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Historic moment as
@GreenJennyJones
Clean Air (Human Right) Bill passes the House of Lords. A Conservative MP sponsored the private members bill that government enacted in 1956. If this govt doesn't act then hope other parties include
#EllasLaw
in their manifestos.
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You know how many politicians rarely say what they mean. Well there are exceptions. Here is straight talking about the anti-strike laws and why this corrupt government is scared of opposition.
@GreenJennyJones
talking truth to power
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My complaint to the police complaints body IOPC about why
#metpolice
refuse to report, or subsequently investigate, a christmas party at Downing Street when they had officers guarding the place inside and out.
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The government objected to
@GreenJennyJones
calling them liars for ripping up environmental protections they promised to keep, but had no problem with her calling them "systematically corrupt". Jenny outlines how Tory Party donations = policy change = pollution = share rise.
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If MPs are keen to spy on poor people's bank accounts, why don't they try it on themselves first?
@GreenJennyJones
Red flags for undeclared incomes?
Plans to spy on bank accounts of the poor, disabled and carers (due in the Autumn Statement).
@BigBrotherWatch
#ToryCorruption
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Just for the record.
@GreenJennyJones
was right. You can call the government liars in the Lords. After all, what else would you call it? Glad to see the apology from the Government whip.
You can also say the government are "systematically corrupt". Any other suggestions?
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Health and Care Bill, Lords last night.
"Privatisation hasn't worked. It hasn't delivered on promises to increase quality and decrease costs... Most people do not want a privatised NHS, they want a public service because that will give them the best results."
@GreenJennyJones
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Quick question "If a company wants a government contract. Is it better to have a friend in the cabinet, or just give a large donation to the Conservative Party or both?"
#corruption
#ToryCorruption
@GreenJennyJones
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The lies we can see, can be challenged. With targetted digital marketing the lies are hidden on individual timelines. Have entered an era where "...truth and integrity are impediments to being elected"
@GreenJennyJones
calls out
#BorisTheLiar
in Lords
#ElectionsBill
#Brexit
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"This bill is an attack on democracy within parliament. Rather than taking back control, they are taking away parliament's sovereign power to vote for or against laws... We need to cut our losses and rejoin the EU."
@GreenJennyJones
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"If the water companies pollute, then they should be fined, but the consumers shouldn't pay those fines"
@GreenJennyJones
"Water companies can use shares to pay the fines and if they keep creating a mess then the public will own those companies, at no extra cost."
#sewage
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"We have a government that is passing rules for us, while not obeying laws itself. The police protect the powerful, while getting more oppressive powers to use against the voiceless. This is an autocracy, not a democracy."
@GreenJennyJones
#PoliceBill
#ProtestIsNotACrime
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Lords defeated government 4 times on the
#IllegalMigrationBill
last night.
#GreenJennyJones
telling the Minister that his policies, are not the will of the people.
"The only decent thing to do is... don't break any more laws"
#Rwanda
#SuellaBraverman
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Lords defeat government draconian laws
#PoliceBill
. A staggering 14 defeats for the government in one historic evening, with a further 5 government amendments being withdrawn. Includes 4 new offences that are now out of this Bill and can't be reinserted.
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"If we let the government overturn votes by Ministerial decree then what is the point of this House and all our work?.. This isn't a one off. It's part of a trend in legislation that undermines parliament democracy."
@GreenJennyJones
on her Fatal Motion
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"Is the Minister saying that we musn't set water quality standards too high, as the companies won't be able to make any money and we will have to nationalise them? Which seems like a good result to me."
@GreenJennyJones
#sewage
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"Every dollar or pound the oil and gas companies make equals the world becoming a worse place for generations. That is what real disruption means and we have a UK government that encourages it with tax breaks and licences."
@GreenJennyJones
#PublicOrderBill
#ClimateEmergency
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Wait for the punchline.
Q. Which is it? Sunak, Truss or Mordaunt.
@GreenJennyJones
responds
Was she thinking about her trip with anti-sewage campaigners in Cambridge today?
#conservativeleadership
#Conservatives
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The big plans to end sewage disharges commence April 2025.
@GreenJennyJones
"They have had all the money they needed to sort this out, but they gave it away in dividend payments." Tell
@Ofwat
to stop the big cheques to senior execs and dividend payments until this is sorted?
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"You can't trust this government"
@GreenJennyJones
supporting an attempt to stop the government by-passing parliamentary democracy by giving Ministers alone the power to delete or change laws.
Puts in Hansard, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP gerrymander comment
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With Boris Johnson's Tories having got £2.3m from Russia-linked oligarchs, what have the donors got in return? Minister suggests they step outside
@GreenJennyJones
gets up ...
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A Lords uprising against an authoritarian government.
@GreenJennyJones
"We have a Cabinet and a Prime Minister who want more authoritarianism. They are trying to transform the whole state apparatus to hold themselves in power indefinitely."
#ToryBritain
#HumanRights
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Tree huggers also:
* support teachers and doctors getting a decent pay rise
* tax the rich
* repeal nasty legislation that bans protests and strikes
* deal with the climate crisis
Again. What is Labour for?
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#SewageScandal
debated on Newsnight. Well done everyone who has been campaigning for clean rivers and coasts. We are winning the argument.
#Sewage
amendment in Lords tomorrow and hopefully voted on by MPs on wednesday.
@GreenJennyJones
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Peat sale ban (horticulture) delayed until 2030. Meanwhile, government allocate £20 billion on carbon capture and storage... which is what peat does, until you dig it up.
Oh, and
@GreenJennyJones
gets a big, knowing, laugh.
#ClimateCrisis
#Farming
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@carolvorders
@GreenJennyJones
The government whip told Jenny she had to withdraw the liars comment. We checked and they now accept Jenny can call them liars in the Lords
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The Conservatives have given the police a set of draconian powers and are now pressing them to clamp down on "dissent", but the police know they need public consent to do their job
@GreenJennyJones
also lists the people who are not facing jail time
#ToryCorruption
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Defending freedom of speech starts with defeating the draconian laws in
#PoliceBill
that ban effective protest.
@GreenJennyJones
. This government has become a big threat to democracy.
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A democracy is failing when... A list of what this government has done to our country.
Those who support the opposition are discouraged from voting.
Protests that are noisy and get noticed are banned
Strikes also banned
1/4
#ToryCorruption
@GreenJennyJones
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Lords at its best and most successful, but it wouldn't have happened without the public reminding MPs who they work for and why the environment counts.
#sewage
amendment with its duty on the water companies to reduce pollution is going back to the MPs tomorrow
@GreenJennyJones
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Lots of toxic waste and faeces being emptied into the coasts.
This was the same day as MPs rejected amendments from the Lords to the Environment Bill, including a stop to sewage being dumped in rivers and along coastlines.
@GreenJennyJones
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Nobody believes the independent pay review is independent or the Government’s figures about how much it will cost per household. Theyfrittered away billions on the PPE scandal. Will Ministers sit down and talk money with nurses, posties and railway workers?
@GreenJennyJones
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"The largest form of corruption in terms of profitability is the British system of procurement and privatisation. It's become a visible form of corruption due to the Covid crisis"
@GreenJennyJones
And now we are burning £4bn of PPE unsuitable kit
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I'm a leaver, but if Article 50 was revoked I would feel relieved - we could start to mop up this horrendous mess
@GreenJennyJones
-
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"We need PR, an elected second chamber and to stop money controlling government policy."
An Anti-Corruption Commission would investigate all the dodgy deals and Tufton Street connections.
@GreenJennyJones
PPE fast track. Investigate
Oil/Gas donations to Tories. Investigate.
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The
#budget
halves air-passenger duty: a tax on flying. Remember: most flying is by the rich; 15% of the population take 70% of flights. A tax cut for the rich, on the most climate-destructive action there is, flying. Days before
#Cop26
. Got a bit passionate
@GreenJennyJones
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Refugees are only seen as a burden if you stop them from working and paying taxes in a country that is short of a million workers.
@GreenJennyJones
makes a positive case for immigration. Something that Labour should be doing.
Last nights debate on Illegal Migration Bill
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The government quietly dropped the scientifically based Water Directive standards for all water sources in 2017 and are replacing them with 75% of rivers being in their 'natural state' whatever that means
@GreenJennyJones
explains what nonsense this is
#SewageScandal
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"If there's chaos in the local elections with thousands of voters turned away or long queues putting others off voting, then many will question the validity of the results."
@GreenJennyJones
"they risk destroying our democratic system"
#VoterID
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"These are ordinary people that protest. These are just people who don't agree with the government.. How do you seriously think that a protest is going to happen without noise.. These clauses are repressive, they are plain nasty and they must go."
@GreenJennyJones
#PolicingBill
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"Shame on you."
@GreenJennyJones
attacks the government for pushing through it's assault on freedom of speech and the clamp down on effective protest.
#SuellaBraverman
#climatecrisis
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Government are taking the
#sewage
crisis and the death of our waterways so seriously, they have asked the water companies to produce plans that ... they asked them to produce on the 8th September last year.
@GreenJennyJones
Meanwhile, the shareholders still make money.
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Ask Labour peers to back the Fatal Motion in the Lords. Defend Parliamentary Democracy - Sign the Petition!
Don't let Ministers ignore parliamentary votes on new laws. Defend your rights.
@GreenJennyJones
via
@UKChange
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"Developers pay good money to ensure the Conservative Party listens to them more than climate scientists."
@GreenJennyJones
This means new houses without:
* solar panels
* heat pumps
* best energy standards
* electric vehicle charging points
#corruption
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£2m a day of our funding for
#renewables
is instead going to the Drax Power Station which burns forests and makes
#ClimateCrisis
worse. This money should be bringing down energy bills by supporting energy efficient homes and genuine renewables.
@GreenJennyJones
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Major victory for the Lords
@GreenJennyJones
Legislation that threatens workers rights and thousands of environmental rules and laws is kicked into long grass. Keep up the pressure to make sure it doesn’t return
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52,000 people have signed the petition demanding
@LabourLordsUK
back the
@GreenJennyJones
fatal motion today that throws out the Tory bans on protest. Democracy is at risk. What is the point of an opposition that doesn't act? Sign the petition now.
?
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Renewable energy was a cheaper way to produce electricity even before the gas prices rise. More renewables would reduce electricity prices. More buildings being insulated would mean lower bills for many and lower profits for Shell and other oil/gas producers
@GreenJennyJones
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The Lords still trying to amend the Strikes Bill
@GreenJennyJones
It does 3 big things.
* people off sick, or in hospital, suffer consequences if don't go into work
* unions in trouble if they don't help employers get people into work
* Ministers make rules without scrutiny
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1st Bill put forward by both
@GreenJennyJones
and
@natalieben
was to abolish themselves. Lords Reform an essential part of modernising our democracy, with elected second chamber, PR and strict rules on party funding that end
#ToryCorruption
#Starmer
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Nearly a year since
@GreenJennyJones
called
#BorisJohnson
a liar in the Lords. Love the direct look at the front bench opposite as she says "some of us care and a lot of us don't"
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The government's decision on
#SewageScandal
will come to haunt them. "It will not be forgotten". The promised reductions in spillages have no targets and no timetable. We have returned to our 1970s reputation as the dirty man of Europe.
@GreenJennyJones
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Thursday 13th October. House of Lords. 1 hour of debate on UK corruption
@GreenJennyJones
"to ask HMG what assessment they have made of the effects of corruption in the United Kingdom." Will include a
@GeorgeMonbiot
quote on corporate funded, right wing think tanks.
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"Corruption has real world impacts"
@GreenJennyJones
launches Lords debate UK oil/gas exploration and
#ToryCorruption
"Conservative Party, under
#BorisJohnson
has taken £1.5m donations from energy industry.. Money buys access and access gvies you licences and subsidies." 1/5
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A zombie bill that the government has dragged from its grave because they don't like opposition. That's the real problem... The repressive powers in this bill are worthy of Russia, or China or Iran."
@GreenJennyJones
#PublicOrderBill
#Protest
#UKGovernment
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Ooops. Minister attacks opposition in Lords for letting the British people down over sewage
@GreenJennyJones
gets annoyed
#ToryCorruption
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£100 bn on HS2, an over engineered railway, saving 30 minutes on a London-Birmingham journey for the Zoom/Teams generation. The taxpayer has lost, the contractors have profited and the Sunday Times calculates we could have built a million council homes instead.
@GreenJennyJones
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Conservative Party got £1.5m in donations from from oil/gas industry since 2019. Renewable energy is now taxed more than fossil fuels. Yet it gives more back on consumer bills than fossil fuels.
@GreenJennyJones
asks when they will stop taking dirty money?
#ClimateEmergency
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Do Russian donations to Ministers, MPs and the Conservative Party explain why they dithered and delayed on the Economic Crime Bill; or limited the measures in it; or applied sanctions to fewer oligarchs than the US, EU or switzerland.
@GreenJennyJones
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Clean Air should be a human right. The government signed up to the UN resolution saying so.
@GreenJennyJones
Bill to make this a reality in England and Wales just sailed through committee stage in the House of Lords. Ella's Law taking another step towards becoming reality
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Around 9,000 drivers still legally on the road despite more than 12 points on their licence. "Exceptional hardship" gets them off, but includes needing car to walk dog.
@GreenJennyJones
trying to change law so "exceptional" means exactly that.
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"Freedom of press is fine, but not for protestors?"
Lords vote to delete an amendment restricting freedom of the press, in Public Order Bill.
"What are they frightened of? What is it they think journalists are going to report?"
@GreenJennyJones
The truth?
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Will Labour join
@GreenJennyJones
@natalieben
and others in the Lords who want to stop the
#IllegalMigrationBill
on Monday. All it takes is for the Lords to vote for the same amendment twice.
@BBCr4today
@YvetteCooperMP
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What do you call a corrupt government that:
* bans protest for being noisy
* bans strikes
* suppresses voting
* gives police spies legal immunity for crimes
* bans peaceful protests in advance that might cause more than "minor disruption"
@GreenJennyJones
#ToryCorruption
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@GeorgeMonbiot
We need
@UKLabour
to oppose these draconian laws in the Lords. We have a chance of defeating this government and defending democratic freedoms - let’s do it
Defending freedom of speech starts with defeating the draconian laws in
#PoliceBill
that ban effective protest.
@GreenJennyJones
. This government has become a big threat to democracy.
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The Lords have the power to reject these water pollution amendments outright. They can force the government to start again with a new Bill - hard to pass before next year's general election. Will Labour work with others to vote it down?
#Starmer
#sewage
@GreenJennyJones
Just forced Minister to Chamber to answer questions about letting housing developers (a major source of Tory party donations) off the hook for extra river pollution.
Scrapping
#NutrientNeutrality
rules is reckless & contradicts Govt promises on not watering down EU protections
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Will Carbon Capture and Storage (no contracts yet) be the next PPE scandal with £20 billion of funding
@GreenJennyJones
raises concern that this taxpayer subsidy will go to the oil/gas giants who have caused the
#ClimateCrisis
. Minister starts with an insult
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Water customers should be getting a refund, not paying higher bills
@GreenJennyJones
We paid our money for 30+ years. Ofwat have a duty to ensure the water companies have all they need each year to improve the sewage system. They failed to invest. So where has the money gone?
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"The criminal justice system is in chaos. This government has defunded the police, CPS, the courts, probation system to prisons. There has never been a better time to be a criminal than under this Prime Minister and this Home Secretary."
@GreenJennyJones
#PritiPatel
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"When we talk about kindness, compassion and humanity, the government regard them as weaknesses, but I would argue they are strengths. And it is part of our British psyche to give with kindness."
@GreenJennyJones
#IllegalMigrationBill
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The million strong protest against Iraq War certainly caused more than "minor disruption". Does
@UKLabour
really want to give the Home Office and police the power to ban such demonstrations? The Lords can block this Ministerial decree
@GreenJennyJones
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Lords today could vote to delay HS2 second phase by 6 months. Would allow for a long term reassessment. We should cancel HS2 and reallocate all public funds to a zero carbon transport future. Opposition and alternatives explained
@GreenJennyJones
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"Countries all over Europe are throwing open their doors to refugees from
#Ukraine
while we are closing our doors and nailing them shut... This should be a turning point. The government should abandon this bill and replace it with a refugees are welcome bill."
@GreenJennyJones
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The right wing views of John Redwood given lots of air time on
#r4today
. Meanwhile, the greens win over 200 more council seats and now run a council, but our distinctive views on everything from
#Torycorruption
, economy and environment not worth hearing?
You know how many politicians rarely say what they mean. Well there are exceptions. Here is straight talking about the anti-strike laws and why this corrupt government is scared of opposition.
@GreenJennyJones
talking truth to power
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A lot of 'not contents' being shouted from the Tory benches as I introduce my Bill to replace peers with an elected second chamber. Can't imagine why
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Can we nominate Baroness
@GreenJennyJones
for this job
#torycorruption
'If you've defrauded the taxpayer, we're going after you... Rishi Sunak should never have signed off those cheques.'
Shadow Chancellor
@RachelReevesMP
tells
@NickFerrariLBC
why Labour want an 'anti-corruption commissioner' to help recoup the £7.2bn lost to fraud during Covid.
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Government has new target of reducing phosphorus by 80% by 2037, as the current excesses lead to algae blooms, cuts oxygen and kills rivers. Too late, inadequate and won't be met due to
#sewage
dumping by water companies.
@GreenJennyJones
lays it out
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#HS2
is destroying many ancient woodlands. What are the upsides in the age of Zoom and video conferencing? A few minutes off the journey times of trips that people are unlikely to make. "A project designed for a future that no longer exists."
@GreenJennyJones
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As we head towards 2 degrees of warming food production can adapt, although changes are no longer once in a generation but come every decade... Heading towards 4 degrees the human world shrinks and millions die. "If you do one thing Just Stop Oil."
@GreenJennyJones
#climate
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"Is the Minister saying that we musn't set water quality standards too high, as the companies won't be able to make any money and we will have to nationalise them? Which seems like a good result to me."
@GreenJennyJones
#sewage
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"Most of us in here, in this chamber, will die of old age. By contrast, many young people of school age will die of climate change and its impacts."
@GreenJennyJones
#ClimateEmergency
#InsulateBritain
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New government targets "Most of us won't live to see a country with clean air and clean water. I don't mind making sacrifices for the next generation. But I would prefer to make sacrifices that deliver improvements while I'm alive. And it is possible."
@GreenJennyJones
#sewage
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Today, I asked if breaking the law with a car attracts a lighter sentence than if someone does the same in any other area of their life? Why are 8,800 are allowed to drive around with 12 points on their licence.
@GreenJennyJones
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With economic chaos, it's no coincidence that the government is spending a lot of time/energy passing draconian laws to stop protests. The Public Order Bill "is too right wing for a democracy"
@GreenJennyJones
#AutumnStatement
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"If the police are looking for hate speech this weekend, they need look no further than the Home Secretary. She is seeking to divide people, when what we desperately need is to bring communities together."
@GreenJennyJones
🗣️ "We have a Home Secretary aiming to break the bonds of shared humanity between people."
@GreenJennyJones
on Suella Braverman's inflammatory words and the need for a general election now ⬇️
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Voter ID.. an attempt by government to make it harder for people to vote, it will disproportionately stop BAME and working class people from voting. We all know that its billionaire donors bankrolling the Conservative Party that's the real failure of democracy.
@GreenJennyJones
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Why are the water companies not getting on with fixing the problem?
@GreenJennyJones
question Monday
"to ask HMG what assessment they have made of the reasons for the delay in water companies producing plans for dealing with sewage discharges."
@Feargal_Sharkey
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#ULEZExpansion
The polluter pays. When they stop polluting, they stop paying. It's a win-win.
"When people are breathing in polluted air, doing nothing about cleaning it up means that people will die prematurely."
@GreenJennyJones
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"our behaviour as humans is often like toddlers. We grab, we don't follow common sense and we certainly don't recognise that the earth is our support system."
@GreenJennyJones
explains why constant, economic growth isn't possible on a finite planet.
#environment
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Today in the Lords
@GreenJennyJones
and
@natalieben
will back a fatal motion to stop Voter ID being part of the elections this May. This is voter suppression aimed at making it harder for some people to vote - mostly those who don't vote Conservative.
@BBCr4today
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@BBCNews
The rebellion was actually led by
@GreenJennyJones
with the help of independent journalists and campaigners on social media, who convinced Labour and others to reject the polluters charter outright. Great work everyone
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"If you..."
@GreenJennyJones
lists the draconian actions
"All a ploy to turn all the cards in favour of an unaccountable government that can't be challenged in the courts, can't be challenge at the ballot box and can't be challenged on the streets. We have to unite against it."
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"The largest form of corruption in terms of profitability is the British system of procurement and privatisation. It's become a visible form of corruption due to the Covid crisis"
@GreenJennyJones
And now we are burning £4bn of PPE unsuitable kit
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@GeorgeMonbiot
Or how these draconian laws are part of a package of anti-democratic measures
You know how many politicians rarely say what they mean. Well there are exceptions. Here is straight talking about the anti-strike laws and why this corrupt government is scared of opposition.
@GreenJennyJones
talking truth to power
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When will the government apologise for creating an asylum seeker backlog by ending safe routes from most countries. And also, for turning refugees, who've experienced the most horrendous conditions, into a right wing trope and hate figures?
@GreenJennyJones
Telling it as it is.
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11 billion pounds of UK subsidy going to Drax to burn forests in Canada. Panorama Programe showed this in October, but 7 months later the government is still looking into it.
@GreenJennyJones
Use this money for solar panels, or insulation, instead.
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The government wants to pass legislation that breaks international law on the treatment of refugees and people fleeing conflict.
#Ukraine
The Lords is full of ex judges who are telling them no. 10 government defeats last night on
#NationalityAndBordersBill
@GreenJennyJones
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