Susan Calvin20h ago
Stingray's Badger Friend

Hannah Spencer:
"The Green party is clear: ordinary people should not pay for this crisis (US/Israel war on Iran). The government should guarantee right now that it will not allow energy bills to rise beyond the April-June price cap, and every single pound of reckless profiteering by energy companies must be repurposed to this end."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/weeks-green-mp-politicians-clue-cost-living-labour

#Iran #WarWithIran #UKPol #GreenParty #Labour #CostOfLiving

What I learned from my first few weeks as a Green MP? Most politicians have no clue how tough things are out there

With this escalating cost of living crisis, so many are really suffering – yet Labour lacks the imagination, boldness and will to do anything about it, says Green party MP Hannah Spencer

The Guardian
Apr 3 at 11:15amWeb
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@StingrayBadger Trouble is the "reckless profiteering" will be by players in the international fossil fuel market - everybody else will just be passing on their costs. How can the UK government expect to control those people?
Show threadStingray's Badger Friend1d ago

@TimWardCam

How do you think we should approach this crisis?

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@StingrayBadger Stop allowing the US to use our air bases?
Show threadStingray's Badger Friend23h ago

@TimWardCam

That's a good start.

However, it won't be helpful for everyone experiencing fuel poverty right, now while we are producing large amounts of cheap renewables, but our energy bills climb massively as the energy companies profit.

If we renationalised, any excess income went into further renewable energy.

It makes me so cross, on windy days like this, that we are harnessing so little of this free resource.

Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE23h ago
@StingrayBadger Yeah, we should build the missing bits of grid, and it's not clear that it's impossible to stop pricing electricity by the marginal cost of gas. But the electricity market is a government choice, those prices aren't set by the renewables companies.
Show threadSneezy19h ago

@StingrayBadger

Imagine a regulatory framework where war costs - not pays - corporations.

We can daydream.

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell19h ago

@StingrayBadger

The most proactive act in this crisis, which is also an opportunity, is to aggressively pursue walkability and localizing farming and the kind of farming that uses regenerative processes that don’t require chemical inputs.

The world has to get smart because energy and the cost of raw materials used to process everything else in the economy are going to go up in cost and become far more scarce.

If you don’t rely on the global supply chain, you save a lot of money