I would much rather have had governments that were less concerned with the world than the ones we have had that have sought to bomb it, and to constrain economic and technological development by imposing green ideology on it.
"Britain" (the government) is a force for bad.
And notice how at odds this concern for "Britain's standing in the world" actually is.
The wars were unpopular. The climate agenda has zero domestic support. The public do not agree with sending vast sums of cash in "aid" -- and they don't know the reality of it.
So the only "standing" that "Britain" (the government) can really demonstrate on the "world" is that it is able to extort many £billions from its population, which it uses to service the interests of the cliques that occupy SW1.
What the are concerned about, of course, is opportunities for themselves.
By pumping up global political institutions, corporations and organisations, they can further their own interests.
They serve themselves.
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What happens when democracy has been dissolved is anyone's guess, because once you remove the public from politics, and expect nothing from them but obedience (under pain of re-education), *anything* goes.
I don't wish to be dramatic, but the claim that "Public involvement, education and empowerment are central to the #ClimateAction process" is pure and simple the recipe for *actual* eco-fascism.
The problem being, of course, that @BBCPolitics "RealityCheck" can't check reality, because it would upset their favoured commentators and their shared orthodoxies.
That is 100% of the 'aid' budget did good in the world.
No one objects in principle to emergency and disaster relief etc. But the database of government's generosity, reveals things like the taxpayer giving £Millions to the WWF and WRI, which are already well-funded by billionaires, to leverage that funding in lobbying governments.
If failure to stop a crime is equivalent to commissioning a crime, aren't all Police and all politicians guilty of narco-trafficking, human trafficking, murder, rape, kidnap...?
The "environment" is the organising principle of the transfer of power from national governments to global political institutions, embedding it above democracy.
We climate sceptics are often accused of being 'oil industry funded denialists'. It isn't true.
In fact, the people who began this process of using the 'environment' as a pretext for transferring power away from people were oil tycoons like the Rockefellers and Maurice Strong.