Itβs a climate & nature emergency!! π Fighting water, plastic & air pollution crises. Frugal, gardener, granny. Immigrant/emigrant π Own views. RTs? Maybe
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Yes but #CarFree #ActiveTravel is better
The days of private car ownership are endingβ¦ #carclubs with an EV on every streetβ¦cheap/free #publictransport #cycle route networks
wearepossible.org/carfreecitβ¦
@_wearepossible @LDN_LS @WandsLS
Diana McCann π retweeted
Zack Polanski providing some necessary education to Labourβs genocide apologists, who would sooner stop your bins being collected than admit an ideology that is ideologically and materially racist, and has resulted in a genocide might, in fact, be racist.
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Gent in purple, "State pensioners who have contributed their whole lives are on a lot less than minimum wage"
"I'm very lucky to have a small German pension, and believe me, it's a lot more than what we pay in this country"
"Most of western Europe their pensions are much higher than the state pension in this country"
"I'm lucky I get a pension from the military"
"But people on the basic state pension, I reall feel sorry for them"
My view:
The full new State Pension is roughly Β£12,548 a year.
Someone working 37.5 hours a week on the Β£12.71 minimum wage earns about Β£24,785 before tax.
That puts the full new State Pension at barely half a full-time minimum-wage salary.
Government figures show that 12% of pensioner families received their income entirely from the State Pension and other state benefits in 2024/25.
That same year, around 1.7 million pensioners β one in seven β were living in relative poverty after housing costs.
A better pension means being able to heat your home, eat properly and see friends without calculating what youβll have to go without afterwards.
It also means money spent in the communities where pensioners live.
After a lifetime of working, caring and contributing, financial security should be something people can expect.
Diana McCann π retweeted
British media is surely amongst the most dangerously irresponsible in the world.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah seems to believe, for some inexplicable reason, that he knows more about the causes of climate change than scientists from NASA, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, etc.
Why donβt you go head to head on a podcast with a British scientist, such as @KevinClimate or @ProfBillMcGuire or Prof Tim Lenton , Hitchens? Too much of a coward?
Diana McCann π retweeted
βWe know you don't care about human lives, but at least could you pretend?β
Greta Thunberg on Labour's plans to drill for more oil in the North Sea, speaking on Zack Polanski's Bold Politics podcast.
Diana McCann π retweeted
βBeing Jewish and being a Zionist are two different things.β
@ZackPolanski was furious when responding to a motion tabled by the Tories in the London Assembly that βstrongly condemnsβ the motion passed at Green party conference declaring that Zionism is racism.
The Green leader and London Assembly member explained the historical basis by which Zionism can be said to be a colonial project, and asked how it can be that those calling out a genocide can be decried as racist, but those committing the genocide literally get away with murder.
Diana McCann π retweeted
No retreat from, and no surrender to, those who defend racism and genocide.
Once again, my leaderπ
Diana McCann π retweeted
This is how you do it. Eyes on the prize.
ππππ @ZackPolanski
Diana McCann π retweeted
Theyβre talking about Rice Crispies not being made of rice anymore on @gmb (because unusual weather has damaged crops) framing it as of dietary interest, no mention of climate change, no mention of the fact that many crops are struggling around the world with prices rising, and scientists telling us the food supply is at risk if we donβt stop the planet overheating.
@susannareid100 @edballs
All of these are being affected, so far:
β’ Cocoa/chocolate
β’ Coffee
β’ Olive oil
β’ Rice
β’ Potatoes
β’ Sugar
β’ Oranges/orange juice
β’ Onions
β’ Cabbage
And it can only get worse.
Diana McCann π retweeted
Nearly 3000 people died from extreme heat this summer.
Yet Labour is paving the way to greenlight Rosebank oil field - after approving Jackdaw gas field.
Lobbyists for both met ministers over 200 times in two years.
Greens would put people and planet before corporate profits.
ALT "No wonder this Labour government is making decisions that put the profits of oil and gas giants above the safety of people in this country, when they are constantly rubbing shoulders with them." Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
Diana McCann π retweeted
Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time.
It is excellent.
They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.
Diana McCann π retweeted
Years from now Benjamin Netanyahu will probably be remembered as a βmoderateβ figure in Israeli politics. Thatβs how bad it is.
The direction of travel is plainly obvious. Which is why our governments need to stop supporting this madness.
Diana McCann π retweeted
Profiteering from wars
Nine big oil firms on track to share more than Β£95bn profit two quarters in a row.
Causing inflation, poverty, misery, climate crisis all over the world, but they don't bear the social cost.
More fossil fuel drilling on the way.
theguardian.com/business/202β¦
Diana McCann π retweeted
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate
Diana McCann π retweeted
Scientists say 3C kills billions. They point out there's no evidence whatsoever humans can even survive 2.5C. Now, with warming accelerating wildly, they warn of 2.5-3C by the 2040s/50s.
Diana McCann π retweeted
Itβs always the same whenever thereβs a new David Attenborough programme - people cooing about the animals, few people talking about his most urgent message that weβre going to die if we donβt sort the planet out - like for realβ¦ #blueplanet
Diana McCann π retweeted
We live in a bizarre world where a Labour government enacts laws that force universities to host far right racists β but stops young people from advancing legitimate criticisms of a country engaged in genocide.
We believe students and teachers must be free to debate, question and criticise the actions of the Israeli government, so we're preparing a legal case against this government's new antisemitism guidance.
Support the legal case π
goodlaw.social/yzyl
Diana McCann π retweeted
Iβve lost hope that responsible people and journalists will ever wake up to the unprecedented catastrophe that is unfolding on this planet
