Not So Friendly to the Earth
Guido's friends have noticed that he is riding about on a bicycle - not in some emulation of Cameron but because his scooter has been stolen for the third time this year. Since it is sunny and baby Ms Fawkes enjoys riding in the safety seat on the back, it seems like a good idea, as well as being healthy and green.Bicycling along earlier this morning Guido passed by Friends of the Earth's offices. The "holier than thou" crowd who campaign for more recycling had their rubbish outside dumped in a commercial waste dumper bin awaiting collection. That was surprising in itself - you would expect a recycling bin or even a composter. As well as all the cardboard boxes, office paper, cardboard wine case (Spanish red, non-organic) and other easily recycled materials there was even a Starbucks coffee cup. Ironic that CCHQ has fairtrade coffee inhouse and someone at FoE sups from the cup of the devil itself.
So Guido's first attempt at actual muckraking uncovers a hypocritical mini-scandal at the Green HQ. Guido has checked and there are recycling facilities only a few hundred yards from FoE's offices.
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As Johnny Rotten said: "Never trust a f*&king hippy!"
Looks like some neighbour/passer-by by using FoE's bin to me - the boxs are on the top.
Naaa - drunk after an office party where they were totally unimpressed by the cheap Spanish glug they reverted to type, I'm sure.
Coming soon - Benji the Binman launches a political blog.
good work, batman!
Surely that is "hole-y moral stances, Batman!"
Anonymous 10.24
You wouldn't be a FoE apologist, would you?
Balls, Guido, that's not their rubbish. There are offices and houses all down that street who use those horrible bins.
Anonymong,
It was rubbish collection day. All the offices had rubbish bins outside.
Why would someone walk across the street and put rubbish in someone elses bin when they had their own rubbish bin.
Itr was definitely FoEs bin because it had their sticker on it.
And it was definitely their office waste.
Guido chap
I can utterly assure you that that isn't FoE's rubbish - I work there.
We get everything possible recycled, including cardboard, and anyone drinking Starbucks would be lynched.
Unless you went through it to verify that it was 'definitely their waste', you're insinuating from the location of the bin and a FoE sticker on it (which has been there for about four years) that the contents therefore must have come from FoE.
Just to clarify this is not Friends of the Earth's rubbish - the bin belongs to the building next door. I would be grateful if you could ammend the misinformation on your site.
Best wishes
Anna Mitchell
Friends of the Earth
G, At least they're taking you seriously, even if it is in the implacably serious and unamused way that the PC do. Just lighten up a bit, guys.
So, given that there was a FoE sticker on the said bin, does that mean that FoE have been defacing other people's bins with their stickers? I think we should be told.
And as to the Guido scooter being nicked for the third time. Is this the same scooter or three different scooters?
Their web site:
Our throw-away culture is risking people's health and squandering the world's natural resources.
Prioritising recycling and investing in waste reduction would go a long way to solving the waste crisis.
Do as we say, not as we do?
Bunch of hypocritical ******!
Maybe I believe FoE, and maybe I don't.
Meanwhile, so much for acting globally and thinking locally if they can't even succeed in browbeating their neighbours into recyling. Perhaps they could make more of a difference by sorting next door's rubbish rather than hanging out on political gossip blogs.
You should also check out Planet Organic in Notting Hill on a weekend. Mountains of cardboard and packaging stacked up on the pavement outside.
Even if it was the bin next door's rubbish, a team of FoE employees should have been out leading by example and taking that rubbish down to the recycling bin.
re the 11.20am response....
wow. This blog does reach places other recycling folks don't.
Friends of the Earth have Offices!!
- Their offences just mount!! Employess threaten lynchings for a Starbucks --goodness!!
Good work there and cleary a need to monitor these self appointed types.
Good to see Guido as an example to FoE by bicycling along... FoE prob travel to the OFFICE with the help of fossil fuel...
What is their carbon foorprint and would it be much better for the planet if they did not exist!!
To be fair, they DO recycle tired old anti-capitalist tosh from the seventies, rather than using up the world's limited supplies of new ideas.
Great piece of investigative journalism G. Far from rubbish..boom boom.
Are they using air conditioning in the hot weather or cooling fans?,have they put a brick in the cistern, are there solar panels on the roof, do they only flush for a No 2?
I think we should be told.
Like Croydonian I await definitive proof that this was indeed Greenpeace's bin. Lift any incriminating doccies G?
As an aside, those windows don't look very energy efficient to me. For one thing floor to ceiling glass is about the least energy efficient forms of walling this side of tissue paper. For another, they don't look double glazed (or even triple).
Tsk tsk Greenies.
Since the rubbish is most likely gone by now, care to do a closer inspection on your way home Guido?
RM
You folks are stretching it a bit. The woman from FOE says it's not their bin, so the terribly clever amongst you retort that it's their job to green it up anyway. Guido, you have been caught out wishful thinking. If not, drop in to the building later and find out definitively if the bin belongs to FOE. Not hard to do, I wouldn't think. I will eat my words if you are right.
Golf clap for don jameson! That was brilliant.
I am, however, deeply disturbed by Guido's use of a scooter and a bicycle as means of transportation in central London. Surely a rightwing hero like yourself should be transported in something more appropriate. I suggest a chauffeured Roller or Chelsea Tractor. Take advantage of your visits and bump up those ad rates G. For hunting down champagne socialists and dirty hippiecrits like FoE you need something that will strike the appropriate amount of terror, fear, and loathing in their hearts!
As flying in airoplains is now a seriously unfiendly thing to the Earth. Whats the point of saving any of the bloody world, as we can no longer morally go and see any of it?
Nobody seeing it is the quickest way to stop any one from careing what happens to it. But then thinking things through never was FOEs strong suit.
As for the rubbish,if it is not theirs. If the FOE could not convince their own office neighbours to recycle how did they manage to get the Local council to go insane?
If it is theirs, then showing socialists being hypocrits is no scoop at all.
Gary,
By not flying off to see bits of diminishing natural beauty you will preserve it for generations of BBC Wildlife film crews and conservation activists who will selflessly go there in your stead.
They promise not to enjoy it one little bit but they will bring back pictures and movies so you can marvel at the wonders of nature.
RM
If you keep getting your scooters nicked why don't you splash out on a decent quality lock and chain and lock your scooter to a (relatively) immovable object, such as a lamp-post or (shock-horror) a bike park. Or buy a proper bike with a good alarm on it ;o)
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