{"id":48584,"date":"2023-06-12T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/?p=48584"},"modified":"2023-06-19T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:36:19","slug":"wales-ruled-by-pressure-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wales-ruled-by-pressure-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales: Ruled By Pressure Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some of you may find what follows, especially the Conclusion, troubling. But I had to write it because the level of lobbying, coupled with contempt for our people, is now at unacceptable levels.<\/p>\n

And while I still see the third sector as a gravy train for otherwise unemployable Labourites, and remain convinced that senior civil servants are Westminster’s fifth column, the role of environmental pressure groups has become impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I should have said, what started out as environmental groups<\/em>, or are regarded as environmental groups<\/em>. For they have moved beyond environmentalism.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, my use of italics gives a clue as to what you’re about to read.<\/p>\n

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THE MORE THINGS FALL APART THE MORE DESPERATE THEY BECOME<\/p>\n

Those I’m discussing, have, in my lifetime, moved beyond individual species, like the whale or the panda, and identifiable environments like the Amazon rainforest, to go global. Not only that, but they now argue that to save the planet many things become necessary, most importantly, controlling human behaviour.<\/p>\n

Even human movement. The focus is now on us humans. For we<\/em> are the problem. All of us, collectively, simply by existing.<\/p>\n

To deal with ‘the people problem’, the caring souls I’m writing about have agreed to serve as foot-soldiers for an elite that sees itself as an unelected world government.<\/p>\n

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Climate hysteria bullshit. Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But I sense the campaign by the former panda cuddlers on behalf of the would-be totalitarians is not going well. Maybe I should clarify that by saying things are faltering on the global level but still progressing rather well in Wales.<\/p>\n

Globally, those things they’ve demanded we believe in look less and less credible. This results in people questioning the propaganda, and wondering what lies behind it.<\/p>\n

After 50 years of preaching climate disaster, rising sea levels, polar ice loss, and polar bear extinction, you can’t be surprised that the public gets a wee bit sceptical when things stay the same . . . <\/b>except<\/b><\/span><\/span> that the Great Barrier Reef has never been healthier, the ice sheets are expanding in both Arctic and Antarctic, and there are now more polar bears than ever.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

When the facts so obviously contradict the propaganda the propagandists are in trouble.<\/p>\n

And so I think this exposing of the lies explains what I see as a certain change of tack from the environmental lobby, coupled with an increasing desperation on the part of those pulling their strings.<\/p>\n

By a change of tack, I mean that the emphasis has shifted from the global Armageddon believed in only by the brainwashed, to more nuanced and local issues under headings like, “biodiversity<\/em>“, “habitat loss<\/em>” and “environmental degradation<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

Because in addition to there being no climate catastrophe most people have trouble thinking in global terms. But persuade them things are bad on their patch, and then say, “It’s the same all over <\/em>“, and you might still fool them.<\/p>\n

An accepted environmental tactic known as ‘Think globally, act locally’.<\/p>\n

In practice, it means we’re told there are fewer wild flowers than our parents knew. Or that land can be ‘improved’ if handed over to such-and-such a group. Or that our rivers are being destroyed. In fact, to believe George Monbiot, the Wye is now just an open sewer.<\/p>\n

I’ve dealt with these issues recently in Clear Water, Poisoned Debate<\/a><\/em> (08.11.2022) and The Alliance Against Livestock Farming<\/em><\/a> (<\/em>16.11.2022).<\/p>\n

But just as with the death cult predictions the remedy is the same – radical changes in human behaviour that require restrictions on movement and other freedoms we and our ancestors have taken for granted.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As I just suggested with one of those links, an obvious connection between puppets and puppet-masters is them putting a disproportionate amount of the blame for the world’s ills on farmers. Especially livestock farmers.<\/p>\n

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More climate hysteria bullshit. Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not that that makes any sense in the real world. But taking control of the world’s farming is a central ambition of the Globalist agenda. And it’s already happening.<\/p>\n

In the Netherlands, the government plans to implement orders from the World Economic Forum<\/a>, channelled through the European Union, to forcibly buy 3,000 farms<\/a> (the most efficient farms in the world), and EU legislation will prohibit the displaced Dutch families from farming anywhere else in the EU!<\/p>\n

And now, in Ireland, the government recently announced that the country ‘needs’ to cull some 200,000 cows to meet its Net Zero targets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All because someone decided it would be a good idea to pretend that methane is at dangerous levels, and that CO2 is a threat to the planet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is that cows belching and farting make little or no difference to methane levels, while life on Earth would be impossible without<\/em> CO2, which has been at much higher levels many times in the past.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This ’emissions’ nonsense is about control of energy and the food supply. Control these – as the Globalists want – and you control the people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

These attacks on farmers originate with those who operate behind the scenes; but they get bodies like the EU, national governments, and sub-national administrations to implement their instructions.<\/p>\n

With ‘environmental’ organisations doing the close up and dirty work.<\/p>\n

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With more and more people becoming aware of the WEF, and how it operates through local political establishments, there is something of a panic in Davos to promote The Agenda before too many politicians get elected on anti-WEF platforms.<\/p>\n

Which also explains why the growing rejection of the Globalist agenda is described in the mainstream media – now funded and controlled by major WEF backers – as “right wing<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

For those of us who oppose climate hysteria, the butchering of confused teenagers, open borders, and the other elements of The Agenda must be described this way to smear us and deter others from listening.<\/p>\n

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HOW DOES THIS SYSTEM OPERATE IN WALES?<\/p>\n

Let’s kick off with a subject causing a great deal of debate, and anger, across Wales right now – 20mph speed limits.<\/p>\n

It was obvious all the way through that this measure was being pushed onto our self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ by agencies originally external to Wales. Principally, an outfit called 20’s Plenty for Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A good source drew my attention to this report on the BBC Wales News website. <\/a>Where we can read:<\/p>\n

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Fiona Andrews, member of the “20’s Plenty” campaign group, told\u00a0BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> the speed limit was “more human, friendlier” and better for the environment.<\/p>\n

Ms Andrews, who lives in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, which has been trialling the speed limit for two years, said it had made a big difference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It should go without saying that Fiona Andrews is not native to Llandudoch. My source suggests that she and her partner, Piers Graham Partridge, moved from Bristol in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Andrews also appears in this report from July 2021<\/a>. The image of Andrews used is even credited to her partner. So she’s not new to the game of influencing politicians to push the Globalist agenda. Or, it would seem, to using the media.<\/p>\n

In addition to being a photographer, Partridge is a businessman, with an old family firm called Cardigan Mercantile Company Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And when he’s not photographing his wife, or running his business, it seems he likes to hang out with thigh-slapping, latte-sipping, Anglo-Saxon volk; and someone wrapped in a gaudy flag. (Partridge is in the blue shirt.)<\/p>\n

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They also dance. Calling themselves the Traditional Turf Dancers of Santa Dogmales<\/a>. Is this their idea of Welsh culture? Or are they just taking the piss?<\/p>\n

North Pembrokeshire and south Ceredigion must be delighted with this cultural enrichment. Not to mention, being told what they’ve been doing wrong all these centuries.<\/p>\n

But Llandudoch is doubly blessed. Not only to have Andrews and Partridge come to enlighten them but, as I mentioned in Clear Water, Poisoned Debate<\/a><\/em>, Jessica McQuade is another recent arrival.<\/p>\n

Her Linkedin page<\/a> (pdf version<\/a>) reveals that her career path has been: ‘Welsh Government’, WCVA<\/a>, WWF Cymru, WWF UK (even though she’s based in Wales).<\/p>\n

Since January this year, McQuade has been WWF UK’s Wholescape Programme Manager, with a focus on food. (And we are not talking here of bamboo shoots for pandas.)<\/p>\n

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She also busies herself with the Save the Teifi campaign<\/a>. Any problems with the Teifi will be mainly blamed on farmers.<\/p>\n

I say that because when I researched last November’s pieces the suspicion grew that an understanding had been reached between the ‘Welsh Government’, D\u0175r Cymru \/ Welsh Water, and the environmental \/ water groups that resulted in public money passing to the savers of the planet in return for them giving the water company an easy ride and concentrating their attacks on livestock farmers.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

An arrangement that served a number of agendas.<\/p>\n

Which might explain how, in defiance of common sense, English water companies seemed to be in the news almost every day for polluting rivers and seas while our own water company was, apparently, above reproach.<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve learnt of other organisations operating behind the scenes. So hold your nose and we’ll dive a little deeper into the swamp that is government and public life in Wales.<\/p>\n

And we’re going to focus on another group making the headlines at the moment, Extinction Rebellion (XR). I introduce this lot because another source found info telling us that the ‘Welsh Government’ has been in cahoots with XR, since at least May 2019. As this FoI response makes clear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The May 2019 notation refers to:<\/p>\n

Correspondence between the Minister for Rural Affairs,
\nNorth Wales & Trefnydd (MinRANWT) and Extinction Rebellion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At that time, the minister was Lesley Griffiths, but I doubt if many of you reading this had even heard of Extinction Rebellion four years ago. I certainly hadn’t.<\/p>\n

Griffiths is a long-standing enemy of farmers. So was it XR that advised her (and Gary) to introduce the insane and punitive all-Wales NVZ legislation<\/a> designed to put farmers out of business?<\/p>\n

It might get a bit messy now, because I was sent a load of stuff in the form of (often incomplete and undated) screenshots. Even so, what I have is fascinating, and damning.<\/p>\n

For not only does it tell us that the ‘Welsh Government’ is sitting down for tea and Hobnobs with extremist groups to discuss how Wales should be run, those groups are even dictating to the ‘Welsh Government’ what its priorities should be.<\/p>\n

The first complete minutes I have are for a meeting in January 2021. (Available here in pdf format<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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These minutes pose many questions. Not least, why was a representative of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) at a meeting discussing internal Welsh matters?<\/p>\n

What next – will the Orange Order be invited?<\/p>\n

The ‘JO’ referred to is almost certainly James Owen, the former ‘Welsh Government’ Deputy Director, Land Management<\/p>\n

While ‘SL’ is, I suspect, Sue Lewis, of Wrecsam. When she’s not laying down the law to the ‘Welsh Government’, she’s telling local authorities what to do.<\/p>\n

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From that report it’s clear that Extinction Rebellion and Friends of the Earth are working together, but how close are they?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I now want to focus on Extinction Rebellion’s Political Engagement Team. The purpose of this little gang is quite simple – to get politicians and governments to do its bidding.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example.<\/p>\n

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And in Wales, that’s easy.<\/p>\n

Now, unfortunately, I don’t have a date for the XR correspondence below, but the ‘FM’ referred to is not another gang of environmental shriekers but our very own First Minister, Mark Drakeford, of high renown.<\/p>\n

The highlighting is mine.<\/p>\n

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In addition to what I’ve highlighted, I’m intrigued by the final paragraph. Would there be some way other than legislation for, “mandating fossil fuel divestment from public sector investments<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

This, remember, is our<\/em> money, much of it paid in council tax; but Extinction Rebellion wants to dictate how that money is invested. Are we ever consulted?<\/p>\n

The issue crops up again in this screenshot involving Llyr Gruffydd, Plaid Cymru regional member for north Wales, and interim leader.<\/p>\n

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I could go on, but I’ll just introduce one more ‘campaigner’ who has come to live among us. This is Paula Renzel, who describes herself as “German-French<\/em>” but now resides in Llanberis in Eryri.<\/p>\n

Paula has quite an interesting background. Here’s her Linkedin page<\/a>. (Here in pdf<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

She arrived in Cardiff in April 2018 to work for The Ramblers<\/a>. Interestingly, someone who has always been involved with The Ramblers is former minister, Jane Davidson<\/a>, mother of the OPD, and driving force behind the Future Generations legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, in October 2020, Paula Renzel joined Sustrans<\/a>. Another pressure group with a ministerial connection. This one still in government. I’m talking now of Lee Waters, who represents Llanelli (from his home in Penarth) and is Deputy Minister for Climate Change. As his official bio tells us<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He previously ran the sustainable transport charity Sustrans Cymru where he led the campaign for the Active Travel Act<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So many connections!<\/p>\n

Since February 2022 Paula Renzel has worked for the Transport Action Network. She is almost certainly the “new Welsh worker<\/em>” mentioned in the May 2022 clip (above) from XR’s Political Engagement Team.<\/p>\n

Below is her entry on the TAN website<\/a>. You’ll see that among her battle honours she lists closing Cardiff’s Castle Street to private vehicles.<\/p>\n

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In fact Sustrans gets involved in all sorts of things. This publication from the ‘Welsh Government almost a year ago is titled: ‘Evolving approach to gender budgeting in Wales<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Not only does the WEF get a mention, but also Sustrans.<\/p>\n

Active travel is a key part of the Welsh Government\u2019s vision for the Welsh transport network. A gender budgeting pilot is specifically focused on the Wales E-Move programme, which operates low-cost community-based e-bike hire and loan schemes in five areas in Wales \u2013 most with high levels of deprivation. The Welsh Government is working alongside Sustrans Cymru, who are delivering the scheme, to better understand how a gender budgeting approach could add value and inform future delivery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the ‘Welsh Government’ is working with Sustrans to provide electric bikes, for women living in deprived areas, and this somehow links with ‘gender budgeting’? Is that what this convoluted bullshit is trying to say?<\/p>\n

Who writes this stuff?<\/p>\n

And will these bikes have crossbars?<\/p>\n

I ask because ‘Welsh Government’ takes orders on matters sexual from Stonewall. Which means that if you want a good, long laugh, just ask a Welsh Labour politician to give you a definition of a woman.<\/p>\n

As I said earlier, I could go on, but it gets depressing after a while. So I’ll just skip to my concluding thoughts.<\/p>\n

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CONCLUSION<\/p>\n

After reading what I’ve written here it should be obvious to anyone where the idea for 20mph speed limits now being imposed on Welsh communities originated.<\/p>\n

We can also see who was behind Lee Waters’ announcement in February<\/a> that there would be no new roads in Wales.<\/p>\n

In fact, they boast about these ‘victories’ . . . over us.<\/p>\n

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But that’s the norm in Corruption Bay. If Stonewall can dictate Welsh education policy why be surprised that followers of the global death cult are allowed to decide on 20mph speed limits, and no bypass for Llanbedr?<\/p>\n

No doubt those I’ve written about argue they’re saving a planet facing an existential crisis. Which is absolute nonsense <\/b>because<\/b><\/span><\/span> there is no looming climate disaster. What they’re really doing is forcing on Wales the Globalists’ de-growth, anti-people, restrict and control agenda.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

But what does it say about Welsh democracy? We elect politicians to serve the best interests of our communities and our country, but then they are taken over by pressure groups and told to implement the agendas of those groups.<\/p>\n

To all intents and purposes the ‘Welsh Government’ is serving Extinction Rebellion, Sustrans, Greenpeace, 20’s Plenty for us and the other pressure groups. But not us.<\/p>\n

What’s worse, the word is obviously out that Wales is the place to come to get your agenda implemented. Just look at the activists who’ve moved here in recent years.<\/p>\n

Are they here on secondment? Have their moving costs been paid?<\/p>\n

Whatever the answer, we have people who know bugger all about Wales framing legislation for Wales. But Wales doesn’t matter to them. Our country is just an easy place for them to implement their agendas. Thanks to ‘our’ politicians.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And because the pressure groups are now in control, things can only get worse.<\/p>\n

Whatever you want to call this system, it’s not democracy.<\/p>\n

And it’s not a form of devolution worth keeping.<\/p>\n

\u2666 end \u2666<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Royston Jones 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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