Dear Boris Johnson, it's not Extinction Rebellion who are 'smug, irritating and disruptive'

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I am fed up with Boris Johnson’s constant disruption and his assumption that his opinion is more important than my own. I find him “smug, irritating and disruptive”. He is also deeply uneducated on the matter of climate change and the causes of it. The only things that distinguish him from the portrait of the people that he lambasts in his article in The Telegraph, is a shred of decency, constancy oh... and the double-barrelled name.

Laura Dawson
Harpenden

One notes with interest media snipes at Extinction Rebellion along the lines of discord among the leadership.

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