Diolch yn fawr.

I am, Dai. Jac is a star and merits our support. Hope support might encourage him . I’ll scribble something if the man from Tywyn says ‘Yes!’

Further away from Corruption Bay?

https://ianbone.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/how-george-monbiot-ruined-my-life/

Over the last few days I got round to revisiting accounts of what went on in the Congo in the years immediately before and after their independence in 1960. Colonialist elements at individual and corporate levels stripping out wealth as fast as they could with no regard whatsoever for the interests of the natives. I accept that the native Congolese were far more deprived than we are and were in many ways rendered unready and ill equipped to tackle the challenges of their new status which is one of the reasons for the bouts of rampant tribalism that happened in the 60’s and later.

However the parallels of exploitation and colonialist scorn for natives is with us today. “Welsh” is a scorned identity among many English much as the “blackman” was to the Belgian and other European exploiters who roamed the Congo. I wonder how Monbiot would see himself – most likely cast himself as a latter day heroic and abused Lumumba when in reality he is more akin to Tshombe or even a white merc like Bob Denard who thought that colonist rights were absolute.

I was thinking of films I’ve seem of Chernobyl and other areas that have been abandoned by human beings and have ‘rewilded’ naturally.

But what these buggers we’re discussing have in mind is some kind of big theme park, managed by them, using huge amounts of cash (much of it from the public purse), and at the expense of local communities.

It is 19th century in its colonialist arrogance, and no amount of greenwash can hide that fact.

As ever one of your tweets catches the eye – “It occurs to me that Wales would be a lot wilder (and far more natural) if all the enviroshysters, rewilders, drop-outs, organic farmers, carbon capture scammers, OPD hippies, tourists, etc, went home.”

Spot on there, mate. There was never much to bother us before all these fancy fads and fashionable theories were dumped upon us, mostly by corrupt or twisted people driven by their own “visions” with no regard for others.

Whatever Jac [Royston] decides to do in the future, I believe the archive content of this excellent blog should be available to anyone doing a future internet search. Not sure what technical problems that may provide. If you decide to hang up your hat at this point Jac, is the archive content of the blog likely to be available to educate future generations ?

https://www.repealthegra.org/