JEREMY CORBYN

  NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICS CLIMATE CHANGE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHOULD BE HIGH ON YOUR AGENDA

 

 

 

JEREMY CORBYN

 

 

BBC NEWS MAY 1 2019 - Jeremy Corbyn: UK must declare a climate emergency

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has opened a parliamentary debate, calling on MPs to declare a national climate emergency on climate change.

Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said this is "the first step towards taking more radical action".

Labour is also calling on the government to commit to achieving net zero emissions before 2050.

The UK is currently committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels by 2050.

The debate in Parliament comes after a series of protests by the environmental activists Extinction Rebellion.

The group described a meeting with Environment Secretary Michael Gove on Tuesday as "very disappointing" because he refused to declare a climate emergency.

Mr Gove said he "shared their high ideals" to tackle climate change but added that "we should show that we're making a difference rather than simply telling everyone how important it is to change".

The Welsh and Scottish governments have both declared a climate emergency, along with dozens of towns and cities, including Manchester and London.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Long Bailey said Labour wanted the government to establish a target for net zero emissions "well before" 2050.

She also called for "a green industrial revolution" to "harness the huge economic potential that low carbon and renewable technology will bring" such as onshore and offshore wind and tidal technology.

"This isn't just about tackling climate change it is a huge economic opportunity to rebuild Britain," she said. 

Dozens of towns and cities across the UK have already declared "a climate emergency".

There is no single definition of what that means but many local areas say they want to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Some councils have promised to introduce electric car hubs or build sustainable homes to try to achieve that goal.

It's a much more ambitious target than the UK government's, which is to reduce carbon emissions by 80% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2050.

 

 

 

 

PUTTING CLIMATE 'CENTRE STAGE' OF POLICY?

What would it mean to acknowledge a climate emergency or climate crisis? Well, it would put the climate at centre stage of government policy.

For years politicians have devised fine policies on the environment, only to see them fail as other issues jostled to the political fore.

The UK for instance is legally committed to long-term climate change targets - but it's already slipping away from its medium-term goals.

Transport and agriculture are especially culpable.

Environmentalists say it's inconceivable that any government caring about the climate thinks expanding Heathrow is compatible with cutting emissions.

In terms of how the government is run under an emergency scenario - it would have to move towards the equivalent of a war footing.

This sounds melodramatic, but it would mean that cutting greenhouse gas emissions becomes a central goal of the UK's economic policy, with all governments taking responsibility - not just the Business Department and Defra.

This, according to Professor Jim Watson from the UK Energy Research Centre, means a central role for the Treasury.

It would monitoring emissions as closely as we monitor GDP growth and employment, and ensure that all government decisions are compatible with a net zero pathway.

Declaring an emergency or a climate crisis could have psychological advantages too: If we keep repeating a phrase it tends to become reality in our minds. That would help keep the climate at the forefront of decision-making.

There are problem with the emergency definition, though.

First, is the slow relentless nature of climate change itself. Can we see climate change as an emergency in the way we accept that, say a flu pandemic is an emergency?

Then there's the timescale.

From 1939-1945, a state of emergency won the war. But that was six years of toil and sweat… not 32 years as we struggle towards our 2050 date for eliminating emissions.  By Roger Harrabin, Environment Analyst

 

 

 

 

The Labour party is a political group that has had its share of Prime Ministers in the United Kingdom, but even with that balance of the power sharing seesaw, this party has been unable to curb climate change, provide affordable housing or bring down our National Debt to sensible levels. The policies of Conservative and Labour parties - and even for a brief time a coalition with the Liberal Democrats have done nothing to alleviate the poverty trap for millions of British citizens who are effectively, financial slaves.

 

The United Kingdom has many political parties, some of which are represented in the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Below are links to the websites of the political parties that were represented in the House of Commons after the 2015 General Election:

 

CONSERVATIVE PARTY

CO-OPERATIVE PARTY

DEMOCRAT UNIONIST PARTY

GREEN PARTY

LABOUR PARTY

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

PLAID CYMRU

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY

SINN FEIN

SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC AND LABOUR PARTY

UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY

ULSTER UNIONIST PARTY

 

 

LABOUR SHADOW GOVERNMENT 2017-2018

 

 

Jeremy Corbyn

 

Jeremy Corbyn

MP 

 

Tom Watson

 

Tom Watson

MP 

 

Emily Thornberry

 

Emily Thornberry

MP 

 

John McDonnel

 

John McDonnell

MP 

 

Dianne Abbot

 

Dianne Abbott

MP 

 

Nia Griffith

 

Nia Griffith

MP 

 

Richard Burton

 

Richard Burgon

MP 

 

Keir Starmer

 

Kier Starmer

MP 

 

Barry Gardiner

 

Barry Gardiner

MP

 

Jonathan Ashworth

 

 Jon Ashworth

MP 

 

Anglela Rayner

 

Angela Rayner

MP 

 

Rebecca Long-Bailey

 

Rebecca Long-Bailey

MP 

 

Deborah Debbie Abrahams

 

Debbie Abrahams

MP 

 

Andy Andrew McDonald

 

Andy McDonald

MP 

 

Andrew Gwynne

 

Andrew Gwynne

MP

 

John Healey

 

John Healey

MP 

 

Valerie Vaz

 

Valerie Vaz

MP

 

Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon

 

(Angela) Baroness Smith Basildon

MP 

 

John Trickett

 

 John Trickett

MP

 

Lesley Laird

 

 Lesley Laird

MP

.

Christina Rees

 

Christina Rees

MP 

 

Owen Smith

 

 Owen Smith

MP 

 

Susan Sue Hayman

 

Sue Hayman

MP 

 

Kate Osamor

 

Kate Osamor

MP 

 

Ian Lavery

 

Ian Lavery

MP 

 

Dawn Butler

 

 Dawn Butler

MP 

 

Peter Dowd

 

Peter Dowd

MP 

 

Baroness Sharmu Chakrabarti

MP

(Shami) Baroness Chakrabarti

MP 

 

Nick Brown

 

Nick Brown

MP 

 

Lord Steven  Bassam of Brighton

 

 (Steven) Lord Bassam Brighton

MP

 

Babara Keeley

 

Barbara Keeley

MP 

 

Cat Smith

 

Cat Smith

MP

 

 

Kerry McCarthy

MP 

 

Mary Creagh

 

 Mary Creagh

MP

 

Thangam Debbonaire

 

Thangam Debbonaire

MP 

 

 

 

.

.

 

Harold Wilson

 

 Harold Wilson

Former Prime Minister

 

 

Lord David Blunkett

Former MP

 

Gordon Brown

 

Gordon Brown

Former Prime Minister

 

Tony Blair

 

Tony Blair

Former Prime Minister

 

 


Andrew Gwynne

Andy McDonald

Angela Rayner

Barbara Keeley

Baroness Sharmi Chakrabarti CBE

Baroness Angela Smith of Basildon

Barry Gardiner

Cat Smith

Christina Rees

Dawn Butler

Debbie Abrahams

Diane Abbott
Emily Thornberry

Ian Lavery

Jeremy Corbyn

John Healey
John McDonnell

John Trickett

Jon Ashworth
Kate Osamor

Keir Starmer KCB QC

Kerry McCarty
Lesley Laird

Lord Steven Bassam of Brighton

Mary Creagh

Nia Griffith

Nick Brown
Owen Smith

Peter Dowd

Rebecca Long-Bailey

Richard Burgon

Sue Hayman

Thangham Debbonaire
Tom Watson

Tony Blair
Valerie Vaz

 

 

We are concerned with how the make up of the above parties and (reasonably) popular policies affects the Wealden district of Sussex, because we are all brothers on two islands in the Atlantic Ocean and what we do or fail to do is likely to rebound on ourselves and our fellow man in other nations around the world. How we act today influences policies in other countries in our global community. It is not just about us and our patch even with Brexit putting the brakes on.

 

 

DISTRICT & BOROUGH COUNCILS

 

East Sussex has five District and Borough Councils, each with a border on the coast. From west to east they are: 

 

Eastbourne Borough Council

Hastings Borough Council

Lewes District Council 

Rother District Council 

Wealden District Council

 

There is also East Sussex County Council as the provider of services to the 5 East Sussex districts.

 

As near neighbours and with councils now sharing facilities and working together, these area of Sussex are included in our remit and an area where climate change and affordable housing are issues that need urgent attention. Where the coastline is a feature in every Council, Blue Growth is a food security issue, especially where this side of of our local economy is under-exploited.

  

 

LINKS

 

Conservative Party

Co-operative Party

Democratic Unionist Party

Green Party

Labour Party

Liberal Democrats

Plaid Cymru

Scottish National Party

Sinn Féin

Social Democratic and Labour Party

UK Independence Party

Ulster Unionist Party

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48117738

https://labour.org.uk/

http://www.lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/

https://www.lgbce.org.uk/

 

 

Labour Party Homepage

 

 

LABOUR PARTY MEMBERSHIP HAS RISEN SINCE THE BREXIT REFERENDUM 2016

 

 

 

AFFORDABLE | CLIMATE | DEVELOPERS | ECONOMY | FLOOD | HISTORY | HOMES

LADDER | MORALSPOVERTY | PROPERTY | SLAVERY | TAXES | SLUMS | VALUATIONS | WEALTH