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Rishi Sunak’s government aims to enact a law – the “Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill” – that threatens our most fundamental rights. Continue reading “Rwanda Bill – sign our petition”
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Road Danger Reduction Forum: Celebrating their 30th Anniversary
Our right to strike and the Lords right to block
Green Party peer, Natalie Bennett, has tabled a series of Fatal Motions to the Statutory Instruments on Minimum Service Levels being debated at 3pm on Wednesday 6th December.
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My new Bill to win back public control of the water industry
Water Industry (Regulation and Renationalisation) Bill
A Bill to make provision about the structure, ownership and regulation of the water industry; to allow, and in specified circumstances require the Secretary of State to bring water assets into public ownership; to provide for the recovery of dividends; to provide for monitoring of water quality; to set a target for the reduction of sewage discharges; to provide for financial penalties in relation to sewage discharges and breaches of monitoring requirements; to require the Secretary of State to publish a strategy for the reduction of sewage discharges from storm overflows, including an economic impact assessment; and for connected purposes. Continue reading “My new Bill to win back public control of the water industry”
The start of a new Parliamentary session
After 13 years of Tory Britain, you can spend three years in prison for erecting a climate crisis banner while sexual predators are quietly fast-tracked for release to help with prison overcrowding.
We all know who is not facing jail time: the water company CEOs who fleeced customers for billions of pounds, filled our rivers with sewage and are now asking for our bills to go up so they can take even more of our money; the Conservative Party members who benefited from the billions handed out via the PPE fast-track scheme and numerous other scams; the Tory donors from the oil and gas industry who have had their payback through tax breaks, new licences and delays in the net-zero policy. Those are climate criminals who are costing us a fortune now and costing future taxpayers billions to clean up the mess and mitigate the damage caused by flooding, wildfires, food shortages and other climate catastrophes. Continue reading “The start of a new Parliamentary session”
HS2 Costs
Lord Berkeley asked HMG what assessment they had made of reports alleging that HS2 Ltd did not disclose accurate cost estimates for the project and the Sunday Times offered a helpful list of what that £100 billion could have been spent on, including 270,000 nurses, 1 million council homes, 200 hospitals or 10,000 schools. I asked: Have this Government looted the public purse for so long—13 years—that they do not understand how important it is to keep track of this sort of alleged corruption?
My fantasy green world
I initiated a debate to ask HMG how much of the Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Fund they have awarded in contracts to companies involved in the oil and gas industry and if they would promise not to award it to those companies and their Minister said I was living in a ‘fantasy green world’
Green Party recognised at Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards
Our Westminster representatives won two of the six Nature 2030 Political Purpose Awards: Jenny won the 2023 Pollution, Waste & Air award and Caroline Lucas MP won the Lifetime Achievement award at the inaugural Political Purpose Awards held at the House of Lords on 20th September.
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Aviation
Jenny yesterday introduced Natalie’s aviation amendment to the Levelling Up Bill: the amendment proposed a review to examine the costs and benefits of planned expansion of the UK air transport sector and was based on a report from the New Economics Foundation entitled Losing Altitude: The Economics of Air Transport in Great Britain Continue reading “Aviation”
Nutrient neutrality
The Government this week attempted to throw out our inherited EU rules on sewage and house building. It took Jenny a week to convince Labour to take the opportunity to kill these late Government amendments to the Levelling Up Bill – amendments tabled by the Government at Report Stage in the Lords can be dismissed entirely because they haven’t been scrutinised at Committee Stage – and Labour did eventually join her in voting the amendments down Continue reading “Nutrient neutrality”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 