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That was a pretty strong speech by Lord Monkton. I didn't know who he is except he is a Englishman.
Here is some of what has Wikipedia on him. Maybe he has enough influence to get some action from Washington.
I'd personally like to see all the guilty hang.
There is a lot more at the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chri...n_of_Brenchley
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
"Christopher Monckton" redirects here. For the musician and travel agent, see Christopher J. Monckton.
Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker[1]and hereditary peer. He is known for his work as a journalist, Conservative political advisor, UKIP political candidate, and for his invention of the mathematical puzzle Eternity.[2]
Early on in his public speaking career topics centred on his mathematical puzzle and conservative politics.[1] In recent years his public speaking has garnered attention due to his advocacy of climate change denial[3][4][5][6]and his views on the European Union[7] and social policy.
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Monckton of Brenchleyhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...hington-09.jpgIn Washington, D.C. (2009) Personal details Born 14 February 1952 (age 65) Political party Conservative (before 2009)
UKIP (2009-present)Spouse(s) Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen Relations Rosa Monckton (sister), Timothy, Jonathan, and Anthony (brothers) Parents Major-General Gilbert Monckton (deceased) and Marianna Letitia Bower Education MA in classics, 1974; diploma in journalism studies Alma mater Churchill College, Cambridge
University College, CardiffOccupation Politician, journalist
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Political career
Political advisor to the Conservative Party
In 1979, Monckton met Alfred Sherman, who co-founded the pro-Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) with Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph in 1974. Sherman asked Monckton to take the minutes at the CPS's study group meetings.[19] Monckton subsequently became the secretary for the centre's economic, forward strategy, health and employment study groups.[20] He wrote a paper on the privatisation of council housing by means of a rent-to-mortgages scheme that brought him to the attention of Downing Street.[19] Ferdinand Mount, the head of the Number 10 Policy Unit and a former CPS director, brought Monckton into the Policy Unit in 1982.[20] He was recruited as a domestic specialist with responsibilities for housing and parliamentary affairs,[21][22] working alongside Mount and Peter Shipley[23] on projects such as the phasing out of council housing.[21] He left the unit in 1986 to join the Today newspaper.[20][24]
Monckton has said that he served as science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during his years with the Number 10 Policy Unit, and that "it was I who—on the prime minister's behalf—kept a weather eye on the official science advisers to the government, from the chief scientific adviser downward."[25] John Gummer, who was Environment Minister under Thatcher said Monckton was "a bag carrier in Mrs Thatcher's office. And the idea that he advised her on climate change is laughable."[26] Writing in The Guardian, Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment notes that Thatcher's memoirs, The Downing Street Years, do not mention Monckton and refer to George Guise as her science advisor.[25]
Standing for Conservative Representative in House of Lords
Monckton inherited a peerage after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999,[27] which provided that "[n]o-one shall be a member of the House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage".[28][29]
Monckton stood unsuccessfully in four by-elections for vacant seats created by deaths among the 92 hereditary peers remaining in the Lords after the 1999 reforms. He first stood for a Conservative seat in a March 2007 by-election, and was among 31 of 43 candidates who received no votes.[30] He subsequently stood in the crossbench by-elections of May 2008,[31] July 2009,[32] and June 2010,[33] again receiving no votes. He was highly critical of the way the Lords was reformed, describing the procedure in the March 2007 by-election, with 43 candidates and 47 electors, as "a bizarre constitutional abortion."[34]
Spokesperson and candidate for UK Independence Party
Monckton joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 2009 and became its chief spokesperson on climate change.[35][36] At the 2010 general election he was nominated as the UKIP candidate for the Scottish constituency of Perth and North Perthshire; although a hereditary peer, he was entitled to stand for election for the House of Commons as he is not a member of the House of Lords. He subsequently withdrew in accordance with UKIP's policy of not opposing other Eurosceptic parliamentary candidates.[37] In June 2010, UKIP announced he had been appointed its deputy leader, to serve alongside David Campbell Bannerman[38] under party leader The Lord Pearson of Rannoch, who owns an estate in Scotland adjoining Monckton's.[39] He was succeeded in the role of deputy leader by Paul Nuttall in November 2010.[40]
In 2011 he stood as lead party-list candidate for UKIP in the Scottish Parliament constituency of Mid Scotland and Fife[41]but did not gain election, with the UKIP list coming seventh after scoring 1.1% of the region's vote.[42] Monckton also headed UKIP's policy unit for a while but according to the party's spokesman he had relinquished any formal role by June 2012, moving into a "semi-detached" relationship with UKIP.[39] By January 2013 he had become UKIP's president in Scotland[43] but was sacked by UKIP leader Nigel Farage in November 2013 following factional infighting.[44]
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