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grufty jim Mar 6, 2009 18:07:41
Replying to shanshee_allures

shanshee_allures wrote:
**Leila Deen’s commitment to the environment meant that for her mother’s recent 60th birthday the family spent three days travelling to Morocco by train as she would not allow them to fly.**

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5858873.ece

the words beggars + belief didn't even begin touch it.


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I'm with Vybik here, I'm not sure why that beggars belief. If you believe that flying is unsustainable and massively destructive, then why not choose to use the train instead?

Personally, I suspect a three day trans-European train journey followed by a cruise across the Med would be a great way to celebrate my birthday. Perhaps, in their rush to portray Ms. Dean as authoritarian ("would not allow them to fly") the media failed to realise that she and her family are capable of enjoying a more sedate and scenic trip than the usual 3-day city break from EasyJet?

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shanshee_allures Mar 6, 2009 22:22:18
Replying to grufty jim

grufty jim wrote:
Perhaps, in their rush to portray Ms. Dean as authoritarian ("would not allow them to fly") the media failed to realise that she and her family are capable of enjoying a more sedate and scenic trip than the usual 3-day city break from EasyJet?
Her and her family are 'capable' because they are middle class and well off, making what you say somewhat of a rather unsavoury 'class distinction isssue'.

Easy jet is for the proles not the nice well to do middle class folks like she and hers. A three day train journey to Morrocco? How the hell much would that cost compared to cattle class at easy jet? They get their cake and eat it, while others can go choke to death on theirs.

If she had any honesty about herself she'd see how condescending that seems. Shouldn't she be setting 'some sort' of example? Take the bus to Bognor or something. I take it not.

For part of the charge made by enviromentalists to justify blockading airports is that 'we never used to have the luxury of foreign hoildays'.
In effect they are doing exactly the same thing as the Easy Jet passengers.
EDIT: With added impunity of course.
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