My response to XR poll

Constant dialogue with officers and members of the WMCA and TfWM is essential to win them over to urgent Climate compliant decisions.  The W Mids Climate Coalition has 11 action points that must be implemented.  

 Action Points - 2024 version.pdf

However, almost nothing has changed since their pious Climate Declaration of 2019.  Hence, the charge of hypocrisy with their present business as usual policy.

FIRST STEP: Abandon Metro, Sprint, Guided Busways and pointless bus franchising.  Instead, regional Fare-Free Public Transport (FFPT) and 'Virtuous commuting'.  

 Bus and businesses at the centre of a virtuous circle

Next, use the funds saved to insulate, solar power, make highly energy efficient every home of the poorest in the region.

The honourable, prestigious Lunar Society must act

Our side (our firm ally and friend Israel) is indulging in cold blooded murder of even our own people when they are aid workers or paramedics.  Our friend's resumption of the slaughter is stopping the release of hostages that is only seen when Israel keeps to the Ceasefire Agreement.

I think the upright, early members of the Lunar Society would be horrified by our slaughter of all and sundry, including those who are trying to save lives in Gaza and the West Bank.

My taxes, my government, and my side allow the killings by Israel and the killings by Ukraine (for Ukraine, admittedly in self defence but where compromise is now essential). This is total hypocrisy, totally outrageous and total war that is never ending by all four countries! Except Gaza is hardly a country that WE have flattened with our weapons. And no-one cares a sod because we are safe and secure in our beds.

  

Should the prestigious Lunar Society be saying something - perhaps?

Treat Israel like Russia

Excellent speech, Alex.  However, the UK must get much tougher with Israel and implement BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions  - and do exactly what the Campaign Against the Arms Trade insists on.

Israel remains a rogue state, a murderous state and must be treated in the same way as Russia.  We should be having nothing more to do with this disgusting, lying State which commits war crimes with impunity.

Oak Farm Quarry Landfill

Dear friends, who are responsible for what is seen in impoverished, Third World countries that take our plastic and old tyres for burning.

Broken down fencing and insecure gates give open access for children, young people and adults (and old, worn out crocks like me) to enter the Oak Farm Quarry Landfill site, as here: 

 Landfill site unprotected.jpg

 Entrance to open landfill site.jpg

When is this area, alongside and including Dudley's shameful and disgraceful section of the UK's longest, urban-rural-urban, cycle-walkway of 20 Kms in the heart of England, in the bleak, backward, barren Black Country, going to be regenerated and, then professionally maintained thereafter?

Staffordshire County Council and Wolverhampton City Council can both maintain their 15 Kms of the UK's top cycle-walkway for business, commuter and leisure use.  Why can't Dudley look after their 5 Kms to make it usable, once again?