Discussion of environmental matters was largely absent from the general election campaign. This may be for the real but unfortunate reason that the environmental doesn’t hold much sway in elections. For those of us who are strongly motivated by environmental issues we have to realise that we are a rather small minority. But accepting that…
Category: election 2017
Just for the record
And: Brighton Pavilion – Caroline Lucas wins with 52% of votes. Very pleased. Bristol East – Kerry McCarthy wins with 61% of votes. Very pleased. Calder Valley – so close! Only c650 votes in it, but Josh Fenton-Glynn comes second to Craig Whittaker. Corby – Beth Miller ran Tom Pursglove close but my MP…
And the Blackbird still sings…
Wow! I wasn’t expecting that. Were you? I spent yesterday from 10:30am until 9pm, obviously with some breaks, phoning up potential Labour voters to get the vote out. I phoned hundreds of people, and spoke to scores of them. I spoke to some confused people and I spoke to some very nice people. I…
May is in the past and Corbyn is the future
It seems as though this general election was set up to be a personality contest between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn – that isn’t what it should be, but it might be an important part of people’s decision making. May has looked anything but strong and stable whereas Corbyn has grown in stature through the…
Brexit – so that’s all very clear then?
If the general election is about Brexit then we should by now have a clear idea of what will happen to environmental protection and agricultural policy after Brexit. In particular, we should have a clear idea from the Conservative Party, although Labour (the only realistic alternative government (even though, in places other parties’ candidates may…