Posted on 12/03/2019 1:17:14 PM PST by ransomnote
Councillor’s 45-minute ordeal may have gone unnoticed had it not been for Lewes schoolgirl
It is a common dilemma for any hard-bitten politician faced with a hostile crowd: how best to make a sharp exit to avoid embarrassment?
For one 63-year-old Tory councillor confronted with a less than receptive audience during a climate crisis debate the answer was to clamber over some bins and scale a fence.
Nancy Bikson was a last-minute replacement for the Conservative prospective MP Maria Caulfield, who was too “busy” to attend climate hustings for candidates in the key marginal seat of Lewes, East Sussex, at a school on Monday evening.
Explaining that she was afforded little time to prepare for the event organised by local groups, including a branch of Extinction Rebellion, Bikson said she would not be sticking around for questions after making a short speech. She attracted groans from the crowd, with one man heckling her before she even began speaking, asking: “Why don’t you go now?”
Bikson said she cared deeply about the environment and that she “did her bit” but concluded, to further groans: “It’s all about us, there is no such thing as government. Government is just people.”
Though she eventually gained polite applause, Bikson left the stage after other candidates made speeches and the event was opened to questions from the audience.
However, when she left via the fire escape she found herself outside in a dead end as the school gates wwere locked. Rather than trudging back through the packed hall to get out, she pondered her predicament for up to 45 minutes before opting to climb over the fence.
Bikson’s great escape would have stayed secret were it not for a 13-year-old girl who saw the incident at Priory school.
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POTUS was asked about climate change this morning during the Q&A with Canadian PM Trudeau. He answered it very well saying the US was taking the lead on the environment with clean water and air. When pressed about rising sea levels, he talked about countries dumping plastics into the oceans and how it floats to the US.
He has to sidestep it until he’s re-elected then he can move forward with exposing the hoax of man-caused climate change. Anyway, if the Russian astrophysicist is right, we will be in a decades long cold spell that will at least make the discussion about the causes front page and maybe even roll the foolishness back.
That astrophysicist is looking very good so far, but she’s Ukrainian rather than Russian.
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