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Dear @BBCNewsnight , over the last four days we have been pitching eight different diverse climate scientists, policy experts, academics and activists with many decades of climate experience between them to discuss the #IPCC report. There was no need for this to happen

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This government has presided over one of the largest and fastest ever increases in inequality in the history of the country, and the most Orwellian thing you have ever heard is that they call that "levelling up" @garyseconomics on #PoliticsLive

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"We're seeing consultants brought in who are being paid in one week a year's worth of a nurse's salaries. "These private firms being brought to oversee test, track and trace is an abject failure." - @MiriamBrett on #bbcqt

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The one where @graceblakeley extends Michael Portillo's austerity metaphor for him and puts the nail in the coffin of the 'balancing the household budget' analogy. #bbctw

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'If we close off all the legal routes for people to move across borders all that is going to happen is we empower the smugglers. 'If you make illegal that which is inevitable all that will happen is illegality sets in.' - @SatbirLSingh on @Channel4News tonight

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Every person I've ever met who has come to the UK wants to contribute, work and take care of their family. So why can't we let them? Why leave them to fester in a hotel with the far right screaming abuse at them? Give them legal status and get them going. @LouCalvey on @TalkTV

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'I don't think it's a soap opera. This is about truth and trust. Boris is behaving like a sullen schoolchild being hauled up in front of the Eton headmaster. It's the attitude of a man whose never had to answer for anything in his life.' @misszing on #bbcqt

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If you'd been paid £1000 a day every day since Jesus died, you still wouldn't be a billionaire. The idea that it could possibly be proportionate to how hard they work or how intelligent they are, is obviously ridiculous @lukehildyard ready for billionaire debate #journorequest

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Earlier this year the government closed down a route for unaccompanied asylum seeking children to enter the UK. If we're talking about responsibility we need to talk about the British government and the French authorities. @minnierahman of @JCWI_UK on #bbcnews

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'We watched people die in A&E, lent people our phones for the last contact they ever had. On my break I have to sit alone and eat my sandwich. Why are they Johnson & Sunak different? They made the laws, and they chose to break them.' Nurse Rhian Bethell responds to #Partygate

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'It seems an absolutely outrageous arrest. Reports suggest they were just unloading their placards. The Met seems to have adopted is a zero tolerance approach to speaking your mind' @Raj_Chada speaking about the arrests at the #NotourKing demonstration today

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The loophole in the current windfall tax on companies like Shell amounts to us effectively giving £11 billion to oil and gas companies - which would be enough to give every NHS worker and teacher in the UK a pay rise to match inflation. @tessakhan on #BBCNews

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. @graceblakeley from @NewStatesman and our Spokesperson Network on @bbcquestiontime says 'we are a mature democracy, we should be able to look back at our history and say this is not black and white', she asks us to question and recognise the nuances of Churchill's legacy

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If Met police chiefs are so concerned about social distancing then why were stop and searches at a nine-year high last month - spreading the virus for the sake of small quantities of cannabis. @adamec87 on #BlackLivesMattters protests

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Crossing the channel is dangerous and we should address that, but it isn't illegal. Under the Dublin Convention people have the right to claim asylum in a country where they feel safe. @BellaSankey of @DetentionAction on @talkRADIO

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on the #Today programme this morning on the devastating impacts that have been caused by the political choice to impose austerity on the UK

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'We need to remember that it's a deliberate political choice to house people in hotels. It's completely innapropriate accomodation for refugees and now it's become a target for the organised far right.' @ZoeJardiniere responds to attacks on Asylum Seekers' accomodation

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Mutual aid networks are being set up around the country. They're about reaching out and supporting the most vulnerable members in our community in the face of #COVID ー19 Seren from @CovidAidUK on the Covid-19 community organising. Find your local group:

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It's an insult that the government is putting resources into chicken boxes while cutting vital youth services. @adamec87 on #SkyNews on the offensiveness of the Home Office plans to tackle knife crime via chicken boxes.

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"Black Bristolians have run out of patience with the idea that there should be a statue venerating someone who treated them as sub-human." - @davidwearing speaks to @Emmabarnett on @bbc5live about #ColstonHasFallen .

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'This kind of policy has a 97% failure rate' @adamec87 responds to the Government's plan to increase stop and search.

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Under normal circumstances there's a very good argument why we should be taxing oil & gas companies more, but given the current suffering and unbearable choices facing households with #energybills it's impossible to justify NOT tapping into those profits. @tessakhan / Uplift

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"I hear a government trying to make excuses... trying to follow an approach that has been demonstrated to fail. There's no requirement on people to seek asylum in the first country they reach." @ZoeJardiniere from @JCWI_UK on @BBCNews talking about the Channel crossing deaths

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on #PoliticsLive outlining the structural causes of rising knife crimes - cuts to youth services, sense of identity and growing inequality.

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We can afford pay rises for rail workers. The train company I use paid out £500 million to shareholders last year. These workers who put their lives on the line to get us through the pandemic are now being forced to choose between heating and eating. @katerhardy on #RailStrikes

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on #Newsnight last night discussing the state of the UK economy, staggering inequality in the country and why we desperately need a #GreenNewDeal to address the economic crisis AND the climate crisis

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'This money is not new, it's not enough, and it's not going to do what's promised'. @SoniaAdesara , an NHS Doctor and supporter of @keepnhspublic , lays bare the facts behind the Government's #NHS announcement.

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. @eleanorkpenny from our Spokesperson Network on why constituents would feel angry when they voted for an MP for a particular party and manifesto, and that MP then unaccountably decides to stand for something else

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The anger I have about my child's scan being delayed is directed at the government, not the nurses. I was out there clapping every week but claps don't pay the bills. Compassion & a sense of duty can't pay the bills. Lianna Etkind on supporting #NursesStrike & #FairPayForNursing

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“Staff working conditions, are my learning conditions. Have you thought about the fact that I have to pay £9250 per year, I have £40k debt and I’m working three jobs just to be able to afford to go to university?” @stevejack talking in support of @UCU strike action

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. @SatbirLSingh , part of our Spokesperson Network and the director of @JCWI_UK blasts away the arguments that migrants are responsible for low pay, or straining public services on #SkyNews this morning.

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All of us want a good outcome for people coming out of the asylum process - but the more you take a 'punishing' approach to people seeking asylum, the worse it is for the human beings involved and it's worse for taxpayers too. @LouCalvey on plans to imprison migrants on barges

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on #PoliticsLive today discussing the structural problems underpinning the homelessness crisis, Universal Credit and the Immigration White Paper

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This is a completely despicable plan. We're proposing to send refugees, people who have fled persecution and are coming to our shores for protection to one of the poorest countries in the world with a terrible human rights record. @ZoeJardiniere of @JCWI_UK on #skynews

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Cuts to vital public services for the most vulnerable parts of society have left with us with an explosion of private debt. @graceblakeley discusses austerity and #budget2018 on #dailypolitics

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'Billionaire wealth has increased 1000% since 1990 and yet we have nurses going to food banks. We've got disposable income going down at record levels yet the tax system is geared up towards protecting the rich.' @steph_brobbey on @bbcsml this morning

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"Thoughts & prayers are very welcome, but what Muslim communities really want is for their rights to be defended & the White supremacist ideology underpinning this attack to be acknowledged" @LatifaAkay from @Maslaha & our Spokesperson Network discussing NZ killings on BBC today

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"Men with cervixes do exist and I am one of them. This is just a lazy cover for transphobia. In other words, bigotry." @freddymcconnell discusses Sajid Javid’s tweet with @evanhd on @BBCRadio4

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Nurse @daniellejade198 is going back to work on a Covid ward today after a period of self-isolation. This was her powerful plea on the @ShelaghFogarty show yesterday for the equipment that nurses need to keep themselves, their patients and their families safe.

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'We only have a third of the policies in place to hit net zero by 2050. And when the IPCC report stresses the importance of climate justice, we in the UK have a moral imperative to do more.' @misszing on #BBCQT

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I've had to cancel my plans to say goodbye to a relative leaving the country because of the #RailStrikes . But rail workers are facing a real terms pay cut after a two year pay freeze, so I'm very much in favour of these strikes. @flavamaeve on #skynews

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"Bringing Black students through the door is only step one" @mcintosh_kim from @RunnymedeTrust on @BBCNews on the 'Stormzy effect' at Cambridge University

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We need to stop treating people as numbers in the migration debate and inject some humanity into the whole discussion. Migrants are not just economic contributors. @MayaGoodfellow discussing the new migration proposals on #skynews

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"The response to climate catastrophe can be a joyful one. It can mean well funded infrastructure, green housing and jobs for all. That is a world which reflects the real meaning of joy rather than just tat you get at Christmas.' - @daliagebrial on @SkyNews earlier today.

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'The trouble we have in the UK is that housing is so central to the way the economy works. We've had 10 years of wage stagnation - so when the housing market turns people could face real problems' - @graceblakeley from @IPPR and our Spokesperson Network

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'This is what can happen when the govt shut down safe & legal routes of entry and when they militarise borders. 'We now need more than warm words from ministers - people need to be able to access the UK safely.' - @minnierahman on the horrific situation in #Grays , Essex

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6 years

Solidarity with Emma Hughes from the #Stansted15 , and with all parents and children who have been violently separated as a result of detention and deportation regimes.

Stansted 15 activist: ‘Jail separation from my baby would be horrific’

Emma Hughes tells of her fears as group await sentence for halting deportation flight

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The government is doing the absolute bare minimum to provide any sort of sanctuary route for people who are fleeing Ukraine. We're totally out of step with Europe and the offer we've made is meager and paltry. @BellaSankey of @DetentionAction on #skynews

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We have decades of evidence that the 'deterrence' approach to people seeking safety doesn't work. We need a humanitarian approach, and facilitate safe access to our asylum system. @ZoeJardiniere discussing the Refugees Ban Bill on Sunday Morning Live

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. @graceblakeley from @NewStatesman and our Spokesperson Network slams Macron's attempt to 'shift the cost of climate change onto the poorest in France'. The #GiletJaunes are resisting and demand 'a fairer economy that works in the interests of everyone'.

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We are super excited about @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network being on #BBCQT tomorrow evening!

BBC Question Time

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Economist @graceblakeley is on the #bbcqt panel this week

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There is a very large and growing body of evidence that exposure to traffic pollution is directly causing a whole range of very severe public health impacts, ranging from Alzheimers to teenage psychosis. @crisortunity of @_wearepossible supporting #ULEZ expansion on GB News

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Trusting companies like BP to use their profits for the public good has backfired again and again. Our tax system is encouraging obscene profits and the exploitation of unsustainable oil and gas resources while ordinary people are choosing between heating and eating. @tessakhan

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Three quarters of the people on Universal Credit are going to lose more from that cut than they are going to gain from the budget. I don’t think the chancellor did enough quite frankly. @Miatsf of @NEF on #bbcqt

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We're working with a young Syrian man who was targeted by the regime who came over the Channel on a small boat and he has two sisters in the UK. If you were forced to escape your home, wouldn't you want to rebuild your life alongside your family? @ZoeJardiniere of @JCWI_UK

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What makes racism endemic in our society is not simply people making racist remarks, it's the reality that within our institutions built into the structure of our society, racism exists and penetrates in lots of different ways. @kapoor_alba of @RunnymedeTrust on @talkRADIO

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Health workers and many others worked around the clock to transform our NHS into an emergency room for the pandemic. And we were utterly failed by our leaders who were apparently making jokes about our grandmas dying. Dr @HosniehMarbini reacts to Cummings on @LBC

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If we lived in a fair, just and equal society we would expect people to be more of less equally affected by Covid, but that's clearly not the case. Dr @AmeenKam on #Skynews on how Covid is disproportionately affecting people from BAME backgrounds

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If politicians won't properly tax corporations and the super rich, then instead they end up doing things like raising National Insurance which is raising tax on ordinary people earning 20 or 30k a year who don't have much left over. @garyseconomics on the #PandoraPapers

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Since being privatised, water companies, which started out with no debt, have used their monopoly status to build up a debt mountain of £53 BILLION - essentially maxing out their credit cards and handed out that money to their shareholders. @CatHobbs of @We_OwnIt on #ThamesWater

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"Let’s say our thank yous, loudly and frequently, but truly invest them with substance: that right now, and when this crisis is all over, we will fight alongside you for the wages, conditions and lives you genuinely deserve" - @OwenJones84

The undervalued heroes of the coronavirus crisis need our thanks – and our support | Owen Jones

Cleaners and supermarket workers are on the frontline. When this is over, let’s fight for the wages they deserve, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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I love working in A&E, I love working in the NHS. But we have seen such an erosion in standards of patient care. We've lost 30% of our pay in the last 15 years and we are haemorrhaging staff to Australia and Canada. @andrewmeyerson on the junior doctors strike

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There's no evidence that this cruel bill will be any deterrent to people seeking safety. There is no safe and legal route whatsoever for people for a Sudanese person fleeing the horrific violence in the country. @ZoeJardiniere on Refugee Ban Bill being debated in House of Lords

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. @graceblakeley from @ippr and our Spokesperson Network on #Skynews #bigdebate just now discussing #budgetday and how politicians could do more to tackle the scourge of corporate tax avoidance

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. @NachmanyMichal from @GRI_LSE on @SkyNews this morning talking about the #heatwave . "This is a massive heating - a global trend...We need government to step up, you can't just wear a lighter shirt and throw away your duvet and everything will be fine. We need system changes.'

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on @LBC with @ShelaghFogarty just now arguing that Clinton and others are scapegoating migrants for the economic problems inflicted on working people by corporate and financial elites.

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. @graceblakeley from our Spokesperson Network on #Skynews this morning on how politicians use peoples' economic anxieties to scapegoat migrants and deflect attention from the real causes of financial insecurity

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It's good that the ridiculous visa rules for foreign students are being reversed but we need a more comprehensive recall on the brutal policies that make up the 'hostile environment'. @MinnieRahman from @JCWI_UK on #BBCNews today

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New polling! To what extent would you support bringing energy companies back into public ownership? Support 53% Oppose 15%

More than half of the public would support renationalising energy companies, polling reveals

Renationalising energy companies was included in Labour's 2019 manifesto under former leader Jeremy Corbyn

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"Climate change is not some abstract issue. Whether or not we address climate change goes to the heart of whether or not we have a functioning economy and whether or not people can live the lives that they deserve" - @tessakhan exec director & founder of Uplift

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'The criminalisation of undocumented people in the UK means that exploitative bosses can purposefully use them so they don't have to pay as much as they would to someone with the rights that we'd all hope to have' @emilykenway on @VictoriaLIVE today

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The young people from @Strike4Youth / @UKSCN1 are AMAZING! Check out teenager Abel Harvie-Clarke on #skynews laying out why a #GreenNewDeal is so critical for how we address climate breakdown AND the UK's broken economy. #YouthStrike4Climate

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Who is working harder in the 24 hours? The Pretty Little Thing factory workers being paid £3.50 a hour to make the clothes, or Molly-Mae Hague getting paid £500,000 to be photographed in them? @elliemaeohagan of @CLASSthinktank on @talkRADIO

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. @graceblakeley 's book STOLEN is out today. Here she is on @GMB outlining how the economy is designed to fail most people with insecure work and wage stagnation.

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Any broadcast media journalists who are covering #COP26 - we have a list of almost 50 different folks in Glasgow who are ready for interviews, including scientists, indigenous leaders, global youth activists and many more. Get in touch.

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Shell have doubled their profits in just 3 months to £8.2 billion. The government is saying it has to make difficult choices, but here's a really easy option to help out families who are struggling this winter - a windfall tax on windfall profits. @tessakhan of @ThisWinterUK

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Any worker can tell you that wages aren't responsible for inflation. Wages have been stagnant for a decade, while profits keep rising. Rail companies are making hundreds of millions of pounds of profit and that could be going to working people @flavamaeve on #railstrikes

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We can't have new oil and gas if we are to stay within internationally agreed safe climate limits, but more to the point its our dependency on oil and gas that has left us so vulnerable to higher energy prices in our homes. @tessakhan on #SkyNews #ClimateEmergency

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Uber has been able to get away with it for so long because it has thought its workforce an easy target - a largely migrant and BAME workforce. But over six years two drivers have built worker power and beaten a behemoth in court. @daliagebrial on @AJEnglish

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"7 million households unable to heat their homes last winter - this won't make a scrap of difference to that. But it does involve us giving us £3.75 billion to the oil giants. It's a disaster for the climate, economy and our energy security." @tessakhan from Uplift on Rosebank

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Just ten years ago the UK govt was planning on building a new generation of coal-fired plants. Effective organising from the direct action of the Climate Camp to the well coordinated efforts from NGOs saw it off at the pass & made this news today possible

Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882

Landmark follows government pledge to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2025

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The watering down of the language on fossil fuels is disappointing and it's at odds with the launch of the Beyond Oil and Gas Initiative. Of course noticeably absent from that initiative were the UK and Scottish Governments. @tessakhan on @BBCNews

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You can't say that the UK government is walking the walk on climate while its willing to approve a new coal mine in Cumbria and opening up new oil and gas fields in the North Sea #stopcambo @mikaelaloach on #skynews

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We had the youth strikers, we had Greta Thunberg, we had Extinction Rebellion. Now we have young people mobilising around the #Cambo oil field. We're holding politicians accountable every single day. - @fortuashla on @BBCNews earlier

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. @daliagebrial from @novaramedia and our Spokesperson Network on #SkyNews this morning on why @DavidLammy was right to refer to fascism when mainstream political figures are using dehumanising language around migrants, muslim women and others.

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From Brazil to Uganda, from the Philippines to Glasgow. We are saying that the era of injustice is over. That means moving away from oil and gas and tackling inequality. We know we can do it. - @chilledasad100 on 🔥 as he speaks to @SkyNews ahead of @COP26_Coalition 's #COP26GDA

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"If they wanted to, the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary could take measures now to ensure there are no more deaths. The solutions are pretty straightforward, pretty easy and much cheaper than the policies at the moment." @BellaSankey from @DetentionAction on @BBCNews

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By bringing Covid-19 from a hot spot to a rural area, Cummings wasn't just taking a decision for his own family, he was taking it for a lot of families of other vulnerable people in the area. @eleanorkpenny on #SkyNews

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. @daliagebrial from our Spokesperson Network being all kinds of awesome in her #PoliticsLive debut today, on the failures of Universal Credit, and the systemic racism faced by People Of Colour in UK universities.

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Labour's plan to halt new North Sea oil & gas drilling is the right thing to do: 1) because it's what's required to preserve a safe & liveable climate 2) because it addresses the heart of the energy affordability crisis in the UK which is driven by gas dependency - @tessakhan 🔥

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Christine Berry @oeufling on @bbcbigquestions debating can capitalism save the planet? "We've had a 40 yr experiment with whether those policies can save the planet & the result is the planet is on fire. At what point would you accept they're not working &we need something else?"

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The person fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan for example, is not going to be able to ask the regime for a passport and then get an exit permit to fly to the UK through a system. @SatbirLSingh of @JCWI_UK on how Patel's new proposals on asylum seeking will fail people

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The most sensible way we can reduce our exposure to the global gas market is to use less gas. In the UK we haven't got the basics right with draughty homes - and we could reduce gas use by a quarter if we sorted that out. @heatpolicyrich of @RegAssistProj

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The UK’s most senior climate adviser has strongly endorsed Labour’s vow to halt new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, and slammed the government for failing to show leadership on the issue.

Lord Deben backs Labour’s plan to halt new North Sea oil and gas drilling

UK’s most senior climate adviser says policy is ‘right thing to do’ and criticises government’s stance

www.theguardian.com

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The #Jamaica50 have already served their time in prison. In deporting them you are punishing not just the people themselves twice but their families. People who have got partners, children and grandchildren here @SatbirLSingh from @JCWI_UK on @AJEnglish

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"So few headlines saying that the UK has had its highest daily death rate so far. It's higher than anywhere else in Europe, but France. "Why didn't NHS staff have PPE sooner? Why isn't there contact tracing? "We need an inquiry into what has happened." @MayaGoodfellow 🔥🔥🔥

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"Covid has shown us that whenever there is a shock it is the poorest communities that suffer most. That's why we must tackle health inequalities which are disproportionately suffered by our black and asian communities' @WandaWyporska 🔥🔥 on #bbcqt

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Migrant rights across the board need to be levelled up rather than down in future migration policies. @alexandrabulat from @the3million debating on #skynews

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'This is a positive announcement, but the amount that's being invested is nowhere near big enough. What we need is a plan that rewires the economy." @fortuashla on @Channel4News last night

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