The 630 million UK and EU citizens of what we once fondly called Europe are taxed to the eyeballs. Why? To save the environment.

Scratch the surface of this latest tax harvesting scam to understand why environmental concerns are a hoax matching that of COVID-19 and many other money reaping dodges by the political criminal class.

He cleaned a polluted river with his own hands. Then the authorities came after him.

Paul Powlesland, a British barrister, had spent years politely asking the Environment Agency to restore a neglected and heavily polluted stretch of Alders Brook in East London.

When they didn’t act, he decided to do it himself.

Together with volunteers from the River Roding Trust, Paul spent ten days removing more than 200 bags of rubbish, silt, and debris from the waterway.

The transformation was almost immediate. Fish returned. Dragonflies reappeared. Wildlife began to come back to a place that had been choked and forgotten for years.

Instead of thanks, Paul received a letter from the Environment Agency. They were investigating him for carrying out the work without a permit, an offence that can technically carry a prison sentence of up to two years.

He had simply done what the authorities had failed to do.

The story touched millions of people because it speaks to something many of us feel: the tension between rules meant to protect nature and the human instinct to protect it when no one else will.

In a positive turn, after public attention and media coverage, the Environment Agency has now dropped its threat to prosecute Paul. Yet the bigger question remains.

Should passionate people be punished for stepping in to heal the environment when official systems move too slowly, or are permits and oversight always essential, even for acts of care?

What would you have done in Paul’s place?

And where do we draw the line between necessary regulation and the simple human desire to make things better? Send us your comments

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