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Environment secretary Caroline Spelman, who oversaw the proposals, said in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I am sorry, we got this one wrong.”
The Government was caught off guard by middle England singing to the tune of ''Jerusalem'' as they marched through Whitehall.The public’s love of the outdoors, resulting in a media and cross-party outcry. Mrs Spelman said: “If there is one clear message it is that people cherish their forests and woodlands and the benefits that they bring.”
The turnaround has been a massive blow to the Conservatives’ political reputation. Mary Creagh, Labour environment spokesman, said: “Today the air is filled with the sound of chickens coming home to roost.” She added: “The secretary of state has discovered that her first priority – delivering the 30 percent cut which she inflicted on her department – has a hefty political price attached to it.”
What becomes more apparent with every blitzkrieg cut, sell off or privatisation, is that they are doing it without proper public consultation, or mandate.
They don't know what they are doing, and they are so out of touch. In the very marginal seat of Sherwood, conservative MP Mark Spencer, must think he is suffering a bout of vertigo after firstly voting with the Tory government and vehemently defending the sell off of woodlands and forestry. He even did the rounds of TV studios in the hope of convincing the audience, He then had to do an about turn on the announcement by Spelman, and put what must have been a very embaressed u turn statement out saying the Tories had listened to the public. What cheek and contempt he has of his electorate he must think we have all fallen off a Christmas tree.
Why didn't they listen and consult in the first instance? Perhaps they couldn't see the trees for the money they hoped to reap in.
Image: Save our Forests
It is the latest in a serious of high profile Uturns by the Government, which also include
The Chancellor ditching/dithering on a pre-election promise of a fuel stabiliser as motor fuel rockets at the pumps.
Education Secretary Michael Gove’s backtrack on plans to scrap school sport funding and abandoning proposals to remove free milk in schools for under-fives.
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