Baroness Jones: Tactical voting needs to be more than a vote against the government
‘A green vote has become something that the other parties have to take notice of.’
Jenny Jones
Jenny Jones is a Green Party life peer. She was a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority and has taken up civil liberties matters into the Upper House. She can be found tweeting here.
Baroness Jones: Why we need to talk about the bigger picture of government corruption and rule breaking
‘The system of self-regulation that monitors political standards in public life has failed’
Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands
‘This isn’t just a dip caused by Boris Johnson’s lies and PartyGate, it’s an indicator of a more serious problem facing the Conservatives as they lose the support of rural communities.’
Baroness Jones: 19 government defeats on Nationality and Borders Bill
The government’s awful response to the plight of Ukrainian refugees highlights everything that is wrong with its Nationality and Borders Bill.
Baroness Jones: The impacts of government corruption on climate change
‘Between July 2019 and March last year, Ministers had 63 meetings with fossil fuel and bio-mass producers.’
Baroness Jones: The police are in thrall to a corrupt government that regards itself above the law
‘Instead of an independent criminal investigation, the police will be relying on the outcome of the report by the Cabinet Secretary to provide them with any ‘evidence’.
We desperately need to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber
‘Replacement of the Lords with an elected second chamber is an essential step towards restoring democracy in this country’.
Baroness Jones: The government has legitimised the sewage discharges that will be happening from now on
‘They had the chance to deal with the pollution of our chalk streams, rivers and sea, and refused.’
Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water
Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).
Jenny Jones: Archaeologists’ exclusion from Environment Bill must be challenged
The current prohibition of archaeology from the forthcoming Environment Bill needs to be contested, writes Jenny Jones.
