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
Really depressing to hear Starmer claiming he can rebuild public services with such timid tax changes
Ending non-dom rule and tax breaks to public school are marginal changes
We need a fully fledged #WealthTax to bring in enough money to fund the public services we deserve
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The Brown report is a smoke-screen to cover Labour’s failure to support a fair voting system
Labour members and the country at large are crying out for fair votes, genuine electoral competition and the end of the moribund two-party system
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🙄 Tory solution to massive strike wave: bring in the army
💚 Green solution: tax the rich to fund a proper pay rise for public-sector workers
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It’s clear that a large majority support a much closer relationship with the EU
But a ‘Swiss-style’ deal with never be on the table - the EU detests it even for Switzerland!
It will be being a rule-taker or deciding to #RejoinEU
I know which I prefer
RT @JohnRentoul: Support for elements of a Swiss-style EU deal
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A scheme linking subsidies to farmers to protection of nature was watered down yesterday by Therese Coffey
And details were further delayed
This is undermining farmers and and undermining one of very few benefits of Brexit
A missed opportunity… https://mastodonapp.uk/@Molly/109442803722526360
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'The argument of the last PM – that the only route to economic success is to allow inequality in our country to grow even greater – is simply wrong.'
Inequality is bad for us all
Strong argument for a #WealthTax jointly from millionaire and care worker
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/01/millionaire-care-worker-cruel-divide-rich-poor-cost-of-living-crisis-wealth-tax?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Chester by-election is a crushing defeat for Rishi Sunak
This is what the figures show, with Tory vote share at 22%
But not how it's being reported by @BBCPolitics
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Brexit has added more than £200 to UK household food bills, study finds
Leaving EU has increased UK food prices by 6%
So about half increase in food prices is down to that decision
Time to admit we got it wrong and to begin the process to #RejoinEU
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-food-inflation-cost-living-b2236167.html
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EU Commissioner Věra Jourová has said Twitter is now top of the list for EU regulators:
“Mr. Musk seems to want to attract a lot of attention. I think he succeeded in attracting the attention of the regulators. In my view, Twitter now is jumping to… https://mastodonapp.uk/@Molly/109437240474849424
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@pmdfoster @ChrisGiles_ @FT I tried three times to post this on Mastodon but could find out how to do the Alt text
It is so much easier on Twitter so I went back and posted there
Can anybody advice. I’d rather use Mastodon but can’t spend 10 minutes per tweet
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😉 This is the sort of tweet that challenges me not to say ‘I’ve been saying that for 30 years’
RT @BBCRosAtkins: The UK has a home insulation problem - which has consequences for energy bills and the climate. 3 mins on the reasons why, what the government says it's doing about it & and why some say it's not enough.
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New research* shows that investment is falling well behind what would have been without Brexit barriers to trade
We need to stop the ideological nonsense and find a way back to EU membership
*by Jun Du from Aston Uni
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Rishi Sunak sets up strikes unit as more public sector workers vote to walk out
After 12 years of Tory cuts everything is broken in this country
Let’s hope this unit is about fair settlements and fair pay, not more damaging propaganda
https://www.ft.com/content/1e84ae7a-825c-4f1b-9eda-659407f0bec5
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If Labour’s leadership is hobbling internal candidates, is it fit to run a democracy?
A very fair question
Kudos to @OwenJones84 for blowing the whistle
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/29/labour-leadership-internal-candidates-democracy-prospective-mps?CMP=share_btn_tw
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‘Welsh leeks gain protected geographical status’
But only in the UK
This farcical scheme is supposed to be a substitute for the EU scheme that protected regional products in the whole of the single market
Think Parma ham or… https://mastodonapp.uk/@Molly/109431652986197643
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Watch as 🐘benchu@econtwitter.net on Newsnight compares additional economic activity generated by post-Brexit trade deals (left) with what has been lost by leaving EU single market (right)
Brexit is a key cause of our our economic crisis
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Remember when Leavers mobilised those fearful of migration to win a narrow referendum vote?
By cynically promising them a reduction in inward migration that they knew would never happen
#BrexitLies
RT @andrew_lilico: Remember when Remainers told us that Brexit meant a mass exodus from the UK & that no foreigners would want to come to live here any more? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/24/net-migration-uk-hits-record-high-surpassing-levels-seen-brexit/
I’m surprised by how tearful I am looking at pics of #ucuRISING picket lines
It’s the constant humiliation and exploitation, guilt and shame about the way the system treats students, the fear for my younger colleagues
The tragedy of my dream job being turned into a nightmare
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What a picket line!
#ucuRISING
RT @ucuatdurham: Massive pickets today in Durham! #UCUstrike #ucustrikes #ucuRISING
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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
