Jenny Riddell-Carpenter

But I, I suppose looking at Labour conference this week though, which is where the Labradors come in, it's clear that this tendency still is very much in presence there.

We, I think we've got this clip of, this is the Labour Nature Minister who was speaking at a fringe meeting and had some pretty striking things to say about the countryside and fascism.

I think we've got that somewhere for us to all enjoy.

I do believe that the next election's going to be fought on a battle line of nature and rural affairs, and it'll be the far right deciding and determining what that looks like, and it'll be a vision, a nostalgic Britain of Brit- a nostalgic vision of Britain that never really existed.

It's a kind of sneering attitude towards white working class patriotism.

This feels like the equivalent with the kind of rural life, which, um, people from those communities are obviously pretty affronted by the idea that the way in which that they go about things, the way in which people in rural England have been going about things for a very long time, that sense of continuity which exists there, which certainly doesn't exist [laughs] in many of our towns and cities anymore, is something which is nefarious, suspicious, neo-fascistic.

It's, it's particularly funny because this Nature Minister, Jenny Riddell Carpenter, she's from rural Suffolk.

Um, that it didn't take long for the tabloids to dig up pictures of her enjoying pints of ale in country pubs with a dog.

Here are the nominees.

Christine's gone for Jenny Riddell Carpenter.

This is the Labour Minister for saying a vision of Brits drinking warm ale in pubs with black Labradors by their feet is far right.

She says, and I love this, black labs matter.

Of course, Prince Harry is nominated for the aforementioned reasons.

Neil Hamilton has nominated Alex Norris for the early prison release scheme.

And Christine Hamilton has nominated Jenny Riddell Carpenter for saying that a vision of Brits drinking more mail in pubs with black Labradors by their feet is far right.

And she says black labs matter.

The Nowhere Photographer going for Richard Tice for saying his footage capturing a migrant leaving his child behind when boarding a small boat was staged.

And Father Calvin Robinson going for Jenny Riddell-Carpenter for saying a version, a vision of Brits drinking ale with black labs in pubs is quote-unquote far right.

Okay, this is interesting, and the results are in.

In third position with 25%, Richard Tice.

The runner-up with 31%, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter.

But today's winner is Peter C. Barnes.

Emily Thornbury has been named the worst Briton in the world with 44% of your vote.

Let's talk about the countryside.

The nature minister, Jenny Riddell Carpenter, told a fringe event here about her fears of the next election being fought over competing visions of rural Britain.

She said, I do believe the next election is going to be fought on a battle line of nature and rural affairs.

And there'll be the far right deciding and determining what that looks like.

It is here, it is real, and this government is tackling it, she said.

On the government's 30 by 30 goals, Riddle Carpenter added that it was not simply a target but a national mission and that the government was investing £37 million a year in new funding over the next three years to help national parks and national landscapes recover.

Interviewed by ENDS after Riddle Carpenter's speech, Richard Benwell, chief executive of the Wildlife and Countryside Link, which organised the meeting, said her speech was a welcome change of tone from the previous Labour government.

And finally, the government has committed to tightening limits on the forever chemical PFOS and more.

DEFRA has said it will put forward a statutory instrument to tighten limits on PFOS, a suspected carcinogen, and a group of substances used in flame retardants, as well as ban newly listed persistent organic pollutants, POPs.