My Views

Jenny regularly writes a blog, see below, and occasionally writes for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph

• Not even baby steps (3/20/2023) - In this budget the Chancellor has taken absolutely no steps on the path to a green economy. Green growth is an oxymoron. The minute you grow anything, you have to degrow in a different area.… More
• Picket lines (3/17/2023) - On Spring Budget Day, amid the cost of living crisis and climate emergency, I did a tour of nearby picket lines staffed by teachers, civil servants and journalists and was interviewed by ITV about local… More
• Brian Haw memorial (3/1/2023) - “Brian Haw (1949-2011) was one of the most visible, influential, determined and adhesive peace campaigners of our times. In June 2001, he began a peace protest at Parliament Square in Westminster, where he remained for… More
• Clean Air Bill letter to PM (2/28/2023) - On Friday Jenny went with Caroline Lucas MP and Ella’s mother, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah to 10 Downing Street to deliver a letter to the PM – urging him to take up #EllasLaw and to make clean air a human right for all.… More
• Reparatory Justice for Afrikan Enslavement (2/28/2023) - Statement from Jenny in recognition of the approach of the end of the ‘United Nations International Decade for people of African descent 2015 to 2024’ which the British Government continues to refuse to recognise.
• Lords success on right to protest (2/9/2023) - The Lords has defeated the government a total of six times during the Public Order Report Stage.
• Open Letter from the Wildlife Trusts on HS2 (2/8/2023) - I signed this open letter today: Rt Hon Mark Harper MP and Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey MP Dear Secretaries of State, An urgent call to address new evidence of ecological assessment errors by HS2 Ltd… More
• Shell’s Record Profits (2/8/2023) - On 2nd February Shell reported its highest profits in 115 years. On 7th February I asked the Government if they would increase the windfall tax on companies like Shell
• Retained EU Law Bill arrives in Lords (2/7/2023) - Some 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Cicero said, “The closer the collapse of an empire, the crazier its laws”. That is what we have here. There are families who are starving, people who are… More
• Sustainable Farming Incentive and crustacean mortality (2/2/2023) -