Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu

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 & pheasant shoots

I FOI'd HMRC for details & found this tax break is worth *at least* £68m & 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 & around the world––& sings for their revival.

'Riversong' is free to print, share, set & 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 & 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 & the words are by me. But there's no need ever to credit either of us. This is a choral work, made from & by many voices. Nick's border art is a single, sinuous flow of river-beings, human & 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 & 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 & poetry thrived symbiotically on broadsides: image, letter & verse. Legibility & memorability are key to the broadside tradition: we've tried to preserve those qualities here.

7 years ago, Nick & 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- & forest-protection from Canada to Hyderabad, & translated into Chinese, Dutch & Telugu.

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

[2024-10-27 17:10 UTC]

So in his speech today, Starmer is apparently going to say today “Politics is always a choice”. Exactly. So why is Labour choosing to target some of the least well off rather than raise taxes on the wealth of the super-rich?
https://nitter.privacydev.net/PatMillsUK

[2024-10-28 07:59 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Cheaper electricity key to meeting Britain’s recommended carbon target for 2035, says @piersforster

Will ministers finally start making polluting gas more expensive and cleaner electricity cheaper? No sign from govt, yet. Previous govts twice said they would, and did nothing

[2024-10-26 12:56 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: "We need to be sprinting towards decarbonisation of our economy, not ambling." - @AdrianRamsay

The UN Emissions Gap Report is clear - we need climate action now.

[2024-10-25 11:10 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: UNEP: New climate pledges need ‘quantum leap’ in ambition to deliver Paris goals | @hausfath

Read here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3BXOCjY

[2024-10-25 06:22 UTC]

Anything from the brilliant
https://nitter.privacydev.net/AnthonyBarnett
is always worth reading - and this is no exception - provocative and forensic as always 👇
<p>
https://nitter.privacydev.net/AnthonyBarnett/status/1849208393434615898#m
</p>

[2024-10-25 07:26 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Both Trump and Harris are products of 1960s American politics – and that matters for what they stand for. Read the latest analysis from @AnthonyBarnett here👇
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/us-election-2024-trump-harris-marks-a-fork-in-world-history/

[2024-10-24 16:18 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: 🔥 Delighted we have a new cross-party group in parliament to scrutinise &amp; build UK-EU relations.

The “All-Party Parliamentary Group on Europe” launched on Tues - chaired by @DrRosena - and I’m proud to say European Movement UK will be the secretariat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-keir-starmer-europe-eu-b2634368.html

[2024-10-24 07:40 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Our tax system is so unfair that millionaires are literally *asking* the government to tax them more...

@RachelReevesMP what was that about 'tough choices'?

[2024-10-24 10:06 UTC]

Suggestions that solar panels for new homes may just be optional after pressure on Labour from house builders would make mockery of any commitment to greener homes - Labour must face down house builder lobby if it’s to retain any credibility on this 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/23/labour-considering-weaker-rules-on-solar-panels-for-new-homes-in-england?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[2024-10-23 16:58 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Sewage dumped in rivers &amp; on beaches, billions of £££ paid out in dividends and water companies loaded with debt

That is the legacy of privatisation yet the Govt won't even consider public ownership in its review of the industry

[2024-10-23 12:18 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: Outstanding work by @alextomo: a covert investigation into how––what a surprise––grouse-moor gamekeepers are illegally killing ultra-rare hen harriers as well as buzzards and ravens.
Tomorrow @Natures_Voice launches its #BirdCrime report.
Excellent, depressingly necessary work

[2024-10-22 21:16 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: The Guardian says stock market listing is the answer to water industry woes.

That increases pressure for profits, won't eliminate profiteering, dividends, customer abuse, financial engineering, tax abuse.

How many ethical listed companies are there?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2024/oct/22/new-water-commission-must-create-an-environmental-enforcer-that-is-feared

[2024-10-23 06:28 UTC]

RT by @CarolineLucas: It’s clear @ofwat has failed as a regulator but so has privatisation. Massive profits paid to shareholders, companies loaded with debt, water shortages in some areas &amp; sewage dumped in our rivers &amp; beaches

Review should conclude privatisation was a disaster - because it is
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8elewdzy59o

[2024-10-23 07:43 UTC]