Dear People of Brixworth

Do you feel that you are sufficiently “GREEN” for this era? Well, unless you are trying very hard to keep pace with the latest pronouncements of the ‘Green Party’ environmentalists, you probably aren’t green enough yet! Those self-appointed high priests of the new religion of this age are at least as intolerant and doctrinaire as any religious movements of previous centuries.

Until comparatively recently, a person was considered ‘green’ if he or she appeared to be rather naïve about something. Maybe you’ll consider me very green in pouring scorn on much that is said and done these days in an effort to prevent GLOBAL WARMING. I am no scientist, but if the catastrophic predictions of the ‘greens’ have any truth in them, surely the present puny efforts of both politicians and environmentalists will be no match for the forces that might be unleashed against us. If there is truly global warming on a world-wide scale, then it is more likely to be ‘of God’ (or of nature if you prefer) and not as a result of the activities of human-beings.

It is ironic that so much that concerns the protection of the environment these days seems to be so destructive of the beauty of our environment. Northamptonshire isn’t a spectacularly beautiful county but it does have certain special areas and the stretch of the A508 from the Boughton turn outside Northampton itself to the descent into Market Harborough is rather exceptional. Surely this area deserves to be protected from being spoilt by wind-turbines and other unnatural phenomena that greedy farmers or foreign business tycoons wish to impose on our local landscape, not least because the benefit from these machines is likely to be minimal and their subsequent removal, costly and difficult.

Some people, I’m sorry to note are shying away from the protest and claiming that it is too political. Of course it is political — the present government and the EU have made it so, but in a democracy, protests against government policy need to be loud and clear, otherwise they will be ignored. For thirteen centuries, Brixworth Church has dominated the landscape in this area reminding the residents of very different times and circumstances just who is ultimately in control of the world and its inhabitants. Those who wish to belittle this belief in word and deed will surely do so at their own peril and the peril of the society and communities they lead and influence.

Yours sincerely

A.J.Watkins