I guess the only question really is whether the Prime Minister is lying to business leaders, or to the EU, or to the British public but the likely answer is that he is lying to everyone.
Category: THE POLITICS: Ministers, MPs, government policy
You probably read it here first…
The blog that appeared here on 27 December, ‘Brexit deal: ten words that spell environmental damage‘ pointed out that the non-regression (otherwise known as non-backsliding on environmental protection) clause in our cooperation deal with the EU was very carefully worded, apparently to circumscribe the extent of that non-regression. On the same day (but I think,…
Brexit deal: ten words that spell environmental damage
As you flick through the 1246 pages of ‘our’ Brexit deal you will hardly have got your eye in when you reach p179, and ‘Title XI, Article 1.1 LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR OPEN AND FAIR COMPETITION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT‘; So, already, we see that environmental protection is subsumed within the apparently bigger matters of trade….
Floods, pestilence but a Brexit deal?
When I queued with my mask on, to pick up our turkey (that’s now our Easter turkey), at 09:30 it had rained overnight but was just a bit drizzly but by the time I get home it was tipping down. The sky darkened and by mid afternoon there were floods all around us very locally…
This week I am mostly…
This week I am mostly: doing things for the World Land Trust doing things for Wild Justice wondering whether our modest plans for seeing family over Christmas will be possible, and sensible. wondering when the Brexit deal will be done – or should that be undone?
Oven-ready?
Last week, the door fell off our decades-old oven. They don’t make ovens just like ours any more so if we wanted a simple replacement then it just can’t happen. Through our large range of ancient-oven-owning local contacts we found the details of a man who fixes oven doors. He sounded amazing – one person…
Where is the England Peatland Strategy?
Just asking..
What sort of Environment Act do shooting Tories want?
Well how would I know? Well apart from Tim Bonner’s oft-mentioned dislike of the European legislation, such as the Habitats Directive (drafted by arch-lefty Stanley Johnson, remember)(see here and here) and maybe from keeping an eye on what they do… Here are three examples from two shooters, both of whom spoke in the 2016 Westminster…
Johnson flies off again
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From yesterday’s PMQs – I fail to detect the Prime Minister wanting a greener more sustainable future in these words;
What now, DEFRA?
Yesterday’s announcement by the Scottish government makes DEFRA look like it is still run by throwbacks to the Edwardian era. No DEFRA minister with responsibility for wildlife conservation has ever condemned wildlife crime in the terms that we heard from the Scottish government yesterday; not Richard Benyon, not Rory Stewart, not Therese Coffey and not…