Extinction Rebellion luvvie Benedict Cumberbatch should practice what he preaches
Sham actor
IF the Oscars invent a category for Sanctimonious Hypocrite of the Year, and they really should, competition will be intense. But there is one outstanding performance.
The award for 2019 goes to Benedict Cumberbatch, who fronts lucrative car ads in a land choking to death on smog, then backs eco extremists protesting against the country with the fastest emissions reductions in the G20: Britain.
So many celebs spend their cosseted lives in a luvvie bubble, surrounded by sycophants never daring to challenge them. So perhaps the staggering absurdity of joining Extinction Rebellion’s London blockade after promoting MGs in India, where air pollution kills a million people a year, never occurs to him.
Or maybe the multi-millionaire actor intends simply to excuse himself with the same insouciance as his globe-trotting mate Thom Yorke from Radiohead — the Extinction Rebellion funder who blithely admits his own hypocrisy.
These stars insist it is for Governments to act (even though ours is doing just as the IPCC’s scientists recommend). Meanwhile, they’ll carry on consuming as only the very rich can — and flying around the world first-class.
Why should ordinary mortals give their climate hysteria a moment’s credence when they’re not serious enough about it to practise what they preach?
Veterans revolt
WE are horrified Boris Johnson intends to omit from his Queen’s Speech a law to protect our veterans. He must rethink.
Legislating against endless probes into historic allegations against our servicemen and women was a key plank of The Sun’s Veterans Pledge he backed.
His ministers and MPs are outraged. So are we.
We hope he can imagine how much more angry Our Boys will be.
It is said that Boris’s aides want to focus on the environment. OK. But our veterans’ lives are being ruined NOW by spurious investigations into actions taken nearly half a century ago.
They must end. And we were sure Boris was the man to do it. What happened, PM?
EU’re welcome
WILL we deport EU citizens who miss the deadline to apply for settled status? No.
We have reportedly only booted out six per cent of ILLEGAL migrants who sneakily crossed the Channel since last December.
The idea we would expel those living and working here legally is laughable as well as repugnant.
So why is Security Minister Brandon Lewis speculating that we will?
It sends the wrong signal to 3.6million citizens who are, as the Home Office says, “our friends, family and neighbours”.
It IS important, though, that they cement their status via the Government scheme, as two million already have.
It is free — and simple enough to apply.
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