Re-elect Astrid Johnson 💚🐝 @tweetaj.bsky.social

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

💚 Manchester Green Party councillors have expressed their support for all those affected by the synagogue attack in Crumpsall this week. Read our councillors’ full statement on our website: ⬇ manchester.greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/03/m...

🎉 GREEN BYELECTION WIN! 💚 Delighted we just won this seat in Manchester. 🙌🏼 Huge congratulations to brand new councillor Zoe Marlow and the whole team. 👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk

LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems! Let's keep it going! 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽 join.greenparty.org.uk Latest stats available: 85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership 83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

Today. Gaza. Unacceptable.

FFS, the prosecution and undermining of science based and peer reviewed research has to stop! #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #NatureCrisis #Equality is too important to be ideologised. This is going into dangerous territory.

🚅 Last few weeks I've travelled to Worcester, Doncaster, Runcorn, Helsby, Kenilworth, Dartford, Accrington, Lancaster, Canterbury, Kettering, Cambridge + many many more! ☀️ Next: Chippenham, Totnes, Truro + more! 💚 In 7 days real hope & real change. Vote for @greenparty.org.uk

💚 We stand with trans people and the entire LGBTQIA+ community following the Supreme Court ruling on definitions under the Equality Act. ​🏳️‍⚧️ We call on the Government to introduce better protections for the trans community, including self-ID of gender, so that we can all live in peace and dignity

Catching up with the awful and regressive Supreme Court ruling redefining “woman” under the Equality Act to exclude trans women. How will the government protect trans people’s safety, privacy, and dignity now? I stand in #solidarity with my trans friends. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️1/3

“To yield to the mere process of disintegration has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of “historical necessity,” ... 1/2

Thanks so much for the visit. Great to have been able to show you around Woodhouse Park, Benchill and Moss Nook today – an amazing place of community spirit and strength, but with many needs – @tomstannard.bsky.social!

"You're taking some of the most disadvantaged people in our society and making them pay." @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social on the Government's plans for yet more cuts and the need to tax wealth properly instead.

Over to you, Labour MPs.

We have written to every single Labour MP asking them to use their voice (and their votes!) Cuts do not have to be inevitable. You do not need to support this.

I’m deeply disappointed by the govt’s utterly short-sighted decision to fund defence by slashing aid. Defence, diplomacy and development are intertwined. Investing in development helps build security. There is another way to find the funds: ask the wealthiest to contribute more.

Cottages on the Dachau Marsh https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/cottages-on-the-dachau-marsh-1902

That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher “moral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive

False Start I http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67552

The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

It just may describe the human condition…

At least 30% of new builds need to be for social rent! Why can’t Manchester Labour make this commitment when residents and their own members demand this? manchester.greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/05/g...

We be having Christmas breakfast at the dandelion Community hub come along to get a full English breakfast from 10am till 2pm everyone is welcome!

Very happy to wake up to see @wheelsforwellbeing.bsky.social on here. Follow them if you are interested in accessibility and getting around by walking, wheeling or cycling. Thoughtful work under pinned by lived experience.

💸 Millions of people in the UK can't afford to own cars, or can't drive for whatever reason. 🛑 The lack of non-car options means they are trapped around where they live. 🚍 Getting around needs to more affordable, which means less focus on private cars. 🧵A thread on #CarCulture 👇

Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, William Blake was born #OTD 28 November 1757. This painting - The Ancient of Days - is in the collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet. With huge impacts on #PublicHealth and environmental conditions #PFAS #ForeverChemicals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've worked cross-party w/ Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan & @unison.org.uk on a motion to end unfair, exploitative employment practices that migrant workers are often trapped into in the health and care sectors. Please write to your MP and ask them to sign our EDM: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Given events I thought it’s a good day to rewatch ‘HyperNormalisation’ by Adam Curtis.

Disappointing to see the deputy PM dismiss this out of hand. A majority of the public and MPs support a fairer voting system. I'd urge the Government to engage constructively with the new APPG for Fair Elections and our practical suggestions. 1/ www.politics.co.uk/parliament/d...

Sleeping Deer https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/sleeping-deer-1913

Contrary to received opinion solar pv on rooftops is not solely a rich person’s sole preserve. In fact in some ways it can be the opposite - see evidence from Australia where unemployment actually drives adoption of solar pv on roofs. See onestepoffthegrid.com.au/unemployment...

✈️ Whilst #COP29 is happening , it's worth noting the use of private jets and super yachts is soaring. 🤑 The über-wealthy are disproportionately responsible for the #ClimateCrisis. 🪙 Taxing wealth would raise £billions. Let's make the super wealthy pay to fund climate action and fight #inequality.

Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (Deux Enfants sont menacés par un rossignol), 1924 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135159

LAURIE ANDERSON’s “ARK: UNITED STATES V” at Factory International is liberated, imaginative, relevant, personal and intimate. Loved it. Also, follow bsky.app/profile/laur...

It’s genuinely incoherent for us (or one of our leaders) to come out against the farmer IHT so strongly. And it’s naive if you think that supporting it as a leader doesn’t project that it’s the opinion of the party overall.

Lyonel Feiniger

It's snowing in East London! (And it's important Bluesky knows this!)

This "rebirth" of social media is an interesting experience. Brings back memories of how it felt the first time round. It causes me to reflect on how and when things went wrong. Although people are singing the praises of bluesky, I doubt the honeymoon will last.

Little Blue Horse https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/little-blue-horse-1912

Another reminder: offsetting is a con. We need to BOTH care for nature as a carbon store AND stop burning fossil fuels #COP29 #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rightly said by @elliechowns.bsky.social: "Every politician should read this article. With 1.3 degrees of warming we see previously impossible extreme weather. Yet we’re on track for 2.7 degrees, with unthinkable consequences. We need emergency action to end global fossil fuel addiction."

Just horrendous. Between them, Trump and Netanyahu seem determined to wipe the Palestinians off the face of the Earth. It was terrible under Biden. It'll be even worse now. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

We understand so little of the #biodiversity of the last frontier, the deep sea. We must not destroy it. Say no to #DeepSeaMining phys.org/news/2024-11...

👀 @carladenyer.bsky.social joins the panel this morning at 9am on BBC1. Discussion topics likely to include Trump, Ukraine, COP29, and Labour's £billion investment pledge for bus services.

What a good idea!

Please consider joining The Greens, if you haven’t already. join.greenparty.org.uk

"News guy wept & told us Earth was really dying Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he was not lying" I remember hearing David Bowie sing this in 1972. Such a prescient song - but the news guys are still not telling us the truth about the #ClimateCrisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPS...