{"id":187902,"date":"2019-05-06T05:04:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187902"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:32:01","slug":"and-this-years-award-for-hypocrisy-goes-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=187902","title":{"rendered":"And this year\u2019s award for hypocrisy goes too \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Emma Thompson the first-class hypocrite! Actress is pictured dining on champagne and beef in \u00a318,000 personal booth on carbon-spewing BA plane jetting to New York days after lecturing us all to stop flying<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Henry Cole \u2013 Mail on Sunday May 5, 2019<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Actress seen in the luxury cabin of a British Airways flight from Heathrow to JFK<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tickets can cost up to \u00a318,000 and create nearly two tons of carbon dioxide<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Two weeks ago she joined\u00a0the Extinction Rebellion protests that shut down swathes of Central London<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_187908\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Emma-Thompson-in-1st-Class-luxury-booth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187908\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Emma-Thompson-in-1st-Class-luxury-booth-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Emma-Thompson-in-1st-Class-luxury-booth-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Emma-Thompson-in-1st-Class-luxury-booth.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-187908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma Thompson in 1st Class luxury booth aboard a British Airways jet. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Left-wing actress Dame Emma Thompson was branded a \u2018first-class hypocrite\u2019 last night after jetting to New York just days after backing climate protests that brought chaos to<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\"><strong>London<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/jeremy_corbyn\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/span><\/strong><\/a> supporter took her personal booth in the luxury cabin of a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/british_airways\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">British Airways<\/span><\/strong><\/a> flight from Heathrow to JFK on Friday morning after earlier demanding: \u2018We should all fly less.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First-class BA flights to New York cost up to \u00a318,000 and generate nearly two tons of carbon dioxide \u2013 the main driver of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/climate_change_global_warming\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">climate change<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \u2013 for each passenger in the elite cabin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Onlookers claim the multi-millionaire activist also drank Laurent-Perrier champagne and dined on beef carpaccio \u2013 even though cattle farming is also a major contributor to greenhouse gasses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dame Emma has also previously called on people to eat less meat in the name of \u2018preserving the planet\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cows produce methane \u2013 which is 23 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide \u2013 while clearing forests for pasture and to grow feed for livestock also drives global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just two weeks before her 3,400-mile flight, lifelong Labour supporter Dame Emma, 60, joined the Extinction Rebellion protests that shut down swathes of Central London, climbing aboard a pink boat the activists had used to blockade Oxford Circus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The group wants to curb air travel and even made an abortive attempt to close Heathrow Airport, from where she departed at 11.20am on Friday for the eight-hour journey. Her share of the carbon dioxide generated by the flight was the same as that emitted by heating an average house for nine months.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-h9Wysv6mxM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6993173\/Actress-Emma-Thompson-spotted-carbon-spewing-BA-plane-jetting-New-York.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Thompson for her part in Extinction Rebellion! After she&#8217;s seen dining on champagne and beef in \u00a318,000 personal booth on a carbon-spewing jet days after lecturing us to stop flying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187902"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187935,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187902\/revisions\/187935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}