The value of our shared natural environment becomes clearer with each passing year. Liberal Democrats will safeguard and enhance the environment.
Our natural environment is suffering. The UK is failing to meet 17 of its 20 biodiversity targets. The Government’s own regulatory body, the Office for Environmental Protection, has rebuked the Conservatives for their lack of action on tackling the nature crisis.
Nowhere is the Conservatives’ lack of care for the environment more apparent than in their failure to tackle sewage discharges. In the last three years there have been more than one million instances of sewage discharges into our rivers, lakes and coastal areas, lasting over 7.5 million hours.
Meanwhile, water company executives paid themselves £51 million in 2020 and 2021, including £30 million in bonuses, benefits and incentives.
Liberal Democrats will take strong action to tackle these problems by:
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidates Clive Jones photobombs the Prime Minister to raise awareness of the unacceptable levels of sewage dumping.
The Liberal Democrats have called for a new protected status for local rivers and marine protected areas, after shocking figures reveal that Thames Water dumped sewage 416 times in Wokingham in 2023.
Wokingham Liberal Democrats have slammed local MP Sir John Redwood for voting against a compensation scheme for swimmers who get sick from sewage.
Clive Jones, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for Wokingham, calls on Thames Water to crack down on excessive pay
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Wokingham, Clive Jones says we need more wind farms after his visit to the Thanet wind farm which lies 10km off the Kent coast.
