Keir Starmer has just announced the scrapping of a major green investment target. This is the final nail in the coffin to any credibility he may have. If he cannot be trusted to be a Leader of the Opposition at the weakest moment for the Conservative Party, and firm in the kind of promises that are necessary to allay the very worst of our inevitable war with nature, he cannot be trusted to be Prime Minister in an age where green investment is so vastly needed.
In the meantime, Rochdale, nearly my home constituency, is having a by-election. Redoubtably, the loathsome Simon Danczuk and George Galloway are running: histrionic men whose chronic lack of humility and bloviation should have banned them from organised politics long ago.
If the London by-election was a referendum on ULEZ, then let the Rochdale by-election be a referendum on the ecological catastrophe. Rochdale and its surrounding environs continue to suffer some of the worst air pollution in the UK. In the meantime, land enjoyed as common in neighbouring Bamford (just about outside of this constituency) is about to be developed into executive housing.
Environmental issues have never mattered so much to Rochdale. And, seeing as the Green Party candidate has apparently been unendorsed, please support Mark Coleman. He is a passionate, local clergyman, who has been campaigning in the sphere of environmental issues for many years. He actually cares about local people, and his decision to enter this election is not from Ego, but from a true concern for the community.
Squidditas 