| Maverick MP urges calm and a focus on the environment for the people of NE Somerset - 4th May |
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Swine 'flu and the credit crunch are not as bad as the press would have us believe was the message from Lembit Opik MP as he gave his address last Friday to a packed church hall in Peasedown St John.
Spreading an exaggerated message of doom and gloom will depress the markets more than taking a positive approach to the situation, which will bottom out later this year, he suggested.
Lembit visits North East Somerset: Cllr Sarah Bevan, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Gail Coleshill, Lembit Opik MP (Montgomeryshire), and Cllr Nathan Hartley.
Having arrived from Saudi Arabia the day before, Mr Opik was keen to draw comparisons with the banking system there, citing Sharia Law which restricts borrowing to realistic levels, as a good example.
The people of Britain would do better to focus on outcomes, rather than the recession, according to the MP, who compared the current crisis as, 'like the human body - if you leave it alone, it will recover'.
Other goals for recovery of psychological wellbeing were the renationalisation of the railways, travel by segway bicycle, subsidies for LED lightbulbs for homes and street lighting, homeworking two days a week for all employees, grants for students rather than loans, clean coal and nuclear power and a firm belief that the humans are basically a nice species.
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