So who do we vote for when the good times are over and won’t ever come back?
Most of us don’t have party political allegiances. The shadows cast by the worst decisions of previous and current Prime Ministers tend to inform our decisions at the ballot box, and because some pretty appalling policies have been inflicted on us down the years by both Labour and the Conservatives, we spend a lot of our time at a crossroads of opinion subject to movement caused by the vagaries of the media as much as by our own experiences and anything the latest leaders do or say.
tags: Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, database state, David Cameron, elections, environment, food crisis, free market, global warming, Gordon Brown, ID cards, Labour, Liberal Democrats, politics, sustainability, Tony BlairMoney over morality may see woodland destroyed in search for oil
A shit-storm is building over permission to dig for oil in the beautiful South Downs having been granted to a petroleum company by West Sussex County Council, despite it being a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.
Northern Petroleum is set to drill an oil well in Markwells Wood, an ancient woodland in the village of Forestside, near Chichester. The drilling will destroy a hectare (2.5 acres) of woodland in an area likely to become part of the South Downs National Park. The council’s own ecologist and landscape officers object to the scheme but other, more ignorant, officials decided that the application met all legal requirements and approved it on the understanding that Northern Petroleum will replace and enhance the woodland when it has finished working on the site, which is expected to be in about three years’ time.
tags: conservation, environment, oil, South Downs, trees, vandalism, wildlife, woodland, woods
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