Govt ‘seems intent on undermining future viability of farms’
There will be “a year’s work”, he says, just to remove all of the old Ash trees on his land which are now dead as a result of the disease.
The massive eastward shift in manufacturing and production from Europe to China and India is in large part incentivised by EU carbon accounting policies.
“Absolute rubbish.”
The difficulty with the Greens is that they cannot by definition tailor their policies to the concerns of the voters, because their very rationale for existing is to over-ride and repress the concerns of the voters.
“To make sure the lights don’t go out”
“I really promoted that.”
For a Green Minister, of all people, to deliver such glowing praise to China is so nauseatingly hypocritical that it makes it functionally impossible to take anything he says on almost any other matter seriously.
Friends of the Earth do not care about the efficient targeting of energy supports. In fact, they would probably rather there were no energy supports at all.
He has implemented more of his policy than any other politician of his era. And he has done it all while half the country or more sees him as a slightly harmless eejit.
Marine Conservation
Which makes me wonder – and “bear” with me here – whether it might not be time to take a second look at wolves and other predators?