I liked this Tweet from the National Trust:
First the RSPB spoke out.
Now the National Trust has.
Middle Britain is not happy.
Sunak really should worry.
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I live in a conservative, Conservative village. The voters here care passionately about the environment (evidenced by litter clearing, path maintenance etc. all done by volunteers). I think Sunak will lose these folk to the Lib Dems.
I hope so
I am hearing this all around where I live – including in the villages now
Chatham House not happy at the international level either https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/09/rishi-sunaks-speech-will-make-uk-harder-take-seriously-cop28?dm_i=1S3M,8EU0K,1ZG4HG,YPP6W,1
While I absolutely support what the National Trust has said here, I take issue with one phrase.
“Future generations will ask why……”
WHAT future generations? There won’t be many more.
Ironic indeed, considering how these same shysters witter on about “loading our grandchildren with debt”, when asked to borrow to invest (which we actually know us complete nonsense, as the money can largely be created, or even if borrowed, comes back to the Government several times vis the multiplier) but are quite happy that those grandchildren should fry or be drowned or starve, depending on which aspect of global collapse affects them.
I’m reminded of one of the most shocking episodes in the Old Testament – the healing of Hezekiah.
Hezekiah is very ill and dying, and asks help from the Lord and from the Prophet Isaiah, who not only prays for Hezekiah, but supplies healing medication, so Hezekiah is healed, and promised 15 more years of life. But here’s the shocking end to the story, in 2 Kings, Chapter 20, from verse 16.
“16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: 17 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 18 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
19 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”
Verse 19 is how the current shyster Government and whole oligarchic canal is behaving.
I live in mid Suffolk. We were a solid Conservative area. At the recent local elections we voted Green! We are now the first Green Party controlled local authority. Now part of the new constituency of Waveney Valley we may well vote in a new Green Party MP at the next General Election. Times they are a changing!
Good luck – I hope you do get a Green MP
How to effect change – fundamental change?
Last night I watched a film in the local commune centre “Together We Cycle”. It was about how the Netherlands, through public action transformed itself from a society in the 1970s where cars were slaughtering children & people (3500 deaths per year) to one where towns and cities are people (and bicycle) orientated (2010 500 deaths). The point was made, repeatedly, that the transformation (e.g. all those bike lanes) did not happen on their own – it was through citizen action, local gov action (and in fairness a central gov willing to listen and fund) that change came. The Netherlands is not a green nirvana – but it provides a very useful lesson on change in one area, transport (& e.g. linking bike lanes to train stations). Worth a watch. By the way, Chris Pakhams Channel 4 programme is available on Pirate Bay – for those not in the UK.
In the UK, the tories as is (Capstan full strength) and vile-tory-lite=liebore) deserve to be extirpated from the body politic – which most people (87%) distrust. UK citizens (serfs) need to get more involved. Collective nag in stereo MPs, councillors etc – same message, letters – an avalanche of them. Day after day, month after month. Harrass them. If they don’t like it they can always leave politicos and get a job – if they can find anybody that would want them. I don’t hold out too much hope wrt the lying dems – my inside track suggests wishy-washy policies – quite off track from what people really want.
I agree with the nagging policy
I suspect I contribute more than. my fair share to the mailbox of my MP
She’s a cabinet minister and I know in prin ciple this is a waste of time, but I don’t care. She has to know that there are constituents who do not believe in her
Maybe rope in a bunch of mates – chatGTP for similar letter with variations & get them to get their mates to do the same. The Cab miniter perobably by now files yours vertically (sorry – but I’m guessing this is the case). New faces (albeit similar themes) would oblige her minions to open and read – thus usefully occupying their time. Also failure to reply to letters from constitutents is a useful stat to use against those wanting to be re-elected.
I could also imagine: ChatGPT to pull out her speeches and generate letters showing where she contradicted herself & writing letters asking for clarification. Honestly, this could tie the buggers up in knots. I’m laughing as I write it – the look of WTF on her/minions face when looking at 10, 20, 50 letters all asking similarish, but different things. What to do. 🙂
The above is a free suggestion to any readers in the blog. Why not treat you local MP as a source of entertainment? After all, through their policies, or lack thereof they certainly regards us lot as a bunch of clowns.
I borrowed your idea, did a quick chatgpt query and have posted the result….
You are a very naughty boy 🙂 –
I was laughing my head off looking at the other blogs – thinking aye aye – where did this come from – still laughing now.
Moi?
I’m another serial write of letters to my Scottish Tory MP. He claims to care about the environment but never, ever deviates from the Party line.
I usually post my letters on social media too. I usually also include a link to *writetothem* to encourage others.
I hope it shows that you can write to MPs
Thanks
Meanwhile the mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman is going to reverse the low traffic zones at a significant £ cost let alone the cost of pollution to the lungs of the children.
This is why Fartage and co are hell-bent on taking over the National Trust with their right-wing chums – to silence any criticism. They failed last year but may not do so again.
The thing is, is not just political expediency as the Good Law Project has shown.
It is that our political funding ways and means are actually dictating policy by minority opinion – vested interest opinion is carrying the day at the moment.
Quite simply Sunak is not listening to the country at all – just those whose interests it is in to slow things down that are already slow. Those who are willing to fund him and whom will simply rotate to Labour once they know that Sunak’s party is a dead man walking are calling the shots.
You can look back at the the Tory rule since 2010 and see it as nothing but an exercise in providing capital with the expanded opportunities to earn more rent and preserve the value of their wealth.
This is the country that we are living in at the moment. A rentier’s paradise.