Tobias Hans causes a stir with a video on the fuel price brake
the Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) has on Tuesday with a Video caused great excitement. Hans posted himself in the morning in front of a gas station and complained about the horrendous Alcohol prices. “Morning, I’ve just driven past the gas station and that’s really crazy: Diesel 2.12 euros. I think a point has really been reached where you have to say, you have to act!” said the Prime Minister at the beginning of his video.
Hans accuses the federal government of “enrichment”.
In connection Hans accused the federal government of enriching itself from the high petrol and diesel prices. “Of course it has something to do with the Ukraine crisis and it clearly has something to do with things that the federal government cannot influence. But the problem is simply that the state is enriching itself at the moment. The state enriches itself from these increased energy costs and that is why a fuel price brake is needed,” says Hans.
Jan Böhmermann makes fun of Tobias Hans
To be Video harvested Tobias Hans especially via Twitter masses of criticism, ridicule and scorn. Among the critics is also the satirist Jan Böhmermann. With a good dose of sarcasm, he described Prime Minister Hans as the “German Zelensky” and demanded “Putin, stop it! Tobias Hans wants to remain prime minister of Saarland!”.
Putin, stop! Tobias Hans wants to remain Prime Minister of Saarland!
— Jan Böhmermann 🤨 (@janboehm) March 8, 2022
deutsche zelensky https://t.co/jUkLxTB1I7
— Jan Böhmermann 🤨 (@janboehm) March 8, 2022
Other users made fun of Hans by saying “Further Heroic Actions” invented to have.
Tobias Hans has just chained himself in our intensive care unit to protest against the nursing shortage and the underground working conditions. “Here, too, the father state failed.”
This time he’s right🤷🏼♂️ https://t.co/weCv3owsg7— District Nurse Superintendent (@gemuesesuppe78) March 8, 2022
Strong criticism after confronting “low earners” and “hard-working people”
Particularly violent falls the criticism however for the following linguistic dropouts by Hans the end. The CDU politician put through a presumably spontaneous and thoughtless choice of words “Low earners” versus “hardworking people”.. As Hans said verbatim: “This not only affects low earners, it really affects the many hard-working people who have to refuel, who fill up their diesel vehicles, who drive to work, who take the children to sports.”
Hans has received a lot of criticism on social media for these statements. Among other things, people wrote on Twitter:
- “Tobias Hans, Prime Minister, says ‘low earners’ are not hard-working people. He can swap places with the employees in supermarkets, at Amazon or in hairdressing salons for a few days, then he realizes what such social-chauvinistic nonsense he is talking about.”
- “What does Tobias Hans actually do for a living? The sentence ‘This does not only affect the low earners, but the many hard-working people’ should not be said at all, especially not by a person in a high political position. An MP only for higher earners…?!?”
- “Although fuel is expensive in Saarland, the election campaign is all the cheaper. According to Tobias Hans, this affects 2 (different) groups: 1. ‘low earners’ 2. ‘hard-working people’.”
- “Mr. Hans: ‘It’s not just affecting the low earners, but a lot of hard-working people…’ Some low-income earners are so hard-working, they even have three jobs. To stay afloat, or gas…”.
How populist can politicians who have willingly prolonged fossil fuel dependency for years be?
Tobias Hans: “Yes!” #fuel price brake #low earner pic.twitter.com/Q4gXniwnVa— Zieschla (@Zieschla) March 8, 2022
Tobias Hans landed in the Twitter trends
The Video by Tobias Hans caused such a stir that the terms “Tobias Hans”, “Mr. Hans”, “Saarland” and “low earner” ended up in the Twitter trends on Tuesday afternoon.
Tobias Hans ended up in the Twitter trends with a video about the fuel price brake. Screenshot: Trends24
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