A week today we will have the result of the 2017 general election. It’s your choice. Today I’ll be writing about individual constituencies and candidates. Over the three Hen Harrier Days to date we have seen a few politicians attend. I’d like to see them all re-elected, or in one case elected, on 8 June….
Category: THE POLITICS: Ministers, MPs, government policy
Vote for Policies – my results
It was something of a relief when I found that I had supported the Labour Party policies more than any other party’s policies when I chose them without seeing the policies labelled by party. But it comes as no surprise that Greens and LibDems scored highly too. Of course. the party policies are what they…
UKIP manifesto
I recommend that all should read the UKIP manifesto – I recommend that none should vote for them. The UKIP manifesto has a section on protecting the environment which meets, head on, the belief of many of us that Brexit will almost certainly be bad for the UK environment by saying ‘Brexit will not put…
Plaid Cymru manifesto
The Plaid Cymru manifesto for the Westminster elections has precious little about the environment in it because most environmental issues are devolved matters. Therefore, Plaid Cymru Westminster MPs play little role in debates or votes on such things. So, if a Welsh voter, you know that electing a Plaid Cymru MP will do little…
SNP manifesto
The SNP manifesto for the Westminster elections has precious little about the environment in it because most environmental issues are devolved matters. Therefore, SNP Westminster MPs play little role in debates or votes on such things. So, if a Scottish voter, you know that electing an SNP MP will do little good, and little harm,…
Try this and see who you really want to vote for
The Vote for Policies website is a very useful tool. I like it. The idea is that it shows you the policies of the major political parties in different subject areas (including ‘environment’) and without knowing which party is which you choose the ones you like most. After you have gone through this process it…
Ahem!
I’ll come back to the meat of the Greener UK hustings over the next couple of days, but I wanted to tell you about this. I’d been out in the open air of east Northants most of the morning, and then stood on Wellingborough station platform for a while before getting the train into London….
Environmental protection post-Brexit
I watched the Channel 4 programme last night and thought that Paxman was quite clever in giving Jeremy Corbyn little time to answer any question before interrupting, and yet Corbyn did answer them, and giving TM the PM lots of time, and yet she couldn’t answer them. In some ways, and probably unintentionally, he helped…
Election comment 6 – reports
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There was a bit of a fuss last week when the government, it was revealed, stopped the publication of NHS budget data – expected to be shockingly bad news – because Whitehall is in ‘electoral purdah‘. Now, as I recall, the purdah rules are really there to stop government putting out lots of good news…
Election comment 5 – leaflets
I was delivering leaflets for Beth Miller, the Labour Party Candidate for Corby over the weekend. And, by the way, I was right that Jeremy Corbyn isn’t on the leaflet, and nor is there an environmental content to it. But I was wrong that I wasn’t going to be inspired by it – having seen…