Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu
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RT by @CarolineLucas: The incredible @CarolineLucas accepting her lifetime achievement award at @edie tonight - and reminding us that GDP is fundamentally flawed, and we should instead be measuring wellbeing #edieawards
[2024-03-06 19:27 UTC]
Thanks so much Table 42 😊. And to all at amazing
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- so honoured to be awarded the
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for
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tonight
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[2024-03-06 21:13 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: 📺 "Our tax system is set up in a way that those who are on low incomes pay much more than the wealthiest."
@carla_denyer reacts to #Budget2024 on BBC News ⬇️
[2024-03-06 17:11 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Green MP Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas said that the budget today failed to help renters or to address the lack of affordable housing ...
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/03/06/budget-today-fails-to-help-renters-or-tackle-our-housing-problem/
[2024-03-06 17:17 UTC]
Genuinely can’t quite believe that
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is supporting fuel duty freeze which
- has cost c. £90bn since 2010
- increased emissions by 7%
- benefits wealthiest most
Has it totally given up on progressive politics?
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[2024-03-06 15:52 UTC]
Councils face extraordinary pressures because of Tory cuts, including in
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, yet Hunt fails to properly fund essential local government services that people rely on- it’s utterly unsustainable
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[2024-03-06 15:50 UTC]
Most public services face huge cuts - and this on top of the unforgivable damage the Tories have already done with so called austerity. Grim and wrong
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[2024-03-06 14:55 UTC]
UK is still at bottom of G7 for private investment so Chancellor’s smugness is singularly misplaced. Investment in green economy is good for jobs & economy as well as cutting emissions. So why didn’t Chancellor invest today to crowd in more private investment?
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[2024-03-06 14:53 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: Fuel duty has been frozen for 14 years now.
Here's how rail fares have risen in that time:
2011⬆️6.22%
2012⬆️5.9%
2013⬆️3.9%
2014⬆️2.8%
2015⬆️2.2%
2016⬆️1.1%
2017⬆️2.3%
2018⬆️3.4%
2019⬆️3.1%
2020⬆️2.7%
2021⬆️2.6%
2022⬆️3.8%
2023⬆️5.9%
2024⬆️4.9%
[2024-03-06 13:53 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: #Budget2024 Chancellor’s tax cut means less for the public good. There is wealth, but it’s not shared or used fairly. It’s why Greens support a wealth tax to fund the NHS and the green investment our people and economy need. That’s what people in Brighton want my priority to be.
[2024-03-06 12:39 UTC]
RT by @CarolineLucas: 💸 The effect of the growing inequality gap and cost of living crisis is clear for everyone to see.
🤯 And yet the Chancellor's #Budget2024 was the exact opposite of what the country needs.
@carla_denyer lays out the Green Party's five-point plan for a fairer, greener country👇
[2024-03-06 13:39 UTC]
As if Labour scrapping the £28bn weren’t enough, they're backing the fuel duty freeze which has cost the Treasury tens of billions, increased emissions & benefits rich households most. So much for Rachel Reeves aspiring to be Britain's first green Chancellor …
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[2024-03-06 14:14 UTC]
Did Starmer really just attack the Govt from the right by criticizing him for not cutting income tax? Twilight zone.
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[2024-03-06 14:05 UTC]
So the Tories stuck by austerity to the bitter end with a final horrifying
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to further starve UK of investment and impoverish our public services whilst ignoring and exacerbating climate emergency. Future generations will not forgive this Govt's 14 year failure to act
[2024-03-06 13:43 UTC]
As the Chancellor gloats over cutting 2p off
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, don’t forget the
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analysis that shows this will benefit top 20% 12 times more than the bottom 20%, who will see just £0.3bn of a policy costing us £9.5bn
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[2024-03-06 13:39 UTC]
Important tweet below- looks like no actual increase for
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services
Hunt was person in charge for 6years pre-covid when Tories starved and ran down NHS &
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warned him on Monday the NHS faced biggest real terms cut since 1970s.
This
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leaves NHS in grave peril
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[2024-03-06 13:37 UTC]
I'm glad Hunt has stolen Labour's policy to scrap non-dom status. If he really wants the rich to pay their fair share, why doesn't he steal a
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policy while he’s at it, with a wealth tax on the super rich?
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[2024-03-06 13:35 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
