#AnyQuestions “With rising energy costs, should we be exploiting our gas and oil reserves?”
@EdwardJDavey “The truth is that price of gas/oil is set globally so even if we produce more it won’t help. Good news is renewables can cut people’s bills.” #CostOfLivingCrisis
@EdwardJDavey “This is just a swindle! The chancellor is telling you, Robert just repeated it, that he’s cutting taxes. He’s not, he’s shoving yr taxes up…conservatives have completely lost the plot!”
“There should be visa free access to our country for #Ukranian refugees. No visas! Says @EdwardJDavey
“We allow wealthy people from over 50 countries to enter 🇬🇧 visa free, with no security checks…. Why can’t we allow Ukrainian mothers and children fleeing Putin’s bombs?”
“This PM has to go!” Declares @EdwardJDavey audience breaks into 👏👏👏
“And the reasons is to face the domestic #CostOfLiving crisis and #Ukraine️ crisis, we need a PM we can trust. And I don’t think even Tory backbenchers trust him TBH, let alone the British public!”
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The other worry, recently highlighted by the OBR is the UK’s disengagement from international trade.
Trade is good: it drives productivity and other improvements. It is no accident that politicians of the past lauded export-led growth. “Export or die” used to be a slogan and …
in run-up to 2016 referendum the BoE highlighted how the UK had become a more open economy, with trade comprising a higher proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) during the long period of EU membership.
The 🇺🇸 dept of justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the 🇷🇺 oligarchs. We are joining with European allies to find and seize their yachts, luxury apartments, private jets. We are coming for you. Tonight, I am announcing we will join our allies …
in closing off 🇺🇸 airspace to all Russian flights.”
“He has no idea what is coming. The ruble has already lost 30% of its value. The Russian stock market has lost 40% of its value. Trading remains suspended. The Russian economy is reeling. Putin alone is the one to blame.”
“Cold War analogies will not be helpful in 🌍 with Russianised Ukraine,” bc in the Europe of the Cold War the geopolitical dividing lines were stabilised under 1975 Helsinki Accords.
By contrast Russian control of Ukraine would insert an unpredictable new dynamic into the heart of the continent and make it impossible for Ukraine’s neighbours to feel secure.
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