The Hypocrisy of the Green Mind

When Jo Swinson, my MP and Minister for women, equality and a lot of other things we I can’t remember gave a car crash interview to Andrew Neil and in one sentence laughed about her frequent flying and in almost the next ranted on about global warming, I was so incensed that I said I would stand against her in the next election if I could raise the minimum £1000 I needed for a campaign.

Then a few days ago, I saw this tweet from Lenzie Riddoch (a Scottish journalists who also rants on about global warming):

Almost removed fm Shetland-Edin @Flybe flight this am. Overbooking this route seems common. 250 euro compensation but undependable airline
— Lesley Riddoch (@LesleyRiddoch) November 14, 2014

So again, it’s clear from her own tweets that she’s a frequent flier on the Shetland-Edinburgh route.
And now I learn from NoTricksZone, that it’s those supporting green who are most likely to fly:

Hypocrisy Exposed…Spiegel Publishes Undisclosed German Survey Results: Green Voters Like Flying The Most!

By P Gosselin on 14. November 2014

Online Spiegel has a piece titled: Preaching travel by rail, but flying Business Class.
It would be natural to expect environmentalist greens and climate activists to take commercial flights very rarely, opting for rail, bus, or bicycle instead. However, it turns out they do not practice what they love to preach.
Spiegel news magazine writes of an unpublished survey commissioned by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Luftverkehrswirtschaft (Federal Association of German Aviation Industry) to find out which voters in Germany fly the most often. Some of us will not be surprised to learn that hypocrisy is alive and well in Germany.
Spiegel writes.

Hardly anyone criticizes air travel as vehemently as the Greens do. An unpublished study now shows: It is precisely the voters of the ecology party who most prefer hop onto commercial airliners.

Green love most flying the carbonated skies. Public domain photo.
Spiegel writes that the survey was conducted by a “renowned polling organization”.
The results of the survey show that the Green Party voters fly the most: 49% have flown at least once in the past 12 months. They were followed by the communist Die Linke (42%), the conservatives CDU (36%) and lastly by the socialists SPD (32%).
When asked who had never ever flown in a jet, 17% of the communists said they had never flown, 16% of the conservatives, 13% of the socialists and 0% of the greens. All Green party voters surveyed said they had flown at least once in their lifetime.  Flying for me, but not for you.
When asked if they agree that it is good that so people today can afford to fly today, the percentage answering “yes” was 77% for the conservatives, 77% for the socialists, 69% for the communists and only 48% for the jet-setting greens.
Spiegel reports that green voters tend to be younger and hold high-income jobs, and so fit the profile of frequent fliers. What’s strange is that 60% of the flights in Germany are domestic, trips that could easily be done by rail. Apparently railcars are not good enough for environmentalists.
According to Spiegel the survey was conducted in September with 1032 persons interviewed. 77 of those interviewed identified themselves as Green voters.
– See more at: http://notrickszone.com/2014/11/14/hypocrisy-exposed-spiegel-publishes-undisclosed-german-survey-results-green-voters-like-flying-the-most/#sthash.CnNr6p4S.dpuf