EU Referendum

In recent weeks, talking to various people, I have become increasingly concerned about how many people don't realise just how important EU laws are in protecting the UK's remaining wild habitats and their wildlife.  Things such as the Birds and Habitats Directives and the Bathing Water Directive have forced successive UK governments into take measures to protect our environment.  If we leave the EU our current and future governments won't have to comply with such laws and it will become far easier for people to destroy our remaining patches of wilderness.

This alone convinces me of the importance of voting to remain within the EU.  I hope you feel the same way, but if you are still uncertain or inclined to support the leave vote, please take a few minutes to look at the following links:

Birds and Habitats Directives:

http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/birds-and-habitats-directives?gclid=CjwKEAjwm8-6BRDgnb-Dk96UmRASJADbMycYPjg0ATolDVJpvZ5JXBDJAHWhmf-gmyGVzKs3CkCmHxoCMc7w_wcB

Bathing Water Directive:

https://www.foe.co.uk/blog/what-has-eu-done-uk-beaches

A short Environmentalists for Europe video:

http://www.environmentalistsforeurope.org/remain-for-nature/?donations=25&utm_source=Main+list&utm_campaign=fa696a495d-E4E-video&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d384ff744f-fa696a495d-61020501

And finally the WWF view:

http://www.wwf.org.uk/about_wwf/press_centre/index.cfm?uNewsID=7880&utm_source=News&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NatureInTheEU&utm_campaign=NEWS_EUref_GKN001001

I am of no strong political persuasion and don't normally get involved in politics, but it does seem to me that the forthcoming EU referendum is vitally important.  I am convinced that our future and the future of our environment and its wildlife would be badly affected if we leave the EU.  And for this reason alone I am voting remain.  The environmental arguments are compelling

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I received the above from Ian Harrison, who got it from a friend of his in the environment sector.  I am happy to put it on the blog as, as he says, the environmental argument for staying in are compelling.