Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

RT by @CarolineLucas: Britain voted for change - so why is Keir Starmer only offering misery?

My piece today in @MetroUK 👇🏼

https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/28/britain-voted-change-keir-starmer-offering-misery-21498708/

[2024-08-28 06:11 UTC]

“Every time a politician says they want more economic growth, we need to ask: growth of what & for whose benefit?” Spot on from ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/jasonhickel
⁩. We won’t solve the huge crises we face by using the same economic model & thinking that created them👇
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/27/what-is-degrowth-can-it-save-planet?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-08-28 09:01 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Enduring more economic pain and hardship isn’t what people voted for. They were told they were voting for change. Not voting for things to get worse before they get better. Labour needs to be honest about the fact that they could choose to make things better for everyone if they were bolder and braver.

What is being framed as tough choices is actually about political choices. People don’t need a constant reminder that the Tories broke Britain. They need a new approach, not misguided fiscal rules that are set to make things worse.

We must generate the funds needed for investment by shifting the burden away from the poorest onto the wealthiest. Labour’s refusal to tax the super-rich shows that business as usual is very much still in business.

Keir Starmer says the violent riots earlier this month exposed a deeply unhealthy society. But the health of a society can’t be improved if it is forced to swallow the same failed medicine. The government can choose to provide the investment our communities are crying out for. This would help create hope and unleash the goodness of people to improve their communities.

[2024-08-27 10:39 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Keir Starmer said wealth creation is a priority for his government.

But he's cut the Winter Fuel Allowance for vulnerable pensioners and refuses to tax the super-rich fairly.

Who are you trying to create wealth for Prime Minister?

[2024-08-27 09:59 UTC]

If Starmer’s serious about “rooting out 14 years of Tory rot”, it’ll take more than new management - the country is crying out for a new mindset too. For inspiration & hope. The last thing we need is more austerity - policies like wealth taxes mean we *can* invest in our future

[2024-08-27 09:01 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Starmer warns of tough times ahead to fix ‘Tory ruins’

Not what people voted for when they chose Labour’s message of change on 4th July

Tax wealth fairly to make tough times unnecessary!

Choose ⁦⁦@TheGreenParty⁩ for real hope and real change
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/24/keir-starmer-warns-of-tough-times-ahead-to-fix-tory-ruins?CMP=share_btn_url

[2024-08-25 06:21 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Shocking that government is planning to reopen detention centres, one of which was closed after it was found to be "damaging to detainees".

Labour must end the cruel widespread use of immigration detention centres, and open safe routes to sanctuary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y87yp75ego

[2024-08-21 14:22 UTC]

If you’re angry at the reckless actions of the water companies which continue to pour shit into our rivers & seas, & believe Government should be going further & faster to stop them, please
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23FloodtheStreets
on 26 October & reclaim our right to clean water for all
https://nitter.privacydev.net/MarchforWater
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/MarchforWater/status/1826136625987960970#m
</p>

[2024-08-21 14:53 UTC]

Groundhog Day … austerity didn’t work under the Tories &amp; it won’t work under Labour either
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/guardiannews/status/1825973720911065554#m
</p>

[2024-08-20 21:37 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: The scandal of how water company bosses are using a flawed rating scheme to justify ridiculous pay packages is brilliantly exposed by @horton_official
👏👏

[2024-08-20 09:11 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Conservative MPs are doubling down on their hostility to Net Zero! 🤯

@ZackPolanski told @DeSmog, it shows the Tories have learnt nothing, are out of touch with the British people and are a threat to the planet

[2024-08-16 11:00 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Strip searching of children is one of the most racialised tactics used by police, and I’m very glad the Commissioner has taken up the issue country-wide. Every police service needs to take action to stop this traumatic practice causing further harm.

[2024-08-19 08:28 UTC]

“When civil disobedience is punished more severely than racist rioting, something has gone badly wrong” - spot on from ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/GeorgeMonbiot
⁩👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/14/peaceful-protest-punished-britain-racist-rioting-real-two-tier-justice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-08-15 20:30 UTC]

Regulatory reform &amp; more funds are vital if we’re to fix our broken water system. As water companies continue to dump their filth into our waterways, it beggars belief that Labour could contemplate backtracking on their commitments ⁦
https://nitter.privacydev.net/sascampaigns
⁩
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/activists-warn-of-extreme-anger-if-ministers-fail-to-reform-water-regulator?CMP=share_btn_url

[2024-08-14 12:30 UTC]

Peaceful climate protesters have just been sentenced to years in jail. And they’re appealing. Join me in telling the new government to scrap Tory anti-protest law now and
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23StopJailingTruthTellers
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk_climate_activists_loc/?twitter

[2024-08-13 06:57 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: There’s nothing glorious about the INGLORIOUS 12th

Does environmental destruction, animals being trapped and killed, and defenceless birds being blasted out of the sky sound glorious to you?

🎤 @ChrisGPackham

#Inglorious12th

[2024-08-12 08:48 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: At 11.02am on 9 August 1945, the US dropped Fat Man - an atomic bomb with a plutonium core - on the city of Nagasaki. It was 40 percent more powerful than the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima 3 days earlier and would kill 74,000 people by the end of 1945. #NeverAgain

[2024-08-09 10:01 UTC]

The scale of the cybersecurity failures at Sellafield are truly shocking - the risks it poses are like a ticking time bomb. Nuclear power is costly, slow to build, unnecessary &amp; dangerous. Let’s have no more of it
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/08/sellafield-apologises-guilty-plea-security-failings-nuclear?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-08-09 10:26 UTC]

Excellent letter from my colleague
https://nitter.privacydev.net/natalieben
- we urgently need a robust UN Plastics Treaty &amp; immediate end to single-use plastic in retail 👇
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/natalieben/status/1821793579238412387#m
</p>

[2024-08-09 07:31 UTC]

Painful to hear Nick Thomas-Symonds making terrible job of trying to defend the utterly indefensible on
https://nitter.privacydev.net/BBCr4today
- deducting prison food &amp; living costs from compensation paid to people wrongly imprisoned is simply obscene. Come on Labour - people expect better

[2024-08-09 07:23 UTC]