It looks like Caroline Lucas’ socialist ramblings can’t even fill a room. Following Rachel Reeves’ trailblazing precedent Lucas’ book launch on the 22nd is being advertised on the seat filling website Central Tickets. Lucas and leftist commentator Grace Blakely are getting together to discuss “a radically new way of viewing England and Englishness“. Maybe they should take some lessons in supply and demand first…
The Tabernacle has room for only 270 seats to fill for such engrossing conversation:
“Englishness has been hijacked by the right. The flag of St. George’s Cross is proudly waved at far-right rallies. Conservative politicians insult the Left as being anti-English. And our history has been weaponised by cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia.“
Who wouldn’t want to listen to those cheery polemics for an hour and a half? Paying customers is apparently the answer…
The Green Party’s outgoing only MP, Caroline Lucas, is making the most of her remaining months of access to the Commons. Last night, Lucas took to the green seats to push her green agenda, calling for no more fossil fuel money in politics, and for MPs to not have any contact with lobbyists or donors who have any connection to fossil fuels. Nearly half our energy comes from fossil fuels. They’re not just needed for heat or travel, they’re need for products – like solar panels and wind turbines – as well. That such a big industry should have nothing no involvement in politics is a bonkers suggestion.
Lucas wants a “firewall” rule which would somehow force politicians to have to immediately report any off or on-record conversation with those from the oil and gas sector or anyone who “stands to benefit“. She also wants to outlaw any communication between government departments and the sector and prevent anyone who works for the sector from appearing on panels, government research bodies, or expert or advisory bodies. Unrealistic, impractical, unachievable…
The Climate Queen went on to slam the so-called “dirty money” shaping policy, demanding for an end in subsidies and “cosy links” with ministers. Guido obviously isn’t the only one to take her debate with a large pinch of salt, Lucas took to Twitter after to complain about ministers not being interested in her rallying cry. Of course because they’re “in pockets of the fossil fuel industry”, not because her pitch was nonsense…
The Green Party’s only MP, Caroline Lucas, is standing down at the next election to focus on the “existential challenges” of “the nature and climate emergencies“. Lucas has been in Parliament for 13 years and is the first person to sit in the Commons as a Green MP. Now she’s leaving, apparently to help save the planet…
She wrote in an open letter this morning:
“I have always prided myself on being, first and foremost, a good constituency MP. I’ve done everything possible to help wherever I can and always worked to ensure that people feel heard, that their concerns matter, and that they are not alone. But the intensity of these constituency commitments, together with the particular responsibilities of being my party’s sole MP, mean that, ironically, I’ve not been able to focus as much as I would like on the existential challenges that drive me – the nature and climate emergencies […]
“The truth is, as these threats to our precious planet become ever more urgent, I have struggled to spend the time I want on these accelerating crises. I have therefore decided not to stand again as your MP at the next election.”
According to UK Polling Report, she was set to hold her Brighton seat at the next election:
Who will constantly oppose nuclear power in the name of the environment now?
The European Court of Human Rights has demanded the UK government to respond to a legal claim made by Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Lucas and Alyn Smith over alleged Russian interference in elections. Yes, they’re still banging on about this…
Having fallen flat on their faces in the High Court in 2021 alongside Carole Cadwalladr – the judge ruled the case was “unarguable” and threw it out – the three MPs have now turned to Strasbourg to explain away why Remain lost in 2016. They’d previously claimed Boris had “unlawfully failed to act compatibly with his public law duties in refusing to establish a public inquiry” on the issue, and insist the government has now breached its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. Strasbourg now say the government has until the end of April to respond…
The ECHR did add that this request doesn’t yet mean the case has been found admissible. A Downing Street spokesperson said “I would point out this claim has been roundly rejected by UK courts.” Not that that’ll ever placate the likes of Caroline Lucas…
Good news for Christian Wakeford – he is not the only MP who can’t do maths. Now ex-Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has waded in to attack the government for promising green energy, on the grounds that “Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can’t help meet 2035 target”. Do the maths, she says…
Bone-headed & senseless decision. Govt says #SizewellC is vital to meet 2035 electricity decarbonisation target, but *its own impact statement* found we won't get supply for at least another 13-17 years - do the maths! Nuclear is hugely costly & simply can't help meet 2035 target pic.twitter.com/2XXlGibI5k
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) November 29, 2022
Well, 2022 + 13 is 2035…
Of course, Lucas has form for this. In 2008, when offering her wisdom to Gordon Brown on rising fuel prices, she claimed:
“It simply isn’t true that nuclear power is the answer to rising fuel prices, since the earliest that a new nuclear power station could come on stream is around 2017.”
Wouldn’t an abundance of nuclear energy for the last five years have been useful right about now? This Clegg-style opposition to any sensible energy policy, just because it won’t solve the problem by lunchtime, is precisely why we are where we are…
Rishi tried skating over Caroline Lucas’ question on whether he’ll scrap Liz Truss’s fracking plans, though promised that he sticks to the 2019 manifesto, which was far more fracking-sceptic than Liz’s government. Rishi’s subsequent answer on the government’s environmental promises even received a brief round of applause from eco-zealot Caroline. A very surprise endorsement…
UPDATE: No10 confirm the fracking ban is back…
