Wealden District Council, which has been led since May by a coalition of LibDems and Greens mostly concerned with declaring a “Climate Emergency“, is now launching a consultation on banning bonfires. The council declares that, seeing as the planet will soon burn up in hellfire, detailed licensing requirements need to be reviewed such that all public events can be forced to be “net zero in carbon emissions“. Wealden fans of the exploits of Guy Fawkes will be ashen-faced…
If licenses for public events had an actual net zero requirement that would put a stop to all public BBQs, the famous Hadlow Down and Hellingly steam rallies, and Sussex’s traditional bonfire nights. The climate-crazy councillors are also considering “offsetting by carbon capture” as a way to force events to reach requirements, which would presumably mean that you would have to pay for carbon credits in order to have a public BBQ. Talk about pissing on bonfires…
The Greens are led by eco-loon Rachel Millward, who founded a network for “filmmakers of marginalised genders” and believes that “the colonial exploitation of the global South is the cause of climate change”. She is also the Greens’ candidate for the new parliamentary constituency of Sussex Weald. She lives in a 6-bedroom mansion and went to the private King Henry 8th school. Humble means compared to most of our eco-overlords…
