Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

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

[2024-08-04 06:46 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: I am appalled by what has taken place in cities across the UK this weekend. We have seen racists terrorising local communities, raiding shops owned by people of colour, and what look terrifyingly like attempted lynch mobs.

The racist protesters have been chanting “stop the boats". We all know where this poisonous rhetoric has come from.

This MUST be a wake-up call to all politicians who have actively promoted or given in to the rhetoric of immigration being a threat to this country.

My home city of Bristol is a proudly diverse and welcoming city. The hatred and organised political violence of those who came to intimidate our communities has no place here and we stand proudly against Islamophobia, racism and all forms of hate.

I thank the police for their efforts to contain those intent on violence and maintain safety in the city, and thank those who came out in peaceful support of the UK as a tolerant and welcoming country.

Our work now is to unite - in Bristol and nationally - to support those who feel unsafe and targeted by this hatred, and to build that unity against the far-right’s racism, Islamophobia and violence.

[2024-08-04 08:52 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: Literally one of the few places on the high street meant to help people negotiate state bureaucracy - and they burned it.

[2024-08-03 11:42 UTC]

This👇
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[2024-08-02 12:17 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: I do not understand how this is not the main news story about Trump, every day, in our free press. The BBC headline is that he called Harris a "bum" 🫠

[2024-07-27 07:25 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: If you ever want to vote again, if you want to live in a country where one day your children and grandchildren can vote, you need to vote for Harris this November.

[2024-07-27 11:46 UTC]

“Not to have control of our water is insane” - 3 cheers for Stephen Fry on
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23bbclaurak
. Taking our broken water system away from reckless profiteers &amp; putting back into public hands is vital step. But the enforcement regime is broken too - it needs more resources &amp; sharper teeth

[2024-07-28 08:40 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: Looks like Labour could abandon its promise to do #Leveson inquiry part 2

The phone hacking &amp; press criminality scandals had devastating consequences for their victims. They deserve justice. We all deserve media reform. Join me &amp; @HackedOffHugh in holding the Govt to account 👇

[2024-07-26 10:46 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 &amp; 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 &amp; costly nuclear &amp; 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]

Looking forward to it, thanks 🙂👇
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[2024-07-24 19:52 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]