The Watford leg of the touring Brexit Party Rally on October 10 was an astoundingly professional, polished and exuberant occasion!

Straight-talking from aspiring politicians was so obviously appreciated by the audience. The Langley Banqueting & Conference Suite was packed.

Apparently David Dimbleby made a low-key appearance at the back and then left.

The whole event is on YouTube. Sometimes, you come across a political leader who speaks the truth - such a refreshing change. Citizens expect loyalty from their representatives, in response to their own loyalty. When a promise is broken, trust can never be recovered.

The latest example of broken trust - currently eroding childhood wonder, innocence and curiosity - is the outbreak of eco-hysteria.

Happily, Nigel Farage refuses to be convinced by cynically politicised science. He simply advises the planting of trees, perhaps mindful of the fact that CO2 is taken up by plants - while they helpfully exhale oxygen - and that horticulturalists pump CO2 into their greenhouses to boost the size of their tomatoes!

Timely support for Farage’s stance comes from the recent UN Global Climate Summit in New York, where the European Climate Declaration, spearheaded by the Amsterdam-based Climate Intelligence Foundation described the leading climate models as “unfit” and urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to pursue a climate policy based on “sound science”. 500 international scientists, engineers and professionals from 23 countries, issued the shocking statement: "There is NO climate emergency”!

The statement continues, “Current climate policies pointlessly and grievously undermine the economic system, putting lives at risk in countries denied access to affordable, reliable electrical energy.”

The signers, including experts from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South America, asked Mr Guterres to organise a meeting of scientists “on both sides of the climate debate, early in 2020”.

Rupert Darwall’s new book, Green Tyranny, is a brilliant overview of the genesis of recent ‘doom scenarios’ - from the discredited story about acid-rain to the costly scam that accompanied the endorsement of diesel. Darwall reminds us that Hitler’s special brand of totalitarianism included his planet-saving, vegetarian, anti-meat ideology and the first wind-turbines!

A fundamental war of ideas is sweeping the West and setting ‘globalisation’ against ‘globalism’. Globalisation is free and fair trade between citizens of independent, democratic nation-states.

‘Globalists’, by contrast, want a one-world-government run by unelected policy-makers and their corporate cronies; ‘globalists’ are utopians - they wish to abolish annoying borders, national jurisdictions and national democracies.

Aspiring utopians have always used ‘doom scenarios’ to control their fellow man - but inevitably they end up killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Individuals are not predictable; they disturb the carefully constructed status quo.

They invent brilliant things that politicians and their cronies, using taxpayers' money, could never ever imagine. And here’s a fascinating example straight from the government-subsidised, electric vehicle project: successful entrepreneur and inventor, James Dyson, was offered £16 million of taxpayers' money to accelerate his own, in-development, electric vehicle project.

After spending only £5 million of the subsidy, the news broke on October 10 that Dyson has given up, stating “There is no clear way of making money from this car-manufacturing venture” - an example, perhaps, of the honesty and integrity of a free-market capitalist compared with the mendacious profligacy of utopian politicians who delight in throwing good money after bad.

Meanwhile, massively government subsidised Elon Musk, of Tesla fame, is still not breaking even on an affordable EV: “While we have made great progress, our products are still too expensive for most people.”

As the great Scots economist Adam Smith noted, when individuals are free to trade and start businesses unfettered by the State, division of labour increases productivity, ensures clean air and water and stimulates the growth of civilised values. To see the opposite, look no further than former communist Russia and present day Venezuela.

Prof. Christine Wheeler McNulty

Oxhey Hall, Oxhey