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Excitement building at @PorticoGallery for Dulwich & West Norwood's first climate emergency hustings, hosted by @Jemima_Vivien 👈🏾💚

Amazing effort by wonderful people from @MumsForLungs, @LambethLivingSt, @FoELambeth, @TTBrixton & #ExtinctionRebellion to pull it together 💑👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia And we’re off!

Great to have @jon_bartley from the Green Party, @helenhayes_ from Labour and @Vernia from the Brexit Party here to answer questions on the climate and ecological emergency

Conservative candidate @JaneBLyons conspicuous in her absence

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Good to hear all 3 candidates for Dulwich and West Norwood clearly passionate about this topic. Not a hint of climate denial in the candidates’ opening statements. All unequivocally clear that biodiversity loss is a huge crisis and that we need climate action now

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Labour candidate @helenhayes_ on how to communicate the climate emergency: argues that we need to focus on climate justice - to use this crisis to create a new vision for our country and the world. Labour’s vision is for Green Industrial Revolution, focusing on job security

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Brexit Party candidate @Vernia keen to see a halt to airport expansion: “If it were up to me I’d stop it all tomorrow”

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Very positive audience reaction to Green Party candidate @jon_bartley ‘s statement that we must aim for net zero by 2030. “If the climate were a bank, it would have been bailed out by now”. Argues we need vision and scope equivalent to the Marshall Plan

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Brexit Party candidate @Vernia keen to emphasize need for individual action and responsibility - calling on individuals to use their power as consumers, switch energy providers and banks to sustainable options, and stop flying

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Labour candidate Helen Hayes: it’s time to make the polluter pay and tackle plastic pollution at source

Now we’re discussing climate justice on a local level : Helen Hayes agrees that the poorest communities are suffering the most, need to act faster on air pollution

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Green candidate @jon_bartley keen to emphasize that we need to move away from cars, EVs not the best solution to air pollution. Doesn’t solve issue of toxic particulate matter from tyres. Argues we need massive public transport infrastructure investment

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons How do we make polluters pay? Green @jon_bartley - stop tax avoidance, use money for clean transition

Brexit @vernia - stop HS2 in its tracks and invest in other modes of transport. Tax plastic manufacturers

Labour’s @helenhayes_ - expand ULEZ, provide much better transport

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons Again, Brexit Party’s @Vernia keen to emphasize individual responsibility, asks what have candidates done to reduce climate impact?

@Helen_hayes and @jon_bartley both emphasise that responsibility lies with govts to legislate. Say focus on individual responsibility is wrong

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES Green @jon_bartley wants shift of power onto local level, says we need a huge shift to sustainable energy in housing, mass reforestation, citizens assemblies to bring power back to local communities

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES Brexit Party’s @Vernia wants to see home building on brownfield sites to save greenfield areas

Wants to see stop to farm subsidies to some of the richest people in the country through the EU Common Agricultural Policy

Suggests tax on household rubbish

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES Labour’s @helenhayes_ - overseas let’s use aid budget to invest in women and girls’ education & microfinance. In the UK Labour will retrofit 27 million homes to install sustainable energy and build 100 million *sustainable* council houses per year

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES All 3 candidates agree that the UK’s huge subsidies to fossil fuel industry and lack of investment in renewable energy is a huge problem

On EU & environment 3 candidates clashing: Green Party want to remain, Labour to stay neutral and Brexit Party, of course, wish to leave

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES Closing statements: @jon_bartley - “you could make history by electing London’s first Green MP”

Brexit party’s @Vernia argues her party’s environmental policies have been overlooked

Labour’s @helenhayes_ says she has been involved in green movement for 30+ years

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES Huge thank you to the 3 Dulwich and West Norwood candidates who spoke at the climate hustings this evening, Labour’s @helenhayes_ Green Party’s @jon_bartley and Brexit Party’s @Vernia

And massive thanks to @MumsForLungs superstar @Jemima_Vivien for chairing!

#climateelection

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES *apologies - that should of course say 100,000 rather than 100 million - oops 🤦‍♀️

@PorticoGallery @Jemima_Vivien @MumsForLungs @LambethLivingSt @FoELambeth @TTBrixton @BrixtonBlog @jon_bartley @helenhayes_ @Vernia @JaneBLyons @HELEN_HAYES @threadreaderapp unroll