Here are my first thoughts on the Green Party manifesto – it’s a large document but fairly easy to read. What follows is a series of quotes from the manifesto (in order and with a reference to the section in which they appear) and then I make some remarks about it at the foot of…
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Election watch (7) – LibDem manifesto
Here are my first thoughts on the LibDem manifesto – or Jo Swinson’s plan. What follows is a series of quotes from the manifesto (in order and with a reference to the section in which they appear) and then I make some remarks about it at the foot of this blog post. I’m only looking…
Election watch (6) the Brexit party
There’s not much here to detain us from an environmental point of view. Scrap HS2 Invest £2.5bn in our Fishing and Coastal Communities: with a Clean-Break Brexit we recover control of a 200 mile exclusive economic zone (or the median line), creating the opportunity to regenerate our coastal communities with new investment, jobs and tourism….
Election watch (5) – Labour manifesto
Here are my first thoughts on the Labour manifesto – it’s a large document but fairly easy to read. What follows is a series of quotes from the manifesto (in order and with a reference to the section in which they appear) and then I make some remarks about it at the foot of this…
Election watch (4) – the Number 65 bus
The journey from home to Kingston Academy is not one I’ve made before, nor probably ever will again but, for the record, the bit from Wellingborough station involves the tube to Richmond and the 65 bus from outside the station to the school (2.5 hours each way on a good day). But why? Yesterday evening…
Election watch (3)
My former MP, Tom Pursglove, the Conservative candidate for Corby, has not replied to my letter of a month ago. It seems that he wants me to draw my own conclusions about him being one of just seven Conservative MPs receiving funding from a Ukrainian-born oligarch. OK, I can do that. I see the Guardian…
Press release – from the Labour Party
Labour sets out £4.5m funding boost to fight hare coursing, fox hunting and other wildlife crimes in support of ambitious animal welfare manifesto Tomorrow (Tuesday), Labour will announce additional police resources to support plans laid out in the most radical animal welfare plan anywhere in the world. The plans will double the number of police officers tasked to prosecute wildlife crimes…
Election watch (2)
Recent heather burning on Bradfield Moor, the Peak District leaves land looking like this… …which doesn’t act very well in holding water in the hills. A woodland would be much better at holding water. I wonder how we could get a woodland to grow in the Peak District? How about, stopping burning the land? The…
Election watch (1)
There are four weeks to go – and then we vote. I was very pleased two years ago when the grouse-shooting-supporting MP for High Peak, Andrew Bingham, lost his seat to Ruth George. I’m rather hoping she can hang on to it this time around. Ms George has a majority of just over 2000 and…
There’s an election on – shhhhhh!!!!!!
Although a general election is probably the most important event determining the future of wildlife conservation for the following years (a big claim but one I will stick with) you won’t hear much from wildlife conservation charities during this period. It may well take you from now until the general election to get your head…