Most nuclear power stations are on the coast, but Greenpeace don't tend to sail their ship outside them any more, limiting themselves to taking part in rare minor disagreements over where the waste goes.

But recently they spent money taking their vessel to protest against a coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth, in the Medway area of Kent. "PUT COAL ON THE DOLE" said a large banner they hung out, mocking the heroic miners' strike of the mid-1980s, the defeat of which paved the way for the horrendous attacks on working class people which have proceeded with hardly any meaningful resistance ever since - to a point where we are on the brink of a depression which will be worse even than the 1930s. To a point where most working class people are in debt up to their eyeballs. To a point where the authorities paint working class people as Neanderthal knuckle-dragging Nazi cretins. To a point where the "green" lie is always on the authorities' and businesses' lips as they paint as "anti-social" those who don't want to help them with their advertising by carrying "green" shopping bags (or can't afford them), who don't want to give raw materials back to big business without getting paid for it, or who don't feel things are hunky-dory when their streets are plagued with rats, now that domestic rubbish collections only happen once a fortnight rather than once a week.

Faced with such a hate-filled attack on working class people, by "activists" who know exactly what they are saying, we can only say in return: "Where are the French secret service when we really need them?"