Dumping and burning Britain’s plastic waste in Turkey is an international crisis when we need to recycle responsibly.
Doing abroad what we would no longer tolerate at home is a scandal mirroring vile plans to send refugees to Rwanda.
The exporting of discarded plastic also betrays the millions of people who diligently sort waste for recycling, expecting it to be reused to ease the burden on the planet.
Global warming is by its very nature global so the pollution generated by incinerating plastic in Turkey will impact Britain, wild swings in temperatures a terrible danger.
We need to sort our own waste, reusing as many materials as we can and minimising the production of waste.
Dumping rubbish in Turkey is the colonial economics of a country disgracefully passing the buck instead of standing up to be counted.
Tories terrified
Scared Tories denying Labour time in Parliament to table a no-confidence motion to force Boris Johnson out of Downing Street and trigger an immediate General Election is a democratic outrage.
Tory MPs would be free to rally around the sleazy PM they are toppling and oppose a national election but blocking a debate and decision in Westminster is cowardly.
Conservatives treating our country’s future as a parlour game in which only they decide who will be Prime Minister betrays a horrible contempt for the British people.
We need a fresh start and a general election, not another Tory stitch up.
Award a raise
The Queen was on good form when awarding the NHS the George Cross for our precious public service’s life-saving work during the worst of Covid.
But the Conservative Party and whoever it installs as an unelected Prime Minister will be making a grave mistake if they think they can fob off nurses, doctors and other workers with a medal instead of a decent pay rise.
