Another cracking annual conference has been planned by the Conservative Women’s Association for today, which is where I am heading for now.
Entitled, “Creating a Better World for Future Generations”, speakers include some of our leading Tory politicians, as well as:
Zac Goldsmith – The Ecologist
Lord Melchett – The Soil Association
Tom Burke – Rio Tinto Zinc
Sir Christopher Meyer – Former Ambassador to the US
Charlotte M. (Charlie) Ponticelli – Deputy Under Secretary, for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
Mary Blewitt (pic) – SURF (Rwanda Survivor’s Fund)
Zainab Salbi – Women for Women International
Peter Constable Maxwell – UN Representative in South Sudan
I shall particularly enjoy listening and learning from the African speakers. I have written before about Conservative women and Africa and only wish I could have joined our delegation to Rwanda earlier this year.
Mary Blewitt is an inspirational figure who survived the genocide in her country when up to 1 million people were massacred in 100 days and now feels duty bound to help her people:
Among those slaughtered were almost all my relatives: fifty members of my family. As I was out of the country when the genocide started, I escaped the massacre. Had I been in Rwanda I would certainly be a widow, or dead, by now. The only reason I can think I was spared, is so that I could live on to help others like me who survived. So when I returned to the UK after eight months working as a volunteer for the Ministry of Rehabilitation in Rwanda, working to reunite families and search for the dead, I set up the SURF. I felt a duty to help my people, a duty all the more urgent for the hundreds of survivors in the UK who had no support whatsoever.
How appalling! Looking forward to hearing about the talks
Hi WW, it was an excellent day, just home and out again, I will write up about it tomorrow.
Hi Ellee! Sounds like a cracking conference. Would be interested to hear the views of Zac Goldsmith.
It looks a worthy event; look forward to hearing more.
Look forward to hearing all about it, Ellee.
I was taken aback by the Czech leader’s claims that climate change is environmental communism. A Capitalist(?) plot to limit the growth of developing nations.
Talk about having your cake and wanting to eat it. EU environmental legislation is an attack on individual freedoms to consume & pollute.
He finishes off by saying his grandchildren will laugh at the whole plot (Gore scam) like we now laugh at the global freezing alarmists of the seventies.
Which bubble has this guy neen living in. Doesn’t he know that if we hadn’t had environmental activists since World War II we would be living in the polluted quagmire of the industrial revolution and unchecked pollution. Pollute now and get the EU to pay for the clean up bill later. Now that is Rich.
Mind you I guess if the US reserves the right to strike pre-emptively on any country that threatens ITS Oil Reserves and nuclear hegemony, maybe the Czech leader is right.
And what aqbout Gordon’s suggestion that we should maje nuclear fuel available to countries who want nuclear power, thus they need not develop their own nuclear technology. I wonder what Iran’s answer to that one will be?
Oh, and did anybody see that non-elected wanabee nonentity (king of Spain) have the audacity to tell the President of Venezuela to “shut up” – what the hell was he even doing at the table, never mind speaking.
I’d love to see the Queen (of England) tell Putin or Son of Bush to ‘shut up’ – lol!
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