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End peat extraction for gardening compost by 2027 and fund the transition for UK growers
UK peatlands store around 3 billion tonnes of carbon. That is more than all the forests in Britain, France, and Germany combined. Healthy peatlands slowly accumulate carbon. Drained peatlands release it, continuously, for decades. The gove
A legal right to clean rivers, enforceable by citizens
In 2023, water companies in England discharged sewage into rivers and seas for over 3.6 million hours. The Environment Agency, which is supposed to prevent this, has had its budget cut by 60% since 2010 and now conducts fewer inspections th
Water companies that dump sewage should lose their licence, not get a fine they can afford
Thames Water discharged raw sewage into rivers for 3.6 million hours in 2023. They were fined a fraction of their revenue. The fine is not a deterrent. It is a business expense. How this should work: 1. Every water company gets a sewage d
Britain should reclaim sovereign control of its own weather. Enough is enough.
Last summer it was 34 degrees in Surrey. Thirty-four. In Surrey. I was born in 1962 and I can tell you categorically that this is not British weather. British weather is 19 degrees and overcast with the threat of a shower. British weather i
Replace GDP with a genuine progress indicator that accounts for ecological cost
GDP goes up when we cut down a forest. It goes up when we treat the respiratory diseases caused by the pollution from cutting it down. It goes up when we pay lawyers to argue about who is liable. At no point does GDP register that we have l
Pay farmers for ecological outcomes, not just for having land
The basic payment scheme that replaced EU subsidies paid farmers essentially for owning land. The more land you had, the more you got. A hedge fund that bought 10,000 acres of Lincolnshire received more public money than a hill farmer in Wa
All new wind turbines must be invisible and silent and preferably in France
We are absolutely pro-renewable energy. Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation and we take it very seriously. We have a heat pump and everything. That said, the proposal for a wind farm on the ridge above Little Snoring
The Green party's 'unrealistic' ideas are the only realistic response to reality
I hear this criticism often, usually from people who consider themselves pragmatic: the Greens have nice ideas but they are not realistic. I understand the instinct. Some Green proposals do sound ambitious. A four-day working week. Universa
Enough With The Windmills Already: Let's Get Serious About Nuclear Power
Seriously, how much more are we going to spend on these giant, bird-chopping windmills that only work half the time anyway? And the solar farms take up acres of good land. We're chucking money at tech that just isn't reliable enough to powe
Climate Change Is Real, Stop Blaming Brussels for the Heatwave
Seriously, blaming the EU for a heatwave? That’s the kind of daft, populist nonsense that’s held us back for years. This idea about reclaiming sovereign control of the weather is frankly embarrassing. It’s not 1973 anymore, it’s the era of
Make climate impact assessment mandatory for all new legislation
Every piece of legislation that passes through Parliament has a financial impact assessment. It does not, as standard, have a climate impact assessment. This is an extraordinary omission given that climate change is the single issue most li
Enough with the greenwashing, let's actually help our high streets breathe
We need a national program to subsidise the conversion of empty high street shops into community green spaces and urban gardens. This isn't just about looking pretty, it's about tackling a few real problems at once. Our town centres are dyi
Enough with the plastic tat - time to make producers pay for packaging waste!
Seriously, why are we still drowning in single-use plastic packaging when the companies making it barely lift a finger to deal with the mess? It’s like letting someone trash their own house and then expecting the neighbours to clean it up.
Sort Out Recycling Once and For All
I'm sick of putting stuff in the recycling bin and wondering if it's actually getting recycled or just ending up in some landfill in another country. It's like nobody knows what's going on and it's all a bit of a joke. I've got a mate who w
Enough is Enough with All This Green Nonsense — Bring Back Common Sense!
I’m sick to death of seeing perfectly good bits of land churned up for these endless wind farms and solar panels. You walk down the high street and half the shops are boarded up, but we’ve got millions being poured into projects that don’t
Enough with the Green Guilt-Tripping: Let's Actually Cut Red Tape for Eco-Innovation
I'm sick to death of the endless stream of climate doom and the accompanying moral lectures. It feels like every time you turn around, there's some new regulation or tax designed to make life harder, supposedly for the planet. Meanwhile, th
Packaging is a joke. Government needs to make supermarkets cut the plastic crap.
Just the other day, I was trying to unpack the weekly shop, and honestly, the amount of plastic was infuriating. My daughter, Lily, was trying to 'help' by sorting the recycling, and she just looked at the pile of trays and film and asked w
stop wasting our cash on green tokenism
what's the point of having all these fancy recycling schemes if most of it ends up in landfill anyway, I was talking to a friend who works at the local council and apparently it's a right old mess, they're just chucking it all in together a
Enough with the plastic wrap, we need a deposit scheme that actually works
I was at the supermarket yesterday, and honestly, the amount of single-use plastic packaging for even basic vegetables is absurd. It's like they actively want us to drown in it. Then I saw some sad-looking reusable containers someone had cl
Enough with the Tree-Hugging Nonsense, Let's Actually Clean Things Up
It’s baffling how much energy goes into symbolic gestures about the environment while actual pollution continues unchecked. We’re lectured about recycling the same plastic bottle for the hundredth time when massive industrial polluters get