"Greenest Gov. Ever" - George Osborne Refers To Activists As "Environmental Taliban" - Guardian
George Osborne is said by the Independent to be referring to green campaigners both inside and outside his party as "the environmental Taliban". His office denies it, but the insult fits in with the way Conservatives and rightwing politicians around the world now regularly denigrate greens.
In 2009, Roger Evans, a Conservative member of the London assembly, wrote in a blog that people fighting the expansion of the London City airport were "the climate change Taliban". He was was slapped down by the prime minister, David Cameron, and the mayor, Boris Johnson. He eventually apologised profusely.
The Taliban slur has since been widely used in Australia and in the US along with more regular putdowns of environmentalists as "Nazis", "subversives", "militants" and "watermelons" (green on the outside, red on the inside).
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But the insults keep coming. Only this week, Steve Uncles, a rightwing police commissioner candidate in Kent representing the English Democrats, called the Kent Green party chairman a "dictatorial Nazi". A blog on Uncles's website showed a mocked-up picture of Stuart Jeffery wearing a swastika. Uncles has so far refused to take the post off his website despite threats of legal action. And on Thursday, environmentalists at a Stop Climate Chaos demonstration at the Treasury were met with Nazi salutes by an even smaller counter-protest organised by a group called Repeal the Act. In later email correspondence, Repeal the Act referred to the protesters as "Nazis".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/oct/19/environmental-taliban-george-osborne