Tackling the Climate Emergency - a Personal View of our 2019 Policy Paper and its influence on the Party.

Calling out Carbon Neutral target dates is pretty Meaningless Gesture Politics. Background

The EV revolution hasn't happened yet, but why not?

With climate change now firmly on the agenda of most governments, bold activists like Gretta Thunberg increasingly shaming world leaders for their inaction on environmental matters and, over 4m people dying each year due to air quality issues around the world (World Health Organisation statistics), the driver for a greener, cleaner world and a transition from combustion engine to electric vehicles is pretty clear.

Flying a Kite

From our point of view, as Liberal Democrats, and in particular, Lib Dems of the Green variety, the 2019 General Election was less than satisfactory.

Fracking - Where are we now ?

Greening Liberal Democrat Conferences Keith Melton from GLD Challenge magazine 2019-20

The observant internal election "nerds" amongst you will perhaps recall that, although I did not quite manage to make it onto the Federal Conference Committee in the 2019 Party elections, I was actually "Last Man Standing" in the single transferable vote as the counts progressed!