Ray Harding

Ex Local Authority CEO, Masters educated, former elected Councillor, Americana music, Cambridge Utd, Greyhound Trust, school & college governor, Green Party

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Investment in carbon capture and storage is not an investment in the green economy. It’s an investment in perpetuating the fossil fuel economy. Don’t be fooled by @UKLabour and its desire to support big oil and carbon based industry. They’re burning your future.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot.

No time to waste. #ActOnClimate

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

🗣️ "We need to have a much clearer system for regulating lobbying."

@AdrianRamsay on the need to ensure the lobbying industry isn't having a disproportionate influence on our politics.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

CCS *may* be needed for a few hard-to-abate industries but *not* to extend life of fossil fuel industries by enabling more gas power stations or “blue” hydrogen. Instead of recklessly locking UK into fossil energy for decades to come, money better spent on efficiency & renewables

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Spot the Difference

1994: Rail privatised.
Punctuality 86.4%
Amongst cheapest fares per mile in Europe
Annual subsidy £1.7bn.

30 yrs later
Punctuality 70.1%
Amongst most expensive fares in Europe.
Subsidy £11.9bn

Shareholders enriched, people fleeced.
https://t.co/XRENRF1QXV

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@SASR666 @JonathanPieNews We expected better from Labour - they will regret wasting so much political capital for the sake of a few freebies.

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

You can’t be in opposition for 14 years, criticising the Tories for accepting ‘gifts’, and certain privileges, then act surprised when the public call you out for doing the same thing.
From Angela Rayner’s ‘But everybody does it’ excuse, to Starmer saying ‘It was the right thing to do’, Labour needs to sort their shit out ASAP, because as Honeymoon periods go, this one has been an absolute car crash.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water credit rating slashed to junk status, on the brink of default.

Years of greed catching-up.

Govt plan -restructure industry with customer/public money, return it to private sector. Not OK.

No bailout. Let is go bust, nationalise at low price
https://t.co/lHivjVKz0B

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

One of Netanyahu's most shrill supporters and an apologist for genocide. What on earth is this woman doing at a Labour Party Conference?!

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

📺 "That's barely been covered in the news."

@carla_denyer urges journalists to dig deeper into the Labour Party's £4 million donation from a hedge fund linked to fossil fuels on @itvpeston

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I know it seems so utterly incredible as to be unbelievable but London and the south east really is running out of water.

Don't believe me? @SouthernWater is in talks to tanker in water from Norwegian fjords and no, I'm not kidding nor is it 1st April.

https://t.co/vMGyfApFFo

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@PolitlcsUK Not so, put together with all the other donations & 'gifts' he & his wife are accepting, most people I know would say he is racing down the same slippery slope that characterized the last Tory government. He is discarding the good will that Labour benefited from.

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

Scrounger in chief https://t.co/aYakBlBy51

[Gus O'Donnell @Gus_ODonnell]

Next budget is crucial. I hope this report and Lords’ Economic affairs committee one will persuade HMT that we need more investment .Markets will not be scared by dropping nonsensical rule that debt ratio must fall in year 5 irrespective of what happens in years 1-4.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Billpayers in England and Wales tricked into ‘stealth bailout’ of water companies."

You're about to be had, again and the regulator is facilitating it.

Everyone admits it, for 35 years water companies have been provided with all of the funding needed to build a properly function sewage system but they ripped us off, shareholders took the money.

Now they're asking us to pay a second time for a service we've already paid for and din't get.

https://t.co/hlqyymYoD0

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@CarolineLucas Unbelievable Starmer is taking 'his' Labour party further & further from its socialist roots.

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@FinnWhiteGPEW Spot on.

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@CatHobbs Labour have learnt nothing from the failures of the Blair/Brown era.

[Dr Ellie Chowns MP @EllieChowns]

Last week I led a debate on the environmental standard for new housing, calling for: maximum energy efficiency, solar panels on roofs as standard, swift bricks and bat boxes, flood resilience, and tackling embodied carbon.

Vital to ensure new homes are warm homes!

[Ray Harding @RayHard34750901]

@MazzucatoM @FT @Gus_ODonnell @jdportes @susanamynewman @sjwrenlewis @elerianm Labour trapped themselves in a right wing neo-liberal 'orthodox' economic straight jacket. Total lunacy when they have a massive parliamentary majority & a once in a generation opportunity to drive real change. That is why I & thousands of others have joined the Green Party