Booker On Global Warming
I attended an interesting gathering hosted by The Freedom Association last night at the Swan Hotel in Wells with Christopher Booker as the principal speaker and guest of honour.
The talk acted as somewhat of a preview to his forthcoming book titled The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with ‘climate change’ turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? which is out soon, and laid out the case against anthropogenic Global Warming.
Having read Richard North and Christopher Booker’s The Great Deception, Scared to Death, and both the Booker column and Richard North’s EU Referendum, much of the content of the speech was pretty familiar. However, it is always appreciable, as Booker noted in his speech, to be able to meet other people of likeminded opinions in warm and friendly surroundings.
A video of the event should be available on the internet at some point in the near future. There were also amusing speeches from TFA Chairman, Roger Helmer MEP and the Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson. All in all a very enjoyable night, and a welcome opportunity to finally meet Mr Booker before he, in his own words, is ‘tucked up safely in the church yard across the way’. Hopefully such an event will not be for many years hence!
Your Comments:
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- Matthew Butler
As you know, I was at the event myself (why, I do believe I was sitting next to you), and it was indeed enjoyable to listen to and meet Christopher Booker, Roger Helmer and Sammy Wilson, all of whom spoke very well.
However, what you have failed to mention is that these events are almost completely pointless (a) because they only preach to the converted and (b) because the type of people who go to them are all geriatrics, members of what I have heard called the “Zimmerframe brigade”. With the exception of us and one couple, everyone in that room was over 50 and probably most were well over 60. While it is indeed to be hoped that it will be many years before Mr Booker himself is ‘tucked up safely in the church yard’, it is quite clear that it will not be many years at all before most of the people at that event are ten feet under.
What is the point in spreading the message that global warming is a scam to people who are only going to discuss it over a cup of tea in their old people’s homes between appointments at the clinic for their arthritis?
Perhaps putting it on YouTube will relieve this problem somewhat, but for goodness’ sake, there is no point in the Freedom Association wasting its time on this kind of event.
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It was a fund raising event for the Freedom Association, Matthew. The Freedom Association have plenty of other events for younger people such as ourselves. Look on their website and you will see that they have launched a number of youth groups across the country.
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- Matthew Butler
I have yet to hear of an event for young people organised by a Freedom Association that is near us in the Westcountry. Besides, those youth groups, as you well know, are full of useless libertarians who think we should legalise all drugs, introduce gay marriage and have abortion on demand. And furthermore, this event was advertised on Facebook and quite a few people signed up to it – but nobody turned up, apart from us. So what is your explanation for the extraordinarily skewed age demographic?
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- Westcountryman
Why don’t you organise one then Matthew?
