Fucking hell, they literally have to just be quiet till the next election but everything they say is just going to make it harder to get the Tories out
It's almost like they don't actually want to win, huh?
God damn it Labour.
You have to understand that Labour's mission at the moment is to win the upcoming GE.... and win big. They've been buoyed by the recent string of by-election wins and need to capitalise on how shit the Tories are doing. If this means appeasing Red Tories in the landowning Home counties and the north of the Red Wall then so be it.
You'll see more announcements of "now is not the time to do what we said we'd do" and "we'll find other ways to do the same thing.... but only after you vote us in by a landslide" in the coming months and throughout the GE campaign. Brace for it.
Yeah it seems obvious that this is designed to preemptively avoid Tory campaign leaflets in the heartlands with scare stories about Labour being bad for rural communities etc.
Rural communities think everything is bad for them. I grow up on a farm and it's bizarre how many farmers are Tory voters.
They've just made your life more difficult why are you voting for them? "Well you see Brexit means I get more money for my produce. I have absolutely no reason to believe this and all evidence points to the country but I'm still going to spout it"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Labour has U-turned on its pledge to create a Scottish-style right to roam in the English countryside if elected, the Guardian can reveal.
There has been a recent groundswell of public campaigns involving mass trespasses, which have sometimes attracted thousands of people, asking for a general right to walk across the English countryside.
The 2000 act gives a legal right of public access to mountains, moorland, heaths and some downland and commons, alongside the more recently created England coast path.
The shadow environment secretary, Steve Reed, said that he would be “astonished” if increased access to nature would not be in the next Labour manifesto but added there was a need to “respect the needs of farmers, producers and growers not to have their crops damaged”.
Guy Shrubsole from the Right to Roam campaign said: “Piecemeal extension of the Crow Act won’t lead to equitable access for the people who need it most.
“We look forward to continuing to work with Labour as they develop their plans, and we’ll be stepping up our campaigning over the next year to show why England should follow Scotland’s lead on access.”
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