Jonathan Bartley
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Retired. Still a carer. Former Co-leader @TheGreenParty. Nominated blues drummer of the year. Passionate #NFFC supporter Two top 10k finishes in #FPL. he/him
Joined February 2009
The Prime Minister defended Dominic Cummings' trip to Barnard Castle saying he “followed the instincts of every parent” and behaved “reasonably and legally”. Now he brands refugees who try to save their children by seeking asylum “dangerous and criminal”. One rule for them.
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Bailouts:. - Ryanair and Easyjet £600m each. - BA and Wizz £300m. - Nissan £600m. - Toyota £365m. - Rolls Royce £300m. - Children who won’t have enough to eat over the summer holidays £0m. Tells you everything you need to know about this Government.
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1000 arrests, school strikes, Attenborough highlights the emergency, Greta Thunberg in Parliament, the Bank of England governor says huge financial change needed. And what does the Govt do? Support a state visit for a climate change denier. We must ramp up the pressure.
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Surely one of the most obscene front pages so far this year: A privileged millionaire brandishing a petition calling for money to be taken away from the world’s poorest.
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Dear @BBCr4today you won’t have @TheGreenParty on during our party conference even though some polls have us in 3rd and what we’ve said about Coronavirus since April has been proved right. But you invite the chair of Weatherspoon’s on to spout his opinion on a circuit-breaker?.
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I’ve been a bit quiet on Twitter as I popped down to Cornwall for a few days during which I asked Sarah if she’d consider marrying me. She said yes.💚.
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If you are more outraged by the toppling of a statue of someone responsible for the transportation of 84,000 enslaved African men, women and young children, of whom 19,000 died on voyages - than the fact the statue was there in the first place - you have a serious problem.
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Very disappointing to hear Keir Starmer say Labour is not backing a Universal Basic Income. Now is precisely the time when it would come into its own. #Marr.
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Someone who turns their back on refugees, sets out to create a hostile environment for migrants & presides over a country with 128,000 homeless children is in no place to lecture anyone about “Christian heritage”
Theresa May: 'Let us take pride in our Christian heritage'
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“We must do everything in our power to avoid a second peak of infection” the prime minister says, immediately after saying he will announce more measures to lift lockdown. Completely meaningless rhetoric evident to everyone except the Prime Minister himself. #DailyBriefing.
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I have written to the Cabinet Secretary asking why yesterday's press conference was permitted and for an investigation into the alteration of Dominic Cummings blog to add reference to Coronavirus - both of which appear to breach the special advisers code of conduct.
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Huge well done to @RNLI for standing up to the vile rhetoric from both Nigel Farage and the Government on migrants' rights. You should be incredibly proud of the essential humanitarian work you do, saving people's lives everyday and bringing them home safe. Thank you 💚.
We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:
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Hundreds of thousands of young people, including my children, had their education and lives repeatedly turned upside down again and again after dutifully and responsibly isolating. And now this. Anger doesn’t begin to cover it.
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were contacted by NHS Test and Trace as contacts of Sajid Javid . Downing Street said the pair would take part in a pilot programme, where daily tests replace self-isolation.
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Speaking truth to power is a cornerstone of democracy. Desperately sad that so much of the broadcast media won’t do it. But thank goodness there are a few politicians who will!.
Breaking:. Courageous Labour MP @DawnButlerBrent has just been told to leave the Chamber by Deputy Speaker for raising my film which public have sent to 27 MILLION VIEWS in protest at Prime Ministers rampant lying in Parliament & calling PM a lier. Thank you for your courage Dawn
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700,000 job losses as furlough ending. Foodbanks giving out six emergency parcels a minute as sanctions reintroduced. 230,000 renters facing eviction as ban being lifted. But grouse shooters and fox hunters get special treatment. It’s v clear where this Govt’s priorities lie.
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Missing the climate debate isn't just a clear show contempt for the next generation, it's a clear sign that Boris Johnson is unfit for office. This is the greatest crisis we face. Chickening out of these debates is a disgrace. #ClimateDebate.
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If there is to be another lockdown we must have vital support in place (like a Universal Basic Income) an evictions & sanctions ban, and it must be used to get on top of the virus with a fully resourced, effective, locally & publicly run Find Test Trace Isolate Support structure.
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£100m spent on Government propaganda. What this could have paid for in education:. - 3,000 new teachers . - free school meals for 250,000 students. - 10 million books.
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Listening to @Keir_Starmer on @BBCr4today . Prime minister says “build, build, build” including 4,000 miles of new roads. Opposition agrees and says “jobs, jobs, jobs”. No one saying “climate” or “Green recovery” even once. #WeakWeakWeak.
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This is the kind of ambition and vision we should be seeing in London and all our cities. 👇.
Still don’t appreciate the transformation of Paris? Watch how many people go by, in how many ways. The cars are barely moving, but let’s be clear — they weren’t moving before either. But now people are. Rue de Rivoli & Rue de la Coutellerie HT @EmmanuelSPV
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Out from #Brixton police station. Thank you so much for all the love and support 💚 ✊ #ExtinctionRebellion #TheTimeIsNow
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Wow. Hugely disappointing. Lambeth Labour join Conservatives to vote AGAINST a Universal Basic Income. What has happened to Labour in Lambeth?????.
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- Clapping. - Badges. - Fundraising . - £60k for bereaved families . - Minutes silence . All welcome. But what about PPE and a properly publicly funded NHS that doesn’t need to rely on charity?.
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As the heatwave continues a reminder of the advice:. 🥤stay hydrated. 🍦treat yourself to an ice cream. 👕loose fitting clothing. ✊dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is burning the planet for short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class. (@russellwarfield 💚).
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I have written to the Permanent Secretary about the Home Office video which makes a highly politicised.attack on lawyers acting for people threatened with removal from the UK. This video should be withdrawn. There should be an investigation into how it was created and published.
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It wasn’t simply that Cummings was in lockdown, he was in quarantine after displaying symptoms. If he doesn’t go voluntarily, the Prime Minister must sack him.
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Current vote shares: . 40.2% Lab .7.1% Lib Dem .3.1% SNP .1.6% Green . That’s 52%.
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She also had no intention of calling an election
BREAK: told PM has no intention of resigning.
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The first duty of Govt is to protect. But the Prime Minister is stating here he will remove mitigation measures - that could easily continue - in the full knowledge it will result in deaths. Let’s be clear. This is not just negligent or reckless. It is a choice to let people die.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says "there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by July 19" and that "we must reconcile ourselves to more deaths from COVID". Latest on #COVID19:
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I have written to the Secretary of State for International Trade asking for immediate suspension of policing and security equipment export licences to the US and an investigation of whether UK arms exports are being used to violate human rights and as part of internal repression.
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I’m on a hospital ward with my son, awaiting a delayed and postponed operation. Huge cheer just erupted at news Jeremy Hunt has been sacked.
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Another year, another fare increase. Real terms change in the cost of transport since 1980 (source: DfT):. Bus and coach fares +64% .Rail fares +63%.Motoring -20%. In the face of the #climateemergency & rampant inequality rail fares should be slashed.
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Northern Ireland is tracing 98% of close contacts. Wales is hitting 90%. In England we’re barely scraping 50%. This is not a “world beating” test and trace system. It’s not even a system fit to control a resurgence in Covid.
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We appear to have been airbrushed from this poll but we are in third place 👇
Westminster voting intention:. CON: 41% (+2).LAB: 38% (-1).LDEM: 5% (-1). via @YouGov.Chgs. w/ last week.
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“We only have one planet & we need to work together to protect it. We need to break down, not build up, barriers within and between nations. With resources increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, we are going to have to learn to share far more” - Stephen Hawking.
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David Davis is wrong on @BBCr4today that all parties are in a worse state than they have been for years. @TheGreenParty membership is growing, we are polling higher than our best ever general election result and have a record number of councillors on a record number of councils.
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155 more Covid deaths reported today. Six months ago there would have been outrage and it would have been front page news. Now it passes with barely a murmur. But it is as unacceptable now as it would have been at any other time. This must not become the new normal.
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This may be my favourite front page of the year! 💚💚💚.
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Absolute silence today from the Prime Minister about the violence happening right on his doorstep. Shameful and cowardly. Yet another total failure of leadership.
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Three SAGE scientists Sir Jeremy Farrar, Professor John Edmunds and Peter Horby have now expressed concern at the Government’s decisions to ease lockdown. The Government is not following the science. Its push to ease lockdown is reckless and dangerous.
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And @BBCNews can’t claim they didn’t know it was happening! I mentioned both your video and the meeting with the Speaker on BBC2’s #PoliticsLive this lunchtime.
Terrible reporting Six O’clock @BBCNews! How could you fail to mention Leaders of practically every opposition party met with the Commons Speaker today to demand a vote to refer Boris Johnson’s “consistent failure to be honest” to the committee on standards & privileges!.
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Half an hour into the BBC results programme and I’ve never heard @TheGreenParty mentioned so much on any previous election night.
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Today’s gains:. 32 seats gained from Conservatives.29 seats gained from Labour.3 seats gained from LD.1 seat gained from IND.
"We are much more than a single-issue party.". @TheGreenParty co-leader @jon_bartley says they've taken more votes from the Conservatives than Labour today and the two-party system is behind the Tories' gains, not their vision #Newsnight
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As the father of a disabled child I’m calling this out. As the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities recently said, disabled people across the UK continue to face serious regression of their rights and disabled people continue to be some of the hardest hit.
“We’re one of the most generous countries in our support for disabled people”. Tory leadership candidate @EstherMcVey1 says the government has “continually improved the process” of PIP disability benefits. #VictoriaLIVE
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The nation didn’t stay at home so horse racing could return. It stayed at home to save lives.
Thanks to the nation’s resolve, horseracing is back from Monday. Wonderful news for our wonderful sport.
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We said we’d beat the frackers and we did. We said offshore wind could be the cheapest source of electricity and it is. We said we could have power without dirty, polluting coal and we have. Together we really can create a better world.
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I’ve got a joke about the transport secretary but you’ll have to wait 14 days to hear it.
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You can’t have your cake and eat it. Declaring a climate emergency is about making the right choices: no new road building, or new coal mines, HS2, airport expansion and fossil fuel subsidies - and investing instead in the radical transition we need to a low carbon economy.
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Nice to see New Year interviews with party leaders on Andrew #Marr . Wonder if we’ll be on next week? Been polling higher than the Lib Dems in some polls. But over four years as co-leader of the @TheGreenParty and I’ve never even met Andrew Marr let alone be interviewed by him.
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We all want to get rid of this Government but a general election where both the biggest parties support some kind of Brexit and neither supports giving the people a say, won't heal the very real divisions Brexit has caused.
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What the Prime Minister announced today is nothing like a ‘new deal’ and certainly not Green. He used our branding on his podium. He used our language in his speech. But it was greenwash.
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President Macron has announced that gas, electricity, water bills and rents are to be suspended in France. The UK Government should be looking to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are met in this country.
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Real terms change in the cost of transport since 1980:. Bus and coach fares +64% .Rail fares +63%.Motoring -20%. We know how devastating the affects of air pollution are. We should be investing in the solutions.
Air pollution 'may harm' cognitive intelligence, study says
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While 'green' number plates dominate we have learned in 24 hours:. ❌ Govt has rejected including aviation & shipping emissions under Climate Change Act. ❌ £1bn meant for Green energy is earmarked for fracking. ❌ Britain now G7's biggest net importer of CO2 emissions per capita.
UK to use £1bn meant for green energy to support fracking in Argentina
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Good grief. At what point will they realise that outsourcing is the problem? Resource local authorities and public health teams to carry out test and trace!.
TELEGRAPH FRONT: Failing test and trace system could be outsourced to @amazon , secret plans reveal #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Good grief. The Environment Secretary's speech:. 1. Climate change is devastating. 2. We can still frack, expand airports and build roads. 4. But he'll help us adapt. He should be declaring a climate emergency & charting a course out of this crisis!
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Note to UK media. Will you now please stop labelling those who are fleeing persecution and danger, and looking for the UK to provide safety, “migrants”. They are refugees.👇.
Migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats are overwhelmingly genuine refugees, senior Home Office officials have confirmed. Read more here: Thanks to @freemovementlaw for the coverage.
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I’m with @CarolineLucas and @sianberry at Marble Arch and we’re supporting @ExtinctionR’s call for politicians to engage. This is a #climateemergency and we need action now!
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Is this outburst related to the Labour vote going down 16% in your constituency while the Green Party’s went up 16%?.
The Green Party co leader opposing the provision of infrastructure for renewable wind energy because in his own constituency shows that they are truly the gobstoppers of British politics- superficially look green on the outside, but suck it and see it’s truly blue inside …🤢😱.
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My Dad was at Normandy. My uncle a spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain. I loved and respected them completely. If you believe that people fought and died for our freedom why does that not extend to how we choose to remember?.
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“We need a fundamental re-adjustment of our relationship with the planet. A total re-orientation of human values, equity, behaviour and technologies”. Being Green changes everything - and only the Green Party is saying it.
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Thoroughly depressing discussion on @BBCr4today about the workability of “processing” refugees on oil rigs or in Moldova, Morocco and Papua New Guinea. What have we become? They are human beings seeking refuge who should have their human rights observed.
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You are more likely to be treated by a migrant than behind one in the NHS queue. I’m sick of this demonisation. It’s time we celebrated migrants.
Are regions with large migrant populations suffering more from the A&E crisis?. New @FactCheck analysis finds no link between the proportion of non-Brits in an area and A&E performance. #NHSCrisis #Migration
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Record-breaking result in London! 3 London assembly members and a staggering 650,000 1st and 2nd preference votes for @sianberry Huge congrats to @LonGreenParty on an amazing campaign!
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Boo! 👻.
This is worrying. The Greens are terrifying.
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It’s entirely appropriate that a right wing populist should be met with protests on the anniversary of D-Day.
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Just voted with our (now retired) assistance dog Wallis. She’d vote with both her head and her heart (and being a Labrador probably her stomach) 🧀 💚 #VoteGreen2019 #DogsAtPollingStations
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Just voted with my eldest. She was too young to vote in the referendum. Now she’s 20 and has a voice to say yes to Europe and no to climate breakdown!
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95% of the world’s people have never set foot on a plane. The super-rich will buy 8,000 new private jets in the next decade fuelling the #climateemergency. Climate justice and social justice go hand in hand.
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It’s been an absolute privilege to co-lead @thegreenparty but now is clearly the right time for new leadership. Thank you everyone who has worked so hard to establish the Greens as a major electoral force, vying to be the country’s third party. Onwards!
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Thank you to everyone who has made this happen. We got there in the end!. This is our best chance to work together for the common good and get as many MPs from Remain parties elected as possible. The details of the seats will be announced at 10am.
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Blaming white poppies for the lack of funding for veterans is like blaming peacemakers for the under-resourcing of the Red Cross. Governments should meet their obligations to support those they send to war. Veterans should not have to rely on charity.
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So thrilled that @MollyMEP has been returned to the European Parliament in the South West! Look out Europe! 💚.
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Only a few weeks ago delivery drivers and care workers were “low-skilled”. Now they are “key workers”. Everyone is valuable.
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Labour’s position on a wealth tax is now that it would rather we “grow our way out of this crisis”. #marr. So depressing. Wealth redistribution is an alternative to endlessly pursuing growth, and gives us a way to address both the economic crisis and the climate crisis.
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Real terms change in the cost of transport since 1980:. Bus and coach fares +64% . Rail fares +63%. Motoring -20%. The Government should be taking action to cut fares, cut air pollution and cut carbon emissions.
The Prime Minister will announce later that fuel duty is to be frozen for the ninth year in a row - as she tries to persuade families the Government is on their side.
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Members of Sage recommended the use of face masks to Government on April 21st. Why has it taken over six weeks to announce they will be mandatory on public transport? #DailyBriefing.
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REALLY Worth reading this if you haven’t yet from Greta yesterday. Love this line calling our country to account: “The UK is very special. Not only for its mind-blowing historical carbon debt, but also for its current, very creative, carbon accounting”
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Greens were the first political party to suggest a four day week. I remember the reaction as people heard the idea on the morning news during our spring conference in 2017 and choked on their cornflakes. Now two thirds of the country want the Government to explore it.
🚨🚨NEW @Survation poll commissioned by Autonomy: Large majority of the public would like the government to explore the introduction of a four-day working week. 🚨🚨. Support- 63%.Oppose 12%.Neither - 20%.Don’t know - 5%.
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FFS. The headline should be an unreserved apology from the Daily Mail. They have done more than any other newspaper to perpetuate the disgusting rhetoric that makes safe passage so hard to achieve.
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Despite the huge failure of Serco, minister Edward Argar attempts to defend the indefensible on @BBCr4today suggesting Government will stick with Serco to provide test and trace. Astonishing. Serco shouldn't get a penny more. Money should go instead to fund local test and trace.
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Arming Saudi Arabia does not stop bombs going off on the streets of Britain. It legitimises the killing of children and pours petrol on the fires of radicalisation. Jeremy Hunt needs to wake up. The Government must end arms exports to Saudi Arabia
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Germany and France were quick to offer to take in children affected by the fire on Lesbos. The UK is yet to offer any assistance at all. We have a collective duty of care and the Government should step up.
Britain urged to offer sanctuary to some of the thousands of asylum seekers left stranded after a fire on Lesbos, including unaccompanied minors with relatives here. 'If there was ever a time for the UK to take responsibility, it is now'.
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At the end of a hard night a huge personal thanks for all the love and support. We got the biggest Green swing in the country to come second in Dulwich & West Norwood. Thank you to everyone who made it happen! 💚.
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I’m outside the town hall in #Bristol with newly-elected and record-breaking Green councillors and it’s fair to say everyone here is jumping for joy! 💚
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We already have the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe. More prison places is not a solution. We should be looking to halve the prison population not increase it.
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The Government is clearly easing lockdown without the necessary assurance it has the pandemic under control. Is any other party leader saying this? . If not, they should. This is not a time to stay silent.
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Almost half of the electorate were ignored at December’s general election due to a “morally and politically bankrupt” voting system. The country has never had a say in moving to a modern, fair electoral system where seats match votes. Time for change.
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A quick summary of the last couple of hours in terms of Green gains: Our first ever seat in Hastings, first ever seat in Derbyshire, gained SIX (so far) in Suffolk, one in Worcestershire and one in Braintree. Still a long way to go but Greens are clearly on the rise.
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Scrap the voucher culture. Let’s put cash in people’s pockets instead. Time for a Universal Basic Income. Me for @HuffPostUK 👉
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Under a proportional system this would be around 40 @TheGreenParty MPs. 👇.
Westminster Voting Intention:. CON: 41% (-1).LAB: 38% (=).GRN 6% (+1).LDM: 5% (-1).BXP: 4% (+2). Via @NCPoliticsUK, 9-17 Oct. Changes w/ 4-8 Sep.
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FFS . - It’s 38°C in Siberia. - Arctic sea ice coverage, the canary in the coal mine for climate breakdown is already the second lowest on record. - 2020 is on course to be on the hottest year on record. This is not the time to compromise on climate.
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If a result still stands even when campaigns break the law what is the point in having election laws? There are no two ways about it - this calls into question the legitimacy of the referendum result.
We publish today the conclusions of our investigation into Vote Leave’s EU referendum spending. We found significant evidence of undeclared joint working between the lead leave campaigner, Vote Leave, and the campaign group BeLeave. Read the full report
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