{"id":258615,"date":"2023-05-22T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T10:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258615"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T10:10:23","slug":"saving-the-planet-what-a-load-of-bollards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258615","title":{"rendered":"Saving the planet? What a load of bollards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From conservativewoman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Philip Walling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018NOBODY voted for this!\u2019 The cry echoes up and down the land. And yet (albeit in decreasing numbers) people still vote for a political party they would like to believe is telling them the truth and has their interests at heart, because \u2018we live in a democratic society\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, right! What\u2019s \u2018democracy?\u2019, I ask. To which it is hard to get a comprehensible answer. Most often the reply is something like, the right to vote. Vote for whom and for what? The choice is increasingly like having the right to vote for your death either by hanging, shooting or poisoning, when you really wanted to vote for living. And even if you vote for being shot, there\u2019s no guarantee they\u2019ll keep their promise. It\u2019s more likely they will starve you to death \u2013 a proper sacrifice, because you\u2019ll be doing it for the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it\u2019s hardly surprising that Newcastle City Council, a cabal of over-mighty, third-rate windbags and busybodies, have blocked dozens of streets with bollards in a number of suburbs. Why? To save the planet, of course. If you don\u2019t know there\u2019s a \u2018climate emergency\u2019, you can\u2019t have been listening, because the sage councillors and their handlers, the officials who know better than the people they purport to represent, have declared one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And on that pretext the way is open for them to impose almost anything: in this case \u2018low traffic neighbourhoods\u2019. The three-quarters of a million people of Tyneside and the wider rural areas are to be forced, by those who know best, to suffer for the planet. Nothing is more important than \u2018combating climate change\u2019 and, oblivious to the irony, the bollards are, says the council, necessary \u2018milestones on the journey to Net Zero\u2019. See here<\/a>. Although Newcastle isn\u2019t unique in suffering this oppression, it is no less irksome to know others are being treated similarly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The council openly admit they are involved in social engineering, trying to curb private car use and forcing people to walk, cycle or take public transport to \u2018reduce carbon emissions\u2019, whatever that means. But if \u2018carbon emissions\u2019 and clean air were really the purpose they would not be funnelling vehicles on to a few bigger roads to crawl along in jams, getting nowhere. Are the councillors and officials so blind that they can\u2019t see these road closures are killing Newcastle? Or at least destroying independent businesses. One long-standing independent grocer and off-licence in Jesmond has lost so much trade in the last month that it will either have to close or move out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If their latest scheme for the centre of the city is any guide, in a perfect example of the marriage between global business and government, the councillors show how little they regard independent business or the welfare of the people. They recently approved the building of a new HMRC headquarters on a prime site to accommodate 9,000 \u2018civil servants\u2019. HMRC has signed a 25-year lease (I couldn\u2019t find out at what rent, but it will almost certainly be at a level that pays back the cost of building) with a company owned by the billionaire Reuben Brothers<\/a>. We are not told how these 9,000 staff are going to get to work or if they will be able to park their cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to use the highway belongs to each of us as subjects of the Crown, guaranteed for centuries under English law. It is not in the gift of a few councillors and unelected officials. Talking to people, it soon becomes clear that many are outraged by the council\u2019s high-handed actions, imposed after coming out with the usual platitudes about \u2018listening to a wide range of views\u2019 and holding \u2018public consultations\u2019 \u2013 in some cases after they had started to install the bollards. They even expect us to believe that these \u2018low traffic\u2019 measures are being \u2018trialled\u2019 for 18 months, without telling us how they will judge whether the trial has succeeded or failed. Notwithstanding the gross inconvenience and curtailment of what, until the month before last, was the liberty to pass along the King\u2019s highway, it is dispiriting that apart from moaning, there seems little inclination to make a real fuss about it. Orwell observed, at a dance in Wigan, \u2018the same sheeplike crowd . . . there is no turbulence left in England\u2019. How much more accurate is that a century later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth behind these road closures and other impositions is that the council is implementing global policies it has agreed with its international collaborators to inflict on the populace. Is it a coincidence that the Reuben Brothers\u2019 development has all the hallmarks of such collaboration? The councillors like to give the impression they came up with these policies themselves. They dare not admit that they are acting in accordance with supra-national global interests that are sucking power from the local (and the national) and ceding it to a globalist network that intends to act as a world government. On the route to achieving it, an international association of cities has got together as the Urban 7 (U7) to put into effect, at a local level, what the G7 does at a supra-national level, to \u2018localise globalism\u2019 in the jargon, and to expand global government control from the bottom up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ensure participation of the local governments of the G7 countries, national associations of cities have also been created. In Britain it is Core Cities UK<\/a>, an alliance of 11 city councils: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. These cities collaborate with the common goal of effecting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> of the United Nations. These vague aspirations stem from the Earth Summit in 1992 in Rio and are a call for one world government and abolition of national sovereignty in the name of \u2018combating climate change\u2019, \u2018creating sustainable development\u2019, \u2018equality\u2019 \u2013 both gender and social \u2013 and all the usual utopian slogans that feed and cloak a determined attempt at power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding this makes sense of the council\u2019s actions and exposes the councillors\u2019 failure to honour the function for which they were elected \u2013 to represent the people of the city and provide the services they need. They were not elected to involve themselves in partnership with the globalists and to implement their policies. Their authority derives from the people who elect them, not from those supra-national forces to whom they now do obeisance. But they can\u2019t admit what interests they truly serve or where the real power lies. If they did, their irrelevance would become clear for all to see. And, although I wouldn\u2019t bet on it, even the sheeple might clamour for a cull of councillors as the pointless waste of money they have allowed themselves to become.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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