I welcome the Lib Dems' pledge to plant millions of trees. But it doesn't compensate for their poor climate policy. Their zero-by-2045 target ignores the science on how rich nations must reach zero by 2030 at latest.
There's no point in voting for continued climate breakdown.
I was on #PoliticsLive yesterday debating the Tories' disastrous record of austerity, incompetent Brexit negotiations and welfare reform which has risen foodbank use and knife crime.
We need to elect a Labour government, tax the rich and invest in communities.
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The Conservatives' 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 pause of fracking is an election stunt to try and win a few votes.
Boris Johnson described fracking as ‘glorious news for humanity’. We cannot trust him.
Labour would ban fracking. That's real change.
There are 150 billionaires in the UK while 14 million people live in poverty.
In a fair society there would be no billionaires and no one would live in poverty.
So the FT finally gets around to admitting that "green growth" is a myth and that we need #degrowth to achieve climate stability... but then asserts - without a shred of evidence - that degrowth is incompatible with wellbeing and democracy. https://t.co/xeukU2LciC
Anyone calling for prosecutions should remember that traffickers only earn money because safe routes are being closed down by governments pandering to the hard right. There is blood on many hands. #HostileEnvironment https://t.co/b0o3MA3vZZ
The Climate Strike movement - and particularly XR as its leading force - need to stop with the apolitical crap. I’ll march with other socialists and communists of all kinds but to act like there is a solution in which capitalism’s reckless pursuit of profit can persist is lying.
🚫 Nothing socialist about nationalism
🚫 Nothing socialist about border controls
🚫 Nothing socialist about dividing the working class
🚫 Nothing socialist about throwing migrants under the bus
Workers of the world, unite ✊🌍
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You don't get to opt out of politics. The left and right is a fence and those in the middle haven't surpassed the fence, they just haven't decided if facsism is worse than free healthcare