Green💚🌻Molly @GreenPartyMolly@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
Crucial point
The government will create mythical stereotypes to justify cutting benefits
The reality is that children - and the wonderful parents already struggling to care for them - will be hit hardest
RT @TorstenBell: To save significant £s via lower benefit upratings you will need to go far beyond lazy stereotypes of adults sleeping behind curtains - it’ll mean cutting benefits for children & those with disabilities beca…
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Our economy has struggled for a decade and more because of Tory austerity and a refusal to invest in the green economy
Now the prime minister is making those on benefits pay the price for this
While rewarding her rich mates with tax cuts
#GeneralElectionNow
RT @BBCr4today: "We are a listening government"
Prime Minister Liz Truss tells @BBCNickRobinson that she is committed to helping people who are struggling during this 'd…
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'Tory Chair Who Urged Struggling Brits To 'Get A New Job' Earns £3,500 A Month On Top Of MP Salary'
No comment needed
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-chair-earns-3500-a-month-from-second-job_uk_633af38ee4b0b7f89f434e7a?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostUKPol
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'Tory Chair Who Urged Struggling Brits To 'Get A New Job' Earns £3,500 A Month On Top Of MP Salary'
No comment needed
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-chair-earns-3500-a-month-from-second-job_uk_633af38ee4b0b7f89f434e7a?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostUKPol
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I do believe this woman was momentarily an education minister
The Tories are falling off the edge of sanity into oblivion
RT @AdamBienkov: "The current system would rather our young people get a degree in Harry Potter studies, than in construction," says Higher Education Minister Andrea Jenkyns, who says that universities are feeding students "a diet of critical race theory, anti British history and Social Marxism."
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deVere Group pulls all UK property investment projects
Political turbulence and economic mismanagement are destroying confidence in the UK
Tories’ tax cuts are undermining their stated policy to achieve growth
https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/4057344/
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Younger voters will never back ‘anti-EU and populist’ Tories - ex-cabinet ministers
@DavidGauke explains why the Tories are finished with younger voters unless they rethink their policy on Europe
Great event organised by the @euromove
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-brexit-heseltine-gauke-european-b2191639.html
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Hey, Kwarsi, here's an idea to simply the tax system:
@TheGreenParty proposes a single tax so that all incomes, including rental and investment income, are taxed at the same rate
Happy to talk it through
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Local areas to be set free of stifling red tape?
💷 Low tax
🏭 Deregulation
✂️ Cuts to workers' rights
EU law protecting these to be scrapped
Chancellor makes attack on people and planet explicit
Expect corruption and the devastation of our countryside
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Tory Conference latest: Queues form outside pro-EU fringe event as main hall remains deserted
More interest in @euromove discussion with Heseltine and @DavidGauke than event in main hall
If Tories are really putting growth first this isn't so surprising
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tory-conference-latest-queues-form-outside-pro-eu-fringe-event-as-main-hall-remains-deserted-336306/
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Kwarteng has no credibility when he refers to 'our precious public services'
We know he is planning to slash their funding to pay for tax cuts to his wealthy cronies
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More chaos from Tories
Cutting of top tax rate is only a tiny part of tax cuts
Those that remain will mean devastating cuts to our public services
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'The country is paying a high price for Brexit, in economic, social and environmental terms. We should look to re-join the EU as soon as it is practicable to do so'
Motion passed by @TheGreenParty conf
Proud to belong to such strongly pro-EU party
https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2022/10/02/greens-call-for-re-joining-the-eu-%E2%80%9Cas-soon-as-political-situation-is-favourable%E2%80%9D/
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Fishier and fishier
Looks like Kwarteng met the hedge funds and then went freelance on top rate tax cut
Market reaction then allowed those hedge funds to profit by trashing the pound
PM and cabinet didn’t even know this
They are not in control of the country or the economy
RT @PippaCrerar: Liz Truss drops Kwasi Kwarteng in it on 45p top tax rate.
“It was a decision that the Chancellor made”.
She admits rest of Cabinet was…
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🤔 When shown the spike in the cost of government borrowing Truss is keen to point out that this isn’t the same as interest rates
😐 ‘Which are set by the independent Bank of England’
😱 Seems she really doesn’t understand how they had to clear up her mess to defend the pound
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Great to be joined by @anandMenon1, @annabirdfr, and @ph_lamberts by video at #GPC22
How likely is it that we will be ready and able to rejoin the EU? And how soon?
RT @GreenPartyScott: Panel on the future of Europe at the Green Party conference: Caroline Lucas introduces. #GPC22
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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
RT @pmdfoster: 🚨🚨🙄“Whitehall finance directors are being told to prepare for cuts.”
Spectre of return to austerity raises alarm in Whitehall - my @ft l…
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Germany introduces €200B gas price cap to counter Russia’s ‘energy war’
'We are explicitly not following the U.K.’s example down the path of an expansionary fiscal policy', said conservative finance minister Lindner
#cringe
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-set-to-introduce-gas-price-cap/
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@MaxAndersson You really did, Max!
But you know what? I could do with some rather more boring but functional politics
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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
