Having watched the video, if it wasn't the flag he probably would have ended up barred for being an absolute arsehole.
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Having watched the video, if it wasn't the flag he probably would have ended up barred for being an absolute arsehole.
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The current doorstep strategy that we risk losing...
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Happy Friday y'all! Scenes from sunny West Bridgford this morning
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Labour MPs will be looking for their next Owen Smith and booking the ice cream van
Labour MPs should be looking for their next Owen Smith and booking the ice cream van
We're very excited to announce Harriet Lamb will be joining us at the East Midlands Green Party Conference on the 19th of July in Derby! Tickets in the link below.
NEW: @frankadlingtons.bsky.social has announced he's standing to be deputy leader of the Green Party. This makes him the seventh candidate to enter the race.
Poverty isn't inevitable. It's a political choice. Lower rents. Cheaper bills. Tax the rich. A fairer future is within reach. Let’s build it together. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not town vs country, whatever the culture warriors might tell you. It's money and power vs people. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No you've only moved 3/35 fire safe plasterboards up two floors. Wait, nope, that's would be me. Bugger. Better get back to it.
Who's coming leafleting in Ipswich tomorrow?
Have you got your ticket yet? If we get towards 200 attendees we could hire the John Hurt cinema and I can make aliens jokes!
Have you got your ticket yet? If we get towards 200 attendees we could hire the John Hurt cinema and I can make aliens jokes!
Join us and celebrate a record year for Green Party in the East Midlands! Ticket sales for the East Midlands Green Party Conference have gone live. #EMGP #GreenParty actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
Easy enough to do with cash. See how they move assets
Reform Councillor and Cabinet Member for the Environment says that climate change is a "hoax" and causes a spat. Another Reform cllr quit after six days. Four more don't turn up for work, as their leader dithers over simple questions. They've really hit the ground "umming"
Welcome Jill
To have swallowed a Crocodile Would make anybody smile But to swallow a Caramel wafer Is safer.
Only accepting applications from political virgins and people born into Green Party families from now on.
In need of a good political home. I've never been made to feel out of place in the Green Party as it's somewhere that my values align. I'd welcome more disgruntled labour lefties to help with all the work that needs to be done to bring about the change the country needs.
Hi there, "disgruntled Labour leftie" here 👋 Currently putting in a shift for the Green Party as one of your regional coordinators. You appear to need a bolt for that stable door where you no longer have a horse... There are some wonderful hard working, compassionate, former labour members
As much as he picked his aides there was a corrupt power structure within the party waiting for this kind of leader. That's why he'll stay. He picked the right dynasties and party royalty to cosy up with and they'll keep him there and await their turn for power.
All the signs were there, he's lied and he's lied and he's lied
He has a massive majority of loyal MPs, I don't think he'll be resigning any time soon.
Ah I'm just waking up you'd already said that line. I was going to go with "how's that for a slice of fried gold?" It's still Cornetto trilogy
For the greater good (the greater good).
This is why I'm backing @zackpolanski.bsky.social as leader for the Green Party
And you use this language so flippantly?
Your language here is absolutely vile. Comparing participating in a democratic leadership contest as a putsch and when the only putsch that anyone thinks of is the beer hall putsch. Levelling this at a Jewish leader is grim.
💯 behind the Zack Polanski leadership campaign #BackZack
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
It is. Thank you for sharing
There’s been a string of left wing commentators having a go at the supposed underperformance of the Greens (latest was Owen Jones in the Guardian yesterday). It really frustrates me how poor that analysis is, so here’s my review of their claims. colinboyle.substack.com/p/what-the-g...
Magic Money Tree Rolls-Royce wants UK subsidies for new engine. Why can shareholders not fund it? Govt won't give repayable loan, won't take equity stake. Company will own resulting asset & income streams. Huge wealth transfer to private hands. Must check corporate welfare. archive.ph/ImPcN
Campaigning hard in a ward where there is a genuine alternative to the cruel and heartless Labour Party. No candidate can pin on that red rosette and absolve themselves from the inhumanity on display from a party who promised change. Municipal socialism? More like more cuts. #VoteGreen
Good thing that division has a Green candidate who supports genuine grass roots democracy, genuine devolution of powers, and who lives and works hard in that division every single day. My ideals and postcode haven't changed since 2017 when we were trying to build something like what you describe.
I'm still wearing them 20+ years later (in fact the originals only gave out a couple of years ago). The new ones don't have the holes round the side so my dignity stays in!
I was an early adopter with Crocs when I was working as a chef. A colleague pointed to them and said, "those holes around the side, that's where your dignity leaks out"
Hey that's me on the site that I'm not supposed to be using! That tweet is now up to 300,000 views. Bruce has no wisdom or empathy and regularly plays pundit rather than host. She amplifies points she agrees with and attempts to belittle those she disagrees with.
#justsaying this is going gangbusters on twitter right now so BSky you need to pull it together
With a £400k salary from the BBC Fiona Bruce denies being a wealthy individual... "I'm not sure you know how the BBC works". Clearly £400k not large amount in media circles. Perhaps she too lives pay check to pay check spending her whole salary on life's necessities
Speaking about neoliberalism at the Nottingham Playhouse yesterday evening, journalist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social affirmed that "broadly" Green Party policies would counter it. He added, "They are great and they have some fantastic policies ... you can see the Greens as the new left party".
Shared with our campaign team in @nottsgreenparty.bsky.social, should go out in our next email to the mailing list. nottingham.greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
Hi @cllxben.bsky.social We've got this happening soon. Fancy coming along? And sharing the event, of course. 🙂 #Nottingham #Greenpeace
A huge bluesky welcome for the East Midland's newest Green Councillor!
I had a brilliant time chatting to Gary last week for a few hours - really important conversation. It's baffling this is random group in Labour wanting to speak, rather than a senior minister. It shows the lack of urgency this government have in tackling the inequality crisis.
Also it's infuriating that you only mention the Greens at the end of your list, maybe they are the last to talk to because they've been saying what you are saying since at least 2012.
Labour will turn you into a Dale Vince or Fergal Sharkey character where they can woo the left by you standing near them. They might even promise to do something down the line. You just need to keep in mind they have a track record on this where they just lie to get what they want.
This is from a great discussion where Gary hits the nail on the head time after time, after time. Well worth a watch.
look it hasn’t worked the last 15 times but maybe *this* time a round of cuts to essential public services will lead to economic growth and prosperity
The Telegraph reported on @carladenyer.bsky.social's suggestion to Starmer that he might consider a wealth tax instead of targetting the sick and disabled.
A reminder that we also host fun runs 😉
We have an excellent candidate for mayor of Greater Lincolnshire but crowdfunding is needed to help us win. 🤝 We are not funded by billionaires but by people like you and me. Give what you can to help us reach our target. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sally-for-...
🔴 Labour cutting disability benefits. 🔵 Tories attacking Net Zero. 🟣 Reform fueling hatred in our communities. 💚 There's never been a better time to join the Green Party. ✅ Join.greenparty.org.uk
More former Labour councillors joining @greenparty.org.uk If you're a councillor - or indeed an MP - who wants to be in the party challenging injustice, get in touch! www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/2501827...
Good plan, there's one round here buried in a hedge that I've always fancied transplanting to my garden...
Wonder what a Green Mayor would make of all this? Want to find out? First lets get a candidate on the ballot and we can work out the rest as we go www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sally-for-...
Meet your new MPs and Councillors! And read a short blog about the Green Party's 30 under 30 programme by one of those attending from @nottsgreenparty.bsky.social nottingham.greenparty.org.uk/2025/03/16/m...
Would love to see some of that @patmillsuk.bsky.social money put where the loudest mouths are on wealth tax! @greenparty.org.uk needs some generous donors who are looking out for the whole of society and not just their own pockets!
Love putting one foot in front of the other AND doing your bit for the environment? This is the list to find your people.
Good to see these on the road. In Nottingham they give away pavement space for eBike and eScooter parking, which I think is doubly bad. First pavement space is precious and very limited, second it sends a message that this transport is ok on pavements, when it isn't.
Just had my sister-in-law talk to me about seeing this on Sunday, and how this is relatable.
East Midlands Co-Chair @frankadlingtons.bsky.social speaking truth to power ✊
We need to be in the Mayoral race in Lincolnshire! We need your help and we need your cash, just to get on the ballot! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sally-for-... @frankadlingtons.bsky.social 's campaign for the East Midlands Mayoral election galvanized the Green Party, help us do the same in Lincs!
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"It really sickens me to hear Labour and the Conservatives both peddling the same on this." Green councillor @frankadlingtons.bsky.social on the effect Labour's planned cuts will have on the most vulnerable and why we need to tax the super-rich properly.
You know what to do Join.GreenParty.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @greenelects.world @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social
Exciting time and all the more exciting because I have nothing to do with the organisation around the event! 😜🥳
We are in it for the long run. 💚 this article. If you want to know more about who we are and what we do then stop scrolling and click on the link 🔗 Thank you 🙏🏻 Advnture. www.advnture.com/features/gre...
Want to take the fight to Reform UK? Well we need to fight them in Lincolnshire. We need your help and we need your cash! Please donate to help us get into the fight! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/sally-for-...
Look up, look around you, you're surrounded by people who you would have called Tories four years ago. These are the people you're standing side by side with. What does that make you? Solidarity comrade 🫠 ✊
You debate do we punish the poorest? The most vulnerable in society? After more than a decade of dunking on them-a decade after "I, Daniel Blake" you're still taking about a vehicle to organise within? What are you talking about? You've been routed. You've been picked off, awaiting your turn.
Had a comment from a former "comrade" from the Labour Party tonight about me producing "bargraphs" aka empirical evidence. In response please let me say this is you right now: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... This is your arguments, this is your Overton Window, this is your debate...
For a moment I thought that was an OLED touch pad
We are desperate for funds to campaign in the county elections in may but the coffers are almost empty so we have to ask for support via our crowdfunder. Please support and or share it! @londongreenparty.bsky.social @brumgreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @carolinelucas.bsky.social
This is spot on If you aren't already following @mattgreencomedy.com then give him a follow 👍
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has received £311,400 from private healthcare interests since entering Parliament. Could that be reason he's such a fan of private involvement in our health service? The Green Party is clear - private profit motive should be nowhere near the NHS.
I was invited as Environment Chair to this with Mayor & Thames Water. His team asked if I'd "pass my invitation" on to the deputy chair for gender diversity - who happens to be Labour. I suggested we both come to ensure gender & political diversity. See what happened next & why: 👇🏼
Heavy on the quince, I see Membrillo in your future!
Some national media figures will tell you the rich will flea if you tax them 1-2% on assets over £10m. You could own more than five of these mansions and still pay nothing extra. The poor are being fleeced, we need fair taxation based on the ability to afford it. What we have now is punitive.
Scrap council tax and replace with something better. £1.8m mansion in the Park Nottingham Band G taxed at 0.23% of its value £26k bedsit behind the Vic Centre Nottingham Band B taxed at 8.65% of its value Worth over 70x more but pays just 1.8x more tax. #wealthtaxnow
Nice! What types? Speaking to a local expert I was recently told that planing almonds and peaches was sensible given the climate changes ahead.
The ULEZ has improved air quality in London. But there is still huge class injustice in tackling environmental issues. The Mayor's new road tunnel will worsen pollution & deepen health inequalities in communities already breathing dirty air.
Gary is a wonderful, clear communicator who isn't shackled by the politeness of politics.
Everytime I watch Jasmin Paris near the finish at Barkley Marathon on YouTube I'm anxious she won't make it home in time! Spoiler Alert. She does! This magnificent achievement inspired me to turn the torn out page and join the welcoming @thegreenrunners.bsky.social Why not do the same?
Can't beat a bit of Wilford Village.
Green vote holding up nicely there!
Whereas on the other hand we're saying, those on benefits are shirkers, the 900,000 who should have been due winter fuel payments can go jump, and the two child benefit cap is something we can't afford to lift. Respectfully it's a crock of shit.
Relabelling defence companies as "ethical investments" and the "country defending itself" are two different things. We already have massive sums sunk into corporate welfare (www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...) and the focus is more that?
This week I helped welcome another former Labour councillor into @greenparty.org.uk I was reminded of the vicious attacks that are sent your way when you decide to step away from that red rosette. Are those remaining still humming "the Red Flag" as they read these headlines? join.greenparty.org.uk
A year after making history as the 1st female finisher of the Barkley Marathons, Jasmin Paris continues to use her platform for change. 🌍 Grab the April issue of Runner’s World UK and take inspiration!🏃♀️ More info in alt text.
One of my favourite leaflet rounds. Bottle top a short stumble away. Two green councillors to look after you too.
See @greenparty.org.uk co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP (@adrianramsay.bsky.social) on BBC Question Time, tonight at 10:40pm on BBC One. #bbcqt
Helen we need you! Would be great to have some more local members helping get Shuguftah re-elected and support her work. We also need to make sure we have plenty of candidates when the next elections come round (one step at a time eh?)
More reasons to smile when the sun is shining! Finally got round to commissioning the solar inverter and meter. Not free yet, just prepaid, but it feels so good to have this generating! #Solar #GreenEnergy #RooftopRevolution
Nice view of our training pitches! I'll be there coaching the kids tomorrow night and Sunday.
This is the Labour Party: Taking billions from the people who have nothing Taking nothing from the people who have billions We need a #WealthTax We need a #UniversalBasicIncome We need the @greenparty.org.uk
