How come we still haven’t got an emergency home insulation programme?
Anxiety around energy costs is rocketing but still no proposal to reduce the need for need for energy?
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@schooltruth Thanks for responding, Fiona. Of course you're right about the tax breaks for private schools and making public-sector schools so good nobody wants to pay for their kids education any longer
But I can't give up the idea that this is where elitism and inequality start
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@chakrabortty @robertnpalmer @BBCr4today Thanks so much for tweeting this. I couldn’t agree more 😉
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Hi @schooltruth
I was disappointed to hear you no longer support abolition of private schools
Parents choose these institutions to buy their children into elite networks that are heart of inequality in our society
We can’t have fairness while that central unfairness survives
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@PickardJE It was fabulous. We had freeeeeeeedom. People had lots of hair and didn't wash as often as they do now but you really felt you could please yourself and what you wanted from life was totally valid
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I travelled with @AvantiWestCoast yesterday
My own train was cancelled and I felt lucky to be able to hunch outside the toilet eating my lunch on the floor
But also furious that we have come to this in the country that created the wonder of the railway
RT @BBCNEandCumbria: Passengers were stranded in a locked station after their train arrived 100 minutes late, an MP has said https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-62583…
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BROKEN BRITAIN: The UK wakes up today to double-digit inflation, total chaos on the transport network, endless waits for ambulances, post-heat wave flash flooding, sewage pouring onto beaches
Grim but accurate summary from my @politico briefing this morning
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@LoftusSteve @meadwaj If you fix the price at which suppliers sell electricity when they can't control the price at which they buy it you either have to subsidise them or nationalise them. We're suggesting the second. It probably will work out cheaper than the first
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@LoftusSteve @meadwaj Our policy is to nationalise the retailers
That's why that's the cost I quoted
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@LoftusSteve @meadwaj It's less than £3bn
Less than has already been spent on bailing out customers of different supply companies
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@meadwaj Spot on!
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@TheSpotWatson @GreenPartyJack They wouldn’t have to pay those prices if our policies on moving away from fossil fuels had been followed for the past several decades
Solar and wind power are the cheapest way to generate electricity
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@PatDBMcAllister @CreserDylanPol Remind producers of legal requirements
Persistent pitching (more media staff)
Having something to say about all leading political issues
Strengthening and training spokespeople
Plus the relationship building
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@PatDBMcAllister @CreserDylanPol You're right: it's all about relationships
Myself, media staff, and leadership team continually make and maintain relationships with key journalists and producers
This doesn't achieve anything like as much coverage as a party of our size deserves, however
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@CarolineRussell @sunny_hundal The advantage of taking back control
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Labour loses nearly 100,000 members and makes £5 million loss in 2021
Labour's income from membership fees fell from £19.3m in 2020 to £16.2m in 2021, a £3.1 drop in income which made up the majority of its £5.2m deficit.
Listen to your members!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-membership-loss-accounts-deficit-b2146691.html
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@sunny_hundal @CarolineRussell If you read the full proposal you'll see that we also suggested differential and progressive tariffs to favour green energy companies and incentivise energy efficiency
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@sunny_hundal @CarolineRussell Hi Sunny
Thanks for engaging with proposal
Any cap on energy prices has to be matched with subsidy otherwise cos. will go bust
Because we're controlling the sale price for energy but not the purchase price (global markets)
We're just suggesting that subsidy goes with control
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I’m sorry to say that @BBCr4today @bbc5live @BBCPolitics @BBCWorld @BBCWorldatOne
🙃 🤫 Didn’t consider this worth reporting
🤨 Perhaps they thought it was so good people might start voting for us if they knew
🙏 📣 Please do what you can to spread the word
#InviteTheGreens
RT @GreenPartyMolly: .@TheGreenParty calls for nationalisation of big five energy firms
And to fix price of energy at a level people can afford
While usin…
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