Author: jonesjb

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill Second Reading

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Privatisation of rail has given us higher fares and generated a fat profit for all the state-owned German and French rail companies, which took advantage of UK taxpayers. I congratulate Labour on bringing this to an end. But why not end the disastrous mistake of water privatisation that will cost £12.5 billion in this Parliament alone, only to pay shareholders and creditors, but which will still result in waterways full of faeces, agricultural run-off, other chemicals, drugs, paint, bleach and plastic? If water companies collapsed, we could buy them for pennies and run them ourselves. Continue reading “Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill Second Reading” →

Regulation of cycles debate

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For those suggesting a registration scheme for cyclists, I say that experience has shown that it would soon become impossible to enforce and the main impact would be to put another big barrier in the way of people who want a cheap, convenient, environmentally friendly and healthy way of getting around. If we want a culture of safe and law-abiding cyclists, making cycling easy, safe and segregated from cars is the way to do it.  Continue reading “Regulation of cycles debate” →

Environment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030

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This report is good and I thank the committee. The Green Party has been saying this sort of thing for 50 years.

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Reform of the House of Lords

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Labour’s plan to axe peers there by birth is a blunt instrument. Only a fully elected second chamber will give us true democracy, without it the House will remain undemocratic, overcrowded, dominated by silly archaic practices and unrepresentative of the British population. We need a second chamber that is representative of the regions, elected by a form of proportional representation and operating in a modern parliamentary building Continue reading “Reform of the House of Lords” →

End the Cull

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Jenny yesterday joined the The Badger Trust rally outside Parliament to call for an end to badger culling. Over 230,000 badgers have been killed since the current badger cull began in England in 2013. Badgers are killed in their thousands from Cornwall to Cumbria under misguided and fundamentally flawed attempts to control bovine Tuberculosis (bTB), an infectious respiratory disease which affects cattle. Continue reading “End the Cull” →

Jenny wins River and Seas Award

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Last night Jenny won the River and Seas Award at the Nature 2030 Political Purpose awards! The award was presented by James Wallace of River Action. The awards are designed to recognise the efforts of UK politicians who have supported and championed environmental causes over the last year, incentivizing more politicians to devote their time to protecting nature. Continue reading “Jenny wins River and Seas Award” →

Keeping Labour honest

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Jenny aims to keep Labour honest! Pushing the government to provide proper funding for their new Anti-corruption Covid Commissioner in order to expose the true extent of corruption in Britain over last 14 years and the need for democratic safeguards. She says ‘it’s very important to clean up properly, corruption has to be seen as something that will be called out AND punished’.

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