The Government may have won the vote tonight on the Labour amendment to the Public Bodies Bill, but the campaign to stop the sell off of English forests is getting stronger. The strength of the Coalition MPs’ arguments weren’t that impressive, though Caroline Spelman gave a stirling performance.
The trouble is nobody trusts them, and eveyone knows that once the forests are sold off there will be no redress. It’s one thing OfAir complaining about the price of oxygen, but the public knows that trees are a resource you can’t mess around with, and are far too valuable. We need a mixed tree economy/environment that balances NGO, state, long-term estate, and investment ownership.
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