Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
“On Friday evening, the Greens said they had candidates standing in 89% of the English local council seats being contested, far higher than in any previous election. Their previous highest was 72%, set last year”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Government turns right and pays the price!
Green campaigning literature in London says Labour are “punishing hardworking migrants” and says the Greens are “anti-racists and pro-migrant rights”.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Text on brown background listing many legal advances for working people that were achieved by left wing governments or pressure.
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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 …
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….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…
€81.4 million a day. That’s what oil companies in EU are making from rising fuel prices since the start of the war on Iran.
As the war disrupts global oil supply, prices surge. You pay more for food and transport while oil companies make even higher profits.
This isn't a crisis for everyone. Tax profits tax polluters. Tax the super rich. Make them pay their fair share.
€81.4 million a day.
That’s what oil companies are making while fuel prices rise.
You feel it at the pump and in your weekly food shop.
While they’re lining their pockets.
#TaxTheSuperRich
The world has reached a key milestone: 10% of the ocean is now within protected & conserved areas.
This is vital for people & wildlife, helping to halt biodiversity loss and sustain communities.
But much more is needed. By 2030, the goal is 30%.
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Perhaps it’s been everywhere, but I had not heard the phrase ‘the caring majority’ used before, and it captures something profoundly important. It is a concept that can ground a genuinely new kind of politics.
Reform says it stands up for workers. Their record says differently. When parliament voted on stronger employment rights, Reform MPs voted against measures like banning zero-hours contracts and improving sick pay.
youtube.com/shorts/c07HG... @hopenothate.org.uk
Reposted from Sky News announcement of COBRA meeting today with Green Party measures to protect families from energy price hikes
“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Image of a sticker in a window that says “I’d rather live next to a refugee than a Reformed MP”
"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS"
Caroline Lucas on the NHS on #BBCQT
Left: Reform UK's James Orr, "Nigel Farage has never said that the NHS should be anything other than free at the point of delivery" #BBCQT
Right: Nigel Farage calling for an insurance based NHS
No we don’t want to sell drugs to kids. We want a public health approach.
Greenpeace UK says boosting renewables could save households £440 a year versus North Sea Oil saving £16 a year. Source - Oxford economists
US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...
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Poster in 6 colours with 3 Green Party policies to reduce cost of living - retrofit homes, nationalise water, and bring in rent controls.
Polls show Greens moving up
Now we’ve got 155 members of whom we are very proud This is a semi rural conservative district. We will contest every council seat.
Thank you Private Eye
Matt “Goodwhinge” 🤣🤣😊
