The Government are so awful on the issue of climate change, on both mitigation and adaptation; they are absolutely incompetent, if the Government do only one thing, they really have to just stop oil Continue reading “Just Stop Oil”
Author: jonesjb
Parliamentary convention
The unelected House of Lords is an outdated institution and recent decisions by Labour Party Lords are pushing its constitutional role to breaking point. Continue reading “Parliamentary convention”
Illegal Immigration Bill Ping Pong
On Tuesday the Commons disagreed all the amendments from the Lords and returned the Illegal Immigration Bill in the first round of Ping Pong. There was poor attendance in the Commons, where the Government’s majority ensure their dominance, but then good attendance in the Lords for last night’s debate and votes. The debate didn’t start until 8pm when the list of Commons amendments had only just been printed and our Green Peer Natalie Bennett tried to stop this crucial debate starting so late in the day.
Geothermal Heat and Power Debate
This Government are eco-stupid. Part of their problem is an inability to see the global impact of climate change and our role in it. Part of it is the straightforward corruption of donations to the Conservative Party buying influence, North Sea oil licences and the demolition of our net-zero target. Their resistance to all things green is often disguised as innate conservatism, but it is pure hypocrisy, they love open-cast coal mines and giant fracking wells but find large windmills an ugly addition to our traditional landscape. Continue reading “Geothermal Heat and Power Debate”
Violence Against Women and Girls
The solutions to the problem within our society involve addressing the imbalances of power – including economic and social power – that can leave individuals vulnerable to domestic abuse Continue reading “Violence Against Women and Girls”
Assault on democracy
This government has launched an assault on our democracy. It is trying to discourage opposition voters reaching the ballot box with Voter ID; it is giving the police the power to ban protests that create “more than minor” disruption; and it is trying to by-pass parliamentary democracy by handing more power to Ministers. Continue reading “Assault on democracy”
My petition to defend rights and democracy
Only a few weeks ago the Government lost a vote in the Lords on the Public Order Bill to change the interpretation of “serious disruption” of other people’s day-to-day activities to mean “anything more than minor” and now the government are now trying to reinsert this change via secondary legislation which has less Parliamentary scrutiny and can’t be amended in any way. Baroness Jenny Jones has tabled a fatal motion to stop their proposal from becoming law.
Continue reading “My petition to defend rights and democracy”
Indoor Air and Health Event 10th May
Keynote speaker, Baroness Jenny Jones: How Ella’s Law would create the right to breathe clean air
Whistleblowing Framework
We must consider an office of the whistleblower, we need something very drastic as the current legislation is no protection at all Continue reading “Whistleblowing Framework”
Illegal Migration Bill Second Reading
This is a Government of divide and rule: they attack the leftie lawyers and judges who uphold the law, and they attack environmentalists for their common-sense demands of ensuring a safe, secure future for planet and people. Above all, they attack the immigrants, the foreigners, because they hope it will win them votes.
This Bill is not the solution to any problem, it is illegal, impractical, expensive, cruel and undemocratic
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 