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

RT @BBCLauraKT: BREAKING: Rishi Sunak plans to scrap university courses that don't improve earning potential, presumably meaning we will have to make do without any new teachers or nurses x

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RT @Philirving: I’m visiting France right now and learn that Macron has bought out the remaining shares in EDF so that the French nation now own 100% of their major energy supplier. How radical is that?

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Liz Truss is right that the (current, extreme) Conservative way is to reduce tax burdens (for the wealthy) and to take away any handouts from those too poor to pay tax. They certainly don't want to add more handouts. She surely did mean *exactly* that.
https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-misinterpreted-over-no-handouts-remark-her-supporters-say-12667655

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RT @edinburgh_expo: @PavementsPeople It would make more sense to make parking spaces cargo bike sized.

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RT @JoWolffBSG: Think it was @RupertRead who wrote something like ‘We shouldn’t ask what the economic value of the humanities is. We should ask what human values does economic growth contribute to?’

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Wow this is worth knowing about!
RT @KentishExplorer: If you are catching the train to London for the Eurostar, ask for a Euro High Saver CIV ticket. No time restrictions, so you can avoid paying for a peak ticket. I saved over £30. It is not advertised, can only be bought from a ticket office, and to some staff it’s a mystery!

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@Gimmehendrix_ Yes too right. I ran out of characters for all the multitude of causes they're not addressing, but feeding money into the pockets of their mates out of the public purse is one I certainly should have mentioned!

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Gordon Brown is right that someone (not the Bank of England) needs to do something but Labour seems too scared to name the causes or address them. Throwing money to the poor without redistribution and without addressing the root of the problem won't help.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/06/gordon-brown-set-emergency-budget-or-risk-a-winter-of-dire-poverty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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What if you were the current government, or the chancellor of the exchequer or the "caretaker" prime minister? What would you do about getting a strategy in place to show that you had the measure of this?

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What if you were a candidate hoping to be prime minister, what would you say you planned to do? If you understood any of this?

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What would you do if you were the Bank of England and you understood that the inflation is due not to rising wages, nor too much money in circulation, nor low interest rates, but to supply chains, shortages of commodities, labour shortages, sanctions, war, climate and Brexit?

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RT @BlokeOnWheels: The problem with this view is it leads to a culture of suspicion where genuine claimants are denied the help they need because it plays well with the right wing press. This is particularly prevalent among the fitness for work tests and pip assessments undergone by disabled people

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RT @RichardJMurphy: There is one very simple way to create growth in the UK. It is to redistribute money from those who do not need or spend significant parts of what they earn (the wealthy) and give it to those who will spend it more quickly, or even immediately (the poorest).

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No he didn't fight to the end. If truth be told, he killed himself a long time ago and did not fight to stay alive at all but rather to die, which at last he is allowed to do. This is very sad, but the fighting to deny it has been wholly inappropriate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-62346354

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Actually he died long ago, and no, he wasn't in a coma. He was brain dead. He'd been, as we say, resting in peace, called to his Lord a long while since. Any Christian organisation worth its title would have helped the family to come to terms with that.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/06/archie-battersbee-boy-at-centre-of-legal-battle-over-life-support-dies?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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"Your women"? Which women are they? Who told you that your women were being cancelled? What does that even mean?
{seriously, this is very dangerous fear mongering from the fascist rule book}.
RT @AdamBienkov: "I will be incredibly robust in standing up against that lefty woke culture that is trying to cancel our history, our values and indeed our women," says Rishi Sunak.

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RT @PSCupdates: 🚨Protect our #RightToBoycott🚨

Write to your MP to raise urgent concern about the government’s plans for an ‘anti boycott bill’ announced in the 2022 Queen’s Speech policy proposals. MPs MUST oppose this repressive, anti-democratic bill! Write to yours➡️https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/boycottbill

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@greenbenali "Keep the British public safe"? What planet are they on? The Home Office has been inflicting hurt and injustice on the citizens and servants of this country, and on guests we'd welcomed and to whom we owed protection. It's also destroying the British public's moral compass.

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Sign this if you've seen democracy and the rights of the marginalised being whittled away by the nasty unkind cruel people who call themselves our government. Petition: Do not reform the Human Rights Act https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607712

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RT @helenmallam: While my father said grace, my maternal grandfather, Ernest, would whisper that Tories would starve working people for an extra sixpence profit - it should be the unions to whom we gave thanks for the food on our plates, not any God.
He was right.
Ernest died in February, 1976.

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