THERE have been some interesting letters from various Greens recently.
Matt Wooton was quite right to point out that Labour candidates made ridiculous promises to reverse policy decisions made by their own county council. But he failed to point out that the Green party promised at the General Election to scrap VAT and replace it with an 'environmental' tax. This was a promise they must have known they could not keep.
The terrible environmental damage that will be inflicted on humanity by the building of a few miles of road from the M6 to Heysham has, of course, figured prominently. The fact the motor-way verges have become veritable havens of flora and fauna throughout Britain is blithely ignored.
The tired old 'global warming, and greenhouse gas bogeymen have also been raised. This is junk science by the same junk scientists who grabbed the headlines in the Sixties and Seventies with their predictions of a coming ice age.
The Ecology party (forerunner of the Greens) also predicted in the Sixties that we would 'run out of oil in 30 years'. This hasn't happened either. These people have never been right about anything.
William Hill, Lancaster.
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