Posted: Apr 18, 2019 4:50 pm
''In 2009, Labour MP Colin Challen, Chair of the all party group on Climate Change, sponsored EDM 2057, signed by John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn and Dianne Abbott, asking “That this House recognises that there is a climate emergency and that the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate represents the greatest threat that humanity faces.” It called for a number of radical measures, including the cessation of all domestic flights, and the creation of a million green jobs by the end of 2010. John McDonnell retabled a slightly modified version in 2012, which “remains the most radical statement on climate change within a parliamentary context”
Apocryphal, but probably true IMO.
Apocryphal, but probably true IMO.