Patrick Christys: 'If eco-warriors toned it down a bit, more people would be inclined to make changes for a green future'

Why do enviornmentalists have such a problem with hypocrisy? It emerged today that one of the Insulate Britain protesters nicked for blocking the M25 is married to a Transport for London boss who is responsible for traffic flow.

That’s right, Cathy Eastburn has vowed to unleash hell on the roads of Britain while her husband is tasked with making sure the roads run smoothly.

I reckon that’s a bit awkward over the dinner table. I imagine the spare room is seeing a fair bit of use these days. I wonder if he does what I did when one of my exes tried to enforce veganism in the home like some kind fruit-based Gestapo – the end result was me secretly eating meat on the train home as some kind of personal dirty protest.

They live in a £1.5m house apparently. So she can pontificate to us about the environment from the decking around her designer fire pit while she sips some Chateau Neuf du Pap and plays with their labradoodle.

But she’s not the only one is she, far from it. We had Insulate Britain’s ringleader, Liam Norton, on the show yesterday. He hasn’t insulated his own home – he didn’t appear to know that his own group had promised to unleash hell if they didn’t get what they want.

As far as I could tell he said we were all going to burn to death and then freeze to death. We’ve had Emma Thompson, the actress, flying business class so she could take part in an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in London. She was pictured sipping champagne as she lounged in her reportedly £18,000 personal booth on a British Airways flight, which spewed carbon into the atmosphere.

Then we’ve got the fact that one of Extinction Rebellion’s founders admits that she drives a diesel car. Dr Gail Bradbook says she can’t afford an electric car so she drives the gas guzzler. Well, neither can I, Dr Hypocrisy, and neither can most people.

Oh and of course we’ve got Prince Harry taking private jets home from Polo matches while lecturing us all on the environment and privilege. I think he could save himself a lot of hassle and just buy a mirror and talk into that for hours a day.

Although he’d probably have to push Meghan out of the way. It’s one thing this lot alienating the British public by causing mass inconvenience, it’s another thing not practicing what they preach. How can they expect to be taken seriously if they don’t follow their own rules. It’s like the leaders of communist/socialist countries isn’t it.

We are for the workers, we are for the poor, they make people slave away on a communal farm while they eat foie gras in their gold plated mansions. Prince Charles has got the right idea in my view.

He basically said he doesn’t eat dairy once a week, and he doesn’t eat meat and fish for two days a week. There’s nothing too radical about that. There’s nothing too extreme. It’s achievable for people.

If these eco warriors, who some would argue put the mental in environmentalist, just toned it down a bit and instead of asking us to restructure our entire lives and then add the desecration of capitalism on top as the icing on that particularly awful vegan cake, then more people would be inclined to make changes to their lives.