Bristol Labours chance to show Ed's views on Climate Change are serious

I welcome Ed Millibands comments in the media in the last couple of days - he was all over the Sunday Observer, with his comments about the need to take action on climate change.

So lets make a quite reasonable assumption that the local Labour Party supports Ed. I therefore ask the following.

For Ed's comments to be more than so much hot air, we as a society are going to have to take a whole set of decisions to tackle climate change.

Some will be popular, some will be easy, But there will be others which are neither.

One decision which fits into this latter category is residents parking. On the one hand, there is no doubt that residents parking will stop commuters coming in to parts of Bristol. It will also set some small limits to the number of vehicles owned in an area.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that numbers of people both resent and loathe the very idea.

So perhaps the local Labour Party can tell us. Do you take your leader seriously? And if so - are you prepared to risk unpopularity in order to tackle climate change?