Had a dig around concerning the recent
High Court judge ruling on whether the Gore film "An Inconvenient Truth" could be shown in schools. Turns out the court case was financed (to the tune of £200,000 costs) by Lord Monckton, who wrote the manifesto for the
New Party, a delightfully Orwellian name for what appears to be a bunch of crazed right-wing zealots. Oh, and the school governor who brought the case, a Mr. Stewart Dimmock, turns out to be a member of the New Party. Not that this merited more than one line in the BBC's main coverage of the affair, which portrayed it all as "Local hero stands up to bigshot American political propagandist". It became more visible in a
Radio 4 interview with him, though.
Hilariously, Dimmock commented on the result of the case "If it was not for the case brought by myself, our young people would still be being indoctrinated with this political spin". Hilarious, that is, in light of the fact that Monckton is now behind moves to have copies of the
notorious Martin Durkin documentary, ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’, sent to 3,400 UK secondary schools “to counter Gore’s flagrant propaganda”. An initiative being funded by a right-wing American think-tank, the innocently named Science and Public Policy Institute, which is in turn funded by the usual suspects: the petrochemical industry.
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