Dear all

I don’t usually forward anything like this, as we all receive enough spam and pyramid mail as it is, but perhaps with Egypt’s recent people power as a lead, we can also can make a small improvement to the state of this country, below this paragraph is a link, a petition related to halting the sale of british public woodlands. I feel particularly passionately that the sale of british public woodlands, is another shortsighted revenue generating idea from the government, hopefully you do to ? which as per usual involves the thatcher-esque permanent transfer of that which we already publicly own, into a smaller subset of private individuals hands for a temporary boost to government funds. Really the government need to be more inventive than this, yes we have a large deficit to deal with, but i would rather limit the size of the welfare system, than privatising and taking a literal physical cut to the forests of this land, if the woodlands old native deciduous or recent non deciduous is to be beneficially harvested, then it should be done so in a controlled and sustainable way, whilst remaining still in public hands. perhaps contracting out and allowing private companies to maintain and improve such woodlands profitably, with revenue passed to the public purse, but not own them, ie not a privatisation or sell off for all time.

please forward to those who you think might be interested in this cause.

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-forests

apologies re sending this email to those who were not keen to receive it, I’m not normally a political animal, but perhaps we should re-invigorate the concept of democracy within this digital era.