Conservatives’ Achilles heel
June 25, 2008 by Ken
Filed under Political Humbug
Note to Shadow Cabinet. Climate Change, and it’s supposed causes, are nowhere on voter’s lists of concerns (apart from a few people who would never vote Conservative in a million years).
By all means teach children about issues like respecting the environment and energy costs but yet another group of politicians preaching about something that many of us rather suspect is beyond man’s control is just another nanny state turnoff.
“Climate change” is bunk, and will win votes from the likes of Zac Goldsmith and wealthy chums who want to keep the plebs down, but none from the hard-working classes.
This is the Conservatives’ Achilles heel, and if Gordon Brown was astute, he would be exploiting this.
Indoctrinating our children with a questionable hypothesis presented as a given truth is distinctly worrying. Are we about conditioning a generation to unquestioningly accept theory as fact rather than nurturing the enquiring mind and exploring possibilities rather than dictated certainty?
This will hardly equip us to deal with the consequences of climate change if the conditioned emphasis is upon controlling causal human behaviors rather than finding applicable solutions.
What is so wonderful about Greg Barker and his banal climate change views .Why are these dubious and improbable scientific views been pushed by David Cameron? Why is Greg Barker in the Shadow Cabinet at all-it cant be due to his exemplary family life?
Last night Greg Barker, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, launched his Root to Branch pamphlet on embedding an understanding of the environment into education
In introducing his pamphlet Barker added that man made climate change remained the “greatest long-term threat” to Britain and was therefore too big a problem to leave with just one generation.
