Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

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]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Second Early Day Motion has been sponsored by @sianberry on Ending the two-child benefit cap with @KimJohnsonMP as main sponsor.

@EllieChowns, @carla_denyer & @AdrianRamsay have signed to support the motion.

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/62321/ending-the-twochild-benefit-cap

[2024-07-18 07:34 UTC]

Great to see Green MP
https://nitter.privacydev.net/EllieChowns
table parliament’s very first Early Day Motion & to do it on issue as important as sewage discharges from reckless privatised water companies - bringing water back into public hands is vital first step
https://nitter.privacydev.net/ChrisGPackham
https://nitter.privacydev.net/Feargal_Sharkey
https://nitter.privacydev.net/We_OwnIt
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/Jamie_Woodward_/status/1813829106129121633#m
</p>

[2024-07-18 09:44 UTC]

Damning new
https://nitter.privacydev.net/theCCCuk
report shows reckless approach of Tory Govt means we’re way off track to meet our
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23climate
targets. Test for new Labour Govt must include huge building insulation &amp; retrofit scheme, &amp; bold measures to decarbonise agriculture, plant trees &amp; restore peatland
https://n.respublicae.eu/thecccuk/status/1813831462493515951

[2024-07-18 07:03 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: .@TheGreenParty has backed the Climate &amp; Nature Bill since @CarolineLucas proposed the very first version in 2020

If there's one thing I could have added to the #KingSpeech it would have been the #CANBill

We, the next generation of Green MPs, will make this a priority 💚🌍🦋

[2024-07-17 19:55 UTC]

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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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
&amp;
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 &amp; 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]