LAST year a Citizen’s Climate Assembly was formed. Some 50 or so members were recruited and each were paid £300 for their participation.
The group was chosen, with the help of the infamous Sortition Foundation, in such a way that almost 90 per cent had preconceived concerns about climate change.
As we approach the local elections I think it is important to know how many of these people have put themselves forward for election for posts where they are paid nothing.
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So I asked Herefordshire Council for their names and the council refused to disclose them.
So we are not allowed to know but Councillor Ellie Chowns, the leader of the Greens, who chaired the foundation proceedings, obviously knows their identity and has had the opportunity to share the Green message with them.
Is this democracy?
FRANK MYERS MBE
Ross-on-Wye
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