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

Some good news here if they review inappropriate spending on destructive and pointless projects, such as Sizewell C. £25 billion would be much better spent on instant solutions like insulation, demand reduction, energy storage and onshore wind power.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63507630

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On the other hand, railways are what we need more of. Sooner not later. And run for the passengers, not for funneling public money to private companies (or the national rail of other countries). Small local railways that connect real workers with their jobs. With frequent trains.

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Some good news here if they review inappropriate spending on destructive and pointless projects, such as Sizewell C. £25 billion would be much better spent on instand solutions like insulation, demand reduction, energy storage and onshore wind power.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63507630

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They spout hot air, write laws they never intend to keep, pretend they share our values, imprison those who protest. It is because of the Tories that the water companies are allowed to pollute our rivers and seas, and that our biodiversity loss is catastrophic.
RT @Feargal_Sharkey: Government were legally bound to published the new environmental targets last Monday. They didn't.

Less than 12 months after passing the so called …

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@OriginalBigBri @Feargal_Sharkey @TimesRadio A bunker would be a fat lot of use to them if they didn't have some workers to deliver subsidised food to them and empty their bins.

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University lecturers don't take holidays during term time. Teachers don't take holidays during term time. Any job that has terms and periods of recess is like that. What has got into their heads?

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Good old Norwich once again giving shelter to strangers in need, as we do. But what the "climate minister" says in this report is beyond shocking. As climate minister he should grasp that what's unacceptable is our response to climate crisis refugees.

https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/norwich-hotel-homing-stranded-london-migrants-9354668

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@patricksamphire Yes we need proper provision for parental leave for MPs and for sickness cover, as you would in other jobs.

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RT @Momotempo: All this would also do much to invest in the nation's ragged collective feelings. It's an oddly hopeful feeling when a gov seems to want to invest in its people and their own resilience.

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RT @ZackPolanski: The cost of living crisis is getting worse as a result of political choices.

We can & must make different choices.

We need investment partly through a wealth tax to tackle both the cost of living crisis & the climate emergency.

My discussion with @TorstenBell of @resfoundation

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RT @greenbenali: Labour’s asylum plan is missing:

✅ Safe authorised routes for refugees
✅ End indefinite detention of refugees
✅ Let asylum seekers work
✅ End privately ran detention centres

@TheGreenParty will keep fighting for a kinder and fairer asylum system

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In my view MPs should be at work when parliament is sitting. No ifs or buts.
And if they are not they should lose their seat not just the whip. They were elected to do the job. If they aren't doing it the constituents should choose another one who will do it.

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RT @PaulbernalUK: The primary function of a blue tick isn’t status but authenticity. Whatever Musk does with verification, if it loses that primary function, Twitter becomes less authentic, less reliable, and less useful from a professional standpoint. And no, that’s not just sour grapes. 😃

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In addition it means seriously investing in publicly owned and subsidised public transport and e-bikes, so that everyone has a convenient quick and easy way to reach the transport they need to get to work, and can take home their wages and not just their bus fare.

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In addition it means seriously investing and urgently, this year, not sometime or never, in more onshore renewables that could swiftly contribute to our need for power that is free of fossil fuels and imported wood. And it means investing in improving the grid, NOW.

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5) Govt needs to address its unfair distribution of taxation so that a higher contribution to tax revenues comes from people who have incomes in millions, and corporations with profits in billions, not the least well off. Money trickles up and needs to be returned to the bottom.

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4) Govt needs to identify where it irresponsibly fed too much free money into the economy that might have devalued the currency (hint: it was not to ordinary people like you and me). Where they gave out corrupt contracts using public funds, they need to get that money back.

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3) Govt needs to increase public sector pay and benefits to match inflation, and let wages rise where they have slipped behind, so that ordinary folk have money to buy things, support local businesses, travel to work, repair their homes, fill the vacancies we can't fill.

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2) Govt needs to urgently address its failure to make us energy resilient, so that we are not dependent on global markets for keeping warm and travelling around. That means mainly cutting demand (and NOT by making people too poor to keep warm or get to work).

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RT @TheGreenParty: 🎙️ "The UK has failed to make a promised £260million set of climate finance payments to poorer countries..."

This is the opposite of global leadership. Time for another u-turn from Sunak at #COP27

@carla_denyer on LBC News 👇

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