Showing posts with label parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parliament. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Tony Benn Seriously Ill

Former cabinet minister and veteran left-wing campaigner Tony Benn has spent a fourth night in hospital.

The former Labour MP, 88, was admitted over the weekend and is understood to be seriously ill. A family spokesman said: "Tony Benn was taken to hospital on Saturday evening after feeling unwell. He is currently receiving treatment."

Mr Benn entered Parliament in November 1950 and served in the cabinet under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. He narrowly missed out on election as Labour deputy leader in 1981, and was instrumental in the party's 1983 general election manifesto.

Whilst his political persuasion often clashes with mine I respect and admire his frankness and honesty and recently enjoyed reading his last diaries entitled “A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine”.

I hope that Mr Benn will be able to recover.


Thursday, 10 October 2013

Call for Environment Secretary to Resign

Take a look at the obnoxious Owen Paterson posturing in parliament about the badger cull. One Labour MP called on him to resign as I am sure the majority of the voting public would welcome as well.

http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/2013-10-10/call-for-environment-sec-to-resign-over-badger-cull/

Owen Paterson is an industry puppet. This is the minister who makes nonsensical claims about the benefits of GM technology and clearly does not understand the dangers genetically modified crops pose to the ecosystem. Despite this, Owen Paterson has launched a campaign to grow GM crops in Britain.

Owen Paterson is a key member of the Conservative right along with chancellor George Osborne, education secretary Michael Gove and Ian Duncan Smith, the Work & Pensions secretary. That is some gang of four, each one of them despised by so many in Britain. The worst of these is Mr Paterson - he is against gay marriage, deeply sceptical about Europe and has yet to clarify whether or not he believes in man-made global warming. In April he fought against a Europe-wide ban on nerve-agent pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, which many scientists believe are accelerating the decline in bee populations, arguing that there was insufficient evidence. I am sure that he has a vested interest in Monsanto...

To have this man as our environment secretary is of major concern as it appears he cares nothing for the very cause he is supposed to champion and defend. He prefers to slaughter our cherished wildlife in spite of irrefutable scientific evidence that this is indefensible madness that is already costing millions of £s that could have been far better spent on a programme of inoculation.

Owen Paterson must go.