Labour leader has latched on to another vacuous promise - a greener future.
If he were really serious about the issue he would have done his homework and uncovered the root cause of the neglect of our environment: local Labour councils, and not least the negligent burghers of Sefton., who do nothing to safeguard the area's history and heritage.
Whole swathes of greenbelt have been lost in Formby, Thornton, Melling and Lydiate in the madcap rush to create concrete jungles of social housing, and not even with any will to give priority to young people in the specific areas affected by housing need.
In Maghull, this dogma-driven drivel has been compounded by wiping out a huge swathe of grade one agricultural land at a time when farmers are being encouraged to grow more food.
These acts of wanton vandalism could have been avoided if the council insisted that existing brownfield sites were redeveloped, rather than allowing the bulldozing of virgin land. And then there are the areas of specific neglect, which includes the upkeep of parks and long established green spaces.
To this can be added the gross dereliction of cherished assets such as Crosby's Carnegie Library - boarded up for nearly a decade - and the nearby boating lake in Coronation Park.
All this against a backdrop or profligate spending on pet projects, the most salient example being the £30m to acquire and develop Bootle's New Strand as some pipedream canalside replica of Venice. And what a waste of time that has proven to be, with the net value of the site more than halving, but still with mountainous interest charges on the loan.
