Dear friends
At last night's meeting, Sandra was so right in saying that sending an email or two to a councillor is an ineffective, failed policy/strategy - or words to that effect. I am suggesting targeting the seven councillors who are the leaders of the WMCA, with Andy Street as their mouthpiece/PR man. Plus, their seven CEOs, together with Laura Shoaf, CEO of the Combined Authority. These top VIPs/decision makers are all listed here with their addresses and are all responsible for what is going so wrong:
What I am asking for is a call to arms, a proactive, an up and at 'em, persistent, never ending onslaught on all the authorities, as I have so enjoyed doing over the last 25 years, when it comes to railway destruction for tram construction in Brum, Coventry and the Black Country. The pen is mightier than the sword of defensive weapons to Ukraine and, possibly now, to Taiwan. I even turn up at some of their ever so important meetings to try and nobble them - it is so much fun to take them by surprise with a polite, pleasant but pertinent question before they hurriedly excuse themselves!
Left Unity must hit the headlines with our press releases of positive, practical and helpful actions for the bosses to take to improve our prospects. In 2020, Mike sent our resolution on the idiotic destruction of our 120 Kms Black Country Mainline railway to the VIPs and media outlets. I think more must follow if people are going to sit up and take notice. I'm very slowly working on the SWP, the BTUC, the WMPC (Pensioners) and friend Stuart Richardson & co. XR, too. But LEFT UNITY MUST TAKE THE LEAD and show how it's done!
Both our own Combined Authority and Edinburgh City Council love to boast, in press releases, of "the largest concrete pour ever" for their "bus on rails" tram schemes at the most colossal and immoral expense when each £ spent = lb weight of GHG emissions, such is our addiction to rather finite fossil fuels. I have just tweeted back this:
"The largest concrete pour means the largest pour of greenhouse gas emissions to help turn planet earth, eventually, into planet venus." Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect, according to Wikipedia.
This is from my blog:
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Each of us must walk the talk on climate - and do what we can to help
“This is a call to arms,” he says. “So if you feel the need to glue yourself to a motorway or blockade an oil refinery, do it. Drive an electric car or, even better, use public transport, walk or cycle. Switch to a green energy tariff; eat less meat. Stop flying; lobby your elected representatives at both local and national level; and use your vote wisely to put in power a government that walks the talk on the climate emergency.”
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide by Bill McGuire is published by Icon Books, £9.99
Tim
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