6.1 million people across the UK are living in fuel poverty.
Meanwhile BP are doubling their profits during the energy crisis.
Pleased to see the Mayor agree with my call to keep the energy cap in place. We have to lower people's bills.
🚨 The collapse of our natural world is a direct threat to the UK’s national security.
🌍 The Nature + National Security Bill is an urgent response to the emergency.
📣 Ask your MP to choose the #NNSBill in the private members’ bill ballot.
Head to 👉 https://t.co/ttdfSPsSOC
Actions speak louder than words. Vote Green for Ezra on 7th May. His achievements and work rate over the last 3 years speak for themselves. If you want an experienced councillor with a proven track record who stands up for Seaford, vote Ezra, vote Green! 🗳️✅💚 @CllrEzraCohen
This was, without doubt, one of the most beautiful mornings I've ever had the privilege to witness. The hills and fields shone with a soft, golden, misty light, and the birdsong echoed along the lanes. At one point I paused on my walk to admire a particularly lovely tree, as I often do, and a little roe deer strolled into the frame and stood in the perfect spot under the boughs. I'm pretty sure she was captivated by how beautiful the world was at that moment too. We exchanged a glance, I whispered "Thank you", and then we both went about our days, with me feeling about as lucky as it's possible to feel.
📍 Peak District, England
A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine.
A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years.
The wool jumper:
- Came from a sheep
- Required grass and rain
- Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried
- Will keep you warm when wet
- Will not melt if exposed to a flame
- Will probably outlive you
- Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years
The polyester fleece:
- Came from an oil refinery in Texas
- Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents
- Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe
- Will get cold and clammy when wet
- Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame
- Will be in landfill within five years
- Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226
But yes. The sheep is the problem.
The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain.
The sheep is the problem.
Happy St George’s Day 🏴. It’s time to tell more positive stories of England. If progressives don’t try to define an inclusive sense of English identity, we leave it to the far right to determine who does & doesn’t belong - and that could hardly be more dangerous #AnotherEngland
It's outrageous in the 6th wealthiest country in the world - 1 in 3 people won't access the palliative care that they need.
Absolutely unacceptable for vital services to go unfunded like this - at the same time the Government refuses taxes on the super rich tackling inequality.
Most people are concerned about climate, but don’t speak up. Let’s find our voice.
Join @CarolineLucas, @liamckavanagh, Wim Vermeulen and @PhoebeTickell, for the launch of Mobilising Silent Majorities.
March 31 | 17:30–19:00 GMT | Online
Free tickets: https://t.co/6TScWxGhQw
Imagine your party has won a historic byelection.
You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members.
Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg!
#isitok
About to go on @GMB to argue why Chancellor is morally wrong to freeze the Plan 2 student loan repayment threshold, and should reverse the decision...
...while in practice for most with that loan it works like a graduate tax, it was deliberately set up and sold as a loan contract (both so the wealthy didn't need get it and so if you move abroad you still owe it).
Freezing the threshold is a one sided breach of contractual terms. No commercial lender would be allowed to do it, the FCA would strike it down. The govt shouldnt be allowed to do it either, it should at the very least stick to the terms it agreed with students when they took out their loans.
This freeze hits lower and middle earning graduates the hardest. They will end up repaying, at a guesstimate, £300/yr more due to it and do so for the rest of their loan's 30yr life.
While the highest earners will pay more each year too, at least for them it'll mean they'll clear the loan earlier so repay less interest.
This is absolutely extraordinary.
Feel so so hopeful seeing the huge numbers coming out not just to support - but to get stuck in campaigning.
Final weekend: here we go!!!
https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp