The new Government's so-called mini-budget on 23rd September 2022 was economically illiterate and morally deplorable.
It was a statement and policy platform issued by ideological right-wing maniacs.
It is the new economics for Brexit Britain.
It is casino economics and a naked redistribution of income from the poor and the rest of society to the very rich and wealthy.
75% of UK voters, including a staggering 71% of those who backed the Conservative Party at the last General Election, believe the Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and the Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have “lost control” of the economy.
The reaction in the financial markets and in the mainstream media has been clear.
There has been far less of a reaction to the Government's blatant, unprecedented and full-scale attack on nature leaving wildlife unprotected by tearing up some of the most fundamental laws that we have.
We face a climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. The situation is extremely serious with more than 1 in 10 species in England on the brink of extinction and the UK amongst the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
To tackle this, we urgently need a coherent plan for nature’s recovery and restoration on land and at sea.
Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting the environment and wildlife at risk.
Deregulation means removing rules and protections, often wrongly characterised as “cutting red tape”. In reality, it means polluters can get away with poisoning our rivers and countryside, ripping up the laws that protect our most important wildlife sites and habitats from damage and removing funding that supports farmers to restore wildlife across our landscapes.
The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022, introduced into the House of Commons by Business Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, on 22nd September 2022, will reform and revoke hundreds of laws that have their origins in policies from the EU.
Whatever our views are on Brexit, many of these EU laws provide vital environmental protections for our air, rivers, wildlife and food standards.
Changing these laws entails extensive procedural change with little benefit for nature and could lead to more litigation and greater costs for both developers and conservationists. If retained EU legislation is replaced with weaker alternatives, our natural environment will be left unprotected from those who prioritise profit over protecting the planet.
Rather than pursuing its destructive and immensely damaging deregulation agenda, we need the UK Government to ….
Strengthen the rules that protect our most important wildlife and habitats rather than removing them.
Increase support for nature friendly farming to secure a sustainable future for British farming and nature.
Set a legally binding target to ensure nature is in a better state by 2042.
The Guardian - Conservation groups brand mini-budget an ‘attack on nature’
The Guardian - ‘We are angry’: green groups condemn Truss plans to scrap regulations
The Guardian - UK environment laws under threat in ‘deregulatory free-for-all’
The Guardian - Government poised to scrap nature ‘Brexit bonus’ for farmers
⚠️😡Make no mistake, we are angry. This Government has today launched an attack on nature. We don’t use the words that follow lightly. We are entering uncharted territory. Please read this thread. 1/13 pic.twitter.com/NAPfIjLZKA
— RSPB England 🌍 (@RSPBEngland) September 23, 2022
#DefendNature .... Please help save and enhance our laws that protect our environment and wildlife
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