Green protesters interrupt Starmer's big education speech with demand for 'no more U-turns'
The Labour leader tried to laugh off the stunt and pointed to his commitments on tackling climate change. He was in Kent to outline his pledges for government when two people unfurled a banner and demanded action on green issues...
Sir Keir was midway through an address when a man and a woman from campaign group Green New Deal Rising unfurled a banner, saying: "No more U-turns - green new deal now."
In Sir Keir's world, there is no ideology to link education with rational analysis.
I ask myself accordingly whether the condition of the world in the coming years will be favourable to refined and paradoxical science. The extension of education will have enabled the uneducated to pronounce upon everything.
George Santayana - Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy (1933)
4 comments:
I have an phrase that I find myself using so often it's becoming a cliche. "They don't know enough about this to be entitled to an opinion".
So maybe the way to deal with know nothing protesters is to make them sit a 2-hour exam on atmospheric physics, phase change phenomena (because of water vapour) and quantum mechanics (because of down- and up-welling electromagnetic radiation). If they pass, they get a community service order. If they fail, 12 months hard labour in Norwich prison (so that they can gaze on the Climate Research Unit when banged up).
decnine - good idea, a failure rate of 97% seems about right for your scheme. I wish the media and politicians would demand more personal sacrifices from activists before taking them seriously. Live a Net Zero life and demonstrate its benefits would at least demonstrate genuine commitment.
Quite enjoyable as a spectacle, not least because it shows Sir Keir hasn't got an events management team competent enough to protect him from being embarrassed by sixth-formers.
Sam - and he can't tell them to go away and learn the basics. Very few politicians would even tell them to go away and learn how complex the issue is, which ought to be easy enough politically.
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