'Medway City Estate delays, will cause more traffic misery' say Medway Liberal Democrats
*image by Alan Wells
*image by Alan Wells
image: Alan Wells
*Image by Alan Wells
February is LGBT+ History Month and this year's theme is 'Politics In Art: The Arc Is Long', an opportunity to commemorate the many achievements of LGBT activists and artists.
A recent assessment undertaken by Climate Emergency UK of every council's climate change plan has shown serious gaps in Medway Council's own plans. Using public documents, they assessed each council against 28 questions, based on criteria set out by experts in the relevant fields. These scores were then compared to other local authorities and a percentage rank given. In our case Medway Council received an overall ranking of 71% (with 50% being the average score).
Medway Liberal Democrats are shocked but unsurprised by Council Leader Alan Jarrett's comments at January's full council meeting. He failed to mention the climate emergency in his speech, when pressed on its absence, he said 'Putting [climate change measures] in place, it's not like flipping a switch, it's going to be a long process.' This is another example of this Conservative administration not giving the climate emergency the priority it needs.