This MP does not have a clue what he's talking about.

And neither does the voice over artist he bows to.

Their utter ignorance and wilful disregard for democracy will cause great hardship.
Here, he argues for MPs and political parties to close ranks against the public, to preclude democratic oversight of politics.

He urges MPs to join an organisation which is entirely funded by special interests, to advance their own agenda.

The Conservative Environment Network is an anti-democratic front organisation for the European Climate Foundation, which has lobbied politicians behind closed doors, using funds from a small number of billionaire's "philanthropic" foundations.

Net Zero is their idea.
If @bernardjenkin wants to change the way we live, he must offer the choice to voters, not campaign behind the scenes, to limit the choices available to the public.

It is not in his gift to tell us how to live.
The organisation that he says Conservative MPs must join is funded by a organisation which also funds XR, and leftwing think tanks too.

It dominates *all* "civil society" organisations, to align them with the climate agenda.

Jenkin is being played.
If a *single* foundation is behind the bulk of funding of radical left, centre, and right of centre campaigning organisations and think tanks, then "civil society" is a lie. If political parties offer no difference to the public, then democracy is a lie.

Jenkin has no answer.

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This is a tragic case of a dysfunctional family turned into a political play.

I've never heard of this woman, who has informed no part of my outlook.

BBC 'journalists' think nothing of exploiting sad cases like this for political framing of debates.

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The BBC would rather stich up important critical voices, by attaching them to the 'far right', and the likes of David Icke, to present simple true/false, good/bad narratives, than find let viewers decide between intelligent commentaries.
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WEF's message is backfiring. But here's its essence:

"Power is being taken away from democracy and from national governments, and there's nothing you can do about it. You can either risk your lot at the whims of wild economic forces, or back us, the nice, caring billionaires."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. He only *looks* like he eats babies, and just stepped off the set of Bad Taste.

He's a deeply caring individual, who has selflessly put the world before his own interests.

Everyone at Davos cares soooo much. Image
99% of it is just puff. It is fantasy, from people who cannot tell the difference from fantasy and reality, and are forced therefore to project fantasy.

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Don't be distracted by the fantasy.
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They want "to place #nature at the front and center of decision-making" because they don't want decision-making to be democratic.

The #leaderspledge4nature is a pledge against democracy.

"Nature" is a fig leaf.
The "strong signal from governments" is not a strong signal from the people governments govern.

"Biodiversity" is the idea which will take power away from people to determine their own governments.

"Biodiversity" is an irrational, mystical and deeply regressive ideology.
"Nature" could quite easily be debated and its role in national and local policymaking contested democratically.... e.g. "do we want this development, or should we keep the land as it is?"

But "biodiversity" makes the parameters of such choices intangible.
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This is what institutional "science" overreaching, self-serving, bullshitting... looks like.

There is no such thing as a "just transition" in which the legitimacy of the "transition" of the economy has not been contested democratically.
Imagine a "science" institution pontificating a "just transition" to Maoism.

That is no different to the Royal Society's intervention here.
At some point, science organisations begin to do more harm than good.

I think the Royal Society has passed that point.

I don't believe that reform of institutions that have lost their founding purpose is possible.

I think the Royal Society is determined to prove me right.
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Ritual: The obedience expected of us as society is shut down.
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