We all want to create a better world, to protect and clean up the environment, reduce traffic congestion, support communities and nature. We want to build a better world for our children and grandchildren. But is imposing heavy restrictions on travel really the best way to go? Where might this lead, what are the wide reaching implications and what can we do about it?
HELLO EDINBURGH GUINEA PIGS
Now this may sound harsh, but the reality is that we, the people of Edinburgh, are already test subjects in traffic and travel restrictions. Edinburgh already has a city centre Low Emission Zone in place, with fines starting in 2024. You will also have noticed cycle lanes and road alterations, street furniture, pavement widening, removal of parking, planters blocking roads, one way restrictions, bus gates and other schemes cropping up all over Edinburgh. We are test subjects in a scheme implemented by Edinburgh City Council known as 20 Minute Neighbourhoods. These very same schemes are happening in cities everywhere in the world and are taking us all towards the World Economic Forum’s goal of worldwide 15 minute cities. The council tells you it’s about encouraging greener living and that it’s about having all your essential services and amenities within 20 minute walk of where you live, so you just won’t need to travel far. It sounds cosy, but it is actually leading us into a system which uses physical restrictions and technology to control and prevent people from moving freely around the city by vehicle. These measures are being presented to us as a positive step forward, but they actually have many very concerning and far reaching negative implications for our lives in the future. We don’t know how these trial schemes will be assessed and if you read published plans, they are likely just the start of further restrictions and impositions.
When did we debate this, ask for this, vote for this or or give our authority for it?
20 Minute Neighbourhoods are coming, like it or not ?
Edinburgh area will be divided up into 19 separate designated neighbourhood zones and you will be encouraged to walk, wheel and cycle up and down all the hills over Edinburgh in all weathers – but just as long as you don’t want to travel out of your zone by vehicle. Although Edinburgh Council have not been up front about this, it will ultimately have to be achieved by physically preventing you or financially penalising you if you wish to drive between zones or by the shortest route not on some designated ring road. Restrictions are already being implemented in the name of creating Low Emission Zones and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Following on from Glasgow, severe restrictions and fines are coming into place in Edinburgh for vehicle users, under the guise of reducing air pollution, when in fact air quality measurements since 2022 have demonstrated air quality across the whole of Edinburgh now to be “excellent”. In Leith and Corstorphine roads and access are already being closed off to vehicles, reducing access to shops, cafes and businesses and creating misery and longer journeys on more congested roads. Public transport meanwhile does not provide the viable alternative. If the 20 minute city restrictions go the same way as other schemes, such as in Oxford, then, if you have a need to travel through zones (e.g. Tollcross to Leith) you’ll need to register your vehicle (only one per person) and apply to get permission for an ‘approved’ reason. Even then you will have a quota of a maximum of e.g. 100 days a year. All your journeys will be tracked via cameras and you will receive automatic fines for any transgressions such as traveling directly across zones, or at certain times or for or exceeding your journey quota.
Want to pop over to see your elderly mum in her care home? Well, you can’t without permission or a big detour on the ring road. What should be a ten-minute trip to take your children to a park across town on a sunny day could be an hour each way on a crowded dual carriageway.
Wave goodbye to spontaneous visits to or from friends, or to help out someone who is ill. No more spur of the moment lifts in the rain to drop someone home. Every vehicle journey will take much longer and be more expensive (although perhaps not so much if you are wealthy enough to be able to afford to buy “credits” or a more compliant vehicle). Can you imagine the effect of this on deliveries for residents and businesses, trades people servicing their clients and also for anyone transporting heavy items or who simply needs to drive as they are not physically able to walk or cycle, especially with shopping. The list of casualties will be long and small businesses providing specialist goods and services, who rely on non local customers will likely not survive.
You don’t need to be a genius to see where this is going and it’s being implemented for Edinburgh and across the UK and actually across the globe, with virtually no input, agreement or consultation with residents or local businesses. Of course, the problem will likely get worse and allowable journey days could be cut and cut until they are zero. The fines likely to be imposed could get bigger until one day you just have to give up on owning a car, permanently restricting your mobility.
Want to Complain About This?
You may think you‘ll write to your Councillor or MSP and they will want to take up your cause, but sadly they have already signed off on this proposal and its funding on your behalf. Some local leaders may come to realise they failed to question these impositions, only believing the unchallenged narrative they are for the good of people and planet. There are suggestions of how to challenge this at the end of this article.
Where is this coming from?
Even although we have not been properly consulted, this is not a local or national idea, but part of wider plans being imposed upon us by global groups. In fact, it’s coming from the unelected global bodies of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations “Agenda 21/ 2030”. This includes the ultimate aim of moving the majority of people across the world into smart cities where digital technology, cameras, digital ID, digital currencies, facial recognition and so on will be used to monitor and control the activity of every individual, and to control our Personal Carbon Allowance. Edinburgh leaders and wider government have signed up to these initiatives and have already started implementing a technology infrastructure citywide to support it.
These unelected groups tell us we have to do this, but critically, with such drastic consequences to the way we will be able to live our lives, we should be exploring and questioning if the seemingly laudable goal of reducing our “carbon footprint”, is justified or actually beneficial to any of us, to our environment, or our planet.
How about Climate Emergency?
The world has had 20 ice ages and guess when the last one ended? Ten thousand years ago? No – we’re still in it! So, of course the climate is changing. That’s a fact that can’t be denied because the climate has always changed in cycles. The planet isn’t “on fire” and many climate disaster predictions have failed to come about. One side effect of the increase CO2 on Earth has been a 15% increase in greening, with plant life thriving. Thousands of scientists do not agree with the man made emergency climate situation/solution scenario, but you probably haven’t heard that. With a large amount of doubt and the silencing of debate and shutting down of science that doesn’t agree with this theory, it’s no wonder we don’t want to just accept having our lives shut down and liberties taken.
Attempting to achieve NetZero by 2050 will destroy our way of life and will hurt the poorest in society most. And how much all that sacrifice reduce the world’s warming? Will it keep warming below the “target” 1.5 degrees? No! using the United Nation’s OWN figures, the destruction of your children’s future will result in reducing the warming of the earth by less than 1/10th of one degree and the UK’s efforts would only make 1/200th of a degree difference. That will have no impact of any kind on whether the world warms up or cools down.
We know we are not allowed to discuss all this. It’s called climate denial. We can talk about the inconvenience of 20 Minute Neighbourhoods but we mustn’t allow open debate amongst scientist or even suggest there is no justification for such measures in the first place.
If traffic is bad then we must have proper consultations and invite a range of public led ideas for incentives for people not to drive during busy periods in the short term and better planning in the long term for solutions which really benefit the people and our environment.
If you care about any of this, then you MUST complain about it, continuously. You must also give full feedback when the trial starts. Don’t let coercion and fear become normal parts of daily life with this 20 Minute Neighbourhood plan.
Oh, and don’t be a guinea pig!
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
20 minute neighbourhoods and where they may lead is just one aspect of the future that’s being built for us by default. If you’re worried about this future, like many people, you might wonder what you can do to stop it. You might feel as though nothing you do could make a difference. The thing is, obviously, that’s wrong. If we all join in together there would be 8 billion of us and imagine what we could do then! But we have to start somewhere. Share this information with others in your community, pursue peaceful, lawful resistance to these impositions.
4 QUESTIONS TO DEMAND OF OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AND THE PRESS:
For: Police Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotsman Newspaper, Scottish Television, Office of the First Minister, Edinburgh MPs, MSPs, MEPs Edinburgh Councillors, Edinburgh City Council Planning Department Director, Director of Edinburgh Council, UK Government Scottish Minister
1. Where has this proposal come from, who is funding it, and can you show me the local public consent for this initiative, funding, action and installations?
2. What would end this proposal permanently, and if it cannot be stopped, how can that be lawful?
3. Do you stand for the people and uphold the principles of supporting basic human rights, free movement, free speech and sovereign human rights over unconsented governance?
4. How can you promote an initiative, funded and developed secretively, over many years, imposed or only presented for consultation at a near completion that impacts constitutional inalienable rights of the people you represent.
There are campaigning groups who can help you to take a stand in rejecting the future they’re making for your family.
Not Our Future provide information and you can sign their pledge. WWW.NOTOURFUTURE.ORG #NotOurFuture #SignThePledge.
The #together Declaration brings people together to stand up for our rights and against government overreach. WWW.TOGETHERDECLARATION.ORG
20Mph Implementation Accross Scotland
Are Travel Restrictions unlawful? See Union With Scotland ACT 1706
ARTICLE IIII.
Trade and Navigation and other Rights.
That all the Subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall from and after the Union have full freedom and Intercourse of Trade and Navigation to and from any port or place within the said United Kingdom and the Dominions and Plantations thereunto belonging And that there be a Communication of all other Rights Privileges and Advantages which do or may belong to the Subjects of either Kingdom except where it is otherwise expressly agreed in these Articles.
Article from Global Research on 15 minute Cities
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