Steve Trees

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts . Like my beloved New Forest - described by a botanist mate as a ‘blasted billiard table’ - there is no regeneration - there will be no new forest at all https://t.co/A8FXsgKN0f

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Water firms across the country are announcing hosepipe bans.

All while:
- 3 billion litres of water are wasted daily through leaks.
- Not a single major reservoir has been built since privatisation.

Time for public ownership: https://t.co/wclY6xs74x

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Good to see

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

@Keir_Starmer and Blackrock are 'in partnership', along with 700 corporate lobbyists, who are being handed 'governance powers' with the UK Government taking a 'secondary position'.
This is the libertarian dream come true, it has taken over 70 years to arrive.
The UK is capital hungry and desperate after Brexit, the duopoly's last gambit is to privatise the entire country.
You should all be paying attention to what this entails for all UK public services, for green spaces, for beleaguered councils and their assets, and for what is taking place inside the Tories and Labour's 74 deregulated Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports.
Labour’s deregulatory framework reflects an expansionist ideology that views land as a tool for economic growth, a perspective that aligns with BlackRock’s profit-driven vision for natural capital or as Blackrock call them 'nature's assets'. This latest addition to their financial portfolio is part of Blackrock's 'Infrastructure Imperative'.👇🏻
https://t.co/KUl7sRD8WJ
If BlackRock succeeds in turning the UK’s green spaces into a new asset class, the country will become a testing ground for a global model of nature extraction, where ecosystems are valued only for their financial yield.
https://t.co/Isow8HCMCj
Labour is only interested in people as economic units, hence the attacks on the disabled, the elderly, and those out of work.
The duopoly's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports embody this ethos, creating zones where environmental protections are secondary to investment. Free zones are entire regions some up to 75km in diameter like the SEZ in South Devon.
The narrative peddled by Labour apologists—that Keir Starmer’s government merely inherited the Tories’ Freeports and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) rollout—is a blatant lie.
It’s a story designed to absolve Labour of responsibility for the corporate carve-up of Britain’s regions, where local councils are being hollowed out and transformed into neo-feudal fiefdoms for profit-hungry multinationals.
I have thoroughly explored the UK Goverment's website, the research I have compiled is all in the public domain and can be verified 100%.
I would urge people to take this very seriously, because what's happening is a corporate coup from both Labour and the Tories to carve up the UK into feudal enclaves. I have no doubt whatsoever about this.
'Zoning' is a template for how a problem like 'Big Government' is broken down into smaller more manageable pieces, under 'localised freedoms'
If this is not stopped, the UK will succumb to corporate rule where 'laws as services' meet the demands of corporations. No one voted for this.
https://t.co/WHIDhUcFCt

[Danica Priest🦇🦎🦇🦎🍃💚🍃 @DanicaPriest]

Literally EVERY nature NGO and professional body: ‘this planning bill will be catastrophic for nature’

Labour MPs: sticks fingers in ears ‘this is a win/win for nature and housing, a win/win I say! All of the experts who study this for a living are being misleading’

[NT External Affairs @NTExtAffairs]

Today, the Government's own watchdog - the Office for Environmental Protection - has said the Planning Bill will reduce environmental protection. Ministers must heed this warning. (1/2)

https://t.co/au88pSD3wl

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴The UK is being sold off to BlackRock

Ever wonder why Starmer would want to devastate the British economy and devalue its businesses and assets?

This is why… Right under our noses👇

@EuropeanPowell

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Children need sport, and schools should not be selling off playing fields. How about focusing on empty homes, commercial conversions, unbuilt planning permissions @AngelaRayner?

https://t.co/TtGmkXZ4Vf

[Laurie Macfarlane @L__Macfarlane]

This is what happens when you leave decarbonisation to market forces and distant shareholders. Jobs will be lost, and communities will be devastated

Grangemouth was a litmus test for delivering a just transition — and we failed catastrophically https://t.co/JYiYNwyqi5

[Brislington Meadows @BrisMeadows]

We are furious that a wetland area has been destroyed on Brislington Meadows by @HomesEngland and Keepmoat Homes. They have subsequently placed reptile mats on the area after they cleared it. They are claiming they did this for ‘public safety’. Where have we heard this before 🤔

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

I wish the BBC, ITV and C4 news would open with this every time he is mentioned or interviewed.

[North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs @NDHuntSabs]

If Forestry England and the National Trust enforced their ban, stag hunting would be near impossible on the Quantocks

https://t.co/Ozsa9E8RGO

[Bonkers Busway Cambs News @BonkersBusway]

Cambs County, 1 May please vote for a candidate that doesn’t want to throw nature under a £200m+ busway to Grange Road🌳🚌❌ Help #SaveCotonOrchard 🗳️🟢⚪️🔵✅

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The despair of a Sumatran #orangutan trying to protect his home.

Time to protect the planet and everything on it. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climateaction #deforestation #nature

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

“The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold” https://t.co/EyRSqkLn4z

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

29 days to #TeamBat #TeamNewt National Day on 24th May

In the week that government considers amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill, and @RachelReevesMP declares environmental protections are "insane," we'd like to remind all MPs that we can't survive without nature

[CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎 @CommunityPlann1]

Planning bill would allow builders to ‘pay cash to trash’ nature, say UK experts https://t.co/CGqqO9t2v2

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Cannot stand this pantomime of deflection.
The public is sick and tired of this net-zero blame game, it's obscene. Statistically, the number one issue on people's minds is the environment, which is above taxation, the NHS, and the rise of the far-right.
We should be concentrating on those who are actually in power, Labour's slashing of their £28bn green investment pledge by half is grist for the mill for the fossil fuel industries green washing bullshit.
Rachel Reeves promised to be the UK’s “first green chancellor”...
https://t.co/AocCpDu4dj
Ed Miliband is promoting growth using unproven and dangerous technologies.
Three issues are Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 10 nuclear power stations, and even more airport expansions across the country.
1. CCS involves burying carbon by big business and storing it underground in the old oil gas fields in the North Sea, no one has done this, but CCS is inprobable technology at a cost of £22 billion.
Ed 'I really am green' Miliband could have put insulation in UK houses, solar panels, which would work and save money on bills.
2. 10 nuclear power stations courtesy of Rolls Royce, no one knows if these will actually work, the tech is unprovable, and what about waste management? Again, no one knows.
Nuclear power stations take a century to clean properly. 3. Multiple airport expansions, cutting flights is necessary to combat climate change, and there is no such thing as sustainable fuel. BTW Heathrow did not actually ask for a 3rd runway either.

US Blackrock now have Starmer's official endorsement of a govt partnership, which is primed to move in on 'natures assets', green spaces are to be identified as tradeable commodities, this expands Blackrock's portfolio to include nature as an economic profit-based asset.
Twin this with Labour's February 2025 paper on “national conversation” on land use, and it becomes clear that nature is to become tradeable on a universal ledger and blockchain. The new 'natural' infrastructure that is now being unlocked is about moving nature into a debt-riven corporate model or racket, of course under the guise of being 'green' and 'sustainable economic growth'.
More on that here👇🏻 https://t.co/3fzqJscOXq

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Peter Thiel represents a significant far-right neoliberal threat to US/UK relations, the future of the NHS, the future of the UK's public sector, and the future of Western democracy.
Palantir was awarded a £75mn contract with the Ministry of Defence in December 2022.
In the UK, Palantir won contracts worth up to half a billion pounds, including a contract with the National Health Service to manage patient data.
Peter Thiel "I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible.
Here's what the Guardian and FT won't tell you:
Thiel financially and ideologically supports deregulated SEZs, Freeports and charter cities, these are libertarian templates for "shrinking big govt down to the size of a mouse and drowning it in a bathtub"
There are 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports currently being installed across the UK, the zones were initiated by Sunak and Truss, and fully backed and signed off by Starmer's changed Labour Party between 2021 and 2022.
Deregulated free zones carve out entire regions with separate laws from the host country that are tailored for corporate extraction of resources, including minerals, fossil fuels, land, and human capital while installing a corporate political economic system that absorbs, asset-strips, and privatises all public infrastructure.

[Lawyers for Nature @LawForNature]

London's Sycamore Gap moment is a wake-up call: we must get radical to protect our trees https://t.co/hZpdoav65U