After the EU

I certainly don't have any special insights. For wildlife and habitat the imediate concern is I think, that protections that are currently supported by EU level legislation will not be adequately re-drafted into UK (and NI, Wales and Scotland) law when the split fully happens. None of the effects of Brexit have been thought through and if the UK's historical approach to farming for instance takes over from the EU influenced model then we may see much more rapid industrialisation of agriculture with some very negative consequences for rural UK.

On the issues of TTIP and GM, I fear we will be far less able to resist a US favoured trade model outside the EU than when were in it and that we will be TTIPed by default without having any say whatever. The effect of the outvote is also likely to greatly strengthen the hand of the political Right and I doubt very much that once we are outside the EU, that the UK will continue to ban GM, either as imports or as crops. In fact I would say that all 'green' policies are now heavily under threat as a worsening economic position becomes the excuse to dump any green restrictions on economic activity. From my perspective the EU is a progressive force, that the arguments against it have largely been based on impossible perfectionism, and that we are now going to feel the effects of the loss of a strong progressive influence. Unless in the very unlikely event the UK is able to generate a very different political force of its own to anything currently on offer and there doesn't seem much sign of that on the horizon.