![]() ![]() ![]() I plan to continue with my life's work, but it will be someone else's job to front the organisation. This year I will be stepping down as Friends Of The Earth's director. Sometimes the famous and powerful help the cause at other times they just provide a lot of hot air.Īnd for all their eco-rhetoric, too many decisions by the Labour Government have been cowardly and lacking in vision. These days, however, everybody wants to be green: big companies, Prime Ministers and celebrities. Neither did I know I would be obliged to take supermodels on trips to the rainforest or be held at gunpoint by panicking Swiss policemen. When I started working for Friends Of The Earth 18 years ago, I had no idea green campaigners did that sort of thing. I confronted Banks as he emerged from the chamber, asking why he had been so destructive. The then Tory MP for Southport had talked for so long that the Bill ran out of Parliamentary time. I had sat in the Commons watching Matthew Banks wreck a Private Member's Bill designed to protect wildlife habitats. But that morning in 1996, something snapped. ![]() It isn't every day you chase a Conservative MP down the corridors of Parliament. ![]()
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