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

Re @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @northernmnkey @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell Why not? What's puzzling?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1687947078679265280

Re @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @northernmnkey @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell The site lists all the policies of all the parties in its survey and you go through the survey and pick your preferred policy on each area that interests you. At the end it tells you which party's policies you chose. The pie chart on the front is everyone's choices together.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688097121608531969

Re @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @northernmnkey @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell Whatever it seems to say, it's never been the case that Labour advocated the end of private property or capitalism. That's arguably its problem. When it was a party for workers it perpetuated the class struggle because its raison d'être was conflict of worker vs employer.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688099601331462144

Re @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @northernmnkey @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell Now its raison d'être is to perpetuate the subjection of the powerless by upholding the idea that being in full time wage earning employment under a capitalist system of wage labour is the only thing that makes you valuable or worthy of protection and sharing in social goods.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688100407950581760

Re @northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell It's what you chose in 2019. And they do indeed spend your billions. Mainly on bogus contracts it seems. It's not fanciful. It's what a society like this costs, and you get to choose. That's democracy.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688101145762271232

Re @barrymc2010 @gsoh31 That value was unearned income accumulated over the lifetime of the owner, that was never taxed, no?

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688102451025453056

Re @barrymc2010 @gsoh31 And many people have had to sell their home to pay for care many years before they get to leaving an estate.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688102933634707458

Re @northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell Unlikely. Haven't tried. I suppose if you've got an electorate of which the majority are not owners of any real estate or shares, while a minority are grossly rich and ruining the world, it could be a winner. There's no fear of loss if you have everything but own nothing.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688104215724294144

Re @northernmnkey @SimonPartridge @brokenbottleboy @dai_alectic @joycemcm @suzannezeedyk @nickduffell I recommend going on with the quiz and seeing whether you fall for Boris or Corbyn or neither.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1688104513901658113

RT The Grit
"By 2023, the richest 50 families in the UK held more wealth than half of the UK population, comprising 33.5 million people. If the wealth of the super-rich continues to grow at the rate it has been, by 2035, the wealth of the richest 200 families will be larger than the whole UK… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1683087996076056578 https://t.co/DNqQEO7Ctx

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Re @Kevbrown51 @Teresa_Peckham @RichardJMurphy That's not correct, but it's true that it's not about taking away but about giving them a better future. Better and less scary.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1683091490824765440

Re @sea_wandereruk Yes, leadership in ensuring that people have a vision of things being *better*, *happier*, *freeer*, *cheaper*, *more comfortable*, *cleaner*, more brightly coloured, and helping them access it. But a highly funded lobby in the media & social media pushes the opposite nonsense.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1683003298758946817

Re @sea_wandereruk Yes the shifts in wealth between nations is the tricky challenge, especially in the UK which couldn't even manage to think at the European level, and it's easy to see how the far right is rising to stop any such thing. But I'm pretty sure that's fed by extreme inequality at home.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1683015828621410305

Re @sea_wandereruk Politicians who expect the contribution to come from those who can least afford it should be eliminated from our scene. We have to get people to see what they're doing and that there's an alternative where the burden falls on the actual culprits who have too much.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1683016414012080129

Re @pigreen1 @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer Lead in the polls presumably all due to the Tories being totally awful.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1683019658276814850

Which is more disruptive, careful but urgent planned elimination of fossil fuels and air travel, for a rapid elimination of climate damage activities, combined with protection of trees? Or climate disaster?
You choose.
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Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8: Adding to the list: Rivers of ice in July in Milano, Italy.
https://t.co/XmfAHPBP0p
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Re https://n.respublicae.eu/Jumpsteady/status/1682306145338228737?t=jH6OevMikCKt2gsAmWCgMw&amp;s=19
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Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8: Extreme weather events every single day now. All of this and much more happened within one month only! India, Spain, Turkey, USA, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Morocco, Croatia, China, Mexico. The list goes on… Why are the news channels not full of it? #ClimateBreakdown https://t.co/4E6YGR986v
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RT Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍
Re @grantshapps And here's why you will be held personally accountable for our failure to act now on climate Shapps.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66229065

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/XRebellionUK/status/1682719270419963904

RT #StopRosebank
Re @grantshapps The UK exports 80% of the oil we produce.
During the height of the gas price crisis last year, gas exports from the UK actually rose.
New fields don’t improve energy security.
New fields won’t lower bills.
The best way to become less dependent on imports, lower bills and… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1682731243631255552

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/StopCambo/status/1682731243631255552

RT Rangzen: Re @grantshapps You're going to prison mate https://t.co/EAg56E03Gf

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