Seems like Sunak is dodging scrutiny by failing to appoint new chair of Climate Change Committee - handy to avoid being challenged on his economically & environmentally illiterate strategy of rolling back measures for cheaper electricity & warmer homes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/14/sunak-dodging-scrutiny-by-failing-to-appoint-chair-of-climate-change-committee
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1746495183825359159#m
[2024-01-14 11:31 UTC]
Spot on from
https://nitter.cz/ProfTimBale
“By overdoing fiscal orthodoxy & tough talk on migration, [Starmer] could easily end up reinforcing Europe’s big shift to the right instead of becoming a beacon of hope for the continent’s battered progressives”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/14/europe-marches-right-keir-starmer-carry-centre-left-torch
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1746497630480294084#m
[2024-01-14 11:40 UTC]
Thank you
https://nitter.cz/independentbtn
for hosting my first drop in surgery of 2024 today. Health issues were a key problem constituents raised with me, will be following up
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Brighton
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745574966307811752#m
[2024-01-11 22:34 UTC]
Nuclear is eye-wateringly costly, painfully slow & totally unnecessary - Government’s latest announcement is costly distraction from far more effective ways to tackle the
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23climatecrisis
& bring down energy bills. We don’t need more nuclear white elephants
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/uk-government-sets-out-plans-for-biggest-nuclear-power-expansion-in-70-years
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745371133849784348#m
[2024-01-11 09:04 UTC]
“This news is confirmation that reform is both needed & inevitable, & will act as a clarion call to all those who wish for generations to come to enjoy these fundamental freedoms” Spot on
https://nitter.cz/curiousways
- we won before & we’ll win again
https://nitter.cz/EveryonesStars
.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/landowners-supreme-court-case-threatens-dartmoor-wild-camping-victory?CMP=share_btn_tw
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745374112451559734#m
[2024-01-11 09:16 UTC]
Looking forward to bringing Ella’s Law to the Commons next week after its passage thru the Lords tks to
https://nitter.cz/GreenJennyJones
Named for Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi Debrah, who died aged 9 from air pollution, it would make breathing clean air a basic right
https://nitter.cz/EllaRobertaFdn
https://nitter.cz/CleanAirLondon
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745094121620939213#m
[2024-01-10 14:43 UTC]
The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill is a political stunt
It won't deliver energy security or lower bills, but will drive climate breakdown & lead to yet more flooding
No wonder even Tories are denouncing it
https://nitter.cz/ClimateAPPG
https://nitter.cz/GreenpeaceUK
Me for
https://nitter.cz/MetroUK
https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/10/even-tories-know-rishi-sunak-cant-trusted-save-planet-20093084/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745099028231061959#m
[2024-01-10 15:03 UTC]
So I ask
https://nitter.cz/RishiSunak
how many times he's been briefed on climate science by the Chief Scientist in 2023 and he refers me to an answer given by (checks photo) - Boris Johnson in 2022
Does the PM not read MPs' questions? Or does he always check with Johnson first?
Just asking
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1745042842236416455#m
[2024-01-10 11:20 UTC]
While Ministers desperately try to portray themselves as the good guys in the
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23PostOfficeScandal
, perhaps the PM can explain why the Govt continued to award contracts to Fujitsu long after they knew that Horizon wasn’t fit for purpose
https://nitter.cz/FT
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744999675055206773#m
[2024-01-10 08:28 UTC]
What's terrifying about this isn't only that 2023 was the warmest year ever, it's how close we're coming to 1.5C - the limit signed up to in the Paris Agreement
Yet still Govt want to expand drilling for fossil fuels. How many more warnings do they need?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67861954
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744698471913762868#m
[2024-01-09 12:31 UTC]
Minister says his “thoughts & sympathies” are with flood victims - but it rings hollow when Govt is making extreme weather events worse by doubling down on new fossil fuels.
When will they:
- Fix crumbling flood defences
- Take adaptation seriously
- End new oil and gas licences
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744443813806883109#m
[2024-01-08 19:39 UTC]
The last thing our flooded country needs right now is a climate-wrecking Bill to expand oil & gas production
It's a political stunt from a desperate PM and sends a dangerous signal to other countries of a UK doubling down on the fossil fuel economy
https://news.sky.com/story/maximising-north-sea-oil-and-gas-is-opposed-to-promise-at-cop28-climate-summit-government-told-13043967
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744392725326160107#m
[2024-01-08 16:16 UTC]
The Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill fails on all counts
❌it won't deliver energy security
❌it won't cut household bills
❌it undermines UK climate targets
❌it ignores an accelerating climate crisis
That's why I'm saying MPs should kill the Bill now
https://nitter.cz/StopCambo
https://nitter.cz/ClimateAPPG
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744307501980422248#m
[2024-01-08 10:38 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: 🆕NEW: Over the weekend, @ClimateAPPG MPs and Peers wrote to @ClaireCoutinho to call on the government to withdraw the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill, which has its second reading in Parliament today.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ClimateAPPG/status/1744255376629940654#m
[2024-01-08 07:11 UTC]
I’m recruiting! If you like working at a fast pace and have political/comms experience you could join my small but perfectly formed team as parliamentary communications officer. Please visit
https://greenparty.org.uk/jobs/
for details and to apply.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1744061270318284999#m
[2024-01-07 18:19 UTC]
Delighted so many cross party MPs signed our
https://nitter.cz/ClimateAPPG
letter urging Energy Minister to withdraw Govt’s reckless plans to award yet more fossil fuel licenses.The science is clear - there can be no new oil & gas if we’re to avoid worst of
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23climate
crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/07/rishi-sunaks-woes-mount-with-oil-bill-rebellion-byelections-and-asylum-row?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1743943772197515323#m
[2024-01-07 10:32 UTC]
Thanks to cross party colleagues for signing our
https://nitter.cz/ClimateAPPG
letter to Energy Minister urging her to scrap new Bill to “max out” N. Sea’s oil & gas reserves. It undermines our global
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23climate
commitments, reverses UK leadership & fails to deliver lower bills or energy security
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1743958863957680243#m
[2024-01-07 11:32 UTC]
Tory MP Chris Skidmore quits over oil & gas licences. Memo to Sunak - this is what principled politics looks like. A real pleasure working with
https://nitter.cz/CSkidmoreUK
on climate & he’ll be much missed. Huge indictment of Govt reckless maxing out fossil fuels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67895246
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1743332784695910470#m
[2024-01-05 18:05 UTC]
📣Patcham residents in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Brighton
may have seen news about possible flooding over the next 24 hours.
https://nitter.cz/EnvAgency
guidance is below and if you have any concerns about your home, please don't hesitate to contact my office on brightonoffice@parliament.uk.
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/01/03/patcham-residents-told-to-prepare-for-flooding/
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1742949434625782180#m
[2024-01-04 16:41 UTC]
Govt said
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Rosebank
oil field would cut energy bills - then Energy Sec admitted it wouldn't. Govt said it would boost energy security - now Minister admits vast majority of oil won't be used here. So what is Rosebank for, other than climate destruction?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/04/uk-government-admits-rosebank-oil-will-not-be-kept-in-uk-to-boost-energy-security
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1742953171306127833#m
[2024-01-04 16:56 UTC]
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