Ask any nurse or doctor and they will tell you that most important thing government can do to help with health crisis is tackle crisis in social care
@TheGreenParty would raise taxes enough to allow us to provide social care without charge to those who need it
#AutumnStatement
RT @PJTheEconomist: Yet another delay to social care reform (Dilnot reform). I wonder if it will ever really be implemented?
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And here is Austerity 2.0
Once you take out the verbiage and double negatives, this means funding to key spending departments will fall well behind inflation
Which means real cuts when public services are already stripped to the bone
#AutumnStatement
RT @faisalislam: Departmental spending growth slowed to just above (1%) relevant inflation measure in three years after spending review (& election!). It would have grown with s…
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🤔 Hunt says ‘being pro-education is being pro-growth’
🌎 As a Professor of Green Economics I beg to differ
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Chancellor is right to increase #WindfallTax on oil and gas to 35%
But he is silent on Sunak’s absurd loophole for oil and gas investment
We need all investment in new oil and gas to end if we can possibly save our climate
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Jeremy Hunt creates myth of ‘fiscal black hole’ of £55bn
Then says he will fill more than half of it by cutting spending
This will worsen crisis in public services and further undermine infrastructure our whole economy depends on
More of the Tory doom spiral
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Hunt begins: ‘We are not alone in facing these challenges . . . We are honest about these challenges’
But he isn’t honest because he doesn’t acknowledge the massive damage #Brexit has done to our economy
And that is damage made in Britain and owned by Tories
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@frankie_rufolo That makes me a democrat. Changing public opinion is what democratic politics is all about. Speaking on behalf of the tyrant Putin is not
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Vitally important thread
Solvency 2 is EU legislation designed to reduce risks to and from insurance industry
Remember the BoE had to intervene after the mini-budget?
This would potentially add to this instability
Important thread for us all - not just nerds
#SaveSolvency2
RT @JesseLGriffiths: The @FT reports the Chancellor will today announce reforms to regulation of the multi-trillion insurance industry - called 'Solvenc…
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@vectevs65 I understand that the general level of debate in this area is atrocious but let’s not you and me get involved in that
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@vectevs65 Hi Jonathan. Glad to hear that. We don’t need to condemn each others’ beliefs. It’s a complex issue and it’s fine to disagree politely!
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And here is that great British public in the form of the Goggleboxers
RT @BBCJustinR: “Developing nations say you caused the problem, you’ve got to pay to fix it”. Here’s what @C4Gogglebox has to say about that @BBCNews
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Majority of Britons say UK should pay for climate action in poor countries
I’m proud to live in a country where, even in difficult times, people recognize the need for #ClimateJustice and #ClimateReparations
It’s our historic responsibility
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The penny is dropping for more and more people: Brexit has made us poorer
We need to immediately take steps to build a closer relationship with the EU
As part of our journey back to full membership
#RejoinEU
RT @ElectionMapsUK: In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?
Right to Leave: 32% (-3)
Wrong to Leave: 56% (+4)
Via @YouGov, 9-10 Nov.
Changes w/ 1-2 Nov.
Largest EVER …
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Yet again Nigel Farage is repeating Putin’s talking points
Just as he did during the Brexit referendum
Shame on all those who gave a platform to this traitor
RT @nigel_farage: Do we really, wholly trust Volodymyr Zelenskyy?
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Remember: spending cuts announced in #AutumnStatement are a political choice by Tories
We are a wealthy country but wealth is concentrated in few hands
That’s why @TheGreenParty supports #wealthtax
We would tax the wealthy, polluters, corporations and invest in public services
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Well done @BlueMeanie10 for drawing attention to the dreadful bus service in Gloucestershire
What we need from the #AutumnStatement is investment in public transport, not more cuts
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@PlanetLBakers Where? There is an @ there
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@PlanetLBakers Aha, ta. Too early
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Shareholders reap record payouts from energy price surge
Dividends to oil & gas investors grew by 75%
We have to get all finance out of this sector if we going to save the climate
All profits should be claimed in tax and spent on #ClimateReparations
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/16/shareholders-reap-record-payouts-from-price-surge-during-energy-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw
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The highest inflation for 40 years
Those of us who work in the public sector have faced pay cuts for more than a decade
We need to tax the super-rich and the polluting corporations
And pay public-sector workers to match inflation
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