I'll be heading down to Brighton later today to attend the Labour Party Conference and try to lobby for the importance of the natural environment in our lives. Last week we were in Bournemouth with the Lib Dems and next week it will be Manchester and the Tories. The party conferences give NGOs like the RSPB the opportunity to be on platforms with senior politicians and to hear their views, and put across our own, on how government policies can help the natural world.
I'll be blogging from Brighton to let you know how we get on - and how high a profile nature gets in Labour's thinking.
I see in the papers today that David Miliband is talking about future being the most important word in politics. Well, whatever coded message this might be to Gordon Brown it certainly chimes with the RSPB's thinking. We believe that the spending cuts that are heading our way, whichever political party is in power, should take full account of what type of future we are trying to create for future generations. will it be a future with bluebells and sparrows? rainforests and albatrosses? Please sign our Letter to the Future if you'd like to help us make the case to politicians that nature needs a future too - even when money is tight.