ONCE UPON A RAVEN’S NEST OUT 13/4/23 | HOMESICK | FEARLESS | @riverrunbooks @QuercusBooks @WoollardJessica
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Years in the making, out TOMORROW
#OnceUponaRavensNest is the story of a working-class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during his lifetime, the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency
@QuercusBooks @riverrunbooks
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The top 50 families have more wealth than half our population. If we taxed just 1% on the wealthiest 1%, the so-called black hole would be gone.
#TaxTheRich #Budget2024 @UKLabour
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Fuel duty staying frozen and discounted for another year, at 10 x what it would have cost to keep the £2 bus fare cap.
Make it make sense 🤦
#Budget2024
The cost of capping bus fares at £2 would have been tiny compared with keeping the fuel duty freeze.
We should be incentivizing public transport which would help reduce carbon emissions - rather than continuing with this regressive fuel duty cut. #AutumnBudget
ALT Text: Updating fuel duty could fund bus fare cap 10 times over. Graph with shows cost of capping bus fares at £2 being £300m and the revenue from reversing the fuel duty cut at £3bn
CatrinaDavies retweeted
Govt decision to keep regressive Tory fuel duty freeze & to choose to penalise bus users is utterly nonsensical. What happened to promoting public transport? And all the Green rhetoric? Cost of capping bus fares at £2 tiny compared with revenue lost through freeze #Budget2024
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Pumping billions into dangerous & ineffective carbon capture tech is letting the fossil fuel lobby off the hook – we should be insulating homes , installing heat pumps and transitioning to EVs , not letting big industry skirt round the real solutions to hit net zero . . .
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Dispiriting to see govt reviewing environmental protections to "ensure that regulation... is driving economic growth."
We need to ensure that regulations protect wildlife, stop shit flooding our rivers & prevent nature dying:
@SteveReedMP @DanRCorry
gov.uk/government/news/dan-c…
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The images that I see coming out of Gaza each day—of shredded children, piles of twisted corpses, dehumanisation in torture camps, people being burned alive—are morally indistinguishable from the images I have seen in Holocaust museums. Pure evil on a horrifying scale.
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I am deeply sickened by @UKLabour saying they will sweep away regulation. Regulation makes markets work, protects the weak from abuse, ends cheating, ensures fair employment practices and protects consumers. What don’t they like about those things?
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Such a relief that there’s no climate crisis so these developments can go ahead without concern & without undermining commitments to being the greenest government ….
NEW: PM at investment summit announces a £1bn deal with Manchester Airport Group to expand Stansted. PM says it open up new routes for work and holiday destinations
Starmer says deal the “first of tens of billions worth of inward investment deals that we will sign today, because we're determined to lead the way on growth”
CatrinaDavies retweeted
Aspirational parents struggling to pay VAT on public school fees should just borrow the money at 8% compound interest for the rest of their lives. Like millions of working-class students have to.
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Staring into this hypnotic eye reveals a nightmarish future paid for by decades of cowardly & corrupt leadership, grotesque overconsumption & wilful ignorance.
And this is just the beginning. We transform society & adapt like crazy, or we lose everything.
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I’m shocked … well not really.
For decades now fossil fuel executives have hollowed out the integrity, intelligence & independence of repeated governments. This is why we desperately need robust, cogent & caring politicians (& yes they do exist) to be in ministerial positions.
It's now looking increasingly like the UK govt's £22bn CCS plan was the net result of multiple ministerial meetings with oil company representatives.
desmog.com/2024/10/07/uks-22…
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Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%.
That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.
NOOOOOO
EXCLUSIVE: UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it theguardian.com/environment/…
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🚨BREAKING: Oil giant BP has DROPPED a target to cut its oil output in the next five years.
Big Oil is prioritising shareholder PROFIT over the future of life on earth.
Pass it on.
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As we head into Autumn, remember to #LeaveTheLeaves 🍂
Lots of little lives depend on those leaves, and our lives depend on theirs ❤️
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Sequence of events:
Labour take a £4m donation from Quadrature - hedge fund in the Cayman Islands - with links to oil & gas industry.
Having dropped their £28bn green pledge & home insulation programme in government they instead invest in green washing for oil & gas:
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NEW: Labour Government launches new carbon capture projects, unlocking billions in investment, creating thousands of jobs and accelerating the UK towards net zero.
Read more from @RachelReevesMP 👇
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
