They are free to impose their values on everybody else. They will pester you with their pseudo pro-environment values until you puke, and if you have some authority and, god forbid, you express an opinion remotely similar to their own, they will quote you and misquote you till doomsday.

If you sit on a board which takes a decision not to their liking, they are free to attack your integrity; they will make your name public. They will use letters to the editor to twist information like Plasticene to “prove” that the decision is wrong. They are free to call for your resignation if they so wish – with their systematic manipulation of sections of the media, nobody will raise a finger to object to their obscenities.

If you dare express an opinion not to their liking in the media, they will orchestrate letters to the editor against you. They will twist what you say beyond recognition and spice it up with derogatory adjectives. They turn nasty if they have to, if that is what it takes to shut you up.

They circulate petitions with misinformation and add a few false signatures to inflate the numbers. They play politics. They pick and choose which projects to shoot down and generally allow themselves to be used by one business interest against another.

Yes they are free to do all this … but they need not resign ….. ever ……because they are accountable to no one.