Mash of FoE local action groups

Dear Masharof

This is excellent stuff.  Please add that HMG and regional governments, too, must oppose the renaissance of tramways in three out of four countries in the UK.

They are adding to the £3 trillion deficit and high interest rates to pay back these loans.

They are replacing buses and trains when it is these modes that must have the money to boost their use and to finish the conversion to electric.

And trains back on the remnant of remaining railway lines in the UK.

Remember that the tram is a highly extravagant/greedy "bus on rails" (UK tram promotion group in 2016 at the time of the Croydon tram crash).

The money saved must go for regional Fare-Free Public Transport and English free buses which I have had for 18 years (I'm now 78).

And the money used to entice/bribe car commuters out of their tin boxes onto public transport, as here:​

 Bus and businesses at the centre of a virtuous circle

​

​Keep up the good work.

Moral depravity at the heart of ...

... the Judeo-Christian world for the last 1700 years and Islam for the last 1400.

Having been steeped in the Bible all my life and read both Bowen and Bibi and the Quran less diligently, I am horrified by the behaviour of my ancestors.

Exploring, trading, grabbing land for ourselves, hijacking their people and taking them off to other parts of our world wide empire to work in appalling conditions, not for low wages but for nothing and, living in deplorable homes.  300 years of the British despicable slave trade ended by paying the millionaire slave owners yet more millions! Yet more millions in compensation and nothing for the injured party!

N​ext, coercion, force, violence; control, domination and warfare by the Western/Judeo-Christian nations on their subjugated people for so much of the world's population.

Colin Armstrong on Israel/Palestine

I came across this on journalist Andrew Marr's Facebook page, in a comment on what he said on LBC.

ME:

But the Lord God/Yahweh gave Jacob/Israel's descendants the land 3,000 years ago - for all time.  Soon, two lots of descendants of Abraham always wanted and still want the same land and are unable to share.  Are family rows always the worst kind?!

Tim

Colin supports a one state solution.

 

COLIN ARMSTRONG:

He (Andrew Marr) is right but the consequences for Israel will be terrible if they don't moderate their behaviour and accept that the Palestinians exist. 

Many of us came from the same position as Andrew Marr but since Oct 7th '23 and the disproportionate response of the Israelis our views regarding Israel have changed. 

We've looked at its history and we've realised that the European Jews who moved to Palestine in the 20th century didn't take over an empty land and make the desert bloom. They took over a land populated by an indigenous population who had lived there for thousands of years and from the beginning they systematically killed and ethnically cleansed that population in a ruthless, cruel, and illegal way and Gaza is just a continuation of that evil. 

There's no coming back for Israel. Its reputation has been destroyed by its own brutality and the only solution is a one state solution where everyone, living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank has equal rights and live in a secular democratic state with protected rights. They managed it in N Ireland; let's hope a similar solution is possible in Palestine/Israel.

TO: Colin Armstrong 

Palestinians were invented in 1964 by Arafat as a political ploy against Israel, under the British Mandate of Palestine the Arabs didn’t call themselves Palestinians because it was associated with Jews. Read your history. The Jews are the indigenous people of that land and they started turning it into something and then the Arabs started coming in droves way before 1948!

TO: Phyllis Lane Sciborowski

There was a very small Jewish indigenous population in Palestine in the 19th century. The bulk of the population, also indigenous, was Arab and then the Austrian, Herzl invented zionism and the Palestinian Arabs miraculously disappeared according to the zionists and it was an " empty land", another lie. 

The Jewish population of Israel today is largely made up of European, Arab, and Russian Jews who colonised Palestine throughout the 20th century but the Arabs/ Palestinians were and are still there.

The facts of history are that Zionism and current day Israel is a racist supremacist colonial manifestation of a form of race based politics that prioritises one group over another and that the process of clearing the land of Arabs who have lived there for millennia has been ongoing since the inception of that state in 1948. 

Your reasoning that the Jews are the indigenous population of that land is ludicrous. We might as well say that the Anglo Saxons and the Celts have the right to the land that they controlled a few thousand years ago. Maybe we could search out the descendents of Boudica and demand the right of return for her clan. That's how ridiculous the zionist justification for stealing the land from the people that owned it actually is.

This current crisis and Israel's murderous behaviour has opened the eyes of millions who formerly supported it. There's no getting away from it and the myths of the "empty land" and "making the desert bloom" have been exposed for the lies they are. Israel was founded on theft, ethnic cleansing, and murder and that's the historical fact and it will be recorded as such in years to come.

Corbyn on 9/11

Today marks 25 years since the attacks of September 11. 

We remember all those whose lives were lost and shattered that day. And we honour the bravery of first responders, many of whom are still battling illnesses and campaigning for their right to healthcare.

What followed was a catastrophic 'War on Terror', which killed many hundreds of thousands of people, left many more in desperate poverty, fuelled a wave of Islamophobia, and triggered an endless spiral of conflict, hatred and misery. 

The US led, and Britain supinely followed. The world is still living with the consequences of this disastrous decision, yet there is still no accountability for the death and destruction it left behind.

Today, we must learn the lessons of history. That means recognising that war is not the answer, ending the horrors of occupation, and striving to build a world of peace and harmony for all is.

Did John Simpson get it right on 6 pm Radio 4 News this evening? How would you have put it?

How would you have put it if the BBC had asked your good self to prepare something?

And, Jeremy, was it Saudi Arabia's very close links with the USA military in allowing the 'American infidel' to take over so much of that country in order to oust Saddam from Kuwait, the red rag to the bull for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda?  Western military bases on holy Muslim soil - a grievous outrage for Muslims?

He had offered his own Muslim fighters to deal with Saddam, had he not?  Instead the West chose USA led forces?

And the moral depravity of the USA/West also led to 9/11?

Tim

On Fri, 11 Sept 2026 at 22:18, Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Jeremy

John went straight from 9/11 to Saddam Hussein and Iraq and missed out the war on Afghanistan which started two months after and was prompted by 9/11.  " 13:38 ... The USA was the world's sole superpower. ... The undermining of this status began that day. ...  It homed in on Iraq  ... The US, with Britain's enthusiastic backing, tried to persuade the world that Saddam's supposed WMD posed a threat to the West. ... America came dangerously close to outright defeat in Iraq.  The sole success after 9/11 seemed to be introducing democracy in Afghanistan."  This is the first mention of Afghanistan at 14:30.  John ended at 14:55.

Perhaps I'm nit picking.  You are all excellent and highly valued by me but you are the best.

What is your judgement over the West's Judeo-Christian catastrophic war on Iraq?  A win for the West but a collapse of civilisation, law and order and some way back to the stone age for the Iraqis - still to this day?  And, our side perpetrated the lie of WMD in Iraq to help justify the attack.  Unprofessional and dishonest governments - at the lowest level.  Actually, far far worse of course.

I would have preferred your assessment report and conclusions, Jeremy.  Or, have you written something?  Where do I find your daily writings?

It is always a pleasure to hear your accurate, fair, humane and measured tones on Radio 4.

Long live dear Jeremy B!

Treat cruel, callous, vicious Israel (our side, shockingly) like ...

... like apartheid South Africa, until Mandela was freed in 1990.

ALEX, We must be more upright, humane and Christ-like, according to His Gospels teaching, to make it obvious in our policy and practice towards pariah Israel that we are upholding international law, justice and humanity to bring Israel's government into line, as we did with South Africa.

It was a Christian nation responsible for the Nazis.  It is the only Jewish state in the world who is behaving as the new Nazis treating Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and, now, Iranians too in wiping out wholly innocent, non-violent members of the one human family.  In addition, the state of Israel is wiping out and evicting Palestinians from Judea and Samaria to impose their people on the Lord's/Yahweh's/God's Promised Land to the Jews, alone.  Exactly as the UK ("the Islamic Republic of Britain" - Bibi Netanyahu) allowed in surrendering to the three Zionist terrorist gangs in 1948 when we handed back the British Mandate to the UN.

The erasure of Palestinians from the River to the Sea is spoken about openly by members of their inhumane, lawless government and, that policy is contained in the Likud Charter, too.  We fully support them because we will never allow BDS for Israel, as we imposed on South Africa last century.

9/11, Prayer rooms, Bible bad bits

Thanks for an excellent edition of 'Sunday', once more.  My comments:

• What were the reasons for the 19 hi-jackers doing what they did?  Our BBC International Editor, Jeremy Bowen does suggest their motives in his very helpful and illuminating book, 'The Making of the Modern Middle East.'  Could you invite Bowen to speculate, indeed tell us, what he has discovered?
• Has the Bible's bad bits, although a very small minority of the Bible, been an inducement for the three Abrahamic faiths featured in our Holy Book, to be the most violent and destructive in the history of humanity?
• The nations which have done the most killing over the last 3,000 plus years, in the Middle East, have all been the Judeo-Christian-Muslim nations, have they not?
• Is it really true that all the world religions' holy books have violence/slaughter in them as Giles Fraser said.  I don't think so from what I remember when reading the Quran years ago.  And surely not in the Bhagavad Gita which I haven't read?

Multi-faith prayer rooms dismissed as makeshift mosques or Islamic prayer rooms by Jonathan Sacerdoti, a Jewish campaigner against Islam who wants them relabelled

• I have used the beautiful, sacred, quiet room at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley in the Black Country.  I read the Quran there - no violence like 1 Samuel 15 v 3 in the Hebrew Scriptures/Christian Bible.  The Bible was also available.
• I thought Jonathan, a journalist and campaigner, "has spoken widely in defence of Israel and against antisemitism" (Wikipedia), is a devout practising Jew as he told us towards the end of your piece.  Therefore, it is not surprising that he sees them being Islamic prayer rooms, no evidence of Jewish religious practices and being, as he said, "drab, miserable places.  They are these plasterboard rooms, no windows, have almost no features and if there is any clue of what these places are for it is in the form of a prayer mat for Islamic prayer" and some even have a clue for the direction of Mecca, Jonathan told us.
• He called them, revealing his own bias, makeshift mosques or Islamic prayer rooms.
• Does Jonathan realise that in the UK, Muslims represent 6.5% of the population and his own faith of practising and non practising Jews is a tiny 0.4%, according to Wikipedia?
• In addition, Muslims are much better and have a much higher proportion of their adherents practising their religion, even every single day, plus Friday prayers, than Christians or Jews.
• Muslims are more disciplined/rigorous/keener in praying, even in public, than the other faiths. 
• Jonathan came across to me as being indignant and not exactly broad minded or friendly towards Muslims.
• He rose to the bait by the unfortunate statement from the Muslim Council of Britain of: "A wild distortion that they are undercover mosques.  That has all the hallmarks of intellectual rage baiting" which was like a red rag to a bull to dear Jonathan!
• Better, next time, to have a fair minded Muslim who has used a quiet/prayer room up against Jonathan, perhaps.

Mass Transit = massive spending for destruction when the money is needed for ...

... enticing motorists out of their cars onto a free and superior bus/train provision without anymore Light Rail/Very Light Rail trams, tram trains, train trams and high speed trains.

Compliment for Dudley's Avoidance in Engaging with me

I wish to compliment you over forty years of the most minimal contact and zero interest in any of my concerns, indeed scandals.

You have shown the most amazing determination not to understand or to take any interest in what I have been writing about over these years.  This takes considerable skill in ignoring matters that are wholly your responsibility in working with the WMCA and national government (HMG) over matters that they are also involved with.

E-mails are never or rarely answered.  In fact, I cannot recall any email from any officer but there must have been ONE.  So brilliant, dumb behaviour from your professional, fully trained officers.  In fact, your studious ignoring and total uninterest was ended with an eventual reply from Jayne Pilkington who, in July, broke the Council's skill in apathy and acquiesence and in blanking me out.  She does seem to be breaking your traditions and engaging with me.  If somewhat reluctantly.  Your halo of delightful decades of deffing me out may be slipping.  So this compliment of brave apathy and negligence is now a little less than 100%. 

to and from Cllr Jon Mucklow re HEL, Cycle-Walkway, railways converted to tramways

You have done brilliantly well, Jon in receiving this reply. Thanks so much for getting their attention. Something I have never achieved in 40 years of writing and campaigning! But they can't even get my name right, the hopeless people!!

They must not close the case in 10 days time, of course. THEY must work on the matters we have raised. THEY are responsible for pursuing the matters now that we have reminded them. THEY are the full time, fully trained professionals who are meant to be up to the job. They are supposed to be competent and efficient. 

Could you, perhaps, send ALL (or whatever) of this back to them above my name? For me to be responsible, of course, not you. Just say, "Tim has written this for you to read".

If we could meet, as arranged, on Thursday 10 September at En Cafe for a plan of action - and a good chinwag over a drink I'll pay for this time!

All the best and thanks again for doing so well.

Dear Councillor Jon Mucklow,

Your case Cllr-863251667 Tim Wheeler is waiting for you to approve its closure. Please see the below response from the service area. This may include any attachments such as images or documentation that may aid in your approval of closing this case.

Dear Cllr. Mucklow,

In relation to the points raised in Cllr-863251667.

1. Former Himley Environmental landfill site, Gornal.
The former landfill site is owned and managed by Himley Environmental Ltd, who have since ceased trading. Matters relating to landfill gas emissions, environmental permitting, and regulatory compliance are primarily the responsibility of the site operator and the Environment Agency as the relevant regulatory authority. Any concerns regarding landfill gas management and environmental controls should therefore be directed to the Environment Agency and Himley Environmental Ltd.

2. Completion of the Black Country Cycle-Walkway
The development of the Black Country Cycle-Walkway is being progressed through the Black Country Transport Smestow Working Group. The route has a working title of the ‘Black Country and South Staffordshire Leisure Route’. This is a partnership initiative involving the West Midlands Combined Authority, City of Wolverhampton Council, Dudley Council and South Staffordshire District Council. Work is ongoing to consider opportunities to improve and extend the route and to enhance accessibility and connectivity along the corridor. There will be opportunities for member and public consultation.

3. Use of existing railway lines for commuter and regional rail services
This matter relates to wider regional and national transport planning. The proposal referenced is understood to reflect the personal opinion of a transport activist. Decisions regarding the future use of rail infrastructure, including passenger rail services on existing or freight-only lines, are matters for the rail industry, transport authorities and Government rather than Dudley Council.

Regards
Mark Williams
Acting Countryside Manager

FoE never believed me. Now the Warehouse is down for demolition!

Dear Libby

Did I tell you that on a BBC Radio WM phone in, Mayor Andy Street, in his answer to my question over two mainline railways destroyed for trams, replied that the two railway chord schemes in Brum, one of which affects our Warehouse, would get round the problem of the railway​

 "of national strategic significance".pdf

​​having been used for Metro trams?

In other words, how very foolish for new railway schemes, one affecting ourselves at the Warehouse, must now be built to get round the little matter of the rebuilt tram network (the first destroyed in the 1950s) being put on disused, former mainline railways!

Over the forty years of my one man campaign, FoE never got behind me in opposing Metro trams rebuilt on railway lines.  If Brum FoE had helped me, perhaps, the Warehouse would not now be threatened for demolition to make way for a new platform or two!

All the best

Tim

Akrasia from Gerald

Thanks for this excellent piece that was so good to read. And informative. I've also read Porritt's 'Hope in Hell'.

In often chatting to car drivers sitting in their cosy cars beautifully air conditioned in summer or heated in winter, with their engine idling - sometimes for many minutes - none of them seem to have a clue that the petrol or diesel will one day be no more. It is inconceivable for them to understand that fossil fuels are finite! And that electric cars are also unsustainable and little better than combustion motors. Everyone is in denial that we are foolishly living infinitely on a finite planet and unnaturally on a natural planet. 

For these people, understanding of Climate science is zero. Some think it is up to governments to sort it, if they have heard of Climate concerns. It's nothing to do with them, they think.

I read on Wikipedia that some scientists fear that earth will turn into our sister or twin planet, venus. Venus is hotter than mercury although further from the sun than mercury, because of its runaway greenhouse effect. As we are doing to earth. 

Our thoughtless, care-less drivers live it up today and to hell with tomorrow are hastening the end for humanity. But I am guilty, too but, at least, I'm trying to minimise my impact in many ways while not living as a hermit. Perhaps I should be!

I love your akrasia and must give it some more reading from other erudite authors. I read a book by an XR man who calls our guilty pleasures but knowing they are damaging and totally unsustainable as "cognitive dissonance".

Keep up the brilliant work you are doing.

Please explain how multi-modal/Mixed-Use/Mixed-Up Railways ...

Dear all you transport experts - we all are!

... contributing to the rising £3 trillion UK deficit;

worsening the UK's 2019 declared Climate Emergency because £ spent = lb in weight of GHG emissions;

putting Metro trams on TWO Brum/Black Country mainline railways;

using trams to get trains - "Light rail investment provides the basis for restoring heavy rail services at the appropriate time."  Tom Magrath letter, Sept 2000 !!!

diverting the funds available for regional Fare-Free Public Transport for ALL, instead of (mainly) only OAPs like me;

starving funds from green hydrogen fuel cell electric buses and HGVs;

taking funds away from the 50 year old, pathetic 'effort' to electrify our railways when Switzerland did theirs in the 1920s and 30s; ...

... how multi-modal/Mixed-Use/Mixed-Up Railways is the Silver Bullet to solve all our problems.

Sustainable public transport

To fight for a more sustainable public transport provision which minimises our use of electricity to concentrate on a renaissance of green hydrogen fuel cell electric buses directly on roads, without the railway tracks and, regular trains returning to our remaining railway lines that have NOT yet been converted to roads, buildings and tramways.

to Satpal

If we could sit down on returning to KFC and over coffee, I have looked out official maps of proposed tramways and map, below of wasted, existing, available railway lines in the West Midlands,

 Railfuture's full map.pdf

which goes back to 2003, with nothing changed in 23 years, apart from an extra 3 Kms of new tramway, costing tens of millions in price and in weight of GHG emissions to worsen Climate horrors!  Another 6 Kms and six new tram stops open to Flood St, Dudley by Christmas, THIS year!  They've been working, on the ground, on the 6 Kms for the last seven years.  The Leader of the Council, Fred Hunt told me in the early/mid 90s that it would open in 2000, 26 years ago.  This on a former, principal mainline railway between Worcester and Derby or, between London and Edinburgh!  Much more sensible, easier and cheaper just to put the trains and stations back.  Instead, we build High Scam 2 with no stations, apart from the terminals and replace irreplaceable railways and bus routes with trams.  Tramways  were replaced by railways over 200 years ago!

Dud, Deadly, Dire Dudley - catalogue of disasters and destruction!

1. The major roundabout of tyres in 1976 was changed to tarmac but still no landscaping.  Still the ugliest in the UK, after 50 years. This is Grange roundabout on Halesowen bypass, A456/A459.

2. Reinstatement of landscaping on central reservation of Halesowen bypass (after "carriageway restructuring" 30 years ago) is STILL not completed.

3. Halesowen railway was used for homes and much else in the 60s and 70s. The trains will never be seen again.

4. Stourbridge railway was used for freight only from Port Talbot to the Waterfront, next to Merry Hill. Thus, a WASTED line, waiting for trains which will ​come, eventually but, only by highly expensive trams. This is why ​many h​undreds of millions are being spent for Metro trams​ to then be replaced by the trains (at yet more expense) we had for 100 years​.  How stupid!

5. Merry Hill was built but the nearby railway for shoppers was never linked to the centre's monorail which soon closed.

6. In the 1990s the Dudley Freightliner depot closed.  Metro was to take it over.

7. 1981: Metro trams started but it took 18 years to build Metro One on the first mainline railway - destroyed when it was meant to enable its reopening for trains! (Tom Magrath's infamous letter of September 2000, on behalf of the dozing councils)

8. This was the first tramway opened in 1999 from Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level station - now a conference and events centre.

9. Two Dudley railways turned into a path in Kingswinford/Pensnett in the 70s or 80s but not touched since!  This is the Dudley Mudway, now worse than ever. Fit only for the ASB brigade of dirt\quad bikers and 4x4s!

10. It is part of the UK's Top and longest cycle-walkway from Stourbridge ring road to NW Wolverhampton and beyond.

11. Yet, it remains a disgrace for 5 Kms in Dudley, south of the border with S Staffordshire Council.

12. The 3 Kms Brierley Hill to Pensnett railway is still not turned into a cycle-walkway.

13. It took very many years to get the Stourbridge Shuttle on the world's shortest branch line. Eventual SUCCESS!!

14. A circular extension to get shoppers from the Stourbridge Transport Interchange and car parks to the shops was never wanted.

15. This week's announcement of the Dudley Dasher dashes all hopes of the railway getting its national, regional and commuter trains back on the UK's forgotten principal mainline railway between London and Edinburgh, when miserable Metro trams were supposed to do that!

How come the rest of Europe has gone for tramways? They must be right. Of course they are!

I love trams and always use them rather than buses.  The first idiocy by our politicians and transport experts was to destroy the lot of them, apart from Blackpool and up Snaefell hill in the Isle of Man.  They then replaced them with a cocktail of poisonous gases from diesel buses and started selling off railway lines for buildings and roads, instead of mothballing them for future railway use to reduce road and railway congestion.  How shortsighted.  How stupid was that?

Next, in the 80s in Manchester, trams replaced trains and buses at the most colossal expense, when that money could have been better spent.  More of the railway network was lost for multi-modal transport to make for more changes and delays in our public transport journey.  The money should be used for regional Fare-Free Public Transport for every single person from the cradle to the grave and, to entice car commuters out of their tin boxes!

Over one billion to destroy 10 Kms of the principal mainline railway.  This is scandalous expense for doing the wrong thing.  BUT the tram was sold to us as needing to be built to get the full 56 Kms between Stourbridge Jct and Burton on Trent reopened.  Trams to get trains.  How stupid is that?

Midlands Connect has always fully supported Metro trams and their expansion.  The £15 billion for 150 miles, 8 lines and 380 tram stops by 2040 has not been cancelled, David.  Or, what have you heard?  Am I wrong?

All the best and keep in touch.  Please try and get Railfuture to fight for trains on freight only or unused, still not built on railway lines.  I've been doing their work over the last 40 years in opposing Metro on mainline railways.

Strong meat about Climate from American Muslim

I have read much of the link below from author, sustainability campaigner and environmentalist, Jonathon Porritt, in response to something I wrote to him, which is below his email.  So I am now passing it on.  I will read every word.  Your own thoughts are welcome.

I think a little soul searching from each of us would not come amiss.  And a lot more action in tune with the challenging teaching of the Sermon on the Mount and throughout the Gospels.  His teaching was so unacceptable that that dissident rabbi was soon put to death.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Jonathon Porritt <j.porritt@greenfutures.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 at 10:53
Subject: Re: I do care what I write but I also have fun at the same time!
To: Tim Weller <timweller1@gmail.com>

Strong stuff - but on the money!

You might enjoy this confirmation:

https://medium.com/@imran_54027/the-reason-america-will-not-act-against-climate-change-1aa22930ebdb

Best wishes,

Jonathon.

Bus franchising is unnecessary, risky and exorbitantly expensive

Use the millions to extend FARE-FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT for all in the W Midlands as the reward for leaving your car at home and jumping on a bus. But there must also be the stick of penalties for those who refuse to free up road space for essential vehicle users in the rush hours. Plus:

You are right, Ray. Let the private sector run the buses, with councils being allowed to become shareholders and the brilliant Enhanced Bus Partnership ensuring sensible working together. And NO more different rail modes to add to the expense and complication under the DfT's Mixed Use/Mixed Up Railways obsession. Do you agree Ray?

What do you think, my friend?

... if we do the right thing, no-one else in the world will, anyway. So why bother?

Dear friends - Patrick, Balvinder and Alex, our three prominent Civic Leaders in ​D​udley.

I had a long, ten to fifteen minute conversation with a man sitting in the driver's seat with his big 4x4, engine running, which is why I approached him​.  The whole time with engine ticking over​ and, possibly, long after I left.  We talked about his insistence that Climate problems are a fiction and finite fossil fuels are nothing to be concerned about with oil reserves remaining in abundance long into the future.  Poisoning the air for passers by was, certainly of no concern.

He in his big car was sitting on the grass dome next to the flag pole with the UK flag flying bravely.  He was waiting for a big enough space for free parking in the shopping centre cul de sac road called Great Cornbow.  It is literally round the corner from Alex Ballinger's constituency office in Peckingham Street.  The driver was doing this because if he switched his engine off, he would not be able to make a racing car start to escape an approaching traffic warden.  Rare though they be!

Earlier this year, I did speak to an officer with lower status, I think, than traffic warden who was more concerned about checking the cars in High Street, parked on double yellow lines which had exemptions.  Please clarify what the council policy now is.  Are there traffic wardens on duty in Halesowen?

Do you still accept Climate science?

How have things changed on the ground since you and your council declared the Climate Emergency - nationally in 2019 and in Dudley in 2020?

Do you believe that combustion engines idling wastefully are adding to the approaching Climate horrors?  Is it so symptomatic of our casual and careless view that there is nothing we need to do to change towards right behaviour because if we do the right thing, no-one else in the world will, anyway.  So why bother?

Please give me your view.  And answer my questions - this time and for a change!