Does this foreshadow when fossil fuels will be scarce and the climate emergency blindingly obvious?

Dear Patrick - leader of Dudley MBC, Patrick Harley

Does this foreshadow when fossil fuels will be scarce and the climate emergency blindingly obvious?

For ten years, your political party has been in power in the UK.  For ten years your party has implemented a policy of extravagance and luxury for the few and of belt tightening and austerity for the many, including your own council.  Yet, as your party has been in power in Dudley Council House for much of that time (exactly, how many years?) you and your Cabinet have been happy for your national government to reduce your grants without a murmur of protest.  Or, will you tell me that I am wrong and provide the evidence, please?

For ten years, under austerity, our NHS has not had the funds it has needed.  Hence, the difficulties we see now.  In addition, your government was taken by surprise, was unprepared, even with widespread travel around the world, that the coronavirus might possibly come to the UK.  From December, your government saw what was going on in China but didn't seem to heed their awful experiences, their warnings and advice to the rest of the world.  The government, your government Patrick, was asleep at the wheel before Johnson's announcement on the evening of the 16 March.

For ten years, your foolish government persisted with grossly extravagant HS2, already spending billions in that time to achieve very little;

since the 1970s, allowing your railway lines to be built on with everything except the kitchen sink;

since 1981, spending much largesse with grossly extravagant Midland Metro trams when buses needed the funds to reward car commuters for using buses, instead to get into work; and to reverse bus decline;

since 2015, with unnecessary and expensive arguments over whether we should be in or out of Europe.

In 2016, Dudley Council gave planning permission for the only feasible site for our reopened Dudley Castle Gate/Hill railway station to be built on.  This foolish decision when the councillors and officers at Transport HQ were telling me that we needed trams costing £449.5 m, first to get trains back on your Dudley railway line so that it could be finally finished between Worcester and Derby!

Will you regard our present lockdown as a foretaste of the time that must surely come when fossil fuels are scarce and when the climate emergency is more blindingly obvious to even you, my friend?

With best wishes for keeping free of this virus and for more sensible, pre-emptive policies NOW, to prepare for even more difficult times ahead this century.

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Tim