Category: Other issues
High Seas Treaty
My debate on Licensed Oil and Gas Fields Emissions
Football Governance Bill Report Stage
I put an amendment to the vote in the Lords on the Football Governance Bill on the first day of Report Stage. It would have ensured that the incoming independent football regulator’s remit included considerations for environmental sustainability. This coincided with a vote on the launch of Green Football’s Great Save, the third annual Green Football campaign. Continue reading “Football Governance Bill Report Stage”
Heathrow “is an economic parasite”
Given a choice between nature and growth, Labour seems far too willing to burn and destroy whatever is necessary and that includes our climate. Continue reading “Heathrow “is an economic parasite””
UK/US Free Trade Agreement
Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill
The last Government did not set up safe, legal routes and therefore actually encouraged the small boats. They encouraged people to come by routes that were not safe. The Green Party supports this Bill. It is time to remove the barriers so that desperate children can be reunited with their families in safety Continue reading “Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill”
Global Warming
I used to worry about what a seven metre rise in water levels would do to our coastlines and major cities when the Greenland ice sheet melts, but it turns out that, well before that happens, we will be very, very cold Continue reading “Global Warming”
Immigration: Human Rights
Do this Government see that, as a massive consumer still driving climate change, we have a duty to people who are fleeing drought and floods, as well as to refugees from war zones? Continue reading “Immigration: Human Rights”
Police Officers: Recruitment
I was on the police authority when Boris Johnson took an axe to police numbers. I remember it very clearly and it damaged the Met because it took out a swathe of officers, and then other officers had to go and do backroom jobs. I remember it clearly, so I think it is a bit hypocritical of this side of the Chamber to start complaining to the Government. My question is: will all those new officers have really good training in dealing with domestic assault against, mainly, women, and in understanding that it can lead to much worse crimes? Continue reading “Police Officers: Recruitment”
Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 