWAGE” ought to be the banner behind their rostrum; it so accurately sums up everything they spew.
And it is surely an attempt at subliminal PR to hold the pre-conference at the Science Museum. A travesty and an insult to all the scientists on whose shoulders our current prosperity is built..
No comment, I’m so disgusted. However doesn’t it just show they’re running scared; people are waking up and I don’t think these criminals will win in the end in spite of all their fences and security.
UK Column however revealed interestingly on Friday towards end of broadcast that Greta is beginning to see through it all possibly, waking up to the fact that she has been used, and that she is actually against Great Reset. They think she will disappear from the world stage for a while after this, and that she is on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
The sinister thing is the presence of UN forces, “for peacekeeping.”
Yes,Mary. The presence of UN troops is definitely sinister… the thin end of the wedge. It is something that needs much more publicity.
If the world’s self appointed elite think they won’t be safe here, the solution is simple. DON’T COME.
Why disrupt life in a city like Glasgow when there is a perfectly good venue in Scarborough that is good enough for the Afghans. The Elite might enjoy rubbing shoulders with our “cultural enrichers”.
We have a shortage of road fuel caused this time by management incompetence and Russian political shenanigans,
At some time we’ll have shortages cause by depletion (ie there isn’t much/any).
We’re having price rises which will get worse as users chase round an ever decreasing amount of fuels.
The solution to both of these problems is more renewables to generate electricity not less.
And yes, it will be expensive but there’s no alternative..
(There are no uranium mines in the UK.)
Electricity needs no HGV drivers.
Tough isn’t it?
HArm- I shouldn’t feed Armitage the Troll, but he gets more exposure here than I dont know what.
There are plenty of coal mines in the UK.
Electricity needs no HGV drivers.
So, electricity is a sentient being??
HGV drivers need no electricity (just lorries).
Simple isn’t it?
Now buzz off peste.
There are NO coal mines in the UK since 2015.
There are nine open cast sites.
i.e. Opencast mining. “mining – the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.”
You’re a braver man than me Biscotte, for feeding the Troll.
We shouldn’t have stopped the Fracking. And we should import uranium while we can. And we could open new coal mines. And . . . . etc.
And stop subsidising biomass. If Drax for instance, can burn coal.
Generally stop supporting the Green Cr**pery.
U.K. needs Energy and it wont come from sun and wind even with hydro, or burning wood.
Indeed Pauline but first we need rid of the pair of chief Green Crappers in no. 10 and their co-conspirators.