Grant Shapps, who used a fake name in order to pose as a "millionaire web marketer" running a get-rich-quick scheme, and then lied about it for three years, is now in charge of the UK's global security and defence policy.
📈 More than three-quarters of people don't believe Labour or the Conservatives understand the reality of the cost of living crisis.
The Green Party has a plan to bring down bills AND emissions quickly 👇
👏 Great work @ByDonkeys
💚 Just a quick reminder that, unlike Keir Starmer's Labour, the Green Party supports a fair voting system.
Join the only party with a plan to fix our broken democracy and build a fairer, greener country 🧵⤵️
The four wealthiest people in Britain are richer than 20 million of their fellow citizens. Guess which group pays a higher rate of direct and indirect taxation.
The Prime Minister’s rabid support for defunding criminal justice means that rape cases now wait five years for a trial.
We don’t have enough courts, judges, lawyers or staff. Record backlogs, record delays. Lives on hold for years.
Public safety a top priority? Prove it.
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping."
-- Hubert Reeves
These European countries do not charge university tuition fees to their citizen:
Scotland
Austria
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Norway
Poland
Slovenia
Sweden
Citizens of England pay fees, denied life-enriching opportunities, saddled with debts. Country is poorer.
Shocking - as argued in my book Manifesto, we need to re-purpose these huge sums of money, bit by bit over the next 2-5 years, moving them from fossil fuels to renewables. We need to find no new money this way, just use the money we already spend on a better outcome.
And remember, we get twice as much GDP growth and 2.5 times as many jobs for every £ we spend on green energy compared to brown (fossils). It really is a plan with no downsides - unless you have shares in fossil companies or family contracts with them, Rishi Sunak …..! #EndFossilFuels
Jeremy Hunt forgot he owned seven flats, Jacob Rees-Mogg forgot he took a £6m loan, Theresa Villiers forgot she owned £70k-worth of Shell shares and Rishi Sunak forgot his wife owned shares in a childcare company. Bad run of memory lapses right there, guys.
@freddiesayers That graph show congestion-induced mean speeds rather than speed limit-induced mean speeds. A 20mph limit actually encourages smoother driving which in turn reduces emissions. At a steady 20mph a modern car will return about 90mpg. https://t.co/TRXkYo791E