Labour “Wood” love another smoke screen

Is Red Ed having a laugh

Labour attacked us for consulting on our Forests, yet the last Labour Government sold off

25,000 acres of forest. 

The coalition Government has stopped this programme of sales until adequate measures are in place to safeguard access and biodiversity

(The Times, 27 January 2011; Defra, The future of the Public Forest Estate in England: a public consultation, 27 January 2011).

Yes Labour sold freeholds to forest land

• Equivalent to 24,000 football pitches.
• Larger than the island of Guernsey.
• A bigger area than cities such as Leicester, Coventry, Hull, Wolverhampton and Nottingham.
• Twice the size of Oxford and three times the size of Blackpool.

Sandwell Tory said

“ I can hear their spin machine making another smoke screen”