I have been reminded
by the Telegraph [[1]] that Surrey County Council, on which you
are my “representative,” has for some time been a member of an organization
called UK100. This is an activist organization which, according to its website,
“will continue to lead the UK’s response to climate change, acting sooner than
the government’s goal by making substantial progress within the next decade to
deliver Net Zero.” UK100, as shown by this recent report [[2]], is funded through chains originating from
billionaires Christopher Hohn and Michael Bloomberg, both known to be extreme
climate activists.
I am very concerned
as to how the members of a county council can feel able to be part of, or to
devote taxpayers’ resources to, such an extremist organization, without the
people of that county having had the chance to oppose or even to comment on
such a membership.
The enormous costs
and inconveniences of “net zero” policies are becoming more and more apparent.
As, for example, in the recently announced job losses at the Port Talbot
steelworks. And anti-car policies, such as the ULEZ expansion, are also causing
great suffering to those who are caught in the trap of being too poor either to
pay the fees or to upgrade their cars.
Moreover, it is
slowly starting to penetrate into ordinary people’s minds that the repeated
claims that renewable energy is cheap are falsehoods, and even outright lies.
That no proper cost versus benefit analysis of “net zero” has been done. And
even that the entire concept of “net zero” is flawed, because the claimed
“climate crisis,” which “net zero” policies are supposed to alleviate, does not
in fact exist. There is simply no objective evidence for any such thing. (As I
have shown, in a series of essays which I sent you last April).
I hope that you will
agree that for a council at any level to continue to push extremist policies
which, as is becoming more and more obvious, are not only unjustified but also
very clearly against the interests of the people the council is supposed to
serve, is a travesty of any idea of democracy. We the people of Surrey have not
approved Surrey County Council’s membership of UK100. I look forward to your
confirmation that Surrey County Council will be terminating its membership of UK100
at the very earliest possible opportunity.
I note that you are
also on my list of Waverley Borough Councillors, so I would ask you also to
confirm that Waverley will be taking no steps towards joining UK100 or any
similar organization.
Yours sincerely,
Neil Lock
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