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Caroline Lucas Quotes

born 1960 England

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British Green Party politician who was the MP for Brighton Pavilion from the 2010 to 2024 general elections. She was previously MEP for South East England from 1999 to 2010 and leader of the Green Party twice, between 2008 and 2012 and again between 2016 and 2018.

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Random Caroline Lucas quote

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Extinction Rebellion are carrying a message we all need to hear. They won’t be silenced by a police crackdown, nor should they be in a free democratic society.

We will block what is nothing less than a coup.

How can the will of the people be undermined by a vote of the people?

At a moment when we need a leader with courage and integrity, we get a pompous clown.

We would be kidding ourselves if we put our trust in Brazil’s right-wing, pro-business president Jair Bolsonaro to protect it.

In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly

Ultimately, that speech was a dark moment in British politics. Democracy is indeed under threat from extremists. The problem is, they're running the government itself.

The rainforest is being sacrificed on the altar of free trade with Europe

The government is turning lives upside down by callously playing hard ball over Brexit and it needs to take its responsibilities far more seriously

The Leave campaign claimed Brexit would save the NHS. But Home Office plans to end freedom of movement will do the opposite. 65,000 EU citizens work in our NHS. It couldn't cope without them.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Caroline Lucas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.