Yorkshire Forward taught something about flooding by local people

3rd Sep­tem­ber — York­shire For­ward, the Region­al Devel­op­ment Agency which has become famous for starv­ing grass-roots com­mu­ni­ty intia­tives of funds whilst giv­ing mil­lions to big busi­ness, held an out­ra­geous “Flood Sum­mit” at Finnin­ley air­port today. Local peo­ple vis­it­ed with pop-up tents and ban­ners, includ­ing one which read “fly­ing costs the earth”. The inten­tion was to leaflet the con­fer­ence’s par­tic­i­pants and hold alter­na­tive work­shops high­light­ing the link between avi­a­tion growth and wors­en­ing cli­mate change.

The con­fer­ence was intend­ed as a bla­tant pat on the back for York­shire For­ward’s response to the recent floods. The choice of venue, Finning­ley “Robin Hood” air­port near Don­cast­er, show just how out of touch with real­i­ty these half-wits are. Finning­ley is already a major con­trib­u­tor to cli­mate change, and also the recip­i­ent of over £5 mil­lion of York­shire For­ward mon­ey for a new “Air Acad­e­my”. Their sup­port for this crim­i­nal organ­i­sa­tion is like­ly to get much big­ger — they want to put around £20 mil­lion into a new access road!

The stat­ed aim of the sum­mit was billed as a chance “for York­shire For­ward to learn lessons from the floods” and it was attend­ed by promi­nent cli­mate crim­i­nals includ­ing John Hut­ton, Sec­re­tary of State for Busi­ness and Steven Timms, Min­is­ter for Com­pet­i­tive­ness. The campers mes­sage was clear; these blink­ered morons are bad­ly miss­ing the point — con­cen­trat­ing sole­ly on emer­gency respons­es, rather than on the pol­i­cy changes need­ed to pre­vent cli­mate change, is already hav­ing dev­as­tat­ing effects on York­shire!

The lessons from the York­shire flood­ing are clear – emis­sions from avi­a­tion must be includ­ed in the cli­mate bill and tax breaks and pub­lic sub­si­dies giv­en to the crim­i­nal air­port indus­try must cease.

The police, as usu­al, showed that they are enthu­si­as­tic sup­port­ers of cli­mate crime, and there were three arrests — two for leaflet­ing and one for break­ing bail con­di­tions that only apply to Heathrow! Maybe to a con­sta­ble, all air­ports look the same?

legal update — The two peo­ple arrest­ed for leaflet­ing have yet to be charged, but have been released on bail. The police’s deci­sion to arrest peo­ple for aggra­vat­ed tres­pass when their only “crime” was qui­et­ly leaflet­ing the par­tic­i­pants of a meet­ing is clear evi­dence that they are hap­py to act as the polit­i­cal enforcers for the rich and pow­er­ful as they fly us all to obliv­ion in the name of prof­it. The per­son arrest­ed for breach­ing bail con­di­tions was released with­out charge when a plod with a brain was final­ly found and the actu­al con­di­tions looked at rather than guessed at.

Despite loss of lib­er­ty, the action was well worth it, tak­ing up much of the pub­lic­i­ty for the event with the truth about cli­mate change, rather than the planned estab­lish­ment lies.

As the final act of polit­i­cal repres­sion, the par­tic­i­pants were told, on cam­era, by a police inspec­tor, that if they ever crossed a par­tic­u­lar round­about again they would be arrest­ed for aggra­vat­ed tres­pass!

The police state is here.