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diligent investigation socc 12 headed calling members in attendance to speak report there is no separate section for calling members on line to speak except as indicated in section 12 2 so what does section 12 2 say chairs shall also seek to ensure that the range of speakers called is broadly representative of conference if we therefore follow the logic of soc interpretation of socc s own standing order 12 2 the chairs of plenary sessions at the 2025 autumn conference exercised their right to exclude all online participants from speaking because there is no separate section for calling members on line to speak catch 22 whilst i appreciate soc s dilemma in their response to my request for a ruling in this instance as to the legality of decision made in bournemouth as per the party s constitution the standing orders of the conference committee has no such excuse it must immediately amend its own sos so that all on line participants enjoy exactly the same rights as those attending in person at all times this is all the more urgent as this spring 2026 conferences is entirely on line our conference model is broken peter allen i thought it was broken long before the recent welcome huge influx of members which has served to accentuate its brokenness the pre conference process is fine in principle but in reality involves considerable effort on the part of proposers with little prospect of their motion receiving sufficient priority to be discussed unless endorsed by the relevant self appointed policy working group or groups and the all powerful policy committee thereby becoming a c motion not all motions can find a relevant pwg many call for party wide action at conference itself decisions are taken by those with the time and energy to turn up either in person or on line i think less than 1 of the membership attended the bournemouth conference with only the former having the opportunity to speak the only motion which went to a card vote in bournemouth mine was at the very end of conference and it s legitimacy was undermined by delegates also self appointed either having left conference to catch trains etc or mislaying cardboard voting slips that they had been issued with up to two and a half days previously and therefore being unable to vote the legitimacy of the vote was further undermined by the entry of proxy votes into the equation in the final card vote twenty organisational motions and 49 policy motions have made the final agenda for this year s truncated on line spring conference five of the later have been endorsed as c motions and presumably time will be found to discuss all of these four of the five have been submitted by policy working groups a maximum of three or four c and d motions are likely to be discussed although a few more uncontentious ones may be fast tracked in addition seven late motions have made the agenda seventeen others having been ruled out of order not having sufficient co proposers or soc having determined that they don t meet the criteria for being considered unavoidably late only one of these is scheduled to be debated space is also to be allowed for an emergency motion how we make policy is something that all parts of the party should discuss in the weeks and months ahead if we are to continue to claim that in contrast to other parties our policy is made by our members the current model created when the party had a few thousand members is no longer fit for purpose if it ever was my own view is that we should make far more of the modern technology that we have available this might involve all member ballots for motions which are not overwhelmingly supported less than 75 or not overwhelmingly defeated less than 25 at conference such ballots need not be taken in real time but over say a three month time period perhaps allowing several weeks for further debate and even the acceptance of friendly amendments which clarify meaning and or mprove wording ballot results could be announced and formally endorsed at the following conference most policy doesn t need to be made in a hurry and there would be no need for proxy votes a late motion that i supported on how we should respond to the crisis in local government funding has been ruled out of order it should be tabled early in advance of autumn conference to arm newly elected green administrations in advance of 2027 council budgets setting an emergency motion from the party leadership and mps calling for an immediate and genuine end to the wars on palestine iran and ukraine at a time when the world should be coming together to address the climate and ecological emergency would be one i would like to see in front of conference the government has recognised the climate and nature emergency now it must act peter allen when zack polanski was interviewed by the guardian about defence policy on january 20th he confirmed that the first responsibility of any government was to keep its people safe he noted that a government defence review last year concluded that the single biggest national security threat is actually the climate crisis his timing as so often was perfect given that on the same day that same government published a national security assessment titled global biodiversity loss ecosystem collapse and national security https assets publishing service gov uk media 696e0eae719d837d69afc7de national_security_assessment_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security pdf although the report hasn t been given much publicity and didn t tell the full story see here https youtu be 59dzipdsoc8 si gd5wrbfjd36rxozm the message is both important and alarming drawing on substantial recent scientific research it warns that the climate and nature crisis poses a big threat to our national security nature is a foundation of national security biodiversity loss is putting at risk the ecosystem services on which human societies depend including water food clean air and critical resources the impacts will range from crop failures intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks to conflict within and between states political instability and erosion of global economic prosperity increasingly scarce natural resources will become the focus of greater competition between state and non state actors exacerbating existing conflicts starting new ones and threatening global security and prosperity a stark warning is given that if current rates of biodiversity loss continue every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse some as soon as 2030 crucially it will become ever more challenging to produce sufficient food sustainably unless the necessary action is taken to reduce the current rates of biodiversity loss every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse whilst recognising the global nature of the challenge the report accepts the responsibility of national governments to take their own actions eg forest protection and restoration it also holds on to the commitment to limiting global warming to 1 5 degrees centigrade a forlorn hope but supposedly a sign of good intentions according to the bbc the report which it says was put together by the joint intelligence committee should have been published in october but was delayed due to fears that it could be considered too negative perhaps it didn t want publication before the recent cop in brazil at which it failed to provide financial support for the host country s tropical forests forever facility set up to prevent the destruction of the amazon rain forest despite a promise by ed miliband that they would the amazon rain forest is one of six regions across the globe which the report identifies as being critical for uk national security given the likelihood and impact of their collapse achieving circularity using a natural model lou stothard it s generally agreed at least on the green left that capitalist growth economic systems prove by their very existence t o be self defeating that you cannot have infinite growth n a finite planet and that genuine only forms of sustainability in the way human activity is carried on will increasingly be required for our planet to support its systems its species and its integrity it s a case not so much of whether or not there is a planet b but rather of why anyone should expect to find one with this in mind i believe that as a species we have no greater claim to our existence than do any other parts of the natural world such as our climatic and oceanic systems and the evolved species which make life possible all of them both uniquely and collectively require each other inasmuch as they naturally evolve not by manipulation but by their own regulation respecting that i believe that our own social and economic lives need circularity economic modus operandi vivendi based on natural systems recognising that the manipulations of the world in which we live are so profound that it will be hard though not quite impossible to put the genie back in the bottle such notional world systems will need to be achieved by universal step changes and the confidence and well being they generate it has always been my belief therefore that we need an international unified and muscular response to the deep devastation that is being wreaked on our planet largely by the military industrial complex by its warmongering and imperial adventures by corporate theft by the exhaustion and extraction of our natural resources and by an abandonment of the values significantly in the western hemisphere that serve our selves instead of the planet so rapid is its progress circularity must be our rebuttal to all of these nothing less will do to achieve this sufficiency in a world whose species and natural resources are protected and fairly distributed amongst human populations without deprivation or destruction to the r est of the planet we will need internationally binding legislation an environmental protection treaty under which nations can disadvantage or debar those who appropriate buy sell manufacture or handle resources goods and services which degrade the environment all economic activity under this treaty should be regulated and achieved by circularity and no advantage should be sought by any nation or body over another instead resources could and should be equitably traded and distributed across the world b y mutual exchange those countries who refuse to sign up to the treaty would be excluded from its benefits by default or expected to pay a penalty to an international uned fund which protects signatories under the same clauses with equal force protecting and remediating the damage they have caused to the environment such damage must not be tradeable against benefits in the way that biodiversity net gain is since this trading system allows what need not be degraded in the first place individual countries should exercise within legal parameters and within the spirit of the treaty the same powers to detain tax and otherwise place penalties on offenders by virtue of this uned treaty which has been formulated under the polluter pays principle enshrined by the aarhus convention so for example a government would tax or ban environmental degradation or fine offenders the ban on planned obsolescence being legislated by france is an example the currency or resource recouped would by force of the uned be returned to the public purse and reinvested in restoration sustainable only development such as fully funded and comprehensive public transport and an agrarian economy apprenticeships in farming and stewarding our countryside reforestation especially of our native broadleaf species and in small social manufacturing incentives for small and medium sized farming businesses providers of renewable only energy and localised circular economic activity the provisions of an environmental protection treaty should ensure the absolute protection of trees and other vegetation of water bodies of the atmosphere for example so it must be used to stop the production and use of plastic and chemical agents at both e nds of the cycle of production and consumption there is no such thing as disposal where s uch products are concerned the same is true of nuclear fuels and arms circularity can and must be employed to recycle restore and protect resources so for example housing accommodation needs can and must all be met by the restoration and repurposing of pre existing buildings and properties by the re use of materials and by the care and maintenance of pre existent public utilities running such economies would provide the means to replace and refurbish what has been exhausted by growth economic activity such as the rebuilding of transport units reforestation of broadleaf species and increase in the longevity of consumer units reforestation is one of the most productive forms of investment to be made since it delivers immense economic and health benefits at virtually nil cost the role of trees in storing and filtering water improving soils defending against flooding land degradation and slippage manufacturing oxygen and storing carbon as well as mitigating air noise and light pollution and improving neighbourhoods has been roughly calculated by the london tree officer s association using cavat capital asset value for amenity trees likewise publicly owned and maintained public transport would operate without waste exhausted products such as human and animal waste could themselves be converted for use as building materials and in order to supply energy needs which would be much reduced by the step change from growth economies to circular and sufficient economic models in this scenario there would be no waste and no surplus no profit and no loss only a balancing an equilibrium stasis and sufficiency instead of growth over consumption depletion and waste do you have a liberal democrat mp write to them sir ed davey s call for the uk to develop a fully independent nuclear weapons system represents a dangerous and irresponsible shift in liberal democrat policy it risks committing britain to a hugely expensive expansion of its nuclear arsenal which would cost hundreds of billions of pounds that would inevitably come at the expense of public services climate action and efforts to tackle poverty and inequality at a time of rising global tensions this is a move away from de escalation and disarmament as a party with a strong tradition of supporting multilateral disarmament and international law the liberal democrats must not go down this path without challenge that is why it is so important that liberal democrat mps hear directly from their own constituents by writing to your liberal democrat mp you can send a clear message that this proposal is unacceptable and must be opposed with acknowledgements to cnd nuremberg perhaps the most important message to take away from james vanderbilt s 2025 film nuremberg https www youtube com watch v wvay9c bipy is this you want to know why it fascism happened 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