Proud to be a ‘bunny hugger’

It is interesting isn’t it how the establishment find it so excruciatingly difficult to admit that the environmentalists were right all along. With dismissive contempt they do this by making a point of publicly distancing themselves wherever possible from the ‘bunny huggers’ or ‘tree huggers’ (the narrative of Boris Johnson). They assure us that they are embarking on a far more serious and credible environmentalism -one that involves jobs and finance. One that is perfectly respectable ‘don’t you know’. Who exactly are these bunny huggers. Well of course this is in fact a veiled reference to the marginalised group of people who recognised the climate and environmental problem over 30 years ago and have been working tirelessly to raise awareness of this issue - environmentalists! During this same period the powers that be were making lots of money from exploiting and destroying our natural world. Now however they too are environmentalists - but not er ‘green’ and certainly not tree huggers. Yes well Mr Johnson you just keep telling yourself that. What ever gets you through the night. But perhaps you might refrain from trashing the very group of people who you now (rightly) seek to emulate.