The Green Alliance believes that the #ClimateAssemblyUK -- 100 people -- is a "public mandate".
The Green Alliance is an organisation which has been working in Parliament since the 1970s to produce a cross-party consensus on environment, AGAINST the public's interests.
I.e. by producing a cross-party consensus on climate change, the Green Alliance believed it could get MPs to vote for the draconian policies it lobbied for, on behalf of its billionaire and corporate backers, no matter what the public felt about climate change.
But this create a democratic deficit.
MPs were all on board the consensus. But they knew that their constituents wouldn't tolerate it.
But now there was a consensus, there was no possibility of debates, or contesting the principles of the agenda.
In other words, the public have been excluded from politics -- democracy has been abolished.
Literally.
To overcome these problems, the Green Alliance and its blob clients conceived of the Citizens Assembly.
Now, they want to persuade MPs -- i.e. the assembly of 650 citizens -- that the 110-member #citizensAssembly better reflects the views of the public than the election results do.
This is dangerous stuff.
If you do not think that the climate agenda is first & foremost about dismantling the democratic control of politics, it's because you have not been paying attention.
66 million people have just been excluded from the concept of a "mandate" by a special interest lobbying group.
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