Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP
@catherinerowett.bsky.social
Ancient Philosopher; former Member of 🇪🇺 parliament (Green Party); Norfolk County Cllr (West Depwade) and leader of the Green Group; Prof emerita at UEA, Orcid 0000-0003-4860-0323 *The name Rowett rhymes with poet. 314.3ppm
I wrote to Miatta Fahnbulleh to urge her to publish a Fossil Fuel Transition Roadmap ahead of COP31 in November. Ending all new licenses & publishing a clear roadmap will show that the UK is not just calling for a global transition, but delivering one.
Corbyn was pretty much on the way to winning the election. Until Reform stepped back to get Boris in. As we now know both Farage and Johnson received a nice little bung for that arrangement.
The super-rich are profiting from the cost-of-living crisis. While our energy bills rose by 50%, the super-rich who make their money from energy have seen their wealth grow by 20%. Demand that the UK government taxes extreme wealth with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/201460/...
Stop the Super-Rich Profiting from the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Tax extreme wealth now
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Get Palantir out of the UK. This is just part of what's creepy about them. 👀
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h agoNEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
'All of them, and now Andy Burnham, signed up to the belief that the purpose of government was to meet the needs of the financial services sector, and not the people of this country.' www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
It is time for people of courage to walk away from Labour
As I say on fiscal rules in the glossary to this blog: Fiscal rules are targets set by governments to limit borrowing, debt, or deficits over time. They are presented as if they are neutral, technical...
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Dear journalists, does Burnham's speech match up to the visions presented by Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader? Or is it less aware of what needs to be done? And why did we have to endure another ten years of neoliberalism and austerity? You're just afraid of the Greens, who'd do it it for real, no?
How about taxing the people with private jets, the frequent flyers, the people whose carbon footprint is destroying the planet? That way you could reduce inequality, fund social care, invest in home grown renewables, and restore sanity to the climate to improve food security. Win, win, win, win.
If you want real action on what's causing our problems, you need the Green Party.
Brian@brianscant.bsky.social · 18h ago‘I want to look at the options…..We could stay as we are. That’s definitely an option,’ says Andy Burnham. There is not a chance in Hell the country will rejoin the EU under this leader. But if you believe, please go on believing. #EU #Labour
Why didn't Andy Burnham address the climate and harvest crisis? He's going for fake subsidies to pretend things feel better when they're actually being made worse. Come on Andy. No new oil and gas. No more runways. No data centres. We need realism. Only the Green Party gets it.
Dear BBC and prime minister the "net zero efforts we've seen were tokenism insufficient and funded in the wrong way. The answer is not to open the strait of hormuz, still less drill for more expensive and insecure oil and gas. The answer is to install the low energy resilience we should have had.
The solution is to be in the club, not complain about being penalised for being outside it 🤦
South-East London for Europe (Selfe)@selfe.bsky.social · last wk.Andy Burnham has urged the EU not to make British manufacturers "collateral damage" in its plans to curb the rising influence of China. Of course if we #RejoinEU it would not be an issue!
Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
theguardian.com
I dream of a time when UKHEI is led by a co-operative team of educators
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.The Times supports the Russell Group idea of letting the ‘best’ universities charge more, a proposal for running institutions into the ground if they haven’t benefitted from accumulated prestige. And ‘best’ according to what? Teaching quality would produce a different list than assumed here.
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Wrong question. It isn’t so much a question of whether he can or can’t. It’s whether we WANT him to do so given how utterly corrupt and wicked Trump’s régime is. Would we WANT him to have a “strong relationship” with Hitler’s Germany. Isn’t is just WRONG? Fly under the radar maybe. At best
Why did the BBC think this was news? Ratcliffe is part of the reason why the UK is in such a state. No one should be listening to him or any other unpatriotic tax exiles who wanted a country where they could get rich and pay nothing.
Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 🇺🇦@mandeville24.bsky.social · 2w agoPersonally I couldn’t give a rats arse what this man says about the UK as he doesn’t live here - he left because he didn’t want to pay any tax and because he part owns Man Utd! Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Radicalising the French (further) by sending them Polanski’s accent 😘
Bold Politics@boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2w agoVotez vert le 8 Octobre
And I don't think it's too controversial to say that the main cause of both two and three is - billionaires
Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP@catherinerowett.bsky.social · 2w agoYou don't solve the refugee problem by moving from hotels to barracks. You solve it by 1. Processing those waiting for an answer. 2. Addressing the causes of displacement, famine, economic deprivation and war. 3. Being honest about what is making life more and more rubbish for UK residents.
You don't solve the refugee problem by moving from hotels to barracks. You solve it by 1. Processing those waiting for an answer. 2. Addressing the causes of displacement, famine, economic deprivation and war. 3. Being honest about what is making life more and more rubbish for UK residents.
No one from abroad should be funding UK electioneering. No one from the UK should be donating millions. We need to end the sleaze. Labour is not ending the sleaze. We need clean politics.
Doe Bee@doebee99.bsky.social · 2w agoI think 100k is too much. If you don't live in the UK you should not be able to donate anything to UK parties and even if you do it should be capped at a few grand. Get big business out of politics.
If you're a crypto billionaire, there are plenty of philanthropic and patriotic things you could do with the money. You could join the patriotic millionaires and ask to be taxed more, to fund good public services. You could donate to research, higher education, scholarships, climate mitigation...
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
theguardian.com
It's not enough to say the donors won't get peerages or contracts. They don't ask for either. Those donations are for political influence, to turn this 🇬🇧 into a place where only the super rich thrive, where crypto currency is not regulated, and there's no protection for ordinary working folk.
Farage looks on and laughs while a female protester is assaulted by his supporters. This is the disturbing future that #Reform envisions for the UK. #NigelFraud #REFUK
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4w agoContent warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
I don't recall any of the pensioners who held up cardboard signs to protest genocide, covering their faces to hide their identity, or fighting the police while being arrested as terrorists.
It seems to me the most incriminating bit of the Farage exposure is the list of foreign donors who launder their money by giving it to their son or other UK connections. This is not just willingness to consider doing that. It was a list of who they already knowingly do that with.
Enjoyed Orr explaining that the Reform party is mainly funded by non-UK-resident doners.
During yesterday's debate on the Representation of the People Bill, our Vice-Chair @elliechowns.bsky.social laid out our three priorities to fix our democracy: ✅ Stop the harmful influence of dark and big money ✅ Tackle disinformation ✅ Implement a fair voting system in which all votes matter
