So Sweden. What do we like about it? Blondes? Yeah. Volvos? Great. Ikea? Ish. Lego? Danish, but I get the point; all the same ‘up there’. ABBA? Maybe. And Greta (fucking) Thunberg? Hmmmm…

Greta grew up in Ersturnhurmstaat, (I made that up), near Stockholm, and she lived near a tree. Which gave her amazing empathy with all of nature’s riches. Unfortunately, she never quite ‘got’ humans in the same way. But when she was 14 she decided that going actually INTO school every day was beneath her and her fledgling tendency towards environmental activism. So she turned up there every day, to sit outside with a little banner telling all the other… errrr… normal kids that THEY and THEIR PARENTS were personally responsible for THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD!!!!, by their neglect, their insistence on keeping warm and driving round in Volvos.

For some reason people listened to this precocious, uneducated little twerp on a world stage. She addressed international climate change conferences; she spoke at the UN, she talked with the high and mighty, the royal and the rotund. Always the same message: YOU (the adults) are ruining the world for ‘us’ children. We have no future. The world is dying because of your actions and inactions. STOP NOW. Stop what? EVERYTHING!!!!

So again, this amazing empathy for middle class Swedish kids not being able to enjoy a holiday home in the mountains in the future, meant that half of India has to stop using coal, the only fuel they can afford. Two thirds of Chinese will go hungry and die of hypothermia whilst saving up for a ‘heat pump’ for their mud huts. Americans will need to produce cars which can’t reach 100mph in less than 7 seconds. She really has no concept of the sacrifices she is so selfishly demanding.

But now she’s found a new ‘cause’. Palestine. And she found a dozen, like-mindeds, to accompany her. That wasn’t hard. “Come with me on a cruise across the Med. It’ll be free because some dickhead or other will sponsor it for us. And we’ll call it ‘a humanitarian mission’, even though there’s only room on board for 3 packets of Paracetamol, 2 toilet rolls and a 0.5kg bag of ‘boil-in-the-bag’ rice. But you’ll get a great tan and take loads of selfies against the backdrop of crumbled buildings and aggressive, warmongering Israeli sailors.”

In fact the ‘cruise’ was organised by Zaher Birawi who is reputed to be Hamas’s representative in London. He’s a gobby ‘charity leader’ with links to international terrorism and is head of many banned organisations. I think, if Greta was my daughter, I’d rather she hung out with drug dealers. But there again, the mouthy Swede was curiously silent on October 7, 2023. There are apparently limits to the virtues she signals.

The Israelis stopper her. Which came as no surprise to… anyone. Despite imbecile-on-board number 2, some Eurotrash posh-boy with a keffiyeh and an attitude, stating that “we’re in European waters and landing in Palestinian water, which we are legally allowed to do”, with all the defiance you’d expect from an entitled free-loader. Who obviously missed as much school as Greta otherwise he’d know there is no recognised place as ‘Palestine’, in whose waters he’s apparently allowed to sail. Tosser.

I really would have gone a bit more ‘Under Seige’ and blown Greta’s boat clean out of the water. But the Israelis showed uncharacteristic and possibly misguided restraint and in just towing them to Israel from where they’ll be deported.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx