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

These things were not just to make life better for everyone (they did, and that's better *for everyone*). They also built a healthy happy and productive workforce and skills, research and leadership that were the envy of the world. The destruction of this started with Thatcher.

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where social housing had a bedroom for each child so disease didn't spread and people were provided with gardens to grow food and where they could dry washing properly.

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And on well heated houses with bathrooms and hygienic conditions where you didn't grow up breathing mould or smog and in fear of the landlord sending in the bailiffs;

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And workers' rights including the five day week that allowed families to enjoy leisure time and spend the fair earnings that gave them freedom and the chance to broaden horizons, instead of working 80 hours just to scrape together the cost of the next meal

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And on free education through to 18 and free university with full maintenance grants to enable every intelligent student to get to the most prestigious institutions and collaboration with other scientists across Europe with generous funding for research

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I wonder whether any Conservative politicians realise that the period of prosperity we experienced during the 20th century resulted not from exploitation and greed but from a workforce with access to excellent health care, free medicines, free school milk & orange juice for kids

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RT @RaggedTP: The moving speech of Harry Leslie Smith to the Labour Party Conference reminding people of what life was like before the NHS when working class people suffered and died in agony in their own homes for want of money to pay for treatment.

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I count myself lucky to have lived in the best of times. I hope not to see everything completely destroyed. It's time to start undoing the vandalism that's been going on since 2016, and also looking for a future permanently without fossil fuels.
RT @RaggedTP: The moving speech of Harry Leslie Smith to the Labour Party Conference reminding people of what life was like before the NHS when working class people suffered and died in…

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People who get, after tax, a hundred times more than the rest of us earn before paying our tax (or a thousand or a million times as much) look pretty silly complaining that UK tax is impoverishing them. 100% taxation on income over £100,000 might help them understand 😂
RT @JMPSimor: It’s unpatriotic not to pay your taxes Mr. Forte - and to do a runner when the going gets tough, particularly if you are partly to blame is positiv…

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@martin_finch @JMPSimor The plan for a coup has been foiled.

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@cplrc That's the plan.

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RT @catherinerowett: This is a total disgrace. These people make me sick. I hope when they eventually get to court, the judge has the guts to sentence them to life imprisonment for continuing to damage the planet and protecting oil companies which is ecocide, the worst crime there is.

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RT @catherinerowett: If they *actually* wanted to stimulate economic activity and reduce the benefits bill they would substantially increase public sector pay. It would do both at a stroke.

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RT @ProfStrachan: #Nuclear Power Is a Dead End-We Must Abandon It Completely, says Paul Hockenos

"#France, has punctured the myth that nuclear power is a round-the-clock #Energy source that can operate without back-up reserves—a favorite trope of #Wind & #Solar skeptics"
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nuclear-power-europe-energy/

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RT @JMPSimor: It’s unpatriotic not to pay your taxes Mr. Forte - and to do a runner when the going gets tough, particularly if you are partly to blame is positively wicked. Stay and repent man - mend your mistakes and pay your dues!

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If they *actually* wanted to stimulate economic activity and reduce the benefits bill they would substantially increase public sector pay. It would do both at a stroke.

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RT @XRebellionUK: @JamesCleverly He says, giving them more attention.

You know what happens to young black boys and girls in Lewisham, they suffer health problems from the effects of a Government failing to be tough on the industries polluting our planet.

Get tough on fossil fuels, instead of young activists.

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@earthygirl011 Green party has stepped up. Let the voters say what they think.

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@ledredman Once antibiotics no longer work Coffey will have a fairly short life. Unusually this is a policy disaster that hits the wealthy as much as the poor.

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@BritainElects Maybe they should vote Green instead. That would show him what they mean.

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