The latest Country Life magazine is a special ‘Green’ issue ahead of the General Election. Not that they’re trying to push readers to vote for the Green Party, just get real grassroots environment and countryside issues on the agenda for discussion. The magazine’s lead editorial is a strong one about litter. This doesn’t, however, look at what the party manifestos have to say on litter. I thought I’d take a look. Here are the results for a basic keyword search for “litter” in the relevant PDFs…

Conservative Party: zero mentions.

Labour Party: zero mentions.

Reform (they have a ‘Contract’ rather than a manifesto): zero mentions.

Green Party (two versions, I searched the long version): zero mentions.

Lib Dems: zero mentions.

I also search for “tipping”, as in fly-tipping. Only the Conservatives mention it: “We will make fly-tipping an offence that carries penalty points” on a driving licence.

So there we have it. Even the Greens can’t bring themselves to mention a dire problem that’s staring the British people in the face every day. Maybe we need a manifesto from the Clean & Tidy Party. 🙂