Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu
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*The name Rowett rhymes with poet.
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Though it looks as though direct debit customers can get a refund to their bank account if they are in credit and have less than £66 to pay. For prepay meter customers it looks as though it can only be credit on their payment account. 3/10
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RT @greenmattbfd: 👇 Outrageous that @AvantiWestCoast has put out this anti-union, anti-workers tweet
❌ Opting not to work overtime is not the same as striking
🎩 The management culture at the rail companies - right up to the government - is rotten to the core
👊 Solidarity with @ASLEFunion
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RT @ScarletArgus: @Feargal_Sharkey Would it help, I wonder, if every time there is any untreated sewage dumped in rivers or on coast, the most senior person in charge of that decision, were to be jailed for several years? I'm sure it might.
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@OwainAlty Well we do get some electricity, so it's actually very similar.
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When I was a child it wasn't safe to swim in rivers. Then, for a while, 🇬🇧 was in the EU. The rivers and beaches became clean. We found we could enjoy getting wet anywhere. But now the rivers of Tory England are drains again and they spew their gunk into the sea again. Yuck. 🤢
RT @Feargal_Sharkey: And that my friends is why you should not go swimming in a river in England.
https://thestrayferret.co.uk/sickness-outbreak-prompt…
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RT @GreenRupertRead: #Postgrowth and #degrowth have been trending, since Starmer's outdated attempt to outbid the Cons on #growth. Check out this informative film we experts on the topic made on it, a couple of years ago:
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RT @SkewSmug: Just checking I've got this right. The energy cap goes up, cost of bills go up, CPI and RPI go up, inflation goes up, margins for the energy companies go up, energy company profit goes up, but if we ask for a pay rise spiralling inflation will be our fault.
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RT @AlexSteffen: (Of course, if you do any sort of reality-based accounting for the true costs of climate/ecological destruction, large-scale and rapid transformations don't just pay for themselves in increased prosperity, they save us many more trillions of dollars in avoided losses.)
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RT @AlexSteffen: "We found that the overall upfront cost to replace all energy in the 145 countries which emit 99.7% of world CO2 is about $62 trillion.
"However, due to $11 trillion annual energy cost savings, the payback time for the new system is less than 6 years."
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@AnnRile19223035 I wonder why. Maybe they did a deal? "Look we'll have a pretend "windfall tax" to take the wind out of the sails of opposition parties. But we'll give you the money back via a pretend subsidy. You can put up prices and we'll subsidise them. Ok?"
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@AnnRile19223035 They decided to give it for electricity because most houses are connected for electricity. Could they not just think of say giving you the money to spend on the things you need, be it a tank of oil or a solar panel? Oh no. Have to force you to fund your energy company.
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@running4rights @TheGreenParty Yes tax cuts benefit only those who pay tax. I.e. not the people who can't to afford luxury goods and who earn below the threshold. The simplest and fairest thing is a straightforward cash payment to everyone, combined with proper taxation of those who don't need help.
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Who's to say that energy is the thing they most need when everything is unaffordable? Why not give us all the money, and tax it back from those with enough to pollute the world many times over anyway? #UBInow #UBI an idea whose time has come. Only with @TheGreenParty. 10/10
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What might he have done? Give everyone £66 a month to spend. To spend on food if that's what they most need. Or candles for light and wood for their fire if they have no money to use their pre pay meter. Or school shoes for the children and work clothes so they can go for a job.
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It ensures they still get their profits despite the tax and even if we reduce our energy consumption to nil 8/10.
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Basically Sunak invented a circle, where he pretended to introduce a tax on energy profits, but then he put the money straight back into the energy companies at the bottom, so it feeds back to the profits of fossil fuel giants who supply the gas power stations. 7/10
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3. Does it encourage reduction in energy consumption? No, it gives an extra £400 worth of free electricity to all the wealthy families whose excessive carbon footprint from over-consumption is already killing the planet. 6/10
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Philosopher @uniofeastanglia. @TheGreenParty spokesperson on work & welfare. Deputy coordinator, Eastern Region GP.
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*The name Rowett rhymes with poet.
Joined Apr 2022
