Thankfully, there are people who care about and monitor the air pollution in towns, cities and countryside – people prepared to stand up to big industry and government and call out bad practice, often with consequences for their actions.

The speakers are at our latest Cloud Cafe event on Wednesday June 11 will be:

 Dr Gary Fuller from Imperial College. Gary has been a leading light in the UK Research and Innovation Clean Air Programme. He led the development of the London Air Quality Network, is a member of the Medical Research Council Centre for Environment and Health, Defra’s Air Quality Expert Group and a project reviewer and steering group member for the Irish EPA.

Tom Jarman is co-founder of Community R4C, a community-owned organisation advocating for lower-cost, environmentally sustainable waste management. He will share their legal struggle against the installation of the incinerator and the latest research on the true costs of the incinerator (the most expensive in the country), current progress on legal advice and auditor complaint – and how this leads to a way forward which can mean less incineration of household waste, less pollution and lower costs.

Ruth Kettle-Frisby is co- founder of Clear the Air in Havering – a group connected to Mum for Lungs, a Quaker organisation whose purpose is to raise awareness about air pollution, tackle misinformation and champion the right to clean air for everyone. Ruth has taken Havering Council to court via a judicial review as a desperate last resort to challenge their recent decision not to designate land as contaminated. If they are successful, Havering Council and the Environment Agency will have to clean up the site once and for all.

Come and join us for an evening of discussion and debate with guest speakers. Everyone is welcome and the event is free. Can’t join us on the night? Register anyway and you will be sent the recording.

Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/the-health-of-our-planet-the-air-we-breathe/

The post Online discussion about air pollution: June 11 appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

Why are the May local council elections so crucial for Greens?

What happens when voters decide to vote for the alternative to the two main parties and elect Greens to represent and serve them on local authorities?

And what can the future hold when Greens are in power on councils?

These are questions that will be addressed at our next Cloud Café online debate, on Wednesday March 13 from 7.30 to 9pm.

The speakers are:

Chris Jarvis

Since being elected to Oxford City Council in 2021, Chris has led the Green Group on the council, during which time they have secured major successes including: rolling out free period products in community centres, greater protections for biodiversity in planning, a pioneering policy on trans inclusion, and improvements in active travel infrastructure.

Chris is also the editor of Bright Green, an online publication focusing on Green politics, social movements and the labour movement. 

Chloe Turner

Chloe represents Minchinhampton at Stroud District Council, where she chairs the Environment Committee, and at Gloucestershire County Council, where she chairs the Environment Scrutiny Committee.

She is also the Green Party parliamentary candidate for the North Cotswolds constituency. In her spare time, she plays the trombone in Stroud Red Band and writes fiction.

Pete Kennedy

Pete Kennedy is Stroud’s Green Party candidate to fight the next general election, and is standing in May for election to Stroud District Council. Pete has worked for the Green Party for more than five years in a variety of roles.

Working in Parliament, Pete advises the Green Party on legislation and procedure and has been involved in some of the biggest fights against the Government’s legislation like the Police and Crime Bill.

Here in Stroud, Pete is an adviser to the 14-strong Green Group of councillors on Stroud District Council. A qualified barrister, Pete also has experience of the community and public sectors, having worked for a mental health charity and as a warm homes officer for a local authority. 

Cloud Café organiser Elizabeth Lee says: “The planet is on fire and mainstream politicians continue to play party politics: winning the next election is their only prize and they pay little attention paid to the health of our environment, our communities, our children and our planet. Nationally in the UK, the two biggest parties trade sound bites hoping to set themselves apart and appeal to voters while, at the same time, setting out policies that are increasingly identical.

“If the two largest parties will not offer meaningful solutions to the problems we face on a national level, can we expect them to do any differently in local government?”

Following the speakers there will be an opportunity for discussion and debate with the audience.

Everyone is welcome. To register, go to: https://actionnetwork.org/events/doing-politics-differently

If you can’t watch on the night, register anyway and you will be sent a link to the recording to watch another time.

The post What May’s local elections mean for Greens: online debate appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

Can the media be trusted to report honestly on climate change? That was the question posed this week at our latest Cloud Café online debate. And the answer, according to guest speaker Dr Jonathan Fuller, is a definite no.

Jon, founder of Climate Genocide Act Now, said crucial information about the existential threat presented by climate breakdown is being routinely withheld by the media.

Billions of people are already vulnerable to climate change, with rising temperatures, disease, sea level rises and worsening storms already happening and several low-lying island states expected to disappear into the sea within 25 years. The Gulf Stream is likely to shut down and temperatures could dip to minus 20°C or rise abruptly and severely, leaving countries unable to feed themselves. And the UK government hasn’t done anything to adapt, still allowing developers to build on floodplains and ignoring that the country doesn’t have enough water to survive a drought.

Yet few media outlets report the frightening trends and some actively encourage readers to oppose, abuse and even assault climate campaigners, while lobbying the government to slow the rate of action on climate change.

Calling continued investment in fossil fuels “the ultimate crime against humanity… technically genocide in international criminal law”, Jon said that the media are complicit in this by “inciting” the government to continue its policies.

He singled out the Guardian and Observer as being better than others at reporting climate news. Among the worst are the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Star, the Express, and the Sun, which portray activists as “upper-class toffs, eco fanatics”.

The media, said Jon, promote fracking and the expansion of fossil fuel industries, lobby to get rid of net zero targets, and deny the benefits of insulation, heat pumps and onshore wind, low traffic neighbourhoods, bus lanes, and low-emission zones.

“There’s a relentless stream of misinformation and disinformation,” he commented. “They campaign to maintain lifestyles that they know will kill people. They’re engaged in warfare, attacks on democracy and on people, particularly the young and those in the global south. Sometimes you just despair and wonder how can people be so cruel.”

Among the lies are false claims that the cost of decarbonising will cost households thousands of pounds each year. And climate change deniers like Nigel Farage are given coverage while knowledgeable people like the UN Secretary General are not given comparable opportunities to put their case.

Part of the reason for the media ignoring the emergency is that they fear losing readers if they report upsetting news. A more sinister reason is the “crystal clear” link between the media owners and the fossil fuel industry; for example the Murdochs – owners of the Times and the Sun – have financial interests in oil and gas companies while the company that owns the Telegraph’s debt is a fossil fuel lobbyist.

“For newspaper owners there will be a day of reckoning,” warned Jon. “The young will one day be in charge and they’ll be the judges, the police, the prosecutors. They will want to know why media organisations knew [the truth] and carried on [lying].”

Among broadcasters, the BBC covers some aspects of climate change but is reluctant to broadcast the most alarming scenarios, said Jon. Even outlets sometimes thought to be reliable, like Channel 4, still report on the benefits of airport expansion while ignoring the deaths being caused by climate change.

“It doesn’t get into the public consciousness… the vast majority are not aware of the threat,” said Jon. “The press has a duty to tell people the scenarios are real and dangerous. But suppression of facts is everywhere you look. The truth is being withheld.”

Neither does the media report on the attempts being made by CGAN to prosecute the UK government for inciting genocide. Instead, protesters are being prosecuted. “The media have stolen from the young what they need to defend themselves – information,” said Jon.

Children are told a certain amount at school about climate change, he added. They’re told about some of the impacts; they know that polar bears are affected, for example. But they don’t hear about the effect on UK agriculture or the failed rains in Africa. They don’t know that extreme rainfall here will overwhelm the critical infrastructure that keeps them alive.”

He said the situation was inflicting “terror” on young people, with the result that many of them have decided not to have children.

Campaigners need to counter the deliberate campaign of suppression by the press by disseminating their own news, through newsletters and social media, he said. “We’ve done everything we can to get the media to tell the truth. But the right-wing press won’t change, so we have to get our own information out. We have to talk about genocide, annihilation, use language that good people will find uncomfortable but we owe it to the victims to use it. And we need to emphasise the positives [of taking action]: affordable homes, energy security, food supply security, employment, how we would deploy technology to insulate homes.. a dynamic vision and policies to give people quality lives.”

The Green Party has the right policies to save the young and give them hope, added Jon. “We can take that terror away from them. We can survive this.”

Watch the full talk below.

The post Media ‘lies relentlessly’ to hide truth about climate change, says CGAN founder appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

With the mainstream media filtering, misinterpreting, downplaying or even ignoring news about the environment, how much can we trust what we read in the papers?

Honest and full coverage of issues like climate change is never going to sit well with the interests of corporate media owners. Much reporting is not grounded in research or informed by facts; crucial evidence is largely ignored; and environmental activists and climate scientists are undermined or even pilloried.

Our next Cloud Café online discussion, on February 14 from 7.30 to 9pm, will explore the messages we receive though the mainstream outlets.

Our guest speaker, veteran environmental campaigner Dr Jonathan Fuller, founder of Climate Genocide Act Now, will discuss why the media takes the approach it does, and will talk about his ongoing Tell The Truth campaign to call the media out on their dishonesty.

His presentation will be followed by discussion, comment and debate from the online audience.

Everyone is welcome. To register, go to: https://actionnetwork.org/events/media-reporting-on-environmental-issues 

If you can’t watch on the night, register anyway and you will be sent a link to the recording to watch another time.

The post Online debate: can we trust the media to report honestly on environmental issues? appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

The mainstream media narrative is that migration is a problem, that there are ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ migrants. Meanwhile, the tragedy of the small boats continues.

Stroud District Green Party’s next monthly Cloud Café on Wednesday November 8 from 7.30pm to 9pm will explore the wider political, climate and economic context, acknowledging that the world as we know it was fashioned by migration.

Our expert speakers will discuss how capital, information, viruses and many people travel with ease. What should be the fair, positive and green role of migration in a world of national age imbalances, climate breakdown, acute inequality and war?

The Cloud Café welcomes everyone and is a free event. Click here to register. Can’t make it on the night? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording.

The speakers: 

Benali Hamdache, the Green Party’s spokesperson on refugees and migrants.

Benali is a Councillor and the Leader of the Opposition on Islington Council. He’s spent his working career in campaigning and the third sector. He has worked for migrants’ rights, international development and disability charities.

Benali joined the Green Party in 2012 and has held a variety of roles in the party. He has served as the Equalities spokesperson and wrote the party’s 2015 ethnic minority and LGBTIQA+ manifesto.

He won campaigns on tackling workplace discrimination and homophobic PSHE guidance, and was the Campaign Manager at the last London Mayoral elections, the most successful in our history.

Judith Large is a founder member of Stroud District Together With Refugees and a trustee for Sanctuary Breaks at Hill House, Amberley, a registered charity offering respite and renewal time for refugees and asylum seekers.    

Judith is a Senior Fellow at the University of Kent’s Conflict Analysis Research Centre, where she advised on a Forced Migration project.

She has worked on crisis response and recovery in war zones and during post-conflict transition; settings involving mass population displacement and resettlement needs.  

She worked at local level in support of refugee reception centres in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990’s, moving later to policy and agency response such as assignments for the Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

Judith campaigned actively against the Nationality and Borders Bill, which overturned 70 years of UK adherence to the 1952 Refugee Convention and severely curtailed the rights of refugees.  She sees this as critical on many fronts; the rejection of international treaties; a disregard for human rights law and conventions; the securitisation of citizenship; the creation of deliberate inequalities, and another step towards a Britain which functions as a gated, garrison state.

She has been actively involved with Napier Barracks for the past two years, supporting asylum seekers detained there and lobbying for Napier’s closure. 

The post What would a much-needed progressive migration policy look like? Join our online debate to find out appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

Stroud-based campaigner and Green Party member Val Saunders will be among the speakers at an online discussion about the government’s repressive attempts to undermine the independence of juries.

The event, on Wednesday October 11 from 7.30 to 9pm, will describe how courts are restricting defendants from explaining their motivations, disallowing relevant evidence and stopping juries from using their right to reach verdicts based on their conscience.

The clampdown follows acquittals by juries of various political and climate activists over the past few years (see footnote).

Elizabeth Lee, event coordinator, said: “It is deeply worrying that the government is ramping up a programme of repression against all those who take nonviolent direct action to expose its criminality and corruption.

“Jury trial is supremely important to the British public, and it would be politically impossible for the government to remove it. So instead, the courts have surreptitiously sought to undermine the powers of juries. Our event will hear from people with personal knowledge of this repression.”

In particular the courts are:

• Banning those engaged in campaigns of political resistance from explaining their motivations and beliefs to the jury;
• Disallowing or ignoring relevant evidence and witnesses (including expert testimony as to the Government’s failure to act on the scientific advice);
• Telling the jury that motives, even if articulated, are irrelevant and must be ignored;
• Sending people to prison just for using the terms “climate change” and “fuel poverty” in court;
• Banning references to a jury’s right to acquit a defendant as a matter of conscience;
• Arresting and referring for prosecution those who remind jurors of their right to make decisions on their conscience;
• Directing the jury that defences such as necessity, proportionality or reasonable excuse are not available;
• Limiting the time to present a defence to 15 minutes.

To register to attend the event, or to receive a recording to watch another time, click here.

The speakers will be:

• Val Saunders and Andy Williams, Extinction Rebellion activists
• Jonathan Fuller, environmental and civil liberties campaigner
• Dr Tim Hewlett, Scientist Rebellion

Val Saunders is one of four Stroud residents who recently wrote to the Solicitor General inviting him to arrest them, to raise awareness of the threat to the principle of trial by jury. 

This follows the arrest for contempt of court of a protester who held up a sign outside a court that read ‘Jurors, you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience’.

The Stroud four told the Solicitor General that they should be arrested for contempt of court too, after holding up similar signs outside courts.

Val is an illustrator, cartoonist and art tutor who has made banners for HS2 and XR protests.

Andy Williams joined XR very near the beginning and got arrested on Waterloo Bridge on the first day of the April 2019 rebellion. Later that year he helped to set up a local XR samba band, which plays at most of the big XR events – he’s been arrested several times.

He joined Insulate Britain late in their campaign, and did a major action with them. This led to his arrest and a charge of public nuisance. He pleaded not guilty and opted for trial by jury, attending most of two early week-long trials at the Inner London Crown Court, and writing copious notes to help him and others to prepare their own cases.

Andy was due to appear in March this year, but came down with ‘flu so it’s been postponed to January next year. He wrote an academic peer-reviewed paper on insulation and heat pumps, which he had hoped to use in evidence before learning that they wouldn’t even be allowed to utter the word “insulation”. He’s lately been doing some slow marches with Just Stop Oil.

Jon Fuller has been an environmental campaigner for 45 years. He was in the roads protest movement in the 1980s and ran the Speedlimit campaign in the 1990s, which resulted in government agreeing to dramatically reduce child pedestrian fatalities on UK roads.

He also campaigned against expansion of Southend Airport, ran the ‘No Estuary Airport Campaign’ in Essex, led the successful FoE campaigns for the construction of wind farms in The Dengie Peninsula in Essex, and stood for the Green Party in Southend West Constituency in May 2015.

Jon is a speaker for XR, was arrested twice at XR actions, provides specialist ‘Tell The Truth’ advice to the radical climate movement on media coverage of the CEE and leads work on the Climate Genocide Act Now group, which is using international criminal law in the context of climate breakdown. 

Jon’s work can be seen on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JNFClimate

Dr Tim Hewlett is co-founder of Scientist Rebellion, the climate activist group with 1000+ scientists and academics across 32 countries whose members wear lab coats during acts of civil resistance. The organisation’s members range from science students and professors to IPCC contributors and leading climate-related scientists. Its guiding principle is that scientists’ warnings about the climate crisis will not be taken seriously unless they are willing to act disruptively.

In February 2023 Tim and co-founder Mike Lynch-White were found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court of criminal damage for a non-violent September 2020 protest action at the Royal Society in London. The action – which saw paint daubed over the entrance to the Royal Society – inspired more than 2,000 scientists worldwide to join Scientist Rebellion.

In a second case heard by the same jury, Tim was found guilty of criminal damage for participating in an April 2022 protest at the Shell headquarters in London.

Footnote:

Acquittals by juries in the past few years have included people who have:

• toppled the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour;
• defaced Shell’s HQ;
• blocked the M4 to demand action on the climate crisis and fuel poverty;
• targeted Elbit, which manufactures the drones used to kill Palestinians;
• intervened to prevent violent deportations to Jamaica.

The post Stroud campaigner to speak at online debate about threats to juries appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

The world needs an economic system that recognises the limits of, and is compatible with, the natural systems of the planet and the aspirations of the whole of humanity.

That’s the theme of Stroud District Green Party’s next Cloud Café online debate, on Wednesday September 13 from 7.30pm to 9pm.

Elizabeth Lee, organiser of the event, said: “The mainstream political parties are all battling over who can create the most ‘economic growth’, without taking any account of the impact growth has on our environment and our climate. As just one example, Labour’s housing plans would blow the entire carbon budget.

“Everything that we make and consume depends on the resources and energy provided by the natural world. Continually increasing resource extraction, industrial throughput and waste production is entirely incompatible with ecological sustainability. Only Greens have the courage to consider the consequence of this for social and global justice.”

The event will discuss how a truly sustainable economic system can be achieved given the current populist political upsurge and the influence of multi-nationals.

Following presentations from expert speakers, there will be opportunity for questions from the audience. Everyone is welcome. To register to attend on the night or to receive a recording to watch later, go to: 
https://actionnetwork.org/events/cloud-cafe-economic-growth-or-sustainable-development/

The speakers are:

Charith Gunawardena, a councillor for the London Borough of Enfield until May 2022.  He is a retired director of Buhler UK Ltd, which makes high-tech machinery for the global food industry. 

Charith frequently writes for Sri Lanka’s media on its sovereign debt crisis and on the importance of taking steps to mitigate the abuses of the unjust global economic order. He holds an MBA and an M.Phil in Engineering.

Molly Scott Cato, a Professor of Green Economics from Stroud who has published widely on topics relating to green economics and the need for a just and sustainable economy. As the Green Party’s Spokesperson on Economy and Finance she also has experience of trying to explain the need to respect planetary boundaries in a media environment where economic growth has become a fetish.

Mark Bryan, a Reader in the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield. His research investigates the links between the labour market, health and disability, and wellbeing. As well as carrying out academic research, he has worked on policy-related projects for government and private-sector organisations, and is an expert on statistical techniques to assess the impacts of policy changes on the economy.

He is interested in the economic rationale for a UBI, both now and in a possible future society, and in particular how a UBI might interact with the labour market. He co-authored the UBI Lab Sheffield proposal for a UBI pilot.

The post Join our free online debate: how can we achieve a sustainable economic system? appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

The event will discuss whether there are curbs on the advance of AI and whether we can trust the tech companies and government.

Questions that will be addressed include:  

How do we ‘flag’ up when something has been produced by AI – and does it matter?

If AI is taking over work roles, what opportunities will remain for social interaction at work and in places like GP practices and libraries?

Can we make AI work for the common good by increasing leisure time, improving services and ensuring enough resources for all – or will it go the same way as factory automation, which didn’t lead to any of these benefits?

If AI takes over even more jobs, how will people provide for themselves?

Will AI cause even more confusion between truth & fiction?

The presentations will be followed by opportunities for questions and debate from the audience. The session is free and everyone is welcome. 

The speakers:

Rohit Talwar, a futurist, will talk about how AI and technological developments will make the world as we know it unrecognisable. He will describe the massive consequences for jobs, workforce training, the relationship between work and leisure, and our path to a carbon neutral future. Rohit believes that we could be bounced into accepting these massive changes, rather than developing the type of society that we want.

Natalie Bennett was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012-2016 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 2019. She has worked for several national newspapers and obtained a Master’s in mass communication from the University of Leicester, with a thesis on the relationship between readers and texts on the internet.

Tim Davies is Director of Research and Practice for Connected by Data, the campaign to give communities a powerful voice in how data is governed. He has worked at the intersection of technology, governance and open government for the last decade, including work on participatory governance of data standardisation and AI. Tim has written on Algorithms, AI and open data, and on the potential for global deliberations on AI governance. He was a 2019 residential fellow for the thematic month on AI at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, and led the development of the Global Data Barometer, a precursor to the Global Index on Responsible AI.

To register to attend on the night or to watch a recording afterwards, go to: https://actionnetwork.org/events/cloud-cafe-the-machines-are-taking-over-or-are-they/

The post Are the machines taking over? Join our June Cloud Café to find out appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

Developing opportunities to solve the housing crisis is the topic of Stroud District Green Party’s next Cloud Café online debate, on Wednesday May 10, from 7.30pm to 9pm.

The event, which is free and open to anyone, will hear from speakers from Britain and the USA about their experiences of alternative forms of housing and their ideas for new ways of living together in a sustaining and sustainable way.

The debate will address a number of questions:

• Who should be leading housing planning? At present it is led by developers and the market.
• How do we fix the problem of housing distribution and equity? There are older people living in large houses, families crammed into box-like houses and young people sofa-surfing or on the streets.
• How can we reconcile our housing needs with our housing stock, and how do we design for better living?
• What would a genuine multi-age, multiple ability, sharing housing community look like? 
• Is zero carbon modular self-build an idea whose time has come? 

The event is part of a series of debates around the theme A Bright Green Future.

The speakers

Ian Crawley is an accredited Community Led Housing Advisor and secretary of the Nailsworth Community Land Trust, which was formed to build affordable housing to rent in Nailsworth. So far it has built 10 homes. Ian was previously Trustee of the National Community Land Trust Network and has also worked as in local government housing services.

Dave Darby and Dil Green will talk about housing commons. They are both members of the Lowimpact.org co-op. Dil is the inventor of the housing commons concept, and is co-founder of Mutual Credit Services, who help set up housing and other commons projects in the UK and overseas. Dave and his wife live in Stroud, and are planning to put a house into the commons.

Ivar Diekerhof is a specialist in urban renewal, property development, co-housing, building innovation and affordable housing. He believes cities should be revitalised in social, physical and economical terms. He will speak in particular about WikiHouse modular building.

Laurie Frank – who is on the National Cohousing Board – and Bert Zipperer will represent The Cohousing Association of the United States. They will speak about co-housing communities. These are collaborative neighbourhoods that combine private homes with shared indoor and outdoor spaces, designed to enable connection, environmentalism, security and community support.

To attend, or to receive a link to watch the recording afterwards, go to https://actionnetwork.org/events/cloud-cafe-a-bright-green-future-opportunities-to-solve-the-housing-crisis

The post Solving the housing crisis: join our Cloud Café online debate to find out how appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.

The event, from 7pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday April 12, will hear from four speakers about the Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS), which will pay farmers to provide environmental goods and services alongside food production. The ELMS are a replacement for the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, which provided subsidies to farm owners.

The speakers will give their views on how this policy will affect our countryside, food production and the rural economy.

Organiser Elizabeth Lee said: “The government claims this new system of farm support is rooted in sustainability and the environment. But will it work? And will it encourage young people, and people from diverse and ethnic communities to develop careers in farming or rural affairs?”

Following the speakers there will be an opportunity for audience questions and debate.

Everyone is welcome to join this free online discussion and debate. The event will be hosted by Stroud Young Greens and young people are particularly welcome to join. Register here to attend or to receive a recording to watch another time.

The speakers

Katie Jarvis, County Advisor for Gloucestershire at the National Farmers’​ Union, will give an overview of the new policy. Katie leads on stakeholder engagement at the NFU to ensure farmers’ voices are heard and supports member queries on policy issues across a range of topics. She previously worked for the British Agriculture Bureau in Brussels, representing UK farmers at an EU level.

Anya Whiteside is Youth Land Justice Mobiliser in Gloucestershire. She works with the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA), a union representing small farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers, who want to see more sustainable land-use and food sovereignty. She works with community groups, young people and under-represented groups who want to be involved in farming and land-based work. Anya also campaigns alongside different organisations working on land-justice issues.

Chloe Turner is the Green Party district councillor for Minchinhampton, chair of the Environment Committee at Stroud District Council, and county councillor for Minchinhampton Division (including Chalford and Brimscombe & Thrupp). In her spare time, Chloe keeps bees and loves exploring the countryside with her family.  

Paul Westaway is a beef farmer in Dymock, Gloucestershire, who owns a pedigree herd of AA & Murray Grey cattle.

The post Will the government’s new farming policy work? Join our online debate to hear what experts think appeared first on Stroud District Green Party.