MICHAEL GOVE - BOJO'S CIRCUS CLOWNS
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Michael Gove - Housing, Communities and Local Government - Michael Gove is the cabinet minister with the most experience and moves to housing to take responsibility for "levelling up"- the programme to help communities who feel they have been left behind. Mr Gove became environment secretary in June 2017 and proved a key advocate of Theresa May’s Brexit deal, while other Brexiteer cabinet ministers resigned.
In 2016, he famously scuppered the leadership hopes of his friend Boris Johnson, by announcing his own candidature on the morning of Johnson's own campaign launch. He lost out to Boris Johnson in the Conservative leadership campaign in summer 2019. Mr Gove was a key ally of former Prime Minister David Cameron and has served as MP for Surrey Heath since 2005. He made his name as a radical education secretary, bringing in major changes to exams and the curriculum and battling teaching unions during his four years in the role.
Mr Gove has a tough job ahead of him, with corruption in local authorities being a major issue, with greenbelt being developed under questionable circumstances all over the south of England in particular. Councils have been cutting corners on granting consents, seeing the apparent "free for all" as a way of boosting income from Community Infrastructure Levies (CIL) payments, another form of property tax, where greedy town planners are working hand-in-glove with favoured developers - some of which contribute to the Conservative Party - and then miraculously, find juicy Greenfield site consents landing in their laps. Local action groups have long called for a dedicated planning policing unit, where it is alleged that corruption extends to local police protecting crooked planning officers and chief executives, rather than investigating allegations and as appropriate, prosecuting them. Indeed, those challenging the system and reporting crimes, have themselves become the victim of SLAPP actions and other fit-ups, allegedly. The Wealden District is held to be one of the most corrupt in England, with Sussex police refusing to investigate serious allegations of long term fraud and institutionalised discrimination (misfeasance turned into malfeasance in public office) for so long, they are now barred from further involvement. As per R v Sussex Justices ex-parte McCarthy 1924. The fraud however, is ongoing, until such time as this very naughty Council comes clean.
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19 NOVEMEBER 2021 - IMMORAL DEVELOPERS TARGETING RURAL AREAS AND REFUSING TO BUILD ON BROWNFIELD SITES
Prime minister Boris Johnson has previously pledged to encourage more housing in the north and Midlands to alleviate stress in the overheating market in London in the southeast.
GREENBELT EMPIRE BUILDING - The problem with empires is that they do not last. Their builders always lose sight of the natural limitations that have governed the evolution and ecological balance of planet earth for millions of years before man came along and thought he knew better.
Every house and factory that is built increases our carbon footprint. As each council in the UK does the same as Wealden District Council, the country adds to desertification and rising sea levels that affect another country, along with more lung cancer victims.
THE GUARDIAN 16 NOVEMBER 2021 - Michael Gove backer won £164m in PPE contracts after ‘VIP lane’ referral
CODE OF CONDUCT - While there are questions over the reasoning behind certain awards - and obvious conflicts of interest - the apparent corruption has little to do with climate change, but does raise questions as to the morals of yet another cabinet minister, in a trusted position, who holds great sway over decisions on the development, or not, of zero carbon technology. Our advice to ministers, is to be very careful not to take political donations from any company or person who may be awarded any contract. With perhaps a 5 years cooling down period, to avoid, as far as is possible, any impropriety.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson carried out a reshuffle of his 24 cabinet members on Wednesday (15 September 2021), removing several key ministers.
This is the second major reshuffle since Mr Johnson became leader of the Conservative party and took over as prime minister from Theresa May in July 2019. The last one took place in February 2020. But can any amount of shuffling within a party with tunnel vision, cure their toxic policies?
Some of the big moves included Liz Truss to foreign secretary, the Tories' first woman in that role; Nadhim Zahawi moved from leading the vaccine rollout to education - at the expense of Gavin Williamson; and Nadine Dorries stepped up from health minister to culture secretary.
Who's in the other posts? Below is a guide to the people that make up Mr Johnson's cabinet, with the latest new faces. The burning question is, will it make any difference to Britain's performance on the world climate stage. Or will they be feathering their nests and fiddling on their violins, while Planet A frys. Or are they the B team fossil fool geriatrics?
Following the abysmal result from COP26, all that can be said is, the cabinet need to scratch their heads a little more, stop taking second jobs - that deprives their constituents of MP thinking time, that should properly be spent on COP27 (set for Egypt), saving lives and of course; developing a sustainable economy. Ancient Egypt is a prime example of an un-sustainable civilization that developed itself out of house and home - not to be emulated. But that is where we are headed.
Apart from the rather misguided denials from China, USA, India, Russia and Australia, COP26 did give us reductions on forest felling, and at least the mention of fossil fuels in the approved text.
But, both Australia, China and India said they'd be stepping up coal use to expand their economies. Hence, Greta Thunberg was right about greenwashing and blah, blah, blah. The world has gone backwards, now these nations have told us their plans.
Accordingly, the
remaining countries assume commitments to build up efforts for reduction of
energy consumption based on unabated coal and abandonment of inefficient
fossil fuel subsidies.
THE DIRTIEST DOZEN G20 - COAL, GAS & OIL GUZZLERS - COP OUTS.
G20 abusers will say they had no choice. They needed to keep burning coal, gas and oil for their economies - just like the camp guards at the many concentration camps in WWII, they were forced into business as usual. In the case of the camp guards, they argued they were just following orders. But that is not true. We all have choices. There are clean alternatives, such as solar and wind power. There is no need to keep building coal fired electricity generating stations, and no need to drive carcinogenic petrol or diesel vehicles that contribute to between 7-8 million deaths a year from lung cancer. We have hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyzers and zero emission electric vehicles.
If
you are going to increase electricity capacity, it makes sense
to invest in renewable
energy, unless it is that the fossil
fuel giants are lubricating the works with party
donations.
If that is the case, we say that such contributions should be
transparently declared, that the public is informed as to what
is guiding policy decisions.
LINKS & REFERENCE
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/11/sleaze-tory-doesnt-speak.html https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/immoral-developers-targeting-rural-areas-and-refusing-to-build-on-brownfield-sites/ar-AAQRtxQ?ocid=msedgntp https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/michael-gove-backer-won-164m-in-ppe-contracts-after-vip-lane-referral https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/11/sleaze-tory-doesnt-speak.html
The make-up of the cabinet has also changed with all the comings and goings. There are two more women then there had been before the reshuffle, but the proportion has stayed about the same because the overall number of people attending cabinet has also increased slightly.
As for the education of those now in cabinet, about 63% of them went to private schools, down slightly when compared to Mr Johnson's previous reshuffle last year - but still a stark contrast to his predecessor's. Just 30% of Theresa May's first cabinet in 2016 attended independent schools, which was fewer than both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's original cabinets.
According to the Sutton Trust social mobility charity, every prime minister since 1937 who attended university was educated at Oxford - except for Mr Brown. At 43%, Mr Johnson's new cabinet has slightly fewer members who were educated at Oxford or Cambridge compared to his last reshuffle - but it's still more than double what is was in Tony Blair's first cabinet in 1997.
It is no fault of Bozo, that Australia, China, India, Russia and USA have refused to cease using coal in the near future (2030- 2040), but they did sign the Glasgow Climate Pact.
Those countries with geriatric policies, the fossil fools are too entrenched in carcinogenic fuels to save around two hundred and forty 240,000,000 million lives from 2030 to 2050. This figure is based on current death statistics from lung cancer and related respiratory diseases, that are likely to rise as earth's temperature increases. This does not include projected deaths from heat stroke, starvation, thirst and displacement.
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