We're pleased to announce that Emily O'Brien, Cabinet member for climate, nature and food systems at Lewes District Council, has been elected by Green Councillors to lead the new Local Government Association Green Group.

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Delighted to be at the unveiling of this Lightwell at platform 5A on Sheffield Station. It opens into the spot where the Porter Brook enters the River Sheaf.

Today's the day! Culmination of so much hard work by brilliant candidates and campaigners. Day to #GetGreensElected - to vote for hope, a Greens who will work hard for you year round www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📣Election Day! Polling stations are open! Your chance to vote for amazing Green councillors who have just 2 vested interests - your local community and your environment. Make hope normal again & Vote Green💚 (& remember to take photo ID to the polling station!)

📢 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!

New poll just dropped! The only poll that matters is tomorrow. Please vote and if you can - get involved with your local campaign! Some of these seats are going to come to a handful of votes. Replace Labour. Stop Reform. Vote Green. 💚

BP has more than doubled its profits as a result of the Iran war. Those already struggling with the cost of living are paying the price for Trump's warmongering while oil giants rake in even more cash. Now is the time for a permanent windfall tax and rapid shift to renewables.

It's very convenient that the Labour Govenrment are starting to talk about rent freezes days before an elections against the Green Party. Notice they've not actually announced it so they'll pretend it was never the plan. For real rent controls & council housing - Vote Green.

Or vote Green to end the affordability crisis, bring our high streets back to life and boost our buses! 💚

(10/11) You can read more about my work on this here: sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2023/06/05/g... ….

(6/11) So I object to monopole applications on pavements/footways because they reduce the width of the footpath available. And can obstruct people, stopping them from getting from place to place safely. Compromising the footpath's purpose isn’t just an inconvenience - it puts people at risk…

(5/11) ….equipment in key footpaths causes problems for everyone: obstructing people walking, those using wheelchairs/mobility aids, people who are blind or have low vision, parents with small children. And everyone uses the pavement at some point in every journey…

(4/11)... But these sites already have an important purpose - as footpaths, and they belong to all of us. Telecoms companies could negotiate with the private landowners of land near the proposed sites instead of being permitted to take part of the publicly owned highway. Installing telecoms….

(3/11) …Firstly, telecoms companies often want to site their monopoles & other equipment in footways and cycleways. This is essentially a land grab. Telecoms companies are private, for-profit companies looking to take public land away from its proper use, so that they can install their equipment…

7/7 What’s your experience of digital billboards? Does it matter to you? Are they common where you live? Do you drive by them? Are they in your way? Do you see adverts for things that interest you? What are your thoughts on these?

6/7 ….Half of my objections to these have been successful, and planning permission has been refused. But more applications keep coming. How many more of these billboards will we tolerate?

5/7 ….And on top of that, they are huge energy-guzzlers. Each electronic billboard consumes the same as 6 average UK homes. That’s nearly 6,000 homes, just from Sheffield billboards alone…

4/7 And there’s more to the problem. They are actively making things worse for the city, compounding inequalities in health and wealth. These digital billboards are concentrated mostly in lower-income areas. Residents & businesses aren’t notified of the plans, so don’t have chance to comment…

3/7 …The ads often promote harmful products like gambling & fast food. And if placed roadside, they’re distracting, with bright, fast-changing images pulling drivers’ attention from the road. They’ve proven to be a direct cause of crashes, endangering pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers…

2/7 ….put in 31 objections to new applications for these. Sheffield already has 926 digital advertising sites (billboards, bus shelter ads, free-standing screens). They look awful, but worse, they clutter up pavement space, getting in the way of pedestrians, mobility scooters, pushchairs…

(1/11) Following on from my post about digital billboards/ad-screens (bsky.app/profile/ruth...) I want to talk about monopoles & telecoms equipment, which pose some similar problems…. @livingstreets.bsky.social @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @douglasjohnson.bsky.social @martinphipps13.bsky.social

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

Congratulations, #MPHannahSpencer!🎉 Congratulations, #GortonAndDenton!🎉 Congratulations, all of us! 🎉 #IslandOfNeighbours #HopeIsHere #HopeBeatsHate 💚Green: 14,980 ➡️Reform: 10,578 🥀Labour: 9,364 Hope can be normal. Equality & justice matter. Let's do this.🌱 join.greenparty.org.uk

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

What an amazing result, on the back of such a hard-fought campaign 💚 A fantastic triumph of hope over hate, graft over grift, people power over billionaires' cash. So happy that Hannah will now represent the people of Gorton & Denton - & all of us too - as the first Green MP in the North 💚

THANK YOU to all the amazing #SheffieldGreens who worked so hard to get #HannahThePlumber elected! 💚 Lost count of trains🚆 carpools arranged 🚗 help & generosity🙏 Hannah inspired support all across these islands, from Cornwall to Shetland, NI to Norfolk. So proud of everyone. People Power! ✊

"This is local people choosing to put their savings into something good for the planet" – @alexidimond.bsky.social A project designed to tackle climate breakdown in #Sheffield by raising capital from citizen investors has hit its target much earlier than expected. ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

Sheffield Greens are fighting for proper funding for Northern Powerhouse Rail. Here's Councillor @alexidimond.bsky.social calling out the Government's "unfair and inequitable" funding strategy. sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2026/01/19/n... #RealHopeRealChange

Green Councillor @alexidimond.bsky.social calls out Sheffield Labour and Lib Dems for excluding newly-granted refugees from the housing register.

It's 2026, and there's never been a better (or more urgent) time to join the Green Party! join.greenparty.org.uk

📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time. Join us and join in ⤵️

Hope and action. It's up to us. join.greenparty.org.uk #HopeIsHere

Writing for Left Foot Forward, @alexidimond.bsky.social makes the case for why councillors should make the @pscupdates.bsky.social Pledge for Palestine.

I'm encouraging councillors to pledge for Palestine & emulate the strong stance taken by Sheffield Council against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s @greenparty.org.uk @pscupdates.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social

We are already locked-in to a return to a Pliocene climate - 3C hotter, sea level eventually ~20m higher A return to an Eocene hothouse beckons, threatening oblivion We have to stop burning fossil fuels NOW

We have already hit our £100k target in just a few hours 🤯 This is what hope looks like 💚 We're not stopping there. Help us beat Reform in May ⤵️ crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

According to C4 news, UK arms sales to Israel reached their highest level in June 2025, & 2nd highest in Sept 2025. Yesterday, I called on Labour reps who say they oppose genocide to leave the party. youtu.be/k06IxOa7cII Other parties are available. Be part of the change 💚 join.greenparty.org.uk

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

At Full Council last week, Labour could not refute specific evidence of their role in war crimes 👀

MSF survey on Gaza: almost half of those killed were children

Climate breakdown is killing people. Failure to act is a choice. Every day we make that choice more people will die and costs will rise. We can choose: 🚌Better, cheaper public transport ⚡️Cleaner, cheaper renewable energy 🌲Restored forests, landscapes and biodiversity

And Starmer has nothing to say There is no way that the UK government, and those of the rest of the western countries looking the other way, are not complicit in genocide Obscene, indefensible and criminal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

If you live in the north, this government (like the last one) holds you in utter contempt. They just could not give a shit about you or your quality of life.

TOMORROW - GO MEMBERSHIP IS LAUNCHING Things are happening on the British Left. If you care about tackling inequality, corporate greed, and the climate crisis, a fighting ecosocialist Green Party is in your interest. Join GO, tomorrow @mzc.bsky.social

"This is a cowardly ruling that absolves any responsibility from the court to rule on the UK government’s compliance with international law." www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

580 fragile infants at Nasser Hospital, Gaza, are dying NOW for lack of formula milk. Israel is preventing a drop of it from getting in, fearing that... Hamas men will drink it all. And the West sits by idly, twiddling its blood-stains thumbs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFf...