The Shipley Green team out and about in Saltaire this evening - what a day for some election campaigning!

Sunny times in Shipley this afternoon, on the doorsteps with my Green colleagues Hawarun and Anna! Another warm welcome from residents basking in the Bank Holiday sunshine!

Welcome to the first in our series of local election 2026 candidate interviews! First up - @kevinwarnes.bsky.social tells us what brings him joy, what he's most proud of in his 20+ years as a Shipley councillor and why you should vote on 7th May! Want to keep Shipley Green? Get involved 👇

It’s all Green for go in Shipley! Another super evening on the doorsteps, this time the Moorhead neighbourhood! Super chats with everyone. 💚

🟢 Anna Watson, @kevinwarnes.bsky.social and Hawarun Hussain are the Green Party candidate's for Shipley Ward in the local elections. 🗳 With every seat on Bradford Council up for election on 7th May, your votes can bring real change to #Bradford. ✅ Vote Green in Shipley.

Another super sunny Saturday, so time for a Shipley Green councillors street surgery in Saltaire!

Super result at the Shipley Area Committee last night for the hard-pressed residents of Bankfield Rd. all details here! www.instagram.com/reel/DVypT_c...

Tremendous councillor street surgery in the Moorhead neighbourhood of Shipley earlier today, with green colleagues Martin Love and Hawarun Hussain! Greatly enjoyed our chats with residents and we will deal with the local concerns raised!

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why the Green Party Just Broke Labour's "Filthy Rich" Orthodoxy

If it’s a rainy Thursday evening, it must be time for another community speed watch! This time on the Coach Rd in Shipley.

Super meetup earlier in the sunshine in Shipley's Northcliffe Park with the amazing Hawarun Hussain and Anna Watson - two of the finest Green campaigners I could stand alongside! (I would be even happier if I could run half marathons as fast as they can...)

A happy moment for a Green councillor…

Great to have a cuppa with the indefategible @kevinwarnes.bsky.social to do a little bit of election planning for the upcoming all-out Bradford Council elections. Let's keep Shipley Green! 💚

Super exciting news flash for Shipley residents! Watch out for your bumper edition of Green News!

Here is one of a million reasons to vote Green in the local elections in Shipley on May 7th!

A super sunny Green campaign morning in Shipley! Many thanks to everyone who helped leaflet and supported our councillor street surgery!

Super Green action today in Nab Wood and Hirst Wood, delivering our bumper Green newspaper to hundreds of Shipley residents! Thanks to all the Green pals who helped out!!

Tremendous start to the weekend with my Green pals - Hawarun, Anna and Martin - at the Lister Park Park Run. Getting ourselves fit for the big race in May…

Brisk conditions for our Green councillor street surgery earlier today in Shipley! And great to be out with Hawarun Hussain once again! Chatted with residents and picked up some handy casework that we can help with!

🤩 Here are the highlights from our amazing visit from @zackpolanski.bsky.social 😃 So much energy and enthusiasm for turning #Bradford Green. 🤝 There has never been a better time to get involved 👇

Absolutely fantastic to be in Bradford with over 400 members of the public, fellow Greens and people who are Green Curious! People who are ready to stand up to: the march of the far right, for our communities, for ordinary people! Fantastic atmosphere, time for change!

Excellent catch-up with our local highways team this morning at Shipley Town Hall - along with councillors Martin Love and Anna Watson! Made good progress on behalf of residents!

Another super Shipley street surgery this morning with fellow Green councillors Martin Love and Anna Watson! Warm thanks to the residents we met with and chatted to in the Moorhead neighbourhood!

A super cause to consider - www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Had more fun this morning with fellow Green councillors Anna Watson and Martin Love helping with the school street by Shipley CE Primary! Quiet space for families walking to the school and the residents who live nearby!

Super community speed watch this morning on Dock Lane (by Amber Wharf) and Dockfield Road, with Living Streets colleague Jack Ford! A visible reminder to passing motorists to drive safely around our community! We are doing these across Shipley wherever there are traffic hot spots!

Great to see the new crossing on Otley Road fully operational at last! Hats off to my Green colleague Cllr Anna Watson for pushing for this big improvement to Shipley’s walking network. Not quite Abbey Road 1969, but another win for our residents!

Super Green councillor catch-up this week with some of our new party members - at Shipley’s wonderful Dandelion cafe!

West Yorkshire needs an extended tram network - it’s time to scale up our ambitions to match the cities and regions of Europe! @wyneedsatram.bsky.social

Out delivering our latest blockbuster Green read around Shipley in beautiful autumnal sunshine - what’s not to like?! 💚

Very happy to be helping at the school street by Shipley CE this morning - have just had a word with a taxi driver who decided to cut through!

Another super Green councillor street surgery, this weekend in Saltaire with Cllr Anna Watson. Great to see everyone for a chat about local concerns ahead of the rain showers!

This is great news. Bradford Council has significantly cut pesticide use in Shipley’s parks and green spaces in response to pressure from the Green councillors, but national legislation is required as well!

Here's what we think the Prime Minister should be discussing with Donald Trump this afternoon. How many will he manage?

Every day that our government fails to recognise the state of Palestine is another day wasted on more empty words instead of actions. What is Keir Starmer waiting for? Recognise Palestine.

‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’ Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Great to see LBIA has lost its appeal against night flight limits - an issue I raised as recently as 2023 in a full Council meeting in Bradford: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 Labour are once again planning to cut school bus services in #Bradford. 🗣 Cllr @kevinwarnes.bsky.social said, “It is critical that we maintain and expand our bus travel networks. Cuts are not an option. The withdrawal of any of these services is simply not acceptable.” Full story 👇

Not sure that we’ll sort the climate emergency or dig Bradford Council out of bankruptcy, but I’ll see if I can get these cycle staples in Hirst Wood fixed. 👍

Not the best of news for visitors to Saltaire’s amazing Robert’s Park, but hopefully the works to the footbridge will start and finish on schedule: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2530729...

My short speech at this week’s Bradford Council meeting in which I laid out several of the many, many, many reasons why the Labour government should scrap the heartless two child benefit cap - my bit starts 3 hrs 32 mins into our marathon meeting - bradford.public-i.tv/core/portal/...

If you live in Shipley, keep an eye out for the latest edition of Green News! And if there is anything you would like your Green councillors to help with, let us know!

Am out leafleting this morning in Shipley. West Yorkshire? More like Portugal!!

Good old @privateeyenews.bsky.social Always on the money.

Bradford Council’s meeting rolls on this evening. We’ve just called on the government to scrap the two child benefit cap. I was going to sit quietly but felt the need to speak up against this deeply unjust policy - brought in by the Conservatives yet kept in place by Starmer’s Labour government.

I put a Member Question to the Leader of Council at today’s full meeting in Bradford about the terrible state of Shipley’s Station Road. As a result, I’ve secured a commitment from the portfolio holder to consider including this key gateway to Shipley in our town centre’s cleansing schedule.

Nothing like a spot of guerilla gardening to work up an appetite for lunch. This massive overgrowth has obstructed a busy pedestrian route in Shipley for weeks. The owner doesn’t care. It would have taken our dysfunctional council years - literally - to sort. Took me 20 mins. Job done.

Joined fellow Green Cllr Anna Watson and Living Streets leaders Philippa and Pete for a sun-soaked community speedwatch on Caroline Street, Saltaire, this evening. Gathered plenty of traffic data (top speed = 33mph) and got great support from residents!

Great to see the new Residents Only parking bays up and running on Hirst Lane. They’ll ease the parking pressures there and hopefully encourage more parents to walk their children to the nearby nursery and primary school rather than drive.