Derby's climate actions at red risk level.

Derby's climate change actions under attack as new report shows 'red risk level'

Derby City Council’s actions to tackle climate change have come under attack by Tory councillors during a heated meeting. Conservative councillors Miles Pattison and Matthew Holmes heavily criticised the council’s Labour administration during a fiery five-hour meeting over the budget.

Councillor Pattison told the meeting he had seen a new council report stating that there was “major slippage” in an objective to deliver its own climate change action plan. He also claimed the council still only had one full-time officer for climate change.

He said: “This objective is at red risk level. To put this into the simplest of terms, the council’s own analysis is that this administration is completely failing to deliver its own climate action plan.


The message is stark - Derby has put the planet at risk by only employing one full-time officer for climate change. A report should whisked off to Ed Miliband as soon as possible, certainly before global boiling sets in.

Putting weary sarcasm aside though, one positive aspect is that this absurd little spat serves as reminder for anyone who still thinks that voting Conservative similar to voting conservative.