Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, former leader and co-leader of @TheGreenParty, Mum of two. A better world is possible. Let’s make it happen
Joined Apr 2022
What a missed opportunity. This review should look at ALL factors in water scandal *including* privatisation. Water is a public good & should be in public hands not run for private profit. And we need a new regulator, properly resourced & with real teeth
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/22/new-commission-may-ban-england-water-companies-from-making-a-profit
[2024-10-23 08:05 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: The Govt has a choice ahead of the budget. Taking from pensioners and those in need of benefits, or...
Taxing the richest fairly to raise £billions
All four @TheGreenParty MPs have signed this @GNDRising letter
[2024-10-22 09:41 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: 🤬 Water companies want to raise our bills even more than previously agreed, all while paying out millions to bosses and shareholders.
💚 The Green Party is clear. It's time for water companies to be run for people, not profit.
[2024-10-22 11:24 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, say experts in biodiversity warning https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/21/humanity-earth-natural-limits-biodiversity-warning-cop16-conference-scientists-academics?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
[2024-10-21 05:09 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: DYK that most protected areas aren’t actually protected at all?
Our new report shows only 0.9% of the global ocean is completely off limits to destructive human activities.
If governments are serious about protecting the ocean by 2030, they MUST ratify the Global Ocean Treaty NOW
[2024-10-21 08:51 UTC]
Huge congrats to the amazing
https://nitter.privacydev.net/ruthdavis27
on her new appointment as special envoy for nature. Nature couldn’t have a stronger or more fearless champion. Biodiversity is in freefall & more than ever we need real leadership which she will help deliver 👏
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/20/uk-appoints-first-nature-envoy-ruth-davis-to-tackle-species-decline
[2024-10-21 09:03 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: The ban on assisted dying, ostensibly in place to protect people, does nothing of the sort. Assisted deaths still take place but are merely driven behind closed doors or overseas.
Former DPPs, including the PM, agree it is now down to Parliament to act.
[2024-10-19 20:01 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: COP16 gets underway next week to discuss the world’s nature crisis.
But the UK doesn’t have a nature strategy and is showing up empty-handed.
We have launched a campaign to push nature up the political agenda.
Donate today ⤵️
[2024-10-19 11:10 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Millionaire business owners urge Rachel Reeves to raise £14bn from rise in capital gains tax. This Budget should equalise capital gains with income tax. Superb research from @IPPR spells out this common sense solution for our economy. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/17/millionaire-business-owners-urge-rachel-reeves-to-raise-14bn-from-rise-in-capital-gains-tax?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
[2024-10-17 05:23 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Increasing Capital Gains Tax won’t lead to lower investment, slower growth, or less entrepreneurship.
Julia Davies from @PatMillsUK says raising CGT won’t stop anyone serious about growing their business.
Find out more: https://www.ippr.org/articles/low-capital-gains-tax-is-not-a-sensible-way-to-support-entrepreneurs
[2024-10-17 08:26 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: There's been a lot of fearmongering around capital gains tax. We at @IPPR have tried to get under the skin and figure out how much it actually matters for entrepreneurs and investors.
Short answer - much less than vested interests would have us believe! 🧵1/6
[2024-10-17 09:46 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Despite what we're told, we CAN create a greener Britain in a way that's FAIR to people ACROSS the country.
We just need those with the BROADEST shoulders - who also EMIT the most - to play their PART.
Read the findings in full ⬇️ https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/resources/national-renewal-tax-report/
[2024-10-15 15:46 UTC]
This 👇
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[2024-10-16 13:59 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: It is clear that the far-right Netanyahu government is acting without restraint in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
And yet the UK continues to provide arms to Israel.
I asked the Minister if she recognises the UK's complicity in Israel's war crimes.
[2024-10-15 14:12 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Yet another example of how completely bonkers this whole system has become.
@unitedutilities and @stwater awarded a four-star environment rating by the @EnvAgency even through they illegally dumped sewage on 1,374 separate occasions.
HUH?! 🤔
[2024-10-14 07:26 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Laughable greenwashing from govt and Stansted too as they point out the airport will be building a solar farm to provide green electricity for airport buildings. Oh that makes up for all the jet fuel burned, does it?!
[2024-10-14 12:25 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Very odd for the government to announce an airport expansion against the recommendation of the Climate Change Committee on a day their industrial strategy claims to have green growth at its heart and boasts about UK decarbonisation https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/670cde8692bb81fcdbe7b745/industrial-strategy-green-paper-final.pdf
[2024-10-14 12:24 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: 💬 "Keir Starmer’s collapsing poll ratings must serve as a wake-up call to change tack and start giving people hope..."
My analysis of Keir Starmer's first 100 days in office, for @MetroUK ⤵️
https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/14/public-turned-keir-starmer-got-blame-21791647/
[2024-10-14 17:05 UTC]
R to @CarolineLucas: Not sure how they could be more clear: “The future of humanity lies in the balance” & we need “an ecological & post-growth economics framework that ensures social justice”. Report should be ringing deafening alarm bells with governments around the world
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae087/7808595
[2024-10-14 17:39 UTC]
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, former leader and co-leader of @TheGreenParty, Mum of two. A better world is possible. Let’s make it happen
Joined Apr 2022
