After years of climate change propaganda it was no surprise to read last week about Toni Vernelli. Toni terminated her pregnancy, in the belief that she was helping to save the planet.

She is quoted as saying: “Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet.”

Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, and adds to the problem of over-population. She now thinks we humans are a virus that needs to be wiped out, though I wonder why her principled stand should have stopped at just her baby and not herself – not that I wish her to kill herself.

But is this story just a one-off media hype, or does it reveal the start of a more sinister trend? Are we now entering into a type of strict lifestyle which consists of commodity usage within our individual government carbon allowance/footprint?

It is no secret that the Government is looking at individual carbon quotas. If climate change propaganda has now reduced the creation of a life to a carbon allowance consideration, where will it stop?

Maybe it is attention-seeking, or maybe a new eco fascism is being born out of the confusion created by the relentless Government spin about climate change.

According to ICECAP, the planet has been cooling since 1998 and the latest data shows no correlation between increasing CO2 levels and increasing temperature. Sounds to me we all should keep doing what we have always done.

John Galloway

Chairman,

UK Independence Party,

North Shropshire