Green💚🌻Molly @GreenPartyMolly@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
UK households worst hit in western Europe, finds IMF on energy crisis
🔥 Dependence on fossil gas
🏡 Poorly insulated homes
💷 Biggest gap between rich and poor
12 years of Tory government has left us vulnerable to the energy crisis
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Of course the futures prices have been paid at the artificially high rate - and we will pay for that either through bills or taxes
More on European developments here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/01/wholesale-gas-prices-fall-europe-plan-winter-energy-crisis
And Greens take pride that German Green Energy Minister Robert Habeck was instrumental
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Speculators have been driving up gas prices and scary projections and panic have helped them
EU politicians' promise of major market intervention has stabilised market and prices now falling
While we have had no effective government at all
Thank god for the EU!
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Can an expert explain this? Something wrong with the chosen insulation?
I found the reverse: my insulation keeps me warm in winter and cool in summer
RT @GavinHJackson: Something I don’t quite get: if we spend a lot insulating our houses from winter do we end up sweltering in the summer and need air con? Friends in well-insulated new builds complain they were like greenhouses during the heatwave.
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Investors bet against UK bonds on rising inflation fears
‘UK is in a particularly fragile position . . . asking foreigners to fund’ plans for unfunded tax cuts and spending increases
We are paying more for our borrowing because of Truss’s incompetence
https://www.ft.com/content/6facf534-015b-4d5d-bf52-07d6277ab831
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‘Don’t Pay’ energy bill protest gathers steam
Some people can’t pay; some people won’t pay
This will put intolerable pressure on the energy supply companies
The government should nationalize the Big Five now to avoid chaos this winter
https://www.ft.com/content/61eb4d53-b8fd-4e10-94e1-2b58ee0133a2
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@jajo_osborn @CWUnews @catherinerowett @LesleyJGrahame @NorwichGreens Aw, congratulations Jamie. I see he’s got your red hair and your radical politics to match!
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Can anybody explain to me why a Canadian spy was trafficking vulnerable teenagers to ISIS fighters in Syria?
Clear evidence that Shamima Begum was a victim not a terrorist
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Germany approves energy-saving measures:
🌡 Lower temperatures in public buildings
💡 No lighting for shops at night
🏊♀️ No heating for private swimming pools
These measures will save €10bn and protect the climate
What’s not to like?
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Gorbachev was a rare politician who gave freedom to the people of Russia and Eastern Europe
And whose determination was to bring peace and end the Cold War
So sad that he died as the tyrant Putin is reversing his achievements
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RT @TheGreenParty: “Governments in richer countries like the UK must commit much greater levels of funding for the loss and damage inflicted by historical emissions.”
@carla_denyer on the devastating floods in #Pakistan ⬇️
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.@BBCPM covers the Pakistan climate disaster in the headlines and then has a long feature discussing whether we should expand North Sea oil and gas
This is cognitive dissonance on steroids, @EvanHD
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Health Secretary (and Brexiteer) says care sector should hire workers from Asia
People voted for Brexit to stop immigration
But govt is simply switching from EU workers with good terms and conditions to Asian workers without
They lied and lied again
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/steve-barclay-care-sector-rejected-nhs-workers-1783882?ito=twitter_share_article-top
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Truss considers cutting VAT to 15%
VAT but provides a huge proportion of tax yield
Without it, cuts to NHS, social care, schools etc would be inevitable
Because VAT is a sales tax, this is a giveaway for the wealthy, who buy more stuff
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@LBC @SangitaMyska I’m so sorry you were subjected to this racism, Sangita
You don’t have to justify yourself or your right to be British
I’m sure the overwhelming majority of British people agree
Such a shame you had to hear from one of the minority of bigots
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@b0n0myt1res I'm travelling from the South West
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@joehudsonsmall Nope. From Plymouth
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@JBN268 I'm travelling from the South West
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@TBallam I'm travelling from the South West
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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
