Comments on: This directionless, policy-lite government is doing terrible damage to our environment

By: Philip Pearson

Philip Pearson — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:20:24 +0000

Well said. And for good measure, Theresa May put Michael Gove to lead the environment department. We just published the Greener Jobs Alliance’s take on the election and some union comments. Caroline Lucas said, “It beggars belief that this election has been almost environment-free when we face an air pollution crisis, a climate denier in the White House, the threat of an extreme Brexit and accelerating climate change.” She’s right of course. Both Labour and the Green Party manifestos presented voters with some of the most progressive and democratic environmental choices ever. Yet in reality the issue disappeared from the debate.
http://www.greenerjobsalliance.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GJA-Newsletter-9-19June17.pdf

By: Alma

Alma — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:29:47 +0000

Great article! Totally agree with you!

By: patrick newman

patrick newman — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:28:58 +0000

Jim, why dont you look in the 2017 Manifesto – there is plenty there and much the Tories wont touch. It does not take a long time to read. However I dont care much for the comments on SE airport capacity (i.e. Heathrow third runway which I think is not viable). I would like to have seen a reversal of the decimation of FIT’s for domestic panel installation. This was a very stupid decision that will cost us more in terms of power generation (in case anybody wondered I have solar panels with the 12.5p FIT i.e. before it was reduced to about a third).

By: Jim Lockie

Jim Lockie — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:18:00 +0000

Interesting article. I am a Labour Party member, for all my life. I have never heard of anyone in Labour, apart from Sadiq Khan speak about the environment, or try to actually do anything to improve things. There may have been something, a lot perhaps, buried in the multi-page manifesto. No Labour spokesperson actually mentioned or led on it.
Along side the economy (Brexit), the environment should ber absolute priority for Labour; in or out of Government. Will it be? Why not an experienced big hitter, like Milliband, up against Gove and May?
Since 2010, My local CLP, nor my multi-constituency Council Labour Group have never had a single discussion on the environment. Of course that makes me partly responsible! We need better environmental leadership from the top. Its not there at the present

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