On Monday night Prime Minister Johnson attended in central London the launch of Charles Moore’s final volume of biography of Mrs Thatcher.
He used the occasion to criticise the XR climate change protesters in the same area today:
“And she took it seriously long before Greta Thunberg. And the best thing possible for the education of the denizens of the heaving hemp-smelling bivouacs that now litter Trafalgar Square and Hyde park, the best thing would be for them to stop blocking the traffic and buy a copy of Charles’s magnificent book so that they can learn about a true feminist, green and revolutionary who changed the world for the better.”
Johnson is notoriously lazy but had he consulted the excellent Thatcher foundation archive he would have discovered an alternative truth.
On 26th August 1990 Charles Powell (Private Secretary) sent a memo to Thatcher on the World Climate Conference to be held on 6th November 1990. It begins:
You said last week that you now preferred to cancel your attendance at the World Climate Conference, to leave more time to prepare for the State Opening of Parliament…. That is a pity.
Not very revolutionary then
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