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In this issue
- Welcome to the Green Group!
- Our Private Members Bills for this Parliament
- Reform of the Second Chamber
- Campaign Trail pics
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Congratulations to our new MPs, their teams and their constituents! We have now have 6 Green parliamentarians, twice as many as we had in the previous Parliament and we look forward to having more than twice the impact.
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It was disappointing that Labour didn’t include a new Clean Air Act in their manifesto, despite all the previous warm words. However, Jenny’s Clean Air Bill did receive the backing of the Lords in the last Parliament and now the Commons has a Labour majority it could be possible to make progress there if Jenny gets lucky in the Lords ballot again.
Jenny’s Bill:
- Links the solutions to the public health crisis of air pollution, with the reduction of emissions needed to deal with the climate crisis;
- Complements the government’s approach to giving local authorities and Mayors more responsibility for dealing with air pollution, by also giving them more powers to act;
- Protects people’s health by adopting the latest World Health Organisation guidelines and making their achievement a legally enforceable right.
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Consumer Products (Control of Biocides) Bill
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Natalie’s bill -Following a couple of years of work with interns supported by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, including roundtables with researchers, campaigners, regulators and industry, Natalie has put into the Private Members’ Bill ballot the “Consumer Products (Control of Biocides) Bill”. This fits within her broader area of work on “novel entities” (for short pesticides, plastics and pharmaceuticals), the levels of which the Stockholm Resilience Institute has identified as exceeding the planet’s ability to cope.
Many cosmetics products and household cleaning products contain antimicrobial and poisonous substances that are both unnecessary and actively dangerous, both as they accumulate in the environment and when in use generate antimicrobial resistance, which threatens to produce fungal and microbial diseases that we cannot control. Think of all those adverts saying “kills 99.9 of bacteria”, which would more truthfully be called “ensure resistant bacteria will proliferate”.
This Bill sets out a new starting point, that such substances should not be in products unless it can be demonstrated that they are necessary.
Consideration was given to seeking to ban particular substances, as many countries for example have banned triclosan from soaps, but this produces the “whack a mole” problem, where companies replace one harmful product with another yet to be regulated. This sets out to head in the direction charted by Exeter University geographer Jamie Lorimer for a “probiotic planet”, one supporting balanced ecosystems, including in our own microbiomes and those of other species.
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Reform of the House of Lords
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Labour also dropped its promise to replace the existing House of Lords in this Parliament and instead has two minor reforms planned:
1. To get rid of 89 hereditary peers, which we support, but this doesn’t deal with the bigger problem of Prime Minister patronage;
2. To retire those over 80, which would mean the loss of amazing peers like Alf Dubs who has done so much for refugees.
Neither of these proposals will address the Conservative Party bias in the chamber of 274 Tory peers, compared to 250 Labour, Lib Dem and Green peers combined, with the balance being held by 200 peers who are cross bench and bishops.
We welcome consultation on replacing the Lords with a “more representative” alternative and will be calling for a second chamber elected by proportional representation (PR). Jenny and Natalie have both put forward a bill to abolish the Lords from within and will continue to argue that we need a democratic second chamber with real teeth.
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Joint event with Jenny in Waterstones Dorchester
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Natalie and Jenny offer tours to Green Party groups on Tuesday afternoons when the House is sitting. If you have a group of 6 party members and would like to book a visit, please use the link below
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Please consider supporting this work, our regular donor page is here
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In hope and solidarity,
The House of Lords team
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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 