Well, I'm not too surprised we have people in the UK now who act like Chekov on the Enterprise and assume everything has been invented by Russia, err, England.
The UK has fallen from lofty heights indeed, and Brexit hasnt exact helped. Even without Brexit, UK was already highly damaged by its especially extreme neoliberalism. Now they are even alone with their extremist politicians. So ... what are you going to vote for in the next election, people of UK ? The Torries .. or the other Torries with the confusing name ?
So its no wonder that some people fabulate about the oh so glorious past.
That he's also a denier of the ongoing and already very visible climate collapse also fits.
Wonder what it takes to make these people wake up. That the gulf stream ends ?
That already seems unavoidable. Though England, being an island, will be hit less by that than Europe.
And yes, Thunberg and her movement love shooting themselves in the foot with their arrogance.
However, it really shouldnt matter. This is science.
People complained how Donald Trump ignored science - but they are doing it themselves, all the time. Such as with the climate collapse. Just because its so unconvenient for the profits of the oil industry, everybody in politics just ignores science.
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. - Warren Buffett