Progressive, (True) Democrat & Green Party Member Rent Controls, Four Day Week, Wealth Taxes & Tax Justice, House Building, Proportional Representation
London, England
Joined February 2010
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🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
A few disappointing absences from yesterday's budget:
🔒Rent controls
💰Equalising capital gains tax rates with income tax (so investment income is taxed at the same rates as income from work)
🌍Any mention of that small issue of... the climate crisis...
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
John Healey promised it would be a "continuity Labour government with a change of leader".
His Budget has delivered exactly that.
ALT Political graphic with a red background and the headline “CONTINUITY” in large white capital letters at the top. The central image combines half of Rachel Reeves’ face on the left with half of John Healey’s face on the right, creating one merged portrait. On the left, the text reads “RACHEL REEVES 2025”. On the right, it reads “JOHN HEALEY 2026”. Beneath both names are five identical statements, each accompanied by a white cross: NO WEALTH TAX NO RENT FREEZE NO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF WATER NO MAJOR INVESTMENT IN CLIMATE RESILIENCE STICKING TO SELF-IMPOSED FISCAL RULES The lower half of the image gradually fades to black to make the white text more visible. The graphic highlights the Green Party's criticism that both Labour Budgets follow the same approach despite the change of Chancellor.
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
The Chancellor had the chance to help the poorest renters. Instead, housing benefit has been frozen again.
Local Housing Allowance is stuck on 2023 rates, yet rents have skyrocketed by over 23%. We need action on soaring rents.
Join us: generationrent.org/sign-up/
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
No mention of the housing benefit freeze in John Healey's Budget speech.
Looks like it remains despite calls from over a dozen charities this weekend.
Andy Burnham called for the freeze to end while mayor of Greater Manchester.
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Was that it?
It all felt very familiar.
A Labour Government totally unwilling to take on power and wealth and give our country the investment we so desperately need.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields.
He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future"
We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense.
Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Russell Brand’s trial is devastating. Testimony describes him as a rabid animal, demanding sex every few hours from whoever happened to be around, and taking it regardless of consent
Brand’s defense is that women knew he was a degenerate maniac, so they should have expected it by being in a room with him (several allege he attacked them in public and tried to drag them into bathroom stalls)
This is separate from FIVE disturbing allegations in Channel 4 Dispatches. Brand has zero regard for women as human beings - I can’t even imagine how many victims there truly are
Blows my mind that so many people peddle his lunacy portraying him as a truth-telling martyr being smeared by the establishment - and buy his newfound religious hucksterism
Makes sense he’s leapt into the movement of sexual offenders and pedophiles, where he belongs (other than prison)
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift.
Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job.
What does this Labour government have against young people?
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🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Pleased to sign this cross-party letter opposing Rosebank and Jackdaw licences.
The long term costs of new drilling far outweigh any short-term gain.
We cannot credibly urge other countries to leave fossil fuels in the ground while greenlighting new oil and gas projects.
ALT Official House of Commons letterhead and signed parliamentary letter urging Britain not to approve new fossil fuel fields and calling for stronger climate action, concluding with multiple MP signatories and contact details at the foot.
RT @BernieSanders: Mark Zuckerberg’s threat to leave CA if voters approve a 5% billionaire wealth tax was a bluff.
He’s not alone.Since Pr…
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🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Deputy Mayor of Hackney Dylan Law sharing thoughts in the rain on the approval of Jackdaw gas field
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Miliband and Burnham so scared of the Board of Deputies that they'll take tougher action on a a teacher wearing a Palestine flag badge than they will on a genocide
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
A letter of appreciation from Green Party local party chairs across the country
Keep up the great work @ZackPolanski we all still #BackZack
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
American Football's American Football (LP2) turns 10 today
Read our review: pitchfork.visitlink.me/OQcbJ…
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism.
It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change.
This is a victory for Shell over the people.
UK government gives go-ahead for gas production from Jackdaw field in North Sea bbc.in/4yzB0mv
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
The government has officially blocked my call for a public inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza.
Delaying scrutiny will not make questions about British complicity in genocide disappear - and we will never give up until we have brought about justice for the Palestinian people.
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
Ed has never threatened the Labour Party with non-cooperation for facilitating and enabling a genocide, arresting pensioners for holding signs, or overseeing new restrictions on the right to peaceful protest... despite being the Party of civil liberties. Why is that?
Seems to me the whole political establishment is telling on itself. A motion is a red line, but genocide isn't.
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
To be clear: both the Lib Dems and Labour are saying that they will refuse to form a coalition with the Greens, even if it as the expense of a Reform or Tory government, because of a Green Party conference motion condemning a political ideology that’s led to genocide?
Really?
🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: @GretaThunberg unequivocally backs Zionism is racism motion, now Green Party policy.