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Molly Scott Cato
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Sarah Margaret "Molly" Scott Cato is a British Green politician, economist and activist. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England from 2014 to 2020. From 2012, until her election as an MEP, she was Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Roehampton. Scott Cato speaks for the Green Party on finance and the EU, and is known for her work in the field of co-operative studies. She has published on green economics, localism and anti-capitalism, and has contributed to works on the risks of nuclear power, the use of which she strongly opposes. .. more

Economics 35%
Environmental science 21%
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 4h
Far from 'project fear', warnings about the destructive economic impacts of Brexit were under-estimates 😭

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 4h
Is it a first for an MP to defect from a party before it exists?

Is it even possible?

What an utter shambles

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Molly Scott Cato, Paddy Hillyard

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 6h
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d
MP quits new Corbyn party
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MP quits Corbyn's new left-wing party amid infighting
Independent MP Adnan Hussain claims there is a
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Martin McKee, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 10 more

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
This paper examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%. These large negative impacts reflect a combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process. Comparing these with contemporary forecasts – providing a rare macro example to complement the burgeoning microliterature of social science predictions – shows that these forecasts were accurate over a 5-year horizon, but they underestimated the impact over a decade.

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 1d
Half the citizens of the UK now say they support parties that have only 10 MPs in parliament

Never has the necessity for a fair voting system being more urgent

The old-school parties are sticking with the outdated system out of desperate self-interest
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 33% (=)
GRN: 17% (-1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (=)
LDM: 11% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 12 Nov.
Changes w/ 5-6 Nov.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Molly Scott Cato

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d
READ THIS: A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @telegraphnews.bsky.social

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
ECHR stopped me from going mad in Putin’s gulag
A British-Russian dissident sentenced to 25 years of solitary confinement by Vladimir Putin has said his sanity was saved by the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.yahoo.com

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 33% (=)
GRN: 17% (-1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (=)
LDM: 11% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 12 Nov.
Changes w/ 5-6 Nov.

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 3d
This is very small beer compared to the damage caused by austerity. Without taxing wealth and reinvesting, they will only ever be scratching the surface.

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 3d
The leader isn't Labour's problem

Their problem is that people elected them to reverse the damage done by the Tories

Whereas they just carried on doing more damage

They need to tax wealth and invest in public services

And challenge the oligarchs dominating our economy

And focus on fairness

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d
Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England made £250m profits in 3 years,

£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.

Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.

Say NO to privatisation.
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
The BBC is ours. It's ours to love. Ours to criticise. Ours to shout at when we feel in the mood.

And if Farage thinks that the way to win favour with voters is to stand around cheering as Trump takes down the BBC for $1 billion of personal enrichment then he's a bigger fool than anyone thought.

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 4d
Again - this hyperpartisan outfit paid tens of millions of dollars in defamation damages, due to its false pro-Trump claims about election voting machines. Extraordinary Gibbery to interview them
rorycj.bsky.social Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 4d
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Reposted by Steve Peers, Molly Scott Cato, Mark Priestley

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d
Quisling

Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Jonathan Hopkin , and 6 more

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 4d
I do not understand the Labour government's reticence over defending the BBC and social media regulation. Their long-term survival basically depends on it. Their cowardice in the face of it may be the single thing they are most remembered for.

on.ft.com/3JVxC1Z via @FT
BBC faces ‘existential’ threat after exit of top executives
Broadcaster’s deepest crisis in recent history comes amid fresh questions over its future role in British society
on.ft.com

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Gerald Friedman, Molly Scott Cato , and 3 more

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5d
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.

For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.

The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

Reposted by Marcus Grant

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 5d
If this isn't enough to persuade you to support the BBC I don't know what would be

news.sky.com/story/bbc-re...

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Molly Scott Cato

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 5d
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.

You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 5d
I've started a petition to have Robbie Gibb removed from the BBC Board

Please support it

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board
Remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board
petition.parliament.uk

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 5d
I'm not having fun but I agree with you it's an opportunity - but do we think Lisa Nandy has the courage to do this?

Reposted by Will Jennings, Tim Bale, Molly Scott Cato

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 5d
While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up

Reposted by Michelle Everson

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 5d
Fascinating that Nick Robinson names Robbie Gibb as the instigator of the coup at the BBC

He was promoted to ensure that Brexit went ahead

He is the sort of shadowy character who is essential to the unpicking of democracy

This should be the end of his time on the BBC board

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 5d
Yes we've all felt immensely pissed off with the BBC from time to time

But it's clear that the attacks on it come from fascists and proto-fascists who want to shut down our powerful public-service broadcaster

For the sake of democracy we all need to defend the BBC as an institution

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Steve Peers, Molly Scott Cato , and 1 more

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6d
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’

More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes

Reposted by Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Jonathan Hopkin , and 1 more

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 6d
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 8d
🔀 With politics fragmenting, leading academics are warning First Past the Post risks plunging the UK into chaos at the next general election

🤝 The Government and all parties have an opportunity to get a grip on this risk to our national stability

👉 We need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
Ed Davey wants to 'work with government' on electoral reform - BBC News
The Liberal Democrat leader backs replacing first-past-the-post with proportional representation.
www.bbc.com

Reposted by Molly Scott Cato

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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 9d
🎲 “The case for First Past the Post absolutely breaks down... when an election result feels random, its hard for that result to feel legitimate”

🎙️ @dmk1793.bsky.social discusses our call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social

💯 “I think this is the way forward”

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 9d
What does Europe mean to you?

It's quite emotional watching all the positive responses to this question

For me, it's still about peace

And as nationalism grows, this is more important than ever

What about you?

bsky.app/profile/euro...
europeanmovement.co.uk European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 9d
To so many of us, Europe is more than a place, it’s a part of who we are. Hear what the public had to say when we went out and asked them what Europe means to them.

Reposted by Juliet Lodge, Molly Scott Cato, David Learmount

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 9d
To so many of us, Europe is more than a place, it’s a part of who we are. Hear what the public had to say when we went out and asked them what Europe means to them.

greenpartymolly.bsky.social
Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 9d
A powerful investigation but a namby-pamby headline

Elon Musk is not 'boosting the right'; he is driving fascism here and around the world

Our squeamishness around the use of the word fascism is undermining our ability to defeat it

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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