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Letter: Where The Lib Dems Can Plant Some of Their 60 million Trees Each Year

Published on: 6 Dec, 2019
Updated on: 6 Dec, 2019

The Guildford Dragon hustings panel.

From Chris Billington

I attended the Guildford Dragon hustings on Tuesday (December 3) where the Lib Dem candidate, Zoe Franklin, explained the very positive policy of planting 60 million trees a year.

Editor Martin Giles, chairing the event, was curious about where all these trees would be planted. I have at least part of the answer. We have about 150 million mature ash trees in the UK. It is likely that we will lose 95% of these infected with dieback disease, with many already dead.

It would be excellent for the food web and general biodiversity if we prioritised planting ash trees resistant to dieback, which can be grown from the seeds of immune specimens.

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Responses to Letter: Where The Lib Dems Can Plant Some of Their 60 million Trees Each Year

  1. Julie Howarth Reply

    December 6, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    Good, the Lib Dems need to plant trees.

    As highlighted by Martin Giles at the end of November, the Lib Dem electioneering style is notable by the sheer volume of literature arriving on a daily basis through the letterbox.

    Yet with six days to go, no sign yet of any candidates, or their representatives, campaigning door-to-door where we live in GU1.

    So should we judge enthusiasm for the job from the number of leaflets?

    As of December 6, we have received the following numbers:

    Lib Dem 21
    Conservative 3
    Independent 2
    Labour 1
    Peace 0

    Ironical that the agreement between the Greens and Lib Dems has resulted not only in no opportunity to vote for the Greens but also in a mass of unnecessary waste paper in every household.

    The Lib Dems also win hands down for inclusion of unflattering photos of their opponents and accompanying derogatory comments.
    With so many leaflets being delivered you would think Lib Dems might have time to knock on the occasional door but, of course, our Posties have been doing the hard work.

    First, we had the misleading Gazette “newspaper”. Then the letters from Mike Smithson, Polling and Election Expert with miniscule writing at the bottom showing it is another Lib Dem promotion.

    Now the Lib Dem fliers look more like pizza advertising. Is it a coincidence that we seem to be getting less pizza promotion?

    Does Zoe really want a ‘Greener Guildford’?

    For the record I am an undecided voter.

  2. Brian Holt Reply

    December 7, 2019 at 8:43 pm

    Everyone I meet says they are now fed up with all this Lib Dem mail coming through our letter boxes daily and do not even bother to read the mail and letters. Like me they put it straight into the recycling bin.

    Do the Lib Dems seriously think this will get them more votes? In fact, people are so fed up with them now the Lib Dems are more likely to lose voters.

    A lot of voters who use postal voting have already voted anyway so why still send out more useless, unwanted mail?

  3. Sue Hackman Reply

    December 8, 2019 at 4:45 am

    The Lib Dems need to plant trees to replace the forest that must have been cut down to produce their literature in this election.

    Sue Hackman is the campaign manager for Guildford Labour.

  4. Brian Holt Reply

    December 11, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    Yet another three letters from Lib Dem delivered today by Royal Mail through my letterbox, to my shock and utter
    disgust one of them was a form asking for donations.

    After all the money they have spent and wasted on their campaign leaflets and postage trying to flood every area with their paraphernalia daily they are now expecting us, the public, to make donations to pay for it.

    They will be getting nothing from me.

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