IP Bill – Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

Environmental Protections: Gove and the Lords vs the Treasury

Published on May 27, 2018May 9, 2019 by jonesjb

The Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, has gone to war with the mighty Treasury over their blocking progress on our environmental protections. There is a happy coincidence between this Cabinet bust up, the EU’s taking the government to court over its failure to act on air pollution and the Lords rejecting the government plans for a post Brexit environmental enforcement agency. It highlights why the government should scrap their current flabbyconsultation on the creation of an environmental protection agency and restart it based upon the Lords’ amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill.

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Jenny protests at the Lords acceptance of the Investigatory Powers Bill

Published on November 1, 2016November 22, 2016 by jonesjb

This is a quote from Edward Snowden that Jenny yesterday read out in the Lords as the Labour Party allowed the Government to pass the third reading of Investigatory Powers Bill:

Edward Snowden is a former NSA contractor and whistleblower

There were boos when she declared the source of the speech and she finished by saying she believed the House would regret it’s failure to stop the Bill.