Like all @brumgreens.bsky.social campaigners, @cpgarghan.bsky.social and I work really hard all year round to make a difference in Billesley. This figure is from litter picks we have have organised and carried out ourselves, but doesn't include when we go to workdays organised by other groups.

Afew days ago, a Starmtrooper who has since blocked me, claimed that it was @zackpolanski.bsky.social who would hand Reform power by not agreeing to work with Keir Starmer's Labour... 👀

Labour's democracy hokey cokey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1️⃣ Create new mayor elections 2️⃣ Cancel them immediately 3️⃣ Ask councils to waste time bidding to postpone elections 4️⃣ Find out you can't actually cancel them 5️⃣ That's what it's all about SHAMBLES It's time to 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

Love this from Russell Tovey. "I’m really following what the Green Party are doing, and I think we should all get behind them. As a community, they’re a party that we can really look to, to represent us.” www.attitude.co.uk/culture/russ...

What always strikes me about conservatives is how terrified they are at literally everything. They paint themselves as being the tough, no-nonsense hard men, unlike us weak lefties, and time again they prove themselves too scared to walk down the road or get on a bus. Weak, pathetic, and cowardly.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

What struck me when speaking to residents on the doorstep yesterday is how confident some people are saying that they're planning on voting for Reform. When we spoke to people last year, people were much more shy. Shows how the Overton Window has moved in the last 12 months.

If you're not out on the streets today taking the fight to the right wing parties, can you put some money into our crowd funder to help us win seats in Birmingham this May. Our city needs hope - you can give it: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/2026-start...

So, as a candidate for the local candidate, I got my first online threat of violence today, so that's nice. 😕

💚 Every area we campaign in matters. 💚 Every seat we win is one less for Reform. 💷 But we need money to do this, so please donate to our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/xnZ9wMN...

I know people are excited about Gorton & Denton but here in Birmingham, we have all-out elections in just 3 months! Labour is collapsing after the bin strike and budget. If we don't have a strong Green voice, Reform will take the city. Help us fight back! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/xnZ9wMN...

"This is a Labour area, and this is about whether Reform come into a Labour area..." How many times have we heard this arrogant boast? As though voters can simply be taken for granted by Labour. Nobody owns any voters' loyalties except their own.

Yeah, it's bad that the NEC inevitably blocked Burnham, but it's also bad that Burnham was prepared to step down from representing 2m people half way through his term for the benefit of his political ambitions.

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Trump's comments about the North Sea oil today feel like the UK is squarely in his crosshairs. We need to be disentangling ourselves from the US right the fuck now.

I don't know these campaigns myself. But I'm confident a big reason the Greens got +16.7% in one and -5.5% in the other is ordinary people going door to door or not. It's tough work and you don't always have volunteers. But Zack only gets us so far. The rest is down to us. join.greenparty.org.uk

Green GAIN from Reform as Horsley votes for hope.

Hot off the presses: Greens take Horsley from Reform UK in Amber Valley byelection!

There are an awful lot of new accounts on BlueSky 🦋 and many of them are right wing centrist Labour accounts. Depressing and predictable. They also seem to forget that Green Party policy is established by members - Polanski is simply the leader that tells the public what those policies are.

"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Greens as Official Opposition, love to see it (though, shame it comes with a Reform government!)

I love how all the big egos defending to Reform think they'll be the Chancellor. All of them know that they'll only ever be a support act

Can you imagine a worse road trip?

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

Can we infer from the Maccabi debacle that West Midlands Police haven't developed a policy on AI use? Either way, such staggering incompetence has turned what should have been a completely reasonable, defensible position into a stick to beat both anti-hooligan and pro-Palestine actors. Good work.

I'm no fan of this Labour government, but this is a good U-turn. Most of my objections to digi-ID was the mandatory element of it. Removing that is very welcome www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Flipping a coin to decide on guilt could cut the backlog in days but that wouldn't make it a good idea...

If terrorists were killing or seriously injuring 80 people every day in Britain, we would be under martial law. The army would be patrolling the streets and metal detectors would be on every public transport hub.

Does anyone know who the Friends of Yardley Wood Library could contact about getting quotes for replacing a broken down boiler, adapting the old system and making it more energy efficient? The library's currently closed because there's no heating, so they need to do it quickly!

The new video from Minnesota shows two strong women refusing to be intimidated by armed ICE officers I can't stop thinking that is why Renee Good was shot dead Paramilitaries serving authoritarian regimes need citizens to be afraid

Yep, keep telling yourselves that as the Greens replace you.

When he was chasing a headline, Nigel Farage said he’d scrap the two child limit. Now Labour’s actually doing it, he’s going to vote against. You’re a fraud Nigel Farage.

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

Nothing is ever going to change... Unless we organise. Find out your Green role at greensorganise.uk/your-green-role , and get involved with your local party today.

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Any Green Party members or colleagues who would be interested in signing a letter to our leadership asking that GPEW stop using X with immediate effect please drop me a DM, I'll send you a link to it tomorrow. Please share.

We really do have some fantastic volunteers in @brumgreens.bsky.social who go out in all weathers delivering materials. Thanks to everyone who's braved the freezing temperatures and icy pavements this weekend. It would be nice if the council looked after pedestrians by gritting for them, too.

For a lot of people, particularly in the global south, the international rules-based order was obviously a facade but such open, proud, outright criminality, hooliganism, and banditry almost defies analysis. It's hard to find the words but we really do need to.

Slipping and sliding between doorknocks this morning! Stay safe out there

OGWN were having a normal one about Zack in their last podcast, deliberately misrepresentating him & making the fascile argument that even if you taxed all billionaires 100% it wouldn't pay for everything on its own as if: 1-That was what was being proposed 2- It wasn't about inequality, not funding

New profile pic!

Me after a litter-pick seing someone toss some rubbish on the ground #TheWarBetween

I thank Youtube Shorts slop for introducing me to Baba is You - a truly unique puzzle game from 2019 available for phones for less than £4

No.

This is literally the point of inheritance tax, it's to stop generational inequality compounding. The kind of 'family businesses' that are supposed to be exempt from inheritance tax are family pubs, not ~$15bn companies based in Singapore

The only Christmas message I need! Thank you @zackpolanski.bsky.social, and please donate to @calaisappeal.bsky.social this Christmas to help those who are far less fortunate than we are. 💚🎄

#Vegans of Bluesky, what was your Christmas dinner? Mine was a black bean cottage pie. Forgot to take a picture before it was all eated

Greta Thunberg has been released without charge by the City of London Police