Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

“[There is] great cynicism now as a result of questions in popular culture and regarding credibility of IPCC data.”
- Russ Lidstone, chief executive of the advertising agency Euro RSCG, which commissioned an Ipsos Mori survey that found the proportion of adults who believe climate change is “definitely” a reality has dropped from 44% to 31%.  Overall [...]

Dear environmental campaigners,
Apparently you are feeling hard done by this morning after you were labelled as ‘extremists’ and listed alongside al-Qaeda inspired terrorists and dissident Irish republican groups by the Government.  The new guidance on extremism, produced by the Ministry of Justice, was sent to probation staff in charge of writing court reports or supervising a range [...]

…well, it was if you believe this man (pictured centre):

Meet Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aling from Sudan, head of the G-77 group of developing countries.  In response to the epic fail that was the Copenhagen climate summit, he had this to say:
“[The draft text of the summit deal] asks Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration [...]

From the Telegraph:
Cobble stones were thrown through the windows of the former stock exchange building and foreign office buildings in the city, but police made a large number of pre-emptive arrests under a controversial anti-hooligan law.  Suspected troublemakers were herded into a closed-off street, made to sit down and then tied up with plastic cuffs. [...]

Take, for example, the BBC website from Tuesday afternoon:

Sure, they’re talking about the dodgy dossier, Tiger Woods shagging porn stars, Baby P, George Michael and swine flu – but what happened to Copenhagen?  The press release on the high temperatures in the last decade squeezed into the top stories on the right hand side but [...]

THOSE WHO DESERVE SOME CREDIT:
The Guardian, Thursday: A senior civil servant has been appointed to conduct an independent review by next spring into emails hackers stole and published from the University of East Anglia’s climate research unit (CRU). The announcement that Sir Muir Russell will investigate allegations of wrongdoing on the behalf of the CRU [...]

“climate saboteurs”
- how Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, described Lord Lawson, David Davis and other politicians who have the nerve to cast doubt on the science of global warming in advance of next week’s Copenhagen climate conference.

Dear David Cameron,
One of Gordon Brown’s failings that surely cannot have escaped your attention is his inability to lead with conviction and strength.  Climategate has provided a real test of both Brown’s leadership and yours, and as far as I can see you have both performed dismally when the public were crying out for someone [...]

Meet David Holland.  He describes himself as a David taking on the Goliath that is the prevailing scientific consensus on climate change, and is now seeking prosecutions against some of Britain’s most eminent academics for allegedly holding back information in breach of disclosure laws.  He complained to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) last week after the [...]

“If you looked through any organisation’s emails from the last 10 years you’d find something that would raise a few eyebrows. Contrary to what the sceptics claim, the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, Nasa and the world’s leading atmospheric scientists are not the agents of a clandestine global movement against the truth. [...]

Dear moronic protestors,
Yet again I find myself compelled to write to you on the basis of your climate change demonstrations.  Not only has your behaviour annoyed me intensely, the excuses that you put forward to justify your actions just compound my irritation.
More than 1,000 demonstrators converged on the coal-powered Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire over the weekend under the [...]

Dear climate activists,
Goodness me.  I honestly thought that I had reached the point where I could ignore you without any difficulty.  Sadly, this morning you have discovered new and even more ridiculous ways to make idiots out of yourselves with your new week-long protest against climate change in London.
The Climate Camp is a loose affiliation [...]

“I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime”
- Richard Hammond, from BBC’s Top Gear

Dear Shaun Sawyer,
As a leading member of the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command (SO15), I would hope that you’d steer clear of baseless accusations and needless scaremongering due to the sensitivity of your work.  Boy, was I wrong about that.  SO15 has decided that far right groups could be planning a terrorist “spectacular” to stoke up [...]

“The only thing green about Peter Mandelson is the slime coursing through his veins”
- Plane Stupid campaigner Leila Deen after throwing “what looked like green soup” over the Business Secretary

“officer injured sitting in car”
- one of the 12 reported injuries to police during the Kingsnorth climate camp.  According to an FOI request, ministers’ claims that 70 officers had been injured were completely untrue and none of the 12 injuries that did occur had anything to do with the protestors.  Other recorded incidents included ”stung on finger [...]

Dear Ed Miliband,
I’m not sure that you are the best person for me to send this letter to, seeing as you have failed to establish any credibility at either the national or global level since your new government department was setup.  Nevertheless, you are supposed to be in charge of environmental policy which means that you are [...]

Dear moronic protestors,
With the credit crunch and 42-day detention stealing most of the headlines this morning, your purile antics have thankfully been pushed off the front pages.  However, I would caution against thinking that this means your behaviour is either appropriate or acceptable.  Despite the important causes that you (occasionally) stand up for, you seem [...]

Dear George Monbiot,
Sounds like you are feeling a little upset this morning, after Julie Burchill described environmentalists as “pious, sexless and contemptuous of humankind” in her new book.  Ah, bless.  You open your article in today’s Guardian by admitting that “many prominent greens are posh gits like me”, but you still don’t seem to appreciate the [...]

There’s nothing like a good old rebellion in the Labour Party.  First came the 10p tax rebels, then we had the 42-day rebels, and now we have THIS LOT.

Dear David Cameron,
I really wish you’d come to speak to me before you released some new policy initiatives on the environment yesterday.  Your commitment to green issues, even in a period of economic uncertainty, is laudable but the policies themselves look a little ropey.  Seeing as I spent almost a decade in the world of Psychology [...]

If you think that recycling is too much effort and you just can’t be bothered, that is your choice.   But don’t come running to me for sympathy when you are sent to hell – which is precisely what will happen according to the Pope.

Dear David King,
Your interview with the Guardian this morning has left me with a sense of anger that I specifically reserve for annoying environmentalists who ruin the debate over climate change time and time again.
Green activists are a serious problem and they risk damaging the whole environmental movement through their ignorance and stupidity.  I am [...]

Dear Al Gore,
Opinion of your work on climate change seems to split people into one of two camps – those who think you are a saint, and those who think you are a fraud.  I would not question the passion that you have for introducing measures that will protect the environment over the coming years [...]