Wednesday 31 May 2023

With, Of Course, Exceptions For The Right People?

Joanna Lumley has suggested that a system of rationing similar to that seen during wartime, under which people would have a limited number of points to spend on holidays or lavish consumer goods, could eventually help to tackle the climate crisis.

Gosh, where to start? Apart from, 'What 'climate crisis'..? 

“These are tough times, and I think there’s got to be legislation,” she told the Radio Times. “That was how the war was – stuff was rationed – and at some stage I think we might have to go back to some kind of system of rationing, where you’re given a certain number of points and it’s up to you how to spend them, whether it’s buying a bottle of whisky or flying in an aeroplane.”

I know as you get older you tend to fetishise the 'good old days' but this is utterly barking even by usual luvvie standards! 

In a new documentary on ITV next week, Lumley travels around the UK...

On foot? By bike? 

...following the adventurer Sacha Dench – known as “the human swan” – as she attempts an epic 3,000-mile journey around the British coast in an electric paramotor.

While her luggage goes by road, I guess? Will such a method of transport catch on?

...in September, just days from her journey’s end, Dench and her support pilot and photographer Dan Burton, who was flying a conventional paramotor, collided in mid-air over the western Highlands. Burton, 54, a father of two from Devon, died, and Dench, 46, was seriously injured and remains in hospital.
Reader, it's a 'No!' from me... 

H/T: TheOtherDavidBellamy via Twitter

8 comments:

  1. Oh dear! Dench almost went for a Burton.....

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  2. I don't know. Positive gain here. Two loonies down, one permanently. I'm for giving it another go. There are more when they came from.

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  3. Look, let's be very clear here. All this authoritarian nonsense is nothing more than closet Communism. Lockdowns, rationing, LTNs, ULEZs, 15 minute neighbourhoods. At best it's Neo-Marxism. It most definitely is not freedom. Basically the "Lefties" (Communists) have found the best way of making us accept authoritarianism. The climate mob are clamouring for control in order to "save the planet". Which is just wishing yourself into a Communist utopia where everyone (except the elites) are equally oppressed. That's the only logical outcome of their "equity".

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    1. Tory government for the last 13 years, but all the restrictions we have seen on liberty are communism?

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  4. Lumley is an average actress, trying to keep her name in the public eye, by whatever means she can think of, as long as it doesn't cause her any discomfort. Her televised 'adventures' travelling the world were mildly interesting, though her embarrassing the government into agreeing with her, good in theory, but badly thought out in practice, plan in allowing ex Gurkha Nepalese, and their families to come to the UK to live, didn't turn out so well. Still, that hasn't caused her any personal, or financial discomfort, so let's forget about that, especially as it was one step further to her eventual sainthood. Perhaps this rationing plan could include Lumley's media activities? Just a thought.
    Penseivat

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  5. Wrinkly old lefty champagne socialist Lumley is way past her best before date but she's still wiling to propagandise for her masters and continue her life of privilege no doubt. One rule for thee, none for me. No need to take any notice of actors or actresses when all they do is read other people's scripts for money.

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  6. ".....some kind of system of rationing, where you’re given a certain number of points and it’s up to you how to spend them, whether it’s buying a bottle of whisky or flying in an aeroplane.”

    Something like.....money?

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  7. I think that for her North Korea would be the ideal place to live.
    Every box ticked.
    And she might be allowed to visit the Chinese border and lecture the inhabitants of China about the problems of building a new coal fired power station every few weeks.
    While flogging the mugs in Europe (the real Europe) all those wind turbines, solar panels and electric car batteries.

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