A politician’s private life is not fair game. This childish, smug, antisocial stunt has set a dangerous precedent
However mad politicians make me feel, it has never crossed my mind to go to their homes and shout at them.
Consider all those Remoaner MPs who devoted their waking hours attempting to thwart mine and 17m other people’s votes for Brexit. Their anti-“gammon” elitism irritated the hell out of me. But I would never have dreamt of turning up on their doorsteps to wag a finger in their anti-democratic faces.
Or how about when Keir Starmer says something idiotic, as seems to be his wont. Consider, for instance, when he claimed that 99.9 per cent of women don’t have penises – which suggests he thinks 1 in 1,000 women do have penises. Was this not anti-scientific drivel? Yet, even then, the thought of rocking up to Sir Keir’s home with a placard stating biological facts was the last thing on my mind.Which is why Greenpeace’s latest stunt has left me cold. The eco-warriors have descended, not on parliament, not on the HQ of some big business they loathe, but on the private residence of Rishi Sunak.Greenpeace scaling the roof of the PM’s constituency home in Kriby Sigston in North Yorkshire was like a home invasion, but dressed up in thin political finery. From that dizzy height, with a smug look on their faces, they unfurled a huge black sheet that covered the house, topped off with a yellow banner saying: “No more oil.” In doing so, they were registering their disdain for the Prime Minister’s plan to issue new oil and gas licenses for the North Sea.
Imagine agitating against the creation of more energy during an energy crisis. People up and down the country are fretting over how to keep the lights on, and plummy greens are raging against energy exploration. It is a testament to the aloofness of bourgeois eco-agitators that they breezily virtue-signal against energy production at a time when ordinary people are crying out for more energy.