Vikki Campion: Privileged class showed their true priorities at COP26

Arriving in their private jets and chauffer-driven motorcades, billionaires and virtue-signalling celebrities had no right to lecture Australia at COP26, writes Vikki Campion.

Australia’s job was to get in and out of the Glasgow fiasco, an absolute circus of spivs and activists, with politicians cast to the side – and in one case left on the side of the road for two hours because, in all the fuss about our changing climate, they forgot about wheelchair access.

Our reward for showing up to the COP26 UN Climate Summit was billionaires, carpet baggers and virtue-signalling celebrities eminent of a modern-day Marie Antoinette blasting us.

The last queen of France before the French Revolution famously gorged on handmade sweets, draped in diamonds and dresses of silk and velvet, while at the same time financially-drained peasants starved and a bloated aristocratic, royal and privileged class refused to relinquish their entitlements.

US President Joe Biden leaves Edinburgh Airport on Air Force One. Picture: AFP

Like Marie Antoinette in her Versailles palace, at COP26 they favoured buttery croissants for breakfast.

Without a touch of self-awareness, they spruiked cancelling methane emissions from our herds, then indulged in croissants made from butter which comes from cows, and big juicy meat dishes like haggis and bacon rolls.

It turns out billionaires and global elites don’t stick to “vegan alternatives” either.

After listening to delegates, you would expect that the Glasgow Port would be crowded with sailboats made of recycled timber and plastic for COP26, but it was Scotland’s airports in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick that were clogged with more than 400 private jets.

Where was Extinction Rebellion when you need them?

Why weren’t they glued to the airport tarmac, preventing carbon-emitting private planes delivering Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Prince Charles, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and carpet-baggers primed to make bank on their way to the pain-in-the-arse party of the century — instead of the gluing themselves to the bridge over Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin when Parliament wasn’t even sitting?

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew from Rome in a private jet.

Prince Charles took a separate private jet from Rome. Pictures: Getty

Just like the former Queen of France ran into trouble for taxing the poor while sucking on the teat of the state, the modern-day Antoinette class can mount the stage and say: “When it comes to tackling climate change, words without action, without deeds are absolutely pointless.”

That was UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson before he took a private jet home, and after he and Prince Charles each took separate private jets from Rome, effectively forcing the British taxpayers to fund two private planes — and the climate to take twice the emissions — to go to the very same conference.

And despite Malcolm Turnbull’s protests that he is just a mere ordinary citizen — when a flat-bed business class seat on Qantas QF1 wasn’t available because they weren’t flying he just hitched a ride on Andrew Forrest’s private jet.

You’d think after his hydrogen hype, the iron-ore magnate might opt to fly in using the same planet-saving technology that powered the Hindenberg.

Israel’s Energy Minister Karine Elharrar was left stranded in her wheelchair. Picture: Getty

The Antoinette class spruiked slashing emissions while creating a bigger carbon footprint than the entire neighbourhood suburbs they entered, with motorcades taking VIPs to events in chauffeured cars, which waited in side streets with engines idling, rubbish overflowed from Glasgow’s street bins, and all the while they were mounting the stage to lecture the masses to stop eating meat, drinking milk, or burning wood.

But the lowest point of COP26 wasn’t the grotesque display of public resources used on private aircraft or even the overflowing rubbish.

In the glare of saving the world, they forgot to include the most basic of human needs that even bush post offices feature. Wheelchair access.

Israel’s energy minister Karine Elharrar, who has muscular dystrophy, was left to wait for two hours outside COP26, and then offered a shuttle without wheelchair access, and then forced to return to her hotel.

That in itself paints a bleak picture of what climate activists really care about – and it’s not people.

The left-wing European news source, Euronews, which recommends buying second-hand sex toys, using a reusable washcloth instead of toilet paper, and claims pollution is causing penises to shrink, took aim at countries that refused to bow down to pledges which would destroy their development, such as Indonesia refusing to commit to zero deforestation by 2030.

The single benefit to Australia being at COP26 was intimate access to 130 world leaders. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was smashed with back-to-back meetings on trade, the global economy, the economic rebuild and vaccinating the world.

Australia helped calm the hyperventilation spurned by fearmongering carpet baggers indulging in greenwash to drive the reality that socialism and giving trillions of dollars of taxes to China is not the answer.

Australia led a solid bloc of countries — including Japan, Korea, India, Brazil, China and Indonesia — to delete extreme pledges from the final communique, including a timeline on zero coal, signing up to a methane pledge, and ceasing fossil fuels.

Even net-zero by 2050 was removed in the end to be in favour of net-zero “by or around mid-century”.

But in the end, Australia’s presence was slammed by the climate-Antoinettes — representatives from Hollywood, art galleries, and climate, renewable energy and environmental groups.

You will never make the climate-Antoinettes happy with any goal or commitment — not even when you are blaming your penis size on climate change.

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