More and more European governments are moving to leave the Energy Charter Treaty, individually or as a bloc. There's increasingly a consensus that this treaty is incompatible with halting the #ClimateEmergency . ft.com/content/528f10…

Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to 'submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus' to monitor your movements.

[BONNE NOUVELLE]
Les Pays-Bas annoncent se retirer du Traité sur la charte de l’énergie. La pression sur la France augmente : le gouvernement va-t-il enfin s'engager à se retirer de ce traité qui retarde, renchérit ou bloque la transition énergétique ?
collectifstoptafta.org/traite-sur-la-…

MASSIVE news!! The Netherlands has decided to leave the climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty.

The dominoes are starting to fall across Europe and this needs to include the UK 

#ExitECT

🚨BREAKING: Tamil Refugees in the Chagos Island will be sent to a 'safe third country' if they are given refugee status.

This could mean families being shipped from the Chagos Islands to Rwanda.

Another callous, neo-colonial move from this government.
theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

'Not content with trashing the UK economy, the government seems intent on abandoning its international obligations.'

Our policy manager Daniel Willis spoke to Will Worley about the rumours the UK aid budget will be slashed to 0.3%. ⬇️

⁩ devex.com/news/fears-abo…

This is HUGE. The Netherlands plans to leave the ECT. 👏👏👏 This climate-destroying treaty is now on its last legs. Let's give it a final push. #ClimateEmergency

MPs have debated trade scrutiny processes.

There was cross-party consensus that arrangements are utterly inadequate, and Govt has denied Parliament and the public chance to scrutinise agreements.

Urgent reform is needed.

Anthony Mangnall MP
Ruth Cadbury MP 💙🇺🇦
Anum Qaisar MP
Sarah Green MP 🔶

Not quite bigger than Blair, not far off.
Unlike Blair, Starmer govt will be elected with a car-crash economy in an unstable world. No soft option to rely on growth. If they want to reform, they'll have to be radical. And if they don't reform, they'll fail like these Tories have

Don’t forget, whatever they say today, the right-wing press, think tanks and big business leaders backed Truss’ budget to the hilt. This isn’t simply an incompetent PM, but an establishment which is out of touch and out of control.

Inflation hasn't been driven up by rising wages, but by financial speculation and monopoly control of food and energy. The answer is not pain for ordinary people but intervention to control these markets. This 👇is a great take on UNTAD's report. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Not everyone is suffering from the 'highly uncertain and divergent macro environment.. To us this actually means more opportunity' say the very hedge funds Truss wants to free up through the financial services bill. The markets have 'taken back control' reuters.com/markets/europe…

✍️ 'Some fear a Western victory in Ukraine would take us back to 1992. But younger generations won’t be easily persuaded into believing the market knows best', writes
Anthony Barnett bit.ly/3T1DRAy

It isn't that complicated.
1) Tariff reform to reduce bills for the majority, paid by high income, high energy consuming households.
2) Emergency energy efficiency programme, funded through energy savings.
3) Permanent boost to income safety net, funded through taxes on wealth.

This is potentially brilliant news, but we need to think about who owns this technology, who will get access to it, and who won't: (1/11)

theguardian.com/society/2022/o…