Nightingale hospitals, Charles Windsor of Wales and easy, obvious wins for the taking!

 Easy, obvious wins for the taking!  Pick the low hanging fruit, first!

I remain of the opinion that urgent writing, phoning and persuasion are all we have!  Our money is now being spent, on a 20 year, £15 BILLION programme of converting bus routes to tramways, for an underground light rail system and to destroy the UK's most important mainline railway for multi-modal transport that is really multi-mixed up transport of more changes and delays for non-car users.  And HS2 extensions also exacerbate fossil fuel shortages, accelerate the runaway greenhouse effect and bring nearer a most uncomfortable future by the end of the century.

URGENT writing to these top bods, if you feel so inspired, please.  And £15 billion would last a long time for Fare-Free Public Transport for all, in all of the W Midlands!

 September 2019 A5 flyer

I heard on the radio today that the Nightingale hospitals cannot be brought back because there is not the staff to run them!  Why did the authorities not think of that before going ahead with spending public money on building unusable hospitals?  Or, could there not have been the training of workers to run them during the course of this past year, in case of new waves of Covid?

Despite my republican leanings, I do like what the Prince of Wales said on the 'Today' programme yesterday, 29 Dec especially about "Mother nature is our sustainer ...  " and onwards, here:-  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qlwd

2:20:20 in, for two-times Booker Prize winning author Margaret Attwood's interview with Charles.  Available for 27 more days from today.

"We're not on a sustainable trajectory ... the private sector has contributed to the problem over the past century, is now a necessary and critical part of the solution ... I launched the Sustainable Markets Initiative, almost a year ago, to catalyse the private sector to put nature, people and planet at the heart of global value creation." https://www.sustainable-markets.org/

Global value creation = humans living more sustainably, I suppose?

The spendthrift public sector builds Sprint, Metro and HS2 instead of doing Fare-Free Public Transport for all W Midlanders, with electric buses on bus priority roads!