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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.
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Baroness Jones: Why the Green Party poses a threat to the Tories in their rural heartlands

Jenny Jones
4 May, 2022 (2 weeks ago)

‘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.’

Refugees

Baroness Jones: 19 government defeats on Nationality and Borders Bill

Jenny Jones
12 March, 2022

The government’s awful response to the plight of Ukrainian refugees highlights everything that is wrong with its Nationality and Borders Bill.

COP26

Baroness Jones: The impacts of government corruption on climate change

Jenny Jones
21 January, 2022

‘Between July 2019 and March last year, Ministers had 63 meetings with fossil fuel and bio-mass producers.’

Boris Johnson

Baroness Jones: The police are in thrall to a corrupt government that regards itself above the law

Jenny Jones
10 December, 2021

‘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’.

House of Lords

We desperately need to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber

Jenny Jones
24 November, 2021

‘Replacement of the Lords with an elected second chamber is an essential step towards restoring democracy in this country’.

Sewage pollution

Baroness Jones: The government has legitimised the sewage discharges that will be happening from now on

Jenny Jones
9 November, 2021

‘They had the chance to deal with the pollution of our chalk streams, rivers and sea, and refused.’ 

Sewage vote

Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water

Jenny Jones
26 October, 2021

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

Jenny Jones
21 June, 2021

The current prohibition of archaeology from the forthcoming Environment Bill needs to be contested, writes Jenny Jones.

COP26

Jenny Jones: The G7 needs to work towards an international carbon tax

Jenny Jones
11 June, 2021

‘The top four oil companies alone have made more than $2 trillion in profit since 1990.’

Jenny Jones: The Tories are planning an assault on democracy. The left needs to unite

Jenny Jones
12 May, 2021

Could a defence of demcoracy become the basis for a progressive alliance?

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