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A positive shower!

What a prospect."I tell her that the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, recently told me that prospective Labour leaders invariably move to the left to win over the membership and then dart to the right to try to win over the country." (Simon Hattenstone, Guardian today, interviewing Rachel Reeves)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy----------------------------------------Meanwhile:-"Sir Keir Starmer said “I hate tree huggers” in an outburst that shocked his shadow cabinet, it has been claimed.The Labour leader’s furious remark followed an animated presentation from climate and net zero spokesperson Ed Miliband setting out his revolutionary energy policies.Mr Miliband is said to have told his colleagues of the hope and change his policies would bring, receiving only a lukewarm reception from Sir Keir."https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-green-climate-change-starmer-miliband-b2372012.html

David Ainsworth ● 707d1 Comments

And just take a look at how important those trees are - which includes when there are very heavy showers... of rain...https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/how-trees-fight-climate-change/#:~:text=Our%20most%20powerful%20weapon%3A%20trees,They%20do%20this%20through%20photosynthesis.Don't it always seem to go that you you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.  They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...

Philippa Bond ● 706d