8Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Conservative government would hand out incentives - not punishment - to encourage recycling and reduce waste The UK sends more waste to landfill than any other nation in Europe. We dump nearly 20m tonnes of rubbish in the ground. Germany, by comparison, sends less than 500,000 tonnes to landfill. We recycle or compost only one-third of our municipal waste , lower than the EU average. Austria manages...
5Vote!
Chris Whiteside's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels...
7Vote!
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A shadow culture secretary begins to makes his mark THE Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has rarely been the frivolous sideshow suggested by its Whitehall nickname, “the ministry of fun”. It was a training ground for some of Labour’s brightest prospects, including James Purnell and Andy Burnham. It has a big role in staging the London Olympics in 2012, perhaps the biggest...
Explore : Andrew Lansley,
Andy Burnham,
Chris Grayling,
Conservative Party,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport,
Department for Work and Pensions,
Government,
Greg Clark,
James Purnell,
Jeremy Hunt,
Jeremy Hunt,
Parties,
UK Politics
10Vote!
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nick Herbert, Call-Me-Dave’s shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, sets out his stall in a ‘CiF’ column bashing McCartney & Stern as ‘unrealistic’ in their demands: But even if a world without roast beef was one in which we all wanted to live (please count me out), we need to think a little harder about what will really work to arrest global...
3Vote!
South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has called for measures to unlock the "huge potential" of the rural economy to help create sustainable jobs of the future. The Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was speaking to local community representatives from across Sussex at the annual conference of Action in Rural Sussex at Ardingly on Friday 6 November. Mr Herbert...
5Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Conservative party plans, which would fund nature protection through the sale of conservation credits to developers, have been met with caution by wildlife groups Developers would be forced to buy credits from "conservation banks" as a condition of building permission under new Conservative party plans to revolutionise nature protection revealed exclusively to the Guardian. The hundreds...
5Vote!
Julian’s musings (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
“THE Hunting Act could be repealed as part of a major Bill to scrap a vast swathe of Labour laws which impinge on civil liberty.” Nick Herbert: There is a compelling case to get the hunting ban off the statute book It is no secret that a Conservative government will see the repeal of the Hunting [...]
7Vote!
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Swiss are to vote on whether Mosques should have minarets on them. I noticed that on Thursday's Question Time, Robert Kilroy-Silk's point that we were never given a vote on mass immigration was particularly strong with the audience, and this is, I suppose, one of the ways in which immigration, or the impact thereof, could be voted upon by the public - if we were given a vote about whether mosques...
5Vote!
The Talking Clock (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Nick Herbert (Conservative), whilst accusing Labour and the Lib Dems of betrayal over the Lisbon Treaty, kept on saying that the treaty has 'gone' - a point that sounded very weak, despite the passion with which he tried making his point. Promoted the view that "premature" withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a mistake. Claimed a majority of Afghan people want our troops to stay. Said the...
10Vote!
Mark Reckons (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Remember, remember that it's #bbcqt day again and as usual the Live Chat on this blog will start tonight at 10:30pm. It's in Reading tonight about 15 miles from where I live but they didn't invite me on. Still at least that means I can host the chat! The panel will include the Welsh Secretary Peter Hain MP, the shadow environment secretary Nick Herbert MP, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner...
Explore : Conservative Party,
Department for Work and Pensions,
European Parliament,
Labour Party,
Liberal Democrats,
Members of the European Parliament,
Non attached Members,
Parties,
Peter Hain,
Peter Hain,
Police,
Robert Kilroy Silk,
Sir Ian Blair,
UK Politics
5Vote!
Adur Brewery (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I like and respect our local Conservative MP, Nick Herbert. He works hard at his job. But. He’s been let down by his party’s feeble response to Lisbon. Neither Labour nor Conservative are allowing us to have a say in the matter of ‘an ever closer union’. Since no parliament can bind the actions of a future [...]
4Vote!
computing (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Parliamentary reporter, Computing , Friday 30 October 2009 at 14:59:00 Loss at under-fire Rural Payments Agency was not a cover up, say officials The government has been forced to admit to another possible data loss - at the agency responsible for paying subsidies to farmers whose IT system was such a disaster that the UK had to pay £70m in fines for failing to meet EU targets. Environment,...
4Vote!
South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Arundel & South Downs MP Nick Herbert has outlined plans to protect and restore the countryside if his party forms the next Government. In a speech to members of the Campaign to Protect Rural England on Thursday (22 October), the Shadow Environment Secretary said that a holistic approach was required to deal with the challenges posed by development, the need to produce more food and the threat...
3Vote!
The Barrister Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
I recently wrote to North Devon MP Nick Herbet asking him to support the government's Marine and Coastal Access Bill, the text of which is below. As it stands the Bill would help towards the creation of a National Trail around the whole of the English Coast. For my part I hope very much that is passed as it will not only give walkers the right to access coastal land around the whole of our coastline...
4Vote!
Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Calling to the daily Mirror the Tories will try to sneak through a bid to overturn the fox hunting ban, despite massive opposition. Officials will put cruel sports at the top of their agenda but plan to bundle the law into a civil rights bill, fearing an outcry if it is pushed on its own its own. But the move has infuriated animal rights groups who claim 60% of Tory voters are against and say David...
Videos