Don’t have Ali as role model
GRAHAM Stringer MP highlighted
the astronomical costs of our utility bills.
He is 100 per cent correct to highlight the enormous impact of green taxes on our finances.
We have been pushed to the brink of power rationing by successive governments who have allowed lobbying by environmental groups to dictate our energy policies.
We now subsidise intermittent and inefficient power sources such as wind turbines and solar at high costs to taxpayers, whilst proven reliable 24/7 generation by coal and nuclear have been reduced - their usage demonised by misleading information including: 97pc of all scientists consensus claims; homogenised temperature data; meaningless computer predictions of future climate and misrepresentation of the harmless trace gas CO2, which has seen higher levels during previous ice ages than today.
Smart meters can, and will likely be, used to ration our dwindling power supplies; the government has already begun discussing the possibilities of remotely turning off people’s utilities overnight.
Going ‘green’ is not the cosy, planet-saving movement the environmentalists would like us to believe. Its true purpose is the undemocratic control of people’s behaviour through rationing of resources; increasing taxation and enforcement through unsubstantiated scare stories and legislation.
This whole unsavoury episode of recent history hasn’t happened by accident - it’s all listed in the United Nations Agenda 21 document. READING the response by youth leader Geoff Thompson to the tragic stabbing of Sait Mboob in Moss Side, I was most impressed until I reached the last section.
He took the predictable and lamentable stance of citing as inspiration Muhammad Ali, the late boxing champion.
Ali is not the kind of figure that disaffected black youth, brought up amidst poverty and lack of aspiration in inner city Manchester, should be looking up to. Here was a man who made his living from hitting people.
This kind of hero worship of pointless macho posturing is not an auspicious stance for those looking for role models. There is clearly already too much macho posturing within the black community; too many posters on the bedroom wall of contemptible figures such as Ice-T and Tupac Shakur.
If I were working in such an environment as Mr Thompson, I would be citing people like Paul Robeson, Steve Biko, Thelonious Monk, David Oyelowo – black figures who have contributed to world culture through positive creative achievements, not violence. collected was for charity and it was lots of fun. people paying them money for this ‘VIP’ service, so why not ensure that the queue remains long and they will do nothing to improve the situation.