Geraint Davies MP - November Report

GERAINT DAVIES MP LABOUR & CO-OPERATIVE MP

IN SWANSEA & PARLIAMENT O Abertawe dros Abertawe

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GERAINT LEADS CAMPAIGN TO SAVE LIVES AND PUT WHO POLLUTION LIMITS INTO LAW It has been found that air pollution now causes 40,000 early deaths at a cost of £20 billion each year. This month, Geraint is working with the Co-operative Party and local Labour parties to lobby for World Health Organisation pollution limits to be put into law.

Geraint Davies MP stated “We co-operators have always cared about our environment and public health. After all, the movement was founded to combat adulterated food and poor working conditions.

“Now, one of the biggest risks to public health is air pollution. Air pollution now causes 40,000 early deaths at a cost of £20 billion each year according to the Royal College of Physicians. What’s more, over 10 per cent of coronavirus deaths are now linked to a very slightly higher levels of smaller particulates (+1 µg/m3 of PM2.5) in the air. That’s why we need World Health Organization air quality limits in law to protect our families’ health.

Please share this link with friends from around the UK https://party.coop/airpollution and ask that they lobby their MP.

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Geraint expressed his solidarity with CWU member

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PM ‘unfit for office’ after holding meeting with no social distancing or masks Speaking to the Morning Star, Geraint Davies MP stated that the Prime Minister is ‘literally unfit for office.’

Geraint continued “The Prime Minister holding a meeting without any social distancing, nor mask wearing, illustrates why the Government’s handling of the pandemic has been so inept.

“The PM still has not grasped the seriousness of the situation, otherwise he would not put people at risk by failing to adhere to the Government’s own guidelines.

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WALES MUST NOT BE SHORTCHANGED FOR FIREBREAK Geraint Davies, Member of Parliament for Swansea West, challenged the Welsh Secretary to ensure that Wales were not short-changed for the firebreak that occured in Wales before the English lockdown.

Speaking during a debate, Geraint Davies said “The lockdown in England of course came after the firebreak in Wales, so will the Secretary of State ensure that Wales gets its full equivalent of the England lockdown through the Barnett consequential formula, so that we get our fair share of funding that can be best deployed by the Welsh Government?”

UK GOVERNMENT MUST SUPPORT SWANSEA BAY LAGOON Geriant Davies MP this month challenged the Chancellot to support the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon stating “Talking of private capital, Barclays has moved €200 billion out of the UK—€3,000 per person; J.P. Morgan has moved €200 billion out of the UK; HSBC has moved 1,000 jobs to Paris; the Government have abolished the Green Investment Bank; and we are leaving the European Investment Bank. If the Chancellor is serious about investment in green infrastructure, will he look at the Development Bank of Wales as a mechanism for focusing on green infrastructure in a knowledgeable way, as happened with the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon, so that taxpayers’ money can be deployed effectively to grow and green our economy?”

The Government has No Reason to Change the Law for Soldiers on Negligence & War Crimes On Sunday, the nation will remember and mourn those who died to defend our country’s freedom and values. We cannot gather together around war memorials or in churches this 11 November, but we can still stop to reflect on those who gave their tomorrows for our todays.

As Government ministers attend a closed ceremony at the Cenotaph and the Prime Minister lays his wreath, we must ensure that new legislation does not remove protections for today’s armed service men and women – betraying the values for which so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

The Overseas Operations Bill, which comes before the House of Commons today, limits the rights of service personnel to bring claims against the Government for negligence, and those of prosecutors to investigate and prosecute war crimes.

It increases the risk to soldiers both from negligence and to prosecution by international courts and is based on the groundless misconception that our armed services are hampered by operating within the rule of law. In this way, it risks fanning the flames of human rights abuses by weakening the moral codes they obey and we have fought for.

The bill will ban courts from hearing claims against the Government by service personnel if the harm occurred more than six years ago. Indeed, the bill is not necessary to prevent nuisance claims as the courts already dismiss such claims before trial, generally with an order to the claimant to pay substantial costs to the Ministry of Defence. Tellingly, both the Royal British Legion and the former Director General of the Royal United Services Institute have condemned the bill.

“At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them”. To do so, with the honour they deserve, we must protect our armed services, and uphold the standards their predecessors observed as they fought and died against war criminals, and those who threatened our values and freedoms.

Article written by Geraint Davies MP, published in the Byeline Times.

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