Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

RT by @CarolineLucas: the £3 billion annual cost of extending the 5p fuel duty cut is roughly equivalent to the annual fare take of every bus in England — £3.1 billion in 2023. so you could nearly make every bus free for the same cost https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables#government-support-for-the-bus-industry-and-concessionary-travel-england-bus05

[2024-10-30 16:15 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 🤔 Remember that £22 billion black hole?

😡 Brexit is costing us nearly twice that much *every single year*

🐘 It’s the elephant in the room as Rachel Reeves announces her first budget.

https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/will_budget_mention_b_word

[2024-10-30 08:06 UTC]

“As woods empty of wildlife, coral reefs ossify & wind howls through wastelands that used to be rainforests, the focus…has become lopsided. Climate change sucks up all the attention. Nature loss loses”. Another reason for a
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23NatureGCSE
- we need it now!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/03/we-are-in-danger-of-forgetting-what-the-climate-crisis-means-extinction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-11-03 17:35 UTC]

This 👇
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[2024-11-01 20:34 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: We're marching because we're angry . Sewage , agricultural run-off , the huge profits from water companies . . . enough is enough .

Sunday 11am , Albert Enbankment – see you there
@MarchforWater

[2024-11-01 09:26 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Join us on Sunday in Central London to March for Clean Water
@MarchforWater
@RiverActionUK

📍Albert Embankment, SE1 7HF
🪧Muster from 11am
🌊March from 11:45am
📢 Rally from 13:20 at Parliament Square

See you there, and remember to #WearBlue! 🪧🌊

[2024-10-31 22:50 UTC]

We're SICK of excuses 😡
💩3.6M hours of sewage were discharged into English rivers last year
💩464,056 discharges were counted for England last year
💩115,525 discharges were counted for Wales in 2023
It's time to make the water companies
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&amp; clean up their act! ...

[2024-10-30 09:38 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Well said, @CarolineLucas ! 🙌

Are you ready to #MarchForCleanWater this Sunday?

📍 Albert Embankment, London, SE1 7HF

🪧 Muster: From 11am

🌊 March: From 11:45am

📢 Rally from 13:30 at Parliament Square

We can't wait to see you there, and remember to #WearBlue!

[2024-10-30 19:29 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: "There needs to be a connection between Ofwat signing off the bill payers money for environmental improvements and actually ensuring that investment happens."

@GreenJennyJones putting her amendment to give Ofwat a legal duty to look after the environment. #MARCHFORCLEANWATER

[2024-11-01 06:33 UTC]

Pretty grim reading 👇
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[2024-11-01 17:11 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Fuel duty staying frozen and discounted for another year, at 10 x what it would have cost to keep the £2 bus fare cap.

Make it make sense 🤦
#Budget2024

[2024-10-30 15:48 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: The stark reality of genocide for Palestinians in Gaza is dismissed by Keir Starmer at #PMQs when raised by @TheGreenParty’s @carla_denyer.

As Palestinians face annihilation &amp; elimination, as Israel dismantles UNRWA, never have our politicians looked so spineless &amp; complicit.

[2024-10-30 14:00 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: NEW: Greens co-leader and MP Carla Denyer asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer 'how much more evidence' he needs before calling out atrocities in the Middle East as 'a genocide' at PMQs

Watch his response below 👇

[2024-10-30 12:52 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Gaza is experiencing a severe, ongoing humanitarian crisis. Banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian population, is an act of genocide.

Rather than wringing their hands over this criminal decision by the Israeli government, it is time for the UK government and the international community to act.

We must now see the suspension of arms sales to Israel, and the introduction of divestments, boycotts, sanctions and prosecutions for all those on all sides of the escalating conflict in the Middle East who have committed war crimes.

[2024-10-29 15:20 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Revealed: tax loophole exempts 355 landowners from inheritance tax - including huge grouse moor estates &amp; pheasant shoots

I FOI'd HMRC for details &amp; found this tax break is worth *at least* £68m &amp; likely far more

@RachelReevesMP please fix this! 1/

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/29/loophole-exempts-landowners-england-inheritance-tax-data-shows

[2024-10-29 09:44 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Even the Tories wouldn't have done this. The major ecological problem on Dartmoor is sheep grazing, and the associated burning and deforestation. It's like appointing the chief executive of Exxon as head of the Climate Change Committee. A breath-taking conflict of interest.

[2024-10-29 15:20 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Israel has voted to ban Unrwa, the UN's relief agency, from the country, effectively blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

How much more evidence is needed before the UK Government, and others, act on this genocide?

[2024-10-29 10:47 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: I'm delighted to announce that I have been appointed to the Environmental Audit Committee, following in the footsteps of @CarolineLucas who served on the committee for many years💚

It's really important work and I'm excited to get started at our first meeting this afternoon!

[2024-10-29 13:18 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: REACTION: Israel's ban of UNRWA

In full here: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/oxfam-reaction-to-israels-ban-of-unrwa/

[2024-10-28 20:45 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Hello: this is 'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK &amp; around the world––&amp; sings for their revival.

'Riversong' is free to print, share, set &amp; sing, speak aloud on a riverbank, post on walls or windows, adapt, translate, perform, turn into a placard on a protest, colour in, share with schools, friends, community choirs, campaign groups...ANYTHING you want.

No permission is needed for any use: the only condition is that you use it for the good of rivers &amp; people. Download link here or in my bio, hosted by the brilliant @Right_2Roam: https://www.righttoroam.org.uk/riversong

The art is by @nickhayesillus1 &amp; the words are by me. But there's no need ever to credit either of us. This is a choral work, made from &amp; by many voices. Nick's border art is a single, sinuous flow of river-beings, human &amp; more-than-human: Dipper, Otter, Swimmer, Stonefly, Cormorant, Elf Cups, Eel...

The words running around the frame are imagined as River's "undersong", to be murmured below the main lyrics. Substitute the names of your own rivers &amp; river-creatures there to make a new, localised undersong, anywhere in the world.

Historically, "Broadside ballads" were single-side printed sheets designed for announcing or protesting. For centuries, the arts of woodcut, typography &amp; poetry thrived symbiotically on broadsides: image, letter &amp; verse. Legibility &amp; memorability are key to the broadside tradition: we've tried to preserve those qualities here.

7 years ago, Nick &amp; I worked together on 'Heartwood', another free broadside ballad protesting the destruction of 1000s of street trees in Sheffield. ‘Heartwood’ ended up being fly-posted all over Sheffield, used in tree- &amp; forest-protection from Canada to Hyderabad, &amp; translated into Chinese, Dutch &amp; Telugu.

We’d love to see ‘Riversong’ move with similar wild energy in the world. Please share …

[2024-10-27 17:10 UTC]