Fair play, this is the funniest reason I have ever heard from someone to not vote Green. youtu.be/Epg58irQwOg?...

Confirmed, drivers will happily leave their cars anywhere.

You're a year and a half out of date James. Green party policy is to build HS2 in full, to Manchester and Leeds. Labour are the ones stopping HS2 in its tracks. www.google.com/amp/s/labour... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/gree...

Excl: Green candidate for Gorton and Denton Hannah Spencer rejects Reform candidate Matt Goodwin’s call for a 1-1 debate

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

The Starmer Method: > Propose Idea > It's unpopular > Do it anyway because "it's necessary and we're willing to make hard choices" > Create disruption and uncertainty while starting to do Idea > Incur all the political costs of doing Idea > U-turn on Idea and waste the benefits > Repeat forever

Labour - again - showing such disrespect and lack of consideration for local government and communities. Cancelling the election cancellation, this last minute back and forth, is causing so much unnecessary stress for so many people across the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #VoteGreen

⬇️ Exactly this. I'd describe myself as anti-Zionist, and I will still be voting against motion A105 ("Zionism is racism").

For me this is very simple. There is widespread, longstanding practice of using "Zionists" as coded slur for Jews, or "Jews I don't like" (regardless how they define themselves). That is sufficient reason to refrain from broad-brush language such as "Zionism=Racism" or "Zionists not welcome".

“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.” Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.

Greens secured MAJOR changes totalling £1.2 Million in the 2026 county council budget - despite being in opposition! 🚲 £900K for pavements, paths and cycleways 🌍 £200K for climate change adaptation, resilience and community support 🫂 £100K for projects building community cohesion and cooperation

This is extremely sad news. Obviously, there are reasons to be deeply critical of corporate sponsorship. But, at the same time. the existence of spaces specifically for queer students was a real positive for so many. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also, worth stressing, the Proscription order remains in effect pending appeal. Expressions of support remain unlawful.

The High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful raises huge questions regarding Home Office decision-making processes. Obviously, this will be appealed. But the significant chilling effect the unlawful proscription has had on freedom of expression cannot be overstated.

Just imagine, today, if children got referred to "clinical support" if they expressed any interest in "gay feelings" with the Government saying that approval for them to be allowed to express being homosexual at school would only be likely in very limited circumstances. That's what this guidance is

Today two separate people who aren't into politics told me they were now following @greenpartyhan.bsky.social over on Instagram and love her. She posts more there than here. I'm going up to G&D on Sunday to campaign for her, along with other Oxford Cllrs. www.instagram.com/hannahtheplu...

If we’d learned in 2018 that e.g. Seumas Milne was passing privileged government info to a secret network of influence-peddling sex offenders led by the world’s most notorious nonce - do you think the lads would struggle to understand why that had grave implications, far beyond Milne’s office?

This stuff is always so frustrating because, yeah, not "nothing" but hardly anything compared to the extent of the problem it's supposedly trying to solve.

Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.

I've booked my train tickets and packed my bag, I'm on the way to Manchester Piccadilly for the Gorton and Denton Big Midweek Action Day, tomorrow! Want to help get @greenpartyhan.bsky.social elected? Join me and @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social - sign up here 👇 actionnetwork.org/events/gorto...

Gave a speech today at Full County Council budget. Thought it was funny that the Tory leader said he didn't understand it. Probably because it involved actual data from credible sources, rather than just random culture war headlines. 1/3 of food inflation due to climate change (1/2)

If we had a functioning media in this country, political journalists would ask Wes Streeting: "Given you long ago concluded Israel is committing war crimes, does that not mean you must think your government is facilitating war crimes?" They'd specifically note F-35 components.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

For the love of God, of course Hannah Spencer, who is a plumber, is installing heat pumps. They are a replacement for boilers. Yes, they are very salt of the earth things that heat your home. I don't know what to say at this point.

Things you can do in the UK and get out on bail: modern slavery. Things you can't get bail for: spray painting a fighter jet to call attention to an ongoing genocide and the UK governments complicity in it. 🍉

Not now covid..

Trains are now crossing the new Botley Road bridge.

i’m not on nextdoor but my wife has shown me anxious posts of adults worrying about the “youths loitering at the end of the road” at the end of the road there is: a playground they’re complaining about kids going to a playground

About fifteen years ago, just before we got rid of our car, we did this glorious journey (across the top of Scotland) in reverse (and by driving). I’ve wanted to go back to Orkney ever since but didn’t realise the trains could work so well. Now, definitely on my list of next train trips.

I am so tired of rich people refusing to build anything new and just burning everything that exists as a public good to the ground instead. They have decimated journalism this way. Remember when they used to be scared enough to build public libraries and parks?

Saturday. 10am. Denton. Biggest action day ever? We have to stop Reform. Let’s elect Hannah Spencer 💚 actionnetwork.org/events/big-d...

This sounds a lot like Oxford/shire Labour and bus gates...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

EXC: I can reveal the contents of a memo by Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman in January 2025 warning Number 10 it was making a mistake to hire Mandelson - sent to Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney. www.ft.com/content/584a...

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government. Thanks Keir.

The new bridge decks are going in at Botley Road. As well as the main span for the railway line, there is a separate deck on the western (Botley) side for a track to the future platform 5, and one on the eastern (city) side for the footbridge – and possibly another platform in the future.

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"

Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September

“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thursday’s @theguardian.com front page: ‘It’s over’ for Starmer, say Labour MPs amid fury over Mandelson www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I still do not have a clue who will win the Gorton and Denton by-election but the Greens say that in six hours today they leafleted all 40,000-plus households, done by 400 volunteers, which does show Lib Dem-style levels of dedication to campaigning (and to the printing trade).

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Wes Streeting was 15 when Mandelson first resigned, he was 18 the second time, and is now 43.

What's actually unfair: 🔹 Drivers gambling with other people's lives when they floor it and hope they don't get caught 🔹 Police deciding whether to issue a ticket to speeders they pull over Speed cameras are a solution — not a problem.