Our natural environment cannot cope with the pace of change, and we cannot allow right wing populist politicians to go back on earlier commitments- inadequate as they were.
“I’m not a racist but…….” If you have ever heard yourself uttering that phrase you need to come to terms with the idea that you might actually be just that.
Our overloaded justice system can expect to see many more concerned banner-waving pensioners threatened with criminal records while war criminals remain free.
This week’s Parliamentary turmoil has seen yet another damaging u-turn by the Government - the latest in a series of benefit-related blunders that have undermined and pushed an increasingly disillusioned electorate towards the embrace of the far-right.
In my combined total of over 50 years as a County and District Councillor I’ve learned that whatever you want to achieve for those who elected you, it is always slower, more expensive and more difficult than you hoped.
This year’s VE day commemoration is particularly poignant. Not just because it is the last major anniversary when any significant number of combatants will be with us, but because so much of what their generation fought and died for seems under threat.