I have just watched a short BBC podcast on whether this is the first ‘climate election’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p07tc6pc/this-matters-is-this-the-climate-election The stats and facts on there are sobering and eye opening. For instance I had no idea that a place on the west coast of Wales will have to be abandoned by 2050 due to sea level rises. I also had no idea that the voting on climate issues was this split ….
Whilst I am not going to be overly party political I am frankly apalled by all the blue dots down the laft hand end (not that I have voted for them) … In 2017 before the last election the conservative manifesto stated this:
“We will continue to take a lead in global action against climate change, as the government demonstrated by ratifying the Paris Agreement…[The UK is] at the forefront of action against global climate change.”
… I really do hate lying, scheming, vote-winning-words politics!
But no matter how much I might distrust the upcoming campaigns, I will be voting. I think this is a ‘Climate Election’ and I want my voice (as much as possible in my blue-rosette area) heard. I don’t agree fully with any one party on everything. I usually want to go for the ‘best fit’ and shy away from ‘single issue voting’ …. but this time I believe there is only one issue that matters in the short term – the rest can be figured out in due time … I will be voting for the single issue of the environment – for the MP or the party that is going to consistently vote to protect the our planet, our human race, our health. I hope you do too.
EcoGreenGP Ponders... 