Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

RT by @CarolineLucas: Listened intently but what was clearly missing from the #KingsSpeech was INVESTMENT.
❌ NHS
❌ Council homes
❌ Green New Deal
And powers for councils to run buses are ✅ but little use without INVESTMENT!
Green MPs will keep making the case that our country deserves better.

[2024-07-17 11:09 UTC]

Plenty to welcome in new
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23KingsSpeech
but lots of gaps too - eg no commitment to taking water sector out of grip of profiteers & putting into public hands, no plan to address poverty including lifting brutal 2 child benefit cap, and a big hole where nature restoration should be

[2024-07-17 11:04 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 📺 "That's a choice the Labour government could take."

@carla_denyer on the need to immediately scrap the cruel two-child benefit cap.

[2024-07-16 16:02 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: "Where there are real gaps in what Labour is putting forward... We will work with other parties to challenge that."

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay responds to @MarthaKearney who asks how the party will hold Labour to account on plans outlined in the King's Speech today.

[2024-07-17 06:41 UTC]

If Labour is serious about integrity in politics, they simply can’t defend the hugely undemocratic first past the post system which handed them 2 thirds seats on 1 third of vote & effectively disenfranchises so many in “safe seats” whose votes don’t count
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/17/labour-divided-over-calls-to-scrap-first-past-the-post-after-landslide-win?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-07-17 08:46 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Research by the IFS shows 2.6 million children will be affected by the two-child benefit cap by the end of the next parliament.

The policy also disproportionately affects families of colour.

It is a political choice to keep these children in poverty.

[2024-07-16 12:02 UTC]

Very sorry to hear of the death of Mary Mears, former leader of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23Brighton
&
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23Hove
city council - of course we had big political differences but I know she loved our city with a passion and worked tirelessly for its people. RIP Mary

[2024-07-15 10:17 UTC]

An agonising loss but you gave us a great ride. Thank you Gareth Southgate and the team for showing us an England we can be proud of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23EURO2024
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[2024-07-14 21:07 UTC]

Unity born of diversity is at the heart of this amazing England team & that’s worth celebrating whatever happens tonight. It’s not just about football coming home - as Andrew Anthony says, “far more importantly, football has helped make our home” 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/14/a-galvanising-sense-of-unity-a-football-team-that-is-multiracial-and-distinctively-english

[2024-07-14 09:17 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Shocking news overnight from the US - with grave implications for democracy. There can be no place for violence, harassment, abuse or intimidation in politics. Elected representatives and those in positions of power all have a role and responsibility to defend democracy and heal divisions rather than stoke hatred.

[2024-07-14 08:58 UTC]

And still the UK licenses arm sales to Israel - what’s our new government waiting for?
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23CeasefireNow
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/ActionAidUK/status/1812121454659469479#m
</p>

[2024-07-14 06:35 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: I am horrified by yet another senseless massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israel: 71 killed and nearly 300 wounded in a zone where Israel itself had told them to seek refuge. The justification is always the same: "targeting Palestinian militants". When is the world going to stop this death machine??
https://aje.io/n79n05 via @AJEnglish

[2024-07-13 16:16 UTC]

“If non-voting was a party, it would have largest share of support by far”. Alarm bells should be ringing over lowest turnout since 1928 - just 52% of UK adults. A fairer voting system where all votes count has to be first step to rebuild trust - Labour??
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/12/lowest-turnout-in-uk-general-election-since-universal-suffrage-report-shows

[2024-07-13 10:18 UTC]

“The UK is nightmare for climate activists” - UN Rapporteur. Thanks ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/damiengayle
⁩ for spotlight on horrific treatment of peaceful climate protestors by courts where evidence of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23climateemergency
not allowable &amp; sentences shockingly disproportionate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/12/contempt-gagging-un-intervention-uk-wildest-climate-trial-just-stop-oil

[2024-07-13 09:46 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Really important thread.

And a very tangible demonstration of where putting profit over the need for a public service was always going to lead.

It's time for OFWAT to step up, Thames Water to step down &amp; for the government to nationalise our water companies.

👇🏼

[2024-07-12 11:34 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 🗣️ "Proportional Representation is necessary to restore faith in politics"

My thoughts for @guardian today on the need for electoral reform in a rigged system.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/11/green-party-four-seats-labour-proportional-representation

[2024-07-11 16:14 UTC]

Hope Ed Miliband ignores right wing scare stories &amp; swiftly confirms immediate ban on all new N Sea oil &amp; gas fields. Those cheerleading for fossil fuel industry must not be allowed to derail us from the path towards a green transition. And revoking
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23Rosebank
must then follow
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/adamvaughan_uk/status/1811371427674677524#m
</p>

[2024-07-11 14:34 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Some v misleading claims about heat pumps in this @Telegraph comment piece by Robert Taylor

It fails to grasp the key point about heat pumps - they lead to energy security. Reliance on gas boilers is a major reason we were so badly hit by the gas crisis

Here's the rundown... 🧵

[2024-07-11 14:03 UTC]

This is very lovely - thank you
https://nitter.privacydev.net/wainwrightprize
🙂
https://nitter.privacydev.net/HutchHeinemann
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23WainwrightPrize

[2024-07-11 11:04 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 🤯 Water companies want to hike our bills even more to pay for their failure.

📈 Thames Water customers will see a 22% increase in their bills over the next five years.

🤝 Water companies should immediately be brought into public hands and run for people, not profit.

[2024-07-11 09:55 UTC]