Labour committing to plant 2 bn trees by 2040
Thatās a million a week every week for 20 years 
Has Abbot been allowed the calculator again?
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If we retain 800 million trees we already have, we only need to plant 1.2 billion new trees to get 2 billion new trees 
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A second referendum is democratically suspect.
Campaigning for re-entry after weāve left is not.
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Ok a bit of research
There are currently 3bn trees in the UK
So we are going to increase this by 65%
Where exactly are we going to plant them? Or are they talking bonsai trees
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This article talks about 10 new national parks, no locations confirmed but some suggested places.
Labour unveils plan to plant 2bn trees in next 20 years
Itās an admirable plan. Itās time to actually do something about the state of the environment rather than just talking about it.
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I have no problem with the concept of it - just the scale
If you plant a tree 10 ft apart you get 400 trees per acre
So 2 bn trees require 5m acres or 8000 sq miles
Given that Greater London is 600 sq miles, where the hell are these trees going
There are other places apart from greater London?
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āā when i were a lad, all this were forestā¦āā
Give that we have no heavy industry left, we should be able to reclaim a fair bit of brown fired shite for the treesā¦ and get the greedy developers to plant at least 10 trees per house as a stipulation of the paling appsā¦ bit more space between house and more green stuffā¦
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Could plant quite a few in the opposition goal mouth at SMS.
Nobody ever goes there anymore
Excellent idea apart from the changing of ends at half time
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So they are all full of shit. Well who knew
I donāt think āAndrewā will be livid at all, it was probably his idea in the first place. It is simply not credible that Neil didnāt know Johnson hadnāt signed up to the interview, but went ahead with the Corbyn one, knowing that the other leaders had been assured that all party leaders had signed up. Remember Andrew Neil is chairman of the Spectator, a publication that Boris Johnson contributes to in a very senior role. Johnson is Neilās guest at the annual Spectator garden party, they are friends and colleagues. The Spectator is owned by the Barclay Brothers, who also own The Telegraph, both publications are dedicated to stop a Corbyn led government at all costs. Aided and abetted by the BBC. It is very difficult to escape the conclusion that this is all choreographed, the Chief Rabbi making his intervention on the eve of the Corbyn interview, Neil then leading with this and grilling Corbyn on anti-semitism for 15 minutes of the 30 minute interview. It was blindingly obvious that Johnson wouldnāt be doing an interview with Neil, or indeed anyone else after ducking out of the leaderās interviews on Channel 4, yet the BBC went ahead, not only recording the interview, which, letās face it was a hatchet job on Corbyn, but then showing it to an estimated 6.5 million households who viewed it. Knowing that Johnson had not signed up for the same and clearly had no intention of doing so, despite the other party leaders having been assured that he had. Whichever way you cut it this is deception on a grand scale by the national broadcaster, coming on top of the switching of the footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, and the doctoring of Johnsonās disastrous performance on the Question Time debate, editing out the audienceās mocking laughter at Johnson and replacing it with applause. Johnson was supposed to do the Neil interview last night, thatās when it was scheduled, with Swinson and Farage scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday next week. If Swinson and Farage had any backbone they would challenge this, publicly refuse to take part unless there is a categorical assurance that Johnson will do so, call the BBCs bluff and put them on the spot. But donāt hold your breath on that one. Itās a bit late anyway, the main aim has been achieved, a hatchet job on Corbyn with Johnson being let off the hook.
All of this is a serious affront to democracy in this country, the national broadcaster not even pretending to abide by the legally binding rules on impartiality during a general election campaign, and working hand in glove with the ruling party to keep them in power. When the dust settles there will be serious anger out there, who can blame people if they wash their hands of democratic methods of protest and resort to undemocratic means. If i was a young man i would be joining them.
Ooh look, another one has just been exposed. Surprise surprise.
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Channel 4 confirmed to The Independent that it will empty-chair any leaders who do not show up. It refused to comment on reports that it had commissioned an ice sculpture of Mr Johnson to melt during the show if he declines to attend.
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Is it over yet? How is it still 2 weeks away.
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