Uncaring charlatan Boris Johnson’s the pits and ideologically incapable of greening Britain or saving the planet from environmental disaster.
The Prime Minister’s ignorant Margaret Thatcher pit-closing observation betrayed his prejudice and confusion which hobble Britain and leave the international lightweight struggling to marshal world leaders ahead of November’s crucial global climate change summit in Glasgow.
I’m from a mining family, my dad grafting 25 years at the coal face while a brother was on strike for a year in 1984-85, so I vividly recall Thatcher destroyed jobs to annihilate working class solidarity - not reduce carbon emissions.
Johnson’s “big early start” quip then refusal to apologise aren’t just tone-deaf, as his apologists pretend.
The bigotry emphasises the Prime Etonian’s fabricated view of history and admiration for the Tory Rusted Lady’s callous treatment of communities in much of England, Wales and Scotland.
Unable to understand or admit Tory political crimes in the 1980s scarring coalfield areas in the 2020s, Johnson holds them back behind his levelling-up propaganda.
And a green washed figure more Donald Trump than Greta Thunberg lacks the commitment to spend significantly, and intervene decisively, to protect incomes in communities to sustain public support for going green.
The red list free isolation pass for the COP 26 summit’s President, onetime second-rate Business Secretary Alok Sharma, speaks of a Johnson circle arrogantly sticking two fingers up at the little people.
Securing world-wide endorsement of dramatic policies to cool global warming and keep the earth’s temperature rise at or below 1.5C would always be difficult when China, Russia, Brazil, India are dashing for growth.
Painstaking negotiations are alien to a PM with the attention span of a goldfish, easily taking offence as evidenced by temper tantrum threats to sack Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
Negotiations hosted by a lurching Johnson deceiving us about the 1980s and unsure about the future, any deal would be clinched despite this national human embarrassment.
