#WeekRforReflections #AlphabetChallenge Reflections and rusty drips Under The Bridge on Rochdale Canal in Ancoats, Manchester. A study in brown, including the water #Scape #CityScape #Ancoats #LandscapePhotography #Manchester #EastCoastKin #Photography #Reflection #FerrousFriday #UrbanGaze

The first time a party to the left of Labour has won an election in Manchester 🐝

Greens take 17 councillors off Labour in Manchester. Looks like And Burnham isn’t the answer for Labour after all.

Ai slop signs popping up everywher in Manchester

Horrible picture nationally, but the Green surge in Manchester is something to hold on to locally.

The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:

Look.

Manchester has voted for a Green Wall to Replace Labour and Stop Reform We're just getting started 🐝💚

✨💀✨ Arch Villain ✨💀✨ (A Manchester cliche) #noire #scape #manchester #noiretblanc #urbangaze #photography #streetphotography #classicmono #blackandwhite #loadfilm #bnw #film #analog #bnw #believeinfilm #streetview #photohour #photographersofbluesky #addfilm #grainisgood #Hp5 #ilford #fotodefer

No surprises that a lot of big media outlets have ignored historic election results 🐝🟩

How the BBC are reporting most Manchester council seats flipping from labour to green party:

Wow green party on a wash through Manchester so far.

Wow Labour got given a hiding in Manchester. Holy fuck.

🗳 Final Result in Manchester for @greenparty.org.uk: A whopping 16 Green gains from Labour + 1 Green hold + 4 existing Green seats = 21 Green seats in total 💚 Congratulations Manchester

🚨 GREEN MILESTONE 🚨 For the first time, the Green Party has 1,000 councillors 💚 Congratulations to Cllr Maxine Webb - the 1,000th Green Party councillor - on being elected to Norfolk County Council 🎉

The Green Party is on the up. Voted Green? Join our growing movement! ⤵️

"We have committed to deliver a thousand homes for social rent." Our newly elected Mayors @zoegarbett.bsky.social and @liamshrivastava.bsky.social speak to @novaramedia.com following their election.

Thank you to the 735 people in Harpurhey who voted for me and @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social on Thursday! Across Manchester, the Green Party won 18 wards and now have 21 councillors. Congratulations to everyone who has been elected, I'm really proud to be part of this party. 💚

🐝 Manchester Green Party wins Manchester Council elections 2026!

I can't watch #BBCQT live, so I'm doing my #JohnDrawsBBCQT artwork early! I see @rachelmillward.bsky.social is on the panel - so I'm drawing her from last week's appearance! Hopefully she'll mention my friend Chris Ogden @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social who was elected as a councillor! @greenparty.org.uk

🐝 Manchester Green Party wins Manchester Council elections 2026!

📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!

Long time Labour voter - but no more. Today I voted for @petersearby.bsky.social of @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #MakeHopeNormalAgain

Great day on the doorstep with Chris Ogden in Gorton and Abbey Hey, followed by a couple of leafleting rounds @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social is ready to win all over the city this Thursday!

Really beautiful to go out campaigning with Thirza, our Green candidate for Moss Side today. Not counting any chickens but if we are both elected it’s going to be a privilege to work together. #VoteGreen @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social 💚

⏰5 DAYS to go until thousands of Green Party candidates bravely take on division and hate with a bright alternative: HOPE 💚 Time to end rip-off Britain! 🔽 ✅ SIGN UP NOW for your local action day and help hope WIN! ➡️ greenparty.click/actiondays

If you are able to please donate. No billionaire donations (bribes/investments).

📅 1 WEEK TO GO until Election Day! Thrilled to have the support of local music legend Mr Scruff! 🐝 Vote Green on 7th May! 🟢 Help us Make Manchester Green! 👇 linktr.ee/manchestergreenparty

🚨 We don't need Billionaires - we need YOU! ⏰ 6 days to go until our fundraiser ends Help us reach 10K to: 💚 Make Manchester Green! 🥀 Replace Labour and 🚫 Stop Reform

Thank you to Zack and his team for promoting other voices in the Green Party We're a Green movement with so many great leaders 💚

Some quotes from my interview with culture zine Run Riot, covering AI, grassroots venues, diversity and education. Read the full interview in the link in the thread. (1/2)

Hannah Spencer MP is really showing up a lot of MPs down south 🐝

Solidarity with Jewish people from Manchester Green Party and Hannah Spencer MP 💚

📅 1 WEEK TO GO until Election Day! Thrilled to have the support of local music legend Mr Scruff! 🐝 Vote Green on 7th May! 🟢 Help us Make Manchester Green! 👇 linktr.ee/manchestergreenparty

🚨Something big is happening in Manchester right now, and we need YOUR help We need to raise around £9,000 in just over a week to make Manchester Green! Please Donate or Share💚 See more info - link below⬇️ actionnetwork.org/fundraising/manchester-may-local-elections

Good luck to all your candidates, @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social! 💚

🚨Something big is happening in Manchester right now, and we need YOUR help We need to raise around £9,000 in just over a week to make Manchester Green! Please Donate or Share💚 See more info - link below⬇️ actionnetwork.org/fundraising/manchester-may-local-elections

Manchester may look shiny in a lot of the city centre But we desperately need to invest in communities and infrastructure across the wider city Particularly where people feel most left behind 💚🐝

Write letters for our Trans family, friends and neighbours ✍🏿✍🏾✍🏼

imo also can't emphasize enough Parkrun is a non-competitive "race" except basically against your own times. NOBODY races to "win" anything. there is almost no better example how GC-movement was *NEVER* about fairness or protecting women/kids, but *PURELY* about shutting trans people out of society.

So many Mancunians find community through Parkrun Protect Parkrun! Don't the Anti-Trans and Anti-Human Lobbies run Trans people out of Parkrun 🏳️‍🌈🐝💚🏳️‍⚧️ 🏃🏼🏃🏽🏃🏿🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏿‍♀️

Listen and subscribe to @whatthetrans.com Long form content that's entertaining and insightful 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐝💚

This junction in Old Moat, Manchester is literally lethal. One death, two serious accidents and a clutch of slight ones (probably more unreported) between 2020 and 2024. Making this safe for pedestrians and cycles is surely a high priority? It is for me. Vote Green. Vote Sam for safe streets. 💚

Caught short? Yes to public loos! And I spy a nod to the @carolinerussell.bsky.social London assembly motion 👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

💚 ANNOUNCEMENT 💚 I am standing for the Green Party in the local elections. In the ward of Old Moat, Manchester. On May 7th 2026. It’s time to make the rest of Manchester Green. To replace disappointment with hope. This time it’s real. (Imprint in bio 👍)

Huge welcome to the Green Party, Cllr Amna Abdullatif 💚 www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Two weeks today right across the country people will be voting Green for the very first time. It's time to end Rip Off Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to be in Manchester today launching our plan to bring high streets back to life. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/too-man...

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