Dear Steve Reed, in just a week’s time you may be in your second day in your new job as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I hope so. As a Labour member I’ve been delivering leaflets for Lee Barron in Raunds, a small, ex-boot-and-shoe town in Northants, and in the Corby…
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Election watch (9) – the Conservative manifesto
Here are my first thoughts on the Conservative 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…
Election watch (8) – the Green Party manifesto
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…
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 (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…
#peoplesmanifestoforwildlife – MP responses
Thank you if you have already written to your MP about the Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to it yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice. Responses are still coming in from MPs – and I expect them to do so for many weeks…
MPs’ responses to your letters #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife
Thank you if you have already written to your MP about the Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to it yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice. Here are MPs from whom you have told me that you have had substantive replies (I’m sure there…
MPs’ responses on #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife
Not a great deal of MP action this week. I had a letter from my own MP (dated 23 October) in response to my email to him (8 October) saying that ‘In order to ensure that Ministers are aware of your concerns and to provide you with an official and fully informed response’ … ‘I…
Responding to the new standard letter #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife
Thank you to everyone who has written to their MP about the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to writing to your MP yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice. If you have already received a reply then your MP is quick off the…
What your MP says about the Manifesto for Wildlife
About a month ago a group of independent experts , under the leadership of Chris Packham, published a People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. Many of us have written to our MPs asking thenm for their views (not for a party politrical broadcast in favour of the current government) and those responses are slowly coming home to…