Here's what the landlord lobby don't want you to know: If rents went down by 20%, renters would save £2400 a year. The government would save £2 billion a year. And landlords would still make 4.5 times as much profit as the average business.

@geraldinecoggins.bsky.social has a plan to get Greater Manchester's high streets buzzing again as Green Mayor 🐝 Vote Green on July 30th to bring our high streets back to life 🗳️💚

‘In the midst of a funding crisis, shocking amounts of public money are being taken out of our communities in the form of private profit,’ he told the conference delegates www.localgov.co.uk/Polanski-cal...

Nigel Farage has failed people in Clacton. Im certain I've done more work than him in the four months I've been here than he's done in two years. People in Clacton deserve so much more than this shameful stunt.

You can just hire someone, there's a whole industry of people who can beat these samey loser bills into the ground. Your mate Dave can probably do it better for free as a favour (and it'll look unique and sick as hell). Your poster is bad and it makes your event look bad.

Too many Greater Manchester town centres have been left behind. Today we're announcing bold action to bring high streets back to life: ✅ Empty Shops Team ✅ £10m Community Development Fund ✅ Town Centre Partnership Agreements Vote Green on July 30th for thriving high streets in Greater Manchester💚

Campaigning in Greater Manchester today and just running through some life lessons...

At the heart of the Reform project are allegations of big money buying influence. They wrap themselves in the flag while selling our future. We can be in no doubt about what they'd do in power. They would rip apart our communities and serve their crypto paymasters.

The thing about Andy Burnham is, even if (and it doesn't look likely) he were substantially different; * It's the same moribund Labour party * It's the same smarmy Labour MPs * It's the same useless Labour Councillors Kier Starmer showed everyone else the door and told them to walk through it.

Great to talk about the early evidence on Andy Burnham on BBC breakfast just now. Won't nationalise water companies. Sticking to Rachel Reeves disastrous fiscal rules. Refuses to recognise genocide. King of the North? Different latitude. Same politics. Join.greenparty.org.uk

the entire point of life is to be kind and weird btw

The UK should do nothing of the sort, in fact we should legislate for prohibition (for foreign based) or destruction (for UK based) of the model in cases where unauthorised training has occurred.

Three demands for Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham: Will he tax wealth? Fix our broken voting system? And end the gutting of local services? The challenges facing our country require real change.

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

Place like Wigan and Leigh have been left behind for too long. On 30th July, vote Green. Vote for Geraldine Coggins for mayor of Greater Manchester.

I've been on a mission to sprinkle some green joy around Forest Fields. Two new flowerbeds on Harcourt Rd & 30 hanging baskets on 12 other streets. Everyone deserves beauty on their doorstep, especially in the inner city. More flowers, less concrete! Big thanks to the council's Green Spaces team🌻

I normally avoid sharing foreign and particularly American stuff on here but I saw this at the weekend and I was inspired. Look at this guy go, looking out for his community, pursuing a policy to make it a better place, to improve people's lives. It's a beacon of wholesome politics in mad world.

There's a lot of national politics going on right now but if you'll permit me drag us back down to the local level for a moment. Nottingham City repaved these footpaths with black asphalt just in time for the heatwave. I don't mind the repaving but decisions like this are what makes it unbearable.

A lot of people don't realise this is a thing. Thankfully as far as I'm aware we haven't succumbed fully to this brainrot in the UK but like many things it requires a vigilance that's been hollowed out of modern politics and the will to make choices that don't lock us into exploitative vendors.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

I came to this country in 2015. Cameron May Johnson Truss Sunak Starmer Burnham? 7 Prime Ministers in 11 years, an absolute joke. We are told FPTP delivers stability and strength but it's clear that it does not. Now is the time to change, not after some future GE under the same broken system.

Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)

"A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time."

Age verification will NOT make the internet safer! Pass it on!

“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

I've been a bit negative lately but it's worth knowing we've made a lot of progress on the climate even if there's still so much more to do! I had solar panels & a battery installed on my house this week. I'll be paying for it for 20 years and that's something the government could be doing more on.

"To get people adopting the product, they explain, it was necessary to first create a crisis narrative, then [cast surveillance] as an act of pre-emptive safety. ... AI-driven panopticon surveillance is portrayed as both natural and inevitable. All the while, the surveillance provider cashes in."

I met a nice lady doing volunteer litter picking near where I live and of course, when I asked her about it the group is organised on Facebook. It often feels like if you find Meta too slimey you can never get involved in anything.

Simply banning kids from using a specific list of platforms is a short sighted, ineffectual knee-jerk and will actually harm children & society. The latest in a string of ill-concieved, thought terminated overreaches that don't protect children but do hurt everyone else. No hard choice undodged.

And how many arrested in Southampton for rioting? Or Belfast for burning people out of their homes? Peaceful protest, in respect of Palestine or Climate Crisis, is a bigger issue for authority than public disorder. Let that sink in.

There's a Genocide happening in Gaza. Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action." And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.

A dog whistle is a device for signalling to dogs in a frequency humans can't hear. You hear immigrants, they hear BAME. When they kick your door in they wont ask to see your birth cert before they molotov your living room. I'm Irish and I condemn anyone who incited or legitimises these rioters.

Naturally and healthily.

Kids are on their phones too much. I don't know why they don't use the many youth clubs, public swimming pools, community clubs or sports facilities successive governments and skint local authorities have underfunded, closed or sold to property developers.

all of this stuff is just an excuse and smokescreen for not doing what they *should* be doing to ‘protect children’ — funding education and healthcare and clamping down hard on the abuses inflicted on us by musk, zuckerberg et al

final point of this hits the nail really

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Very unhappy that our MPs apparently skipped the trans rights debate. I realise as a small party we cannot be everywhere but with 5 MPs surely they could have coordinated to make sure someone was there and spoke up. It is incumbent upon allies to actually do something, posting is otherwise empty.

Your local library, sacrificed on the altar of austerity.

Absolutely shocking and tone deaf to release this on the first day of pride month on top of the disgusting lean into a hysterical campaign utterly out of step with either the morals or priorities of the populace. You're throwing my literal friends under the bus for nothing and I will not forget it.

Happy Pride Month! Pride has never been more important, from fighting draconian anti-trans laws here in the UK to repression across the globe; we stand by the LGBTQ+ community and the fight for true equality 💚

Welcome to Pride Month, I'm pansexual homoromantic but gay is fine if you don't know the lingo. While I experience little friction there are plenty of people who are under threat in Britain today. I stand with all my queer friends and especially my trans friends. Pride is about more than parades.

Another afternoon out knocking on doors today, listening to local concerns and hearing from real people on the doorstep, not bots on the everything app.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

Fun fact, Birmingham was *very* sunny. I've been studiously avoiding knowing anything about the outside world for a week so gimmie a bit to catch up before normal service resumes!

Say hello to Chris Kennedy - Safeguarding Nurse, battle-tested Green Campaigner, Passionate Grassroots Visionary and your Green Party candidate for Makerfield 💚

Increasingly wondering what the point of this guy is ...

Heading off on holidays for a week (to sunny Birmingham), it's a nice quiet time of year with nothing political going on, I'm sure you'll not miss me!