How you can help a homeless person in cold weather via @bigissue.com

Meticulous Ink’s Forever Home www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/meticulous...

There will be a huge variety of locally-made or fairly traded crafts and gifts at the Green Fair this Saturday at St Thomas' Church & Centre. 👇🏻 🎁💝🎄🎅🏼

Green Xmas Fair at St Thomas Church on Marton St, Lancaster on Saturday 22nd November from 10:30am - 3:30pm. £2 admission, £1 concessions, free entry for children Santa, live music, food, and stalls with locally made crafts and gifts. @northlancsgreens.bsky.social #Lancaster #Xmas

The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red | Novara Media share.google/OvX4Q4bxAV3T...

✉️✊🏻Vote Andrea Egan!

Mamdani's victory today has really cheered me up. Not everything is terrible! It also gives me hope as a Green that it's not inconceivable that Zack Polanski could one day be leading my country 🤞

Vote Andrea Egan for #Unison General Secretary! Andrea - will continue on her current social worker salary - is a member candidate, rather than a UNISON employee - will stop blank cheques to the Labour Party For more info: share.google/pArxMlmr58UT...

🤩 Thrilled to have the backing of Lancashire UNISON Branch, Leeds Beckett University UNISON Branch & Leeds Local Government Branch!

Is the UK addicted to “full independent inquiries”? Does it really take a years-long process costing millions to say it was a mistake to release Hadush Kebatu on Friday? Wouldn’t a faster internal process into what went wrong allow the government to *fix* it faster?

Thursday night online for @greenparty.org.uk members: delighted to be talking about my recent visit to Ukraine with Viktoriya Ball, organiser of feminist youth climate movement Rozviy. An event organised by Green Ukraine Solidarity #StandWithUkraine www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Unsurprisingly, "Reform has no new ideas, no new ways of saving money and no understanding of how to run a council.” #localgovernment

A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social has just visited Ukraine. On 30 October she'll report back and, with Ukrainian climate activist Viktoriya Ball, lead a discussion for Green members, hosted by the Green Ukraine Solidarity group. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-...

According to Home Office figures, disability hate crime is decreasing, but that isn't the experience of disabled people like Stephen. It's also worth mentioning that this year's figures don't include offenses recorded by the Metropolitan Police.

Lancashire's Reform administration refuses to back a ban on fracking

NEW: Regulators measuring “forever chemicals” near a Lancashire chemicals plant are not testing for a substance made by the company itself, despite evidence it could be reprotoxic and is being emitted in large volumes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉 📈 125,000 members and counting.

Regulators overlooking toxic Pfas found around Lancashire chemicals plant run by AGC Chemicals

Devastating news about Baek Se-Hee. m.koreaherald.com/article/1059...

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"Not everything in this country is the problem of immigration." Well said Question Time attendee.

Fuck Jenrick. Ill informed and offensive.

Here we go! @zackpolanski.bsky.social is on Question Time #BBCQT Like what you hear? Join us for as little as £6. You could be our 100,000th member! join.greenparty.org.uk

Claiming benefits is not easy or some kind of lifestyle choice, particularly for some disabled people who are unable to work. If the government wants more disabled people in work then it needs to sort out Access to Work etc #QuestionTime

Go @zackpolanski.bsky.social! #QuestionTime

If Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize I may go into the mountains and become a hermit until the world regains its senses

A little bit of background suggests this is really potentially worrying and she knows nothing about what she's talking about. The snails are not "on the site" (if they were it would be less of a problem because you would just pick another site)... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We can't have particular communities where there's a heavy preponderance of one group or another. That's the kind of country I want my kids to be growing up in," says Jenrick, who lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021

Ministers appear to be considering further welfare cuts that could deprive hundreds of thousands of disabled people of the support they rely on. They should remember how their last attempt to balance the books in this way went.

anyone who's paid a bit of attention to local fiscal politics would have told you this: every local service is down to bare bones.

This. People eligible for the flu vaccine are not eligible for the updated COVID booster. That makes zero sense

About 75% of Chris Philp's conference speech so far - and we are 10 minutes in – has been about crimes committed by migrants. You'd think that's all they ever did, rather than work in hospitals, care homes, merchant banks etc etc etc.

I hope Labour is paying close attention to what just happened in Wigan. Wigan Central just elected its first Reform councillor following a by-election - Wigan Central's first non-Labour councillor since 2011. If nothing changes, this doesn't bode well for any future elections.

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Caroline Lucas at a Green party panel on protest rights: "I think it is clear that if the Suffragettes were around today, they too would be branded a terrorist organisation"

Feeling far less hopeless (maybe even a little optimistic!) after Day 1 of the @greenparty.org.uk conference

PawPurrs Halfway House cat shelter in Hindley, Wigan needs urgent donations to pay off substantial veterinary debts, ensure poorly cats receive treatment, and avoid closure. Please donate what you can to support PawPurrs and needy cats (or maybe consider adopting a cat!)

Write to your MP to ask that time restrictions on Disabled Person's Bus Passes are removed. Being disabled is not a part-time job. actionnetwork.org/letters/unlo...

The government intends to close independent local Healthwatch services across the country, which give patients a say in relation to health and social care provision. Please sign this petition to ask that the government review this decision: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

🖥️VITRUAL EVENT🖥️ Join Mark Perryman for a free online seminar discussing the politics of the Starmer government and his new book 🗓️ Wed, Oct 8 ⏰ 10:30 am 📍 Virtual www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-starme...

People are worried about the cost of living, about low wages and growing inequality, and about the dismal state of public services. Telling people they're worried about immigration is a distraction. Migration isn't the cause of what is really worrying people. It's austerity and unfettered capitalism

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Petition... bsky.app/profile/ruth...

Happy European Day of Languages. I got 2/3 in the language quiz. How'd you do? www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Petition to get toxic chemicals out of period products: