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  • He said the “bat shed” was his favourite example of the problems caused. The Bechstein’s bat was “generally pretty available in most of northern Europe, western Europe”, he said. “But nevertheless, under the Wildlife Act, 1981, it’s deemed to be a protected species in the UK, this bat, even though there’s lots of them.”

    The bat is rare in the UK and deemed to be “vulnerable” in Europe, according to the IUCN conservation network’s red list.

    He sounds like a bit of a prick trying to muddy the waters in an investigation into why the project went so over-budget under his watch.













  • I think they are harming their argument by calling it “austerity” when the Budget is pumping money into hospitals and schools, starting to reverse the harm done by austerity. Yes I want them to go further but Corbyn did propose going further and lost the election. You have to be in power to enact change.

    Labour haemorrhaging votes to progressive independents and Greens in their heartlands should be a lesson to this government: you are wrong to believe that progressive voters have nowhere else to go.

    Here in Liverpool the Greens are second place to Labour in the majority of seats. I’d like them to win a few just to put Labour on notice that they can’t take vote for granted.