Ellie Chowns @EllieChownsMEP@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Herefordshire Councillor & Cabinet Member for Environment & Economy. @TheGreenParty spokesperson on Housing & Communities. Former MEP. Mum, activist, optimist!
Joined Apr 2022
RT @ed_hawkins: Changes in temperature from the upper stratosphere to 2km deep in the ocean for 1979 to 2021.
Red is warmer, blue is cooler.
The lower atmosphere & ocean is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
The stratosphere is cooling due to changes in ozone & greenhouse gas emissions.
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RT @GreenPartyMolly: Austerity 2.0 to give tax cuts to the rich
Socially disastrous as public services decline further
Economically disastrous as spending of public-sector wages withdrawn from economy
Especially bad for regional economies that need levelling up, where these are best paid people
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81% think nature urgently needs protection 🦉🐞🦋🌳
“The majority of respondents said they had witnessed a decline in nature and wildlife in their local area” 📉
@Conservatives policy is to trash nature 🔨
@TheGreenParty policy is to defend it 💚
RT @guardian: Most UK adults think nature is in urgent need of protection – poll https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/30/most-uk-adults-think-nature-is-in-urgent-need-of-protection…
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RT @guardian: Environmental destruction is part of Liz Truss’s plan | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/environmental-destruction-is-part-of-liz-trusss-plan?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1664518786
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Yet more proof that this government doesn’t care one jot about anyone who is left behind
RT @PippaCrerar: EXCL: Thérèse Coffey is ditching the government’s long-promised white paper on health inequalities despite the 19-year gap in life expectancy between rich and poor - another top scoop from @denis_campbell https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/29/therese-coffey-scraps-promised-paper-on-health-inequality
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Very much like the captain of the Titanic…
This is unbelievably irresponsible behaviour from a government that simply doesn’t know what it’s doing and doesn’t have even a scrap of courage or decency to admit it’s made a colossal error.
RT @SophyRidgeSky: Q: Are you going to change course?
Chief Sec to the Treasury Chris Philp: "No we're not"
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When both the Bank of England and the IMF think your fiscal policy is a disaster, how long can the chancellor continue to defend the indefensible? #MiniBudget
RT @TheEconomist: The Bank of England will purchase long-dated government bonds over the next couple of weeks “to restore orderly market conditions”. Separately, the IMF has bluntly criticised the chancellor’s proposals
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/09/27/the-fallout…
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A great example of action that benefits both #Climate and #Nature 👍
RT @jonburkeUK: 1/ What if I told you that retrofitting a building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, helping to sustainably address the #energycrisis and fossil fuel emissions?
You might not believe me, but it's true.
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RT @ThisWinterUK: We have some of the oldest, coldest and leakiest homes in the whole of Europe, unfairly affecting the most vulnerable in our society.
The goverment needs to step up now and implement a rapid home insulation programme, to keep everyone #WarmThisWinter
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RT @ZackPolanski: It's hard to know how many stark warnings humanity needs.
The climate emergency and the nature emergency are an interlinked crisis.
We are going to see increasing extreme weather events.
We can reduce this though - but we need to act now.
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Remember that only 0.0017% of the electorate voted Truss into power.
The #MiniBudget was designed to appeal to that tiny and completely unrepresentative group.
Hardly surprising that absolutely everyone else thinks it’s a disaster.
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RT @CarolineLucas: This is big! Labour members just overwhelmingly backed PR 👏👏
Great news - a real sea change! Yet @Keir_Starmer has his fingers in his ears. People are crying out for fresh, progressive politics where votes count & voices are heard. And it’s coming, whether leaders agree or not
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RT @TheGreenParty: We're so pleased that - like us - @UKLabour members want to ditch the first past the post system and make elections fair and representative.
Now we just need @Keir_Starmer to act on it.
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RT @greenmattbfd: The #CostOfLivingCrisis is hitting people in rural communities hard:
🏘️ Rents are out of control
💡 Houses in the countryside often cost more to heat so are hit harder by rising #energybills
🚌 3,000 bus routes have been "lost or reduced" - @CBTransport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62983030
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What a mess. A #MiniBudget that massively benefits the most wealthy, and that pulls the rug out from under the pound. Could Truss & Kwarteng have done a worse job?
RT @BBCNews: Pound slumps to all-time low against dollar https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63030208?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_campaign=64&at_custom4=EC1D3D76-3D3E-11ED-A1C6-FEB74744363C&at_custom…
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RT @GreenPartyMolly: Before Brexit vote pound was worth $1.48
Overnight it fell to $1.03
It’s lost around a third of its value
Everything we import is more expensive - adding to price rises
Bank of England forced to raise interest rates, further increasing prices
Economic chaos from the Tories
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RT @GreenPartyMolly: 🏭🏡🌎 Greens skills? Green steel? Green industrial revolution? Home insulation?
💚 Yes, it was all there in @TheGreenParty 2019 manifesto
🙋🏼♀️ If you want the best policies three years sooner, better vote Green
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RT @TheGreenParty: The Government could have taken this opportunity to invest in energy efficiency measures in order to help businesses and cut carbon emissions.
They've chosen not to.
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Insulation, insulation, insulation.
Instead of just channelling money from govt to energy companies via households and businesses, govt should be thinking long-term and investing in insulation to tackle #EnergyBills & create jobs.
RT @insidehousing: National £7bn-a-year retrofit plan would cut £430 from households’ annual energy bills https://t.co/IhGnnNC5Cj #ukhousing
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Herefordshire Councillor & Cabinet Member for Environment & Economy. @TheGreenParty spokesperson on Housing & Communities. Former MEP. Mum, activist, optimist!
Joined Apr 2022
