Dear Prime Minister Brown,
Firstly can I congratulate you on becoming the new British prime minister, I hope that the job is everything that you expect of it. I believe that you have come into power at a crucial time for British and International politics and I urge you to make the very best of your premiership by focussing on some crucial issues that we, the global citizens, require our governments assistance with.
Climate change has to be the one single issue that should shape every decision you make while in your position. We all already know the threat and how little time we have to address it. As you know, if we do not cut our carbon emissions quickly we will be essentially digging our own graves and the graves of many of the poorest people in our fragile earth. Britain must make a stand both domestically and internationally and we must play a leading role in securing a sustainable future for generations to come. If the world heats up by the expected maximum increase (6 degrees centigrade) we will be in the most dire situation that our species has faced and it will be too late.
Domestically we must ban flights within Britain. Provide subsidised public transdport. Raise tax on fuel and/or road tax. Our Airport and road expansion projects should be curbed. Environmentally friendly local food should be supported. Non-energy saving lightbulbs should be banned. Plastic bags should be taxed. All of these ideas will work. It is time to start a carbon rationing scheme applied to every person in our country and every business. Oil and Coal must be exchanged for modern efficient renewable energy. Your priority must be to educate every Briton about how they must cut their carbon footrprint and quickly enforce this with law. We need to act on this now.
Internationally I think it is time to stand up to the USA and tell them that they must cut their insane overuse of Carbon and push towards sustainability. They are acting far too slow. Environmental improvement should be linked to development all round the world and expertise should be lent if needs be. An international binding agreement on carbon emissions should apply to each and every single country. Poorer nations who rely on export should be helped financially so as to deal with a movement toward locally produced goods. We need a concolodated international effort to make a change. You know the statistics, Stern made it clear what the price will be if we fail to make a move soon. The future of our planet is very much in your hands.
Tony Blair left behind a rather dissapointing legacy. For all the good things he did right he did too many wrong. Please keep focussing on affordable homes, on Education and please do not privatise the National Health Service. We want a health service run not for profit but for people and we can still say we are proud of what we have. Do not take away that right from us. Furthermore I want to see a minimum wage increase on a yearly basis and a guarantee from you that immigrant workers will be afforded the same rights and wages as native ones. Too many young people in Britain earn barely enough to live on and this is unnaceptable. Please keep museums and art galleries free and if possible make more of them free.
Tony Balir did however leave a stain on Britain because of some of his terrible mistakes. Iraq was one and was a disaster. It sickens me to think that my country played a part in a war where 600 000 Iraqis have died and the country is now in a state of civil war. Guarantee the British people you will never again enter into a war for money and oil based on blatant lies. Never again dismiss the voices of millions on the streets, it would be at your own peril. A wat with Iran will not be tolerated.
When will Britain address the Issue of Israel having Nuclear Weopans- this is unacceptable. When will we see that we have no right to nuclear weopans ourselves. It is time to end our old fashioned hypocricy and join the majority of the world in the relative safety of having a nuclear free country. Let us be world leaders, rather than followers of the United States of America. We only distance ourselves from the world, especially the Muslim nations by keeping our nuclear arsenal.
The final and perhaps most immediately urgent issue that we must address is poverty and Aids in Africa. It is unacceptable that a child dies every 3 seconds from poverty- the Western world should not be able to sleep at night. I know you want to make a change. Let us firstly meet our UN Development goal of giving 0.7% of our GNP to international development. Let us stop trying to privatise the economies of Africa. Let us help African farmers financially by supplying them with the tools they require to provide for themselves, their families and their nations- that is their right.
Mr Brown there is more to do than the above and so little time. Please make your Prime Ministership one that will be remembered for all the right reasons.
Yours Sincerely
Someone who cares
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
2)http://www.stoplutonairport.org/
3)http://www.one.org/issues
4) http://www.cnduk.org/
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