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Laura Stratford retweeted
I wrote this for @openDemocracy b/c I was fed up of green growthers & degrowthers talking past each other.
Those who care about environmental & economic justice on both sides of this debate are closer than they think to consensus...
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bit.ly/2JK0vz9
Laura Stratford retweeted
We start an open, non-partisan discussion about the movements and politics we need, to wrest this wonderful country back from the wreckers who are now in charge.
No in-fighting, no recriminations, maximum solidarity, minimum jockeying.
Laura Stratford retweeted
OK, so this is what we're going to do.
We double down on support/giving networks for the people this government is going to dump on. It won't make up for the failures of the state, but we'll do our best.
We support each other with love and strength through the dark times
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Laura Stratford retweeted
Labour has a plan to deliver #RealChange in Lincoln and the East Midlands.
🌳 £9 billion new green investment
👨🏭 60,000 new jobs
🏡 9,000 new council homes
🌐 Broadband for 1.9m houses/businesses
💷 Immediate pay raise for 604,000 workers
labour.org.uk/?p=34118
Laura Stratford retweeted
UK families spend a third of their income on childcare 💸
Underfunded + privatised childcare affects children's development + parents' (usually women) ability to go back to work 🍼🧸
@WeeklyEconPod w @AyeishaTS @amyrozelmartin @Maidafloat Dr Helen Penn
bit.ly/2qRE69z
Laura Stratford retweeted
Six rounds of talks between US & UK from 2017-2019, with the US demanding "total market access"
Softening up our NHS so US drug companies can drive up the cost of drugs
Tories can no longer claim the NHS is not for sale. Under their watch, it is
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
Laura Stratford retweeted
The NHS isn't safe in Boris Johnson's hands.
#NotForSale #GE2019
Laura Stratford retweeted
The deadline to register to vote is today! gov.uk/register-to-vote
This election will be the most important in a generation.
My message to Lincoln is one of hope and optimism. We can shape the future of our City by investing in our community and ending the injustices.
Laura Stratford retweeted
This morning we met a person delivering Conservative Party leaflets.
When he saw us he hastily said “I’m not a Tory. They’re paying me to deliver them!”
Laura Stratford retweeted
*HOT OFF THE PRESS*
My first journal article!
The Threat of Rent Extraction in a Resource-constrained Future
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
I won't try to shoehorn the whole argument into a twitter thread, but to whet your appetite:
Laura Stratford retweeted
In 2015, I voted to ban fracking. Jo Swinson voted to keep fracking.
You can't trust the Lib Dems to tackle the climate emergency.
Laura Stratford retweeted
Appalling to see how the Tories are using our #LandForTheMany report to scaremonger. First, these are *recommendations* to Labour and not Labour Party policy. But even if our report did represent party policy, the Tories are grossly misrepresenting its proposals:
Laura Stratford retweeted
If I was proposing the creation of our NHS today, the Conservatives would call it health communism.
Laura Stratford retweeted
Why is it so expensive to be poor?
@AyoCaesar explains.
Laura Stratford retweeted
Solidarity! Labour's Green New Deal is the best possible outcome of this election. Without the Greens leading this debate for decades, we wouldn't be at this point. Though of course real change should have happened long before.
Laura Stratford retweeted
Waltham Forest & Redbridge Green Party have confirmed today that they aim to help unseat Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith by tactically withdrawing their candidate from the upcoming general election in Chingford and Woodford Green.
wfrb.greenparty.org.uk/news/…
Laura Stratford retweeted
The Tories are spreading lies about Labour's spending plans while refusing to cost their own promises. What an absolute farce.
Laura Stratford retweeted
The Climate crisis is happening now, and it's not "just the weather" anymore. We can't wait for 2050 (Tories) or 2045 (Lib Dems) for net zero CO2 emissions. Labour is committed to tackling this with a Green Industrial Revolution that will also create jobs. #floods
Laura Stratford retweeted
The Tories say the victims of Grenfell didn’t have common sense.
I’ll tell you what’s common sense:
Don’t put flammable cladding on people’s homes.
Don’t close fire stations and don't cut fire fighters.
And don’t ignore residents when they tell you their home is a death trap.