PIP is to help defray the extra costs of disability, not to help you become a productive economic unit. All of the suggestions Millburn makes (practical support, OT etc) are valid, but should be available to ALL not just those claiming an *in work* benefit that's difficult to get.

I gave the Green Party a donation to help fight Gorton and Denton and the hope the Green Party gave me by winning (and seeing Labour get hammered) made it worth every single penny. I've just done the same for the local elections. I want to feel that hope again on May 8th

"When ordinary people vote for ordinary people." Please Vote. Make your choice work. Its time. You have 7 days folks. I really do believe there is a chance to make government a place to represent the population. www.gov.uk/register-to-...

If you ate 4oz of cheese a day, what would your doctor say? As a low user who load shifts to low co2 hours, I still add nearly 4oz of carbon to the atmosphere for every kwh of electricity I use. I'm doing my best to minimise (with no solar etc) and STILL 4oz/kwh, c12oz/day. We gotta stop!!!

My wonky brain is on top form this morning. It often hears "music" in electrical noises but today is the best ever: Gregorian chanting an Irish jig. Blissfully bizarre!

Had my ADOS. Brought up stuff been working thru with AI in lieu of support network. Discussing capitalism/disability and it came up with: The tragedy isn't that people like you can't contribute. It's that the system spends so much energy excluding you that it never finds out what you had to offer.

Ok, I was already flummoxed by when @zackpolanski.bsky.social actually found time to have a life and, y'know, sleep. But now you're telling me he wrote a bleepin' book too?! Are we *sure* he doesn't use drugs?!

The message is on point, but pay attention to the B-roll footage. That connection with people is priceless and it's why we need Greens in *all* the rooms, at *all* levels of govt. People over profit. Guardianship over growth. And srsly, if it doesn't give you the warm fuzzies, check your heart. 💚💚💚

The very basics, the things we rely on to build the foundations of a good life, have been taken out of our hands, sold for profit - and then sold or rented back to us at crushing rates. The Green Party is there to inspire people with hope. And now, it's hope and a plan.

Green Party health policy is being updated as we speak and will be voted on at conference this year. Long before the next general election. It's being written by healthcare professionals based on best practice. Labour healthcare policy is written by private healthcare based on profitability.

Now recruiting! Join the Savage Green Army today. 🤣 join.greenparty.org.uk

This is exactly why environmental, economic and social justice are inextricably linked. It should be a no-brainer and the fact that it isn't just goes to show how much our system is in thrall to fossil fuels, capital and the status quo. Tear it up and start over for people and planet. #VoteGreen

Even a stopped clock...

So very many reasons that I #VoteGreen in this article. Reckon Lanchester would be an interesting guest for @zackpolanski.bsky.social to have on @boldpolitics.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Labour PM can't even be bothered to finish abolishing *feudalism*, they're never gonna get around to capitalism

Our drug policy makes sense, @greendrugpolicy.bsky.social. The war on drugs has failed we need take a public health approach to help people, that means legalise and regulate and follow advice from proper health professionals.

Two options for voters in Gorton & Denton. Greens or Reform?

It's a two-horse race between the Green Party and Reform and every vote counts. People of Gorton & Denton, you have until 10pm to vote Green and make hope normal again.

Is this real? I know Labour are brazen, but this is verging on the comically desperate/unhinged? There needs to be an investigation.

I’ve been in the Green Party on and off since 2013 and I have to say I always liked many of their radical but evidence-based policies & general niceness, but it’s never felt as cool to be Green as it does now the Daily Mail has branded us the Green Menaces 😎💪😏 🧑‍🎤🥬🪴🍵🫛🐊🐲🍈🦚🫒🍐🫑🥝🪲🍋‍🟩🪀🛶🧩🐉🍏🦜🥦🍃🍉🐛🦎🐢🌳🦖🌱🥒🥑🌴☘️🐍🍀💚💚

Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

If Labour is lying about this, what else is it lying about…?

It's amazing that a Labour right apparatchik like Lucy Powell, firmly committed to the third way privatisation of her dying party, seems unable to stop being publicly owned.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

“Jim Ratcliffe’s comments were outrageous. They are offensive and they were deeply wrong. We do have a problem in our country, and that problem is inequality. It’s not immigration.” Ellie Chowns on #BBCQT, rejecting attempts to blame migrants for country's problems.

Time for Labour to put country over party and prevent any future tyranny of the minority. Please sign and share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

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Went for Sunday dinner with my friend Jo yesterday who made the very astute point that when Starmer resigns he will NOT want to continue as in parliament in any capacity and in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election Zack Polanski will become the MP.

Fuck this shit. Do we want what is happening in the US here? Because we're on that path. Immigration is NOT the issue. Immigrants definitely aren't. Don't let them divide us, don't let them violate us. Tax wealth, support community. join.greenparty.org.uk

I've always believed that, as a person of conviction, I should support the party that best represents my views with my membership and some cash, so I give The Green Party a tenner a month. I mean, they're not getting any billionaire donors, realistically. I am saying: help them get somewhere fast.

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

Going to temporarily delete Bluesky app so I can focus time on Xmas gift crochet marathon. Dubious whether I can last 24hrs tbh, but let's see.

The Chancellor explicitly references the negative legacy of Brexit on the UK economy - so why is her govt so opposed to taking steps like joining the customs union or single market with all the economic benefits these would bring? #Budget2025

Rachel Reeves wants us to buy British "that's why we stepped in to save British Steel" So why can't we own our own water - starting with Thames Water? Spiralling water bills are taking money directly out of people's pockets, flowing to shareholders around the world #Budget2025

Markets placated, backbenchers pleased. But what about the other 70m of us? Because as great as lifting children out of poverty is, that's a hell of a low bar given that in a country as wealthy as this NO ONE should be living in poverty. Can't we make hope normal again? join.greenparty.org.uk

The super-rich have thrived at our expense over the last 35 years. This much wealth in the hands of 156 people is corrosive to the public good. Today's budget must take steps towards a system where billionaires do not exist!

£26 billion tax rise announced today in Labour's budget £90 billon, how much tax revenue is lost because of Brexit EVERY Year The reason taxes are going up and spending is being cut is because we can't afford stuff because of Brexit!

Well, duh.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "The attack on wokery is all a distraction from protecting the power and wealth of the super rich"

"Labour are happily - gleefully - building up the infrastructure an authoritarian regime would find useful. It's a good job a right wing extremist party isn't topping the polls and stands no chance of winning the next election."

2020: David Lammy, "Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea" 2025: The Times, "Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers"

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Brilliant news from Lord Chancellor today - removing the ancient right to jury trial from the majority of cases. This is utterly inspired!! There'll be nothing left for Reform to campaign on when Justice and Home have already removed all our rights!! Genius politics at play.

Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with? Cut bills. Tax billionaires. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"...he’s a pound-shop Andy Burnham..." Given how many people in this country are absolutely reliant on the pound shops and discounters, that's possibly not the dis it was intended as. Anyhoo, better that than "a country outfitters Enoch Powell".