Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

RT @IanDunt: There is a moral truth in all this, that all the coverage cannot conceal. It is very simple. You see desperate people. It is up to you what you do next. Do you help, or do you pull up the drawbridge? For all the politics and the rhetoric and the statute, that is the key choice.

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Let's brainstorm the pros and cons of an alternative scheme, shall we? For instance, one that provides appropriate and rapid safe routes to the UK so as to ensure the people traffickers in the channel have no customers and everyone's safety and human rights are respected?
RT @RebeccaJJules: @pritipatel @BorisJohnson Imagining the Home Office brainstorming from when the scheme was initially being discussed.

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Norwich, where you can vote Green and get Green on the local council, and where we welcome refugees with love and affection. It has other good bits but these are the things that matter above all 😊
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Then you get sent to Rwanda at taxpayers' expense. #Rwanda 🇷🇼 ? 👀
Instead maybe 🇬🇧 taxpayers could arrange safe passage at the beginning, to get you here without funding people traffickers, without the search & rescue costs, without the loss of life & absurd modes of transport?

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First you have to make a perilous journey to Europe and across the continent. Then you have to pay unscrupulous people-traffickers for the dinghy in which you risk your life to cross a busy shipping lane. Then you get rescued from the sea and welcomed.

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Troubling but unsurprising, the tax evaders and exploiter companies are jumping on the vegan and eco bandwagon and buying up our favourite brands. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-shopping-guide/10-ethical-brands-owned-unethical-companies?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=10_ethical_brands

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RT @Michaelwhitin64: @MrJonNewton

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RT @basicincomecdn: Once you begin to study #BasicIncome, it's hard to dismiss the benefits it can bring to humanity.

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@DAOBarry Yes, good to prioritise those with very high cost energy needs for medical/disability reasons. But in the long run we need to do this for everyone. Start with a planning requirement for all new builds, and conversions to install enough solar to cover the household needs?

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RT @DAOBarry: OH yes. Really, Really, good idea.

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RT @keysrgood: @JolyonMaugham Would it help if members of the public contacted the committee?

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RT @AngelaRayner: The next day the PM replied to Josephine:

“We have all got to do our bit to protect the NHS and save lives, and that is exactly what you’re doing.”

You see, Boris Johnson wouldn’t think twice about lying to your kids to save his own skin. 🐍

And that’s exactly what he did.

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If nothing else makes you swear never ever to vote Conservative again, let this be it. They have absolutely no idea what it is to work in a proper work place or take a grown-up responsible attitude to looking after people.
Everyone should be furious, not just teachers & nurses.
RT @BBCPolitics: "I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long sh…

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And their mean & shameful scheme for sponsoring war refugees from Ukraine is a world-beating disgrace. It's delayed escape for thousands of women and children. What visa centres? Closed over Easter? Do these buffoons have any idea of how to act as statesmen in times of war?

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Meanwhile on Russia, they danced the night away with Russian billionaires for years while we looked on in horror. They hid the Russia report. They were slow to serve sanctions, left the oligarchs ample time to move their money. Half-hearted about ending our dependence on gas.

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Actually neither the PM nor the Chancellor got the big calls right during the pandemic. Not once did they get anything right until the public told them what to do, and the scientists rammed it down their throat. And then when they pretended to help....
RT @MattHancock: The PM & Chancellor got the big calls right during the pandemic & are now leading the fight against Putin's illegal war in Ukraine

They have rightly apologised.…

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they built pretend hospitals with no staff, they bought pretend PPE to funnel public money to their friends, they put a pretend protective ring round care homes, and set up a furlough scheme to allow tax-avoiding businesses to draw free money with no strings. #CorruptToriesOut

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RT @GreenJennyJones: There's lots of calls for Boris and co to resign but the only thing that will shift them out of Downing Street is if people stop voting for them. That process starts with the May elections. Don't vote Tory again. #VoteGreen instead! #GreensAreGoodForYou

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The Green Party would abolish student loans and fees, and wipe out these absurd debts, which are repaying to profiteers money they shouldn't owe. We need well educated graduates—and we need a universal basic income so that no one needs to borrow to sustain their studies. #UBInow
RT @Effy_Yeomans: Student loan interest rates expected to rise from 4.5% to 12% for high earners and from 1.5% to 9% for low earners from September. A…

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RT @LaughLetDie: ‘You’re asking me to pick my favourite flavour of animal poo there’

Carl May is all of us.

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