I like Lee Hurst. I loved “They Think It’s All Over,” a 90’s BBC panel show. Hurst was very funny on it. Razor-sharp in fact. In the past year, he’s taken a few kickings on Twitter for expressing his thoughts on Brexit, covid, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Yesterday, Lee posted a tongue-in-cheek message to Greta’s disciples. And why not? The virtue signalling around COP26 is nauseating. I’m sick to the back teeth of watching vox-pops on the news, featuring “young people” (whatever that means) lecturing me on the climate crisis.
Lee Hurst has had enough too it seems.
He Tweeted:
To the young entitled eco warriors: We bought clothes from jumble sales. We fixed our TVs. We had no air con. We carried no mobiles. We walked to school. We took pop bottles back for the deposit. We reused milk bottles. We fixed our cars with parts from broken cars. So jog on.
God, he’s right isn’t he? I cycled or ran everywhere. I still run everywhere. To listen to the BBC’s Jeremy Vine, you’d think that cycling was only just invented. I lived seven miles from the sea. I never took a bus. On days when it was too hot to cycle, my friends and I thumbed a lift.
We collected beer bottles (and there were many in Ireland) and brought them back to the offy (Off-licence). We wore clothes handed down from older brothers or cousins. Our mothers got a weeks worth of dinners out of a whole ham. Nothing was wasted.
So, good man Lee Hurst. Of course the response to the tweet has been a torrent of abuse. Lee has been called every name under the sun. What happened to a good old debate?
Well, poor old Lee can’t get arrested these days. He’s too offensive apparently. God be with the days when I was producing commercial radio. I’d have been on the blower post-haste.
“Great Tweet Lee. I’ve got a couple of Insulate Britain kids and a guy from Extinction Rebellion. They’re spitting feathers over you and your opinions! Will you come on for a half hour to debate them?”
Fat chance today. Nobody should hear Lee Hurst’s opinions lest it kill them.
To the young entitled eco warriors:
We bought clothes from jumble sales. We fixed our TVs. We had no air con. We carried no mobiles. We walked to school. We took pop bottles back for the deposit. We reused milk bottles. We fixed our cars with parts from broken cars. So jog on.— Lee Hurst – 30.1K 15/3/22 lolz 16 camila 3781 (@LeeHurstComic) November 3, 2021