GeoffL
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The excuse of the need to go to Net Zero is going to increasingly restrict our freedoms in all sorts of ways. ( Especially motorhoming.) It is merely a means of complete social control of the masses.
Our lunatic Scottish government has just passed an act to forbid the use of any means of heating new build homes that causes any emissions. So no wood burners or coal, oil or gas boilers. There is maybe an opt out for emergency use only with lots of caveats. Totally nuts, total control. No-one voted for this.
How long before they decide not only IC engines need to be banned for their miniscule emissions, but EVs too for their build and tyre/brake emissions. Welcome to your 15minute city.....
The original of the following poem (to which I've added a verse or two and chorus and set to music) was written in protest at the (more than 5,000) "Inclosure Acts" passed by Parliament in the 17th and 18th Century. These acts gave landowners exclusive rights over previously common land, robbing grazing from the poorest elements of society, forcing them to move to the cities to seek work and corralling them into city slums. Looking at the apparent intent to steal our freedom, take away our mobility and corral us into "15 minute cities", perhaps its time has come again...
[Verse 1]
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose
[Verse 2]
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
[chorus]
Who remembers when, who remembers how
The greater crimes committed then
Became the laws that bind us now
[Verse 3]
To save the World we must not roam
We must all stay within our zone
While our masters travel farther yet
And get there in their private jet
[Verse 4]
They deny the poor man fossil fuel
And condemn him to a diet of gruel
While guzzling gas in SUVs
And feasting on delicacies
[Chorus]
[Verse 5]
The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law
[Verse 6]
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back.
[Chorus]