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

RT @TalkTV: Do you support tomorrow's nationwide train strike?

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RT @ToryFibs: Deselecting a champion of the poor would be a tragedy fitting of a Stalinist purge.

Solidarity to @IanByrneMP. Please support him in any way you can. https://skwawkbox.org/2022/07/27/exclusive-byrne-smashes-1st-trigger-then-party-says-he-lost-heres-what-members-need-to-do/

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RT @AaronBastani: BT workers are going on strike because they are facing real terms wage cuts.

Meanwhile CEO Philip Jansen gets a pay rise to £3.5 million, the company records £1.2 billion in post tax profits & consumers bills rise more than inflation.

See how it works?

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@martin_gillie Poverty is a political choice. We never had poverty like this before. It's the effect of policies designed to take the labour of the workers and give the profit to the idle classes.

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@martin_gillie There's no necessary connection. Once you're producing enough wealth to deliver a surplus, you can spend that surplus leisure, or on education & health, or on weapons and death; or you can let it all drift into the hands of 1% who will buy health & education just for themselves.

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RT @ZackPolanski: "In the worst year of passenger revenues - the private companies took out over £500 million in profit."

We need a properly funded railway service that pays it's staff properly.

All the other noise is really a distraction from that fundamental fact.

#RailStrikes

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RT @RMTunion: .@RMTunion is calling for a railway run for the benefit of the people and for the benefit of the economy. Mick Lynch sets out the case this morning
#SupportRailWorkers

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RT @carla_denyer: Today's @RMTunion #RailStrikes are very inconvenient for me. But I support them 100% ✊

It's outrageous workers aren't being given decent pay increases in this #CostOfLivingCrisis

@TheGreenParty thinks all workers deserve fair pay

#JoinAUnion #RMTSolidarity #SupportRailWorkers

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@martin_gillie And note that that's a devastating fall in disposable income for the less well off, whose ability to cope with unforeseen expenses was already at rock bottom. What a chart about income fails to show is the level of increasing debt.

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@martin_gillie Definitely doesn't mean loss of any of those things. What's needed is improvement for the poor and reduction in excess for the wealthy. And ending pointless overproduction and marketing of consumer products that add nothing but harm.

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A quick way to cut crime would be to end lobbying jobs and nationalise the provision of essential services funded by the state.
RT @Silupunga: Randox donated £160K to Tories. Patterson got £100K P/A to lobby. They "won" Covid Contracts worth £777m. Profits went from £1.2m to £177m. X150 increase in a year.

Never has so much been stolen from so many by so few.

That by the way could fund 20,000 new nurses. Crimminals

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RT @_wearepossible: 🚨NEW! We're one of over 30 organisations complaining to the BBC about the terrible question on climate in the #BBCOurNextPM debate.

They asked what people at home can do to tackle climate change.

We need to know what the next Prime Minister will do. https://www.wearepossible.org/latest-news/were-complaining-to-the-bbc

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@alonso_hoyt @EUbre65 @MariaWNorris Even if it's not everyone, the more they sink in the polls and are threatened by parties with better policies and more courage and leadership on the big issues the more they'll wake up to what's losing them the election. Because it will and it'll be their fault.

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RT @Andrew_F_Smith: Dear @Keir_Starmer,

You could not just become our next elected prime minister but also to go down in history as the man who made politics fair. Proportional representation is a vote-winner - 44% of all voters want it: only 27% are against.

And, of course...
#GetPRDone #FBPPR

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I hope Truss will focus on the big crimes. Especially the ones committed in Westminster: corruption, crooked contracts, Russian donors, drug use, sleaze and lying in positions of high office, tax and expenses fraud, non-dom status among politicians, offshore assets, ecocide.

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@alonso_hoyt @EUbre65 @MariaWNorris No don't abstain. Choose another party and campaign as an activist. If everyone who hates Labour's current policy did that, either the other party would win or Labour would see the writing on the wall. Carrying on voting for them no matter how bad they are does positive harm.

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Clean air makes economic sense. Long term costs of dementia far outweigh the cost of outlawing industrial air pollution and eliminating polluting vehicles in cities. If there are any costs? It's a no-brainer. A green economy is a healthy economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/air-pollution-is-likely-to-raise-dementia-risk-find-uk-government-experts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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@alonso_hoyt @EUbre65 @MariaWNorris Party loyalty when the party deserves no loyalty, and tactical voting for a party that has copied the views of the right and is stoking xenophobia and economic illiteracy are corrupting UK politics.

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@alonso_hoyt @EUbre65 @MariaWNorris Everyone who dislikes Labour as it now is should leave Labour and campaign for the party they agree with. Everyone who dislikes the Conservatives as they now are should leave the Conservative Party and campaign for the party whose policies they agree with and who merits trust.

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RT @trishgreenhalgh: I suspect there’s more to this story than has yet come out. Disaster capitalism at its worst. Why did Rose Patterson take her own life?

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