Joanna Lumley Calls For Rationing

[barry1010]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/joanna-lumley-wartime-rationing-climate-change-b1945344.html

As I understand it she wants everyone to be given points to spend on things that have a negative effect on the climate - fuel for the car, gas and electricity in the home, flights, meat, new clothes, imported food, imported everything...

Everyone would have a set number of points to spend as they wish for one year, and when they are gone, that's it.

I can see many problems with this - racketeering on the black market being one.

Good idea?

[emmie]

it won't work, as you say the black market would have a field day.

[dannyk13]

Ken //We were given cigarette coupons
The coupon was issued weekly with your pay and allowed you to purchase 140 cigarettes ( 7 packs of twenty) of various brands for 7 shillings ( 35 pence) .I always went for the Benson & Hedges.

[barry1010]

That would be worth over £90 today, danny

[davebro]

I see one of the items is labelled "Joanna Lumley vows never to retire". That's a shame!

[douglas9401]

Worrying, what goes through the minds of thespians in the night.

[satprof]

Dannyk: My dad got his Kensitas (for the coupons) at the NAAFI and I'm sure he got NAAFI discount as well.

IIRC, scotch & gin were about 8/- (40p) a bottle and petrol (BP coupons) worked out about 2/2d (11p) per gallon.

[vulcan42]

When resources run out, how will coupons help exactly?

[Ken4155]

Danny, I don't doubt your numbers re the amount but we were paid monthly, straight into our bank accounts and the ciggy ration cards issued on a monthly basis. Your army number probably begins earlier than mine - 2424 :-)

[fender62]

as long as it does not effect her earning abilities ya... these peole do not live in the real world, all it will do is make the divide between the rich and poor wider, know your place..

[webbo3]

So Joanna Lumley wants flights rationed.
The same Joanna Lumley who did this.
Joanna Lumley's silk road.
Joanna Lumley's Trans Siberian adventure.
Joanna Lumley's Nile
Joanna Lumley's Japan
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean.

That Joanna Lumley

[Khandro]

webbo: But that was her JOB

[Barmaid]

I have a great deal of respect for her for what she did for the gurkhas, but I do not see how this might work. What happens 2/3rds of the way thru the year and you run out of points so you can't get to work or get to care for an elderly relative?Meanwhile the likes of JL and Dame Emma Thompson are jetting round the world and lecturing the rest of us.

[237SJ]

^ And they are not travelling in Economy either.

[fcc]

It's not her job to tell people how to live,why not practice what you preach.

[vulcan42]

It may have been her job to visit all these places but she made sure she completed the series and had stopped travelling the world before she deemed it necessary to curtail others. She's a hypotwit.

[Khandro]

//It's not her job to tell people how to live,why not practice what you preach.//

In a free society, everyone has the right to say what they think is right, - just as you are doing now.

[jourdain2]

Thank you for that Khandro. It has helped. No connection, just that I am being villified elsewhere (family) for sticking to the Voltarian principle. Re, subj. Many would suffer, the law-abiding lot, others (most) would get round it. I like Jo L., but she starts from a position of having plenty.

[barry1010]

Joanna house a large house in London and another home in Scotland. I doubt she cycles between the two

[New Judge]

//webbo: But that was her JOB//

No it isn't. She's an actor. She need not roam the globe making documentaries for TV. If she was really worried about the effect air travel has on the environment she would have the filming done by local crews and she could voice it over or if this was unsuitable then not made the programmes at all. She's advocating that people adopt "sackcloth and ashes" and return to conditions similar to that experienced in the wake of WW2. Well at that time they didn't have a telly, let alone be able to watch actors strutting about the globe.

Similarly with politicians, there is no need for them to galivant around the world, shaking hands and having agreeable dinners. The "G7" leaders met in Cornwall in the summer, causing havoc in a totally unsuitable location (and as an aside caused a huge spike in Covid cases in that area). The "G20" is meeting in Rome even as I write. The "COP26" begins its month long jamboree on Monday. The President of the USA alone causes his own emissions explosion every time he moves. At least four huge aircraft are involved and his equipment and entourage cause havoc and pollution wherever they go.

These are hypocrites. They pontificate and preach to the "ordinary" people they purport to represent, urging them to adopt all sorts of measures and restrictions that they have no intention of adopting themselves. Personally I don't care what they do, where they go and what they burn in order to get there. But I don't want them telling me that my taking a return flight to Mallorca once a year (which is far more important to me than their endless but pointless jollies) is "destroying the planet" or any other such catchphrase their lackies come up with.

[Mozz71]

I personally don't care who says what about whichever subject is on their mind at any one time. It's a free world and if they feel the need to declare their opinions so be it. Whether anyone acts on the advice of a celebrity is entirely up to the individual, and I for one will make my own mind up about things, rather than listen to someone whose expertise lay in a completely different area.