Green💚🌻Molly @GreenPartyMolly@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Molly Scott Cato 👋 Green Party Speaker on Economy and Finance 💚 Former South West MEP 🇪🇺 Professor of Green Economics 👩🏻🎓 @Molly
Joined Apr 2022
'I told you so' doesn't begin to cover the fury I feel about this
As MEP for Dorset I was astonished that the oil industry was being encouraged in such a beautiful county
We need to move urgently to leave filthy fossil fuels behind
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UK is Europe’s most gas addicted country
Heat pumps installed:
🇫🇷 3.1m
🇳🇴 1.3m
🇬🇧 280k
If UK had installed as many heat pumps as Estonia, domestic gas prices would be 34% lower than last year
Gas imports 19% lower
💚 Time for a retrofit revolution!
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Bank of England governor first tells workers they shouldn’t ask for pay rises to match inflation
Now tells busineses not to raise prices to match inflation
Isn’t it time he focused his attention on profits?
And learned a bit more about how small businesses work.
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😬 Great concerns about national security risk from TikTok, which may even be banned in the UK or US due to national security threats
😱 But UK still happy to have Chinese as major investor in a nuclear power industry?
http://chinaresearchgroup.org/researc...
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Am I the only person who thinks that setting up a tax-free zone in Anglesey is an invitation to engage in smuggling?
This is just where the border between the EU and UK now exists
This sounds like an call to every organised criminal in the UK
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Completely inexplicable that @BBCr4today interview about the Casey report turns into an attack on Sadiq Khan
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@PCSoblahdeehell Hi Peter. I’m afraid we couldn’t afford to carry on paying for the hosting and so it’s lost
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Completely disingenuous response from Hunt on @BBCr4today
Using the NHS workforce crisis caused by Tory spending cuts as a cover for a tax break for those with large pensions is shameful
That money should be used to fund a fair public-sector pay deal and end the strikes
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@WDKimball Hi William. Life expectancy in those countries has increased markedly. The point is we are falling down the league table in terms of health improvements compared to other countries like ourselves
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‘In 1950s, UK had one of the longest life expectancies in the world, ranking seventh globally behind countries such as Denmark, Norway and Sweden, but in 2021 the UK was ranked 29th’
Growing inequality a major cause
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The morning after the #budget before
Conclusion: we are all a lot poorer because of . . .
Twelve years of self-defeating Tory cuts
And the disastrous decision to leave the EU
Our broken politics is undermining our economy and our society
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@jeremymarchant @TheGreenParty That's the whole point of the investment
We agree with CPRE that everybody should have a bus every hour from within walking distance of their home
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This comment is spot on
The chancellor has added an enormous tax loophole for the wealthy to solve a very specific problem for better paid NHS workers
Almost as if he’s using the NHS workforce problem as an excuse to help out his rich friends
RT @PJTheEconomist: "Listened to concerns of senior NHS clinicians" says Mr Hunt. Changing pension tax relief as a result. Should have changed NHS (and other public sector) pension schemes. Sledgehammer to crack a nut.
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It’s always the holes that leave you depressed after a Tory budget
🏭 No green industrial strategy
🏡 No home insulation programme
💷 No pay offer to end public-sector strikes
🚍 No increased investment in public transport
Another wasted opportunity
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Chancellor’s offer to fund childcare for younger children is welcome
But why is he waiting until April/September 2024/2025 to introduce it?
He probably won’t even be the Chancellor then, so this is no sort of offer at all
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More harsh measures for those on universal credit: a disgrace
@TheGreenParty would increase universal credit by 50%
And introduce a universal basic income to support people’s inclusion in society as well as in the economy
#Budget2023
RT @ashcowburn: Jeremy Hunt says benefit sanctions will be applied more "rigourously".
Probably a good idea for the Government to publish this first.
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‘If we had same economic inactivity rates as Sweden we would have a million additional people in workforce’
If we had health services as good as those in Sweden those million people would be fit and able to work
Invest in our public services, Chancellor!
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@fonant @CarolineLucas Great name. How are the legs?
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“Conservatives believe work is a virtue” says the Chancellor
The millions of people on NHS waiting lists are desperate to work but not able
I imagine this comment is rather hard for them to swallow
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Molly Scott Cato 👋 Green Party Speaker on Economy and Finance 💚 Former South West MEP 🇪🇺 Professor of Green Economics 👩🏻🎓 @Molly
Joined Apr 2022
