Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

RT by @CarolineLucas: No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

[2024-08-04 06:46 UTC]

“Merseyside police working flat out on a murder inquiry shouldn’t have to waste their time dealing with an attention-seeking backbencher from Essex, one who wrongly blamed riots in Leeds on “the politics of the subcontinent”.Spot on ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/gabyhinsliff
⁩👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/02/southport-riots-parliament-keir-starmer-justice-violence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-08-03 17:54 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: For Shell to post billions in profits, through a strategy of prioritising oil and gas over clean energy, just days after the planet experienced its warmest day on record, is sickening.

The Government should increase the rate of the windfall tax on these oil and gas giants and close the existing loopholes and tax-relief mechanisms they benefit from.

The profits could be spent on a programme of home insulation to bring down bills and reduce our carbon emissions.

Read about Shell's profits on @Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/shell-posts-ps10-9bn-profit-after-second-quarter-beats-expectations-b2589370.html

[2024-08-01 15:43 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: ✅ Cancelling the Stonehenge road project will be the right decision but for the wrong reason. The country NEEDS capital investments, and to find amazing cost-benefit ratios, the Chancellor should look at council housing: buying, building and refurbishing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c724g07qwdwo

[2024-07-29 06:12 UTC]

If only there were a way to raise money for public investment fairly...

[2024-07-29 11:48 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: The lack of courage from the PM on Leveson 2 is grim.
“Labour and News UK have declined to comment on claims that he reached an understanding before the election with the Murdoch family’s News UK, owner of the Times and the Sun” https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jul/25/keir-starmer-confirms-he-has-no-plans-to-revive-second-stage-of-leveson-inquiry

[2024-07-26 07:17 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: To the Labour Party activists in my replies and QTs:
1. Hi 👋
2. The Labour Party used to campaign for #Leveson2 - see exhibits A, B, C and D.
3. I’m not sure ‘the Labour Party never promised to do this good thing’ is the hot take you think it is…

[2024-07-26 15:02 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: "We must put in place real, meaningful consequences such as targeted individual sanctions on Prime Minister Netanyahu and other leaders..."

@EllieChowns responds to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's appearance at the US Congress.

[2024-07-25 10:57 UTC]

“The UK is forecast to hand out 72 oil and gas licences this year, which would result in an estimated 101m tonnes of planet-warming pollution, a 50-year high” - these plans are obscene & ways urgently need to be found to reverse them. End of
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/new-oil-gas-emission-data-us-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-07-25 08:15 UTC]

So 2 cheers for creation of GB Energy - at last we have a Secretary of State who gets the scale of the
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23climate
challenge, but the new institution needs more funds, it needs not to get distracted by slow & costly nuclear & it needs to have a retail arm too
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/25/offshore-wind-to-power-20m-homes-within-five-years-starmer-to-pledge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-07-25 07:56 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Peaceful climate protestors do not belong in prison and over 1,000 public figures across academic , cultural and political circles agree . @AttorneyGeneral , please meet with us urgently to right this grotesque wrong . #WholeTruthFive https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/stars-take-attorney-general-to-task-over-just-stop-oil-jail-terms-tk3rdkbx6

[2024-07-23 14:14 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Sunday was world’s hottest ever recorded day, data suggests

- Preliminary data from @CopernicusECMWF suggests temperature records were shattered, taking world into ‘uncharted territory’

#ClimateCrisis
Story by @NiranjanAjit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/23/world-temperature-records-shattered-hottest-day-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_url

[2024-07-24 08:55 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: BREAKING: NEW FOI figures show almost 28,000 badgers have been marked for slaughter in licences issued under the controversial supplementary cull that began on 1 June

We call for @DefraGovUK Nature Minister to protect nature & stop the #badger cull
> https://buff.ly/3YzydeX

🧵

[2024-07-24 08:59 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Our Science Weekly podcast on the massive sentences handed down to the Just Stop Oil protesters: their context and the implications for protest in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/jul/23/george-monbiot-on-the-record-jail-terms-given-to-just-stop-oil-activists-podcast

[2024-07-23 08:00 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Today's decision emanating from Southwark Crown Court is an outrage . It is an attack on our civil liberties , we must defend our right to peaceful protest .

@AttorneyGeneral , please meet with us urgently . This grotesque miscarriage of justice must be fixed .

#WholeTruthFive

[2024-07-18 19:09 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: ⛓️ To give you a sense of how horrifying and brutal these prison sentences for #JustStopOil activists are:

Average sentence for violent crime = 1.7 years.

Average sentence for the JSO activists = 4.3 years.

[2024-07-18 16:00 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 🇬🇧 Today marks a very dark day for fundamental human rights in the UK. Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 & 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest. This decision is beyond comprehension. Full statement here: https://unece.org/sites/default/files/2024-07/ACSR_C_2024_26_UK_SR_EnvDefenders_public_statement_18.07.2024.pdf

[2024-07-18 15:41 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Just one of the outstandingly ignorant things Judge Hehir said to the defendants during the trial.
He refused to listen their reasons for their actions, he ignored climate scientists, and he gave harsh sentences.
I will speak on this in the Lords next Weds.

[2024-07-18 16:10 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Today 5 people who care about our planet have been viciously sentenced under laws that remove our right to peaceful protest.
So I came to join those who stand in solidarity. We cannot put people behind bars for urging us to do what we know is right. #WholeTruth5

[2024-07-18 18:18 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Fantastic to hear @sianberry give a shout out to two @bhasvic students in her maiden speech to Parliament as part of the >@CitizensBH alliance that saw >@BrightonHoveCC fund a pilot for mental health support

[2024-07-17 19:24 UTC]