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…
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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…
The manifestos
I’ve reviewed the environmental content of the Greens, Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems on this blog. The Conservative manifesto is easily, by far, the weakest on environmental issues despite the fact that President May called this election and the party has been in government for the past seven years. I gave the Greens, Labour and…
SNP still the tartan Tories?
The SNP is in government in Scotland and claims to be the real opposition to the Conservative Party in Westminster. Why has the SNP dragged its feet over addressing raptor persecution in Scotland and why did it not take a more useful part in the debate over driven grouse shooting down south? Only the SNP…
Election comment 4 – Fineshade wood
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Local politicians have generally been very supportive of the local and national opposition to the plans to wreck Fineshade Wood by building holiday chalets on this wildlife-rich site (for previous blogs see: Dear Mr Pursglove, 6 May 2016; Fineshade Wood should be an SSSI, 15 April 2016; Fineshade Wood should be an SSSI, 28 March…