Get your calculator out. @RachelReevesMP has announced £21.7 billion of government funding for carbon capture and storage projects. She justifies this saying it will create 4,000 jobs. That’s £5,425,000 per job. What’s more, she has adopted exactly the same plan that was developed by @RishiSunak’s government.
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..and will get nothing.
There is actually something really beautiful and revealing about a new government coming in after 14 years and effectively declaring their own complete powerlessness. It's like something from Orwell. 4/8
Rob Rinder; "Buckingham Palace pays as much in council tax as a terraced house in Blackpool. Does that sound like a Labour Party policy that you would want to defend?"
Darren Jones explains that's just how it is & Labour have no plans to change it #GMB
The British people deserve better than Starmer's Labour.
Although it may feel like there isn't much choice at the General Election, independents and left coalitions are surging.
Be bold and don't vote Labour.
Dear Thames Water,
The public will not foot the bill for sewage cleanup.
We say: Polluters Must Pay.
Transform's plan is to fine these criminal companies up to company value, and bring them into public ownership.
Taking Back Britain's Water:
https://t.co/fpDfLAzBS8
"Ofcom will need to be mindful of business interests when imposing penalties on water companies"
What about OUR interests?
Once again, profits will come before human wellbeing and the health of our environment.
Down with this government.
A government led by a man with a private swimming pool and a beachside home in Santa Monica is effectively encouraging water companies to dump sewage near British seaside resorts. See how it works?
Billionaires increased their wealth more in the 24 months of COVID, than in the past 24 years combined.
When we say "tax the rich", we're not talking about doctors, lawyers, and small business owners.
We're talking about the 2,365 people that made $4 trillion in the pandemic.
Instead of competing over who can be the cruelest to people fleeing war, how about we focus on:
✊ Funding the NHS
✊ Fixing the housing crisis
✊ Clean & cheap energy
✊ Nationalising utilities
✊ Worker's rights
Etc etc.