Fleur Anderson MP is still pretending that traffic is up on Putney Bridge because the Hammersmith Bridge closed to motor traffic in 2019. She’s just said “traffic on Putney Bridge increased by 16% between 2020 and 2023”.
Hmm, what was happening in 2020, I forget 🧐
With the tube strike this week, worth considering: hire bike reservation, Lime Prime & Lime Pass.
This is what Greens have been calling for - good news
Why is there no £20 deposit on nox like there is for sodastream co2 refills?
These local elections are so important. Make sure you have your say.
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If you are a Councillor, please watch this.
It happened nearly 50 years ago in the Netherlands. The arguments against restricting traffic were the same as those made today and were proven to be wrong.
Many cities would greatly benefit from a circulation plan.
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I've written in Health Service Journal today: Not another protracted Labour government U-turn.
Wes Streeting must act now and cancel the Trump/Mandelson Palantir contract.
NHS workers are voting with their feet and refusing to take part in this national disgrace.
www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...
An image of a person with a pushchair down a residential street near inconsiderately parked cars. The person is wearing striped clothing and walking past a black car. The setting includes brick buildings and a view of houses on a hill in the background.
It's happening! 📢
On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill.
Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq
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It’s not even been 24hrs and it’s almost halfway to £100k- the pockets of billionaire mega-donors may be big, but there’s a hell of a lot more of the rest of us.
It’s been a long while since I last felt the glimmer of hope in politics. I never thought I’d see so many believing in a better tomorrow.
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Re Unite apparently being in talks with Reform UK in Birmingham, it does rather tally with this @bylinetimes.bsky.social story I reported last summer
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Very good essay about the far-right today. Surprisingly doesn’t mention the pandemic & lockdowns as a contributory factor in social dislocation but imagine that’s covered elsewhere in the book from which this is an extract
Read someone worrying that voting Green on 7th May risked letting Tories onto London councils. Really unfounded fear: in most wards of councils like Lewisham, Lambeth & Southwark there are only 200-400 Tory voters. Not a chance a Tory will be elected in south inner London boroughs.
Green Party campaigners in a row against a brick wall backdrop with plants. From left: white man, white woman, white man. All holding Green Party literature
Good session canvassing for #LewishamGreens in #Sydenham tonight, lots of positivity & constructive conversations on the doorsteps. Come along & join one of our sessions listening to local residents this weekend!
Watching #BBCQT from #Cardiff last night & getting some political whiplash from the transition between an audience baying for the devolved administration to balance its budget, live within its means, cut services to levels supported by taxation, and then the demand for the #NHS to be […]
Cake with 5 candles next to a planter
Residents in East Oxford gathered yesterday to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the installation of the Cowley LTNs.
Installed during lockdown to facilitate active travel as a response to concerns over reduction of public transport use during the pandemic, the schemes started in March 2021.
Is it back? Is it working? * taps mic *
⏰ Don't miss @GreenAnthonySlaughter on BBC Question Time tonight.
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📺 BBC One at 10.40pm
This YouGov polling on what votes think is important ahead of the local elections is fascinating. Potholes are *always* a thing, so no surprise it's at no 1. But bin collections are usually seen as the other area people notice, and it's at the bottom. Maybe most councils are quite good these days?
Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇
I’m calling on governments to #TaxTheSuperRich for a green and just future! Add your name: act.gp/42iAjSi
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.
Taxing billionaires is not radical.
What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.
An exceptional question on social injustices and the cost of living from the Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood. She spoke with amazing passion on this issue. I wish most politicians cared so much about people living in social hardship. #PMQs @allianceparty.bsky.social @sorchaeastwood.bsky.social
Agree, it was a good question and well put
#PMQs
Powerful turn from Ian Byrne (West Derby, Lab) at #pmqs requesting a FULL Hillsborough law to include security services #jft97
Good on @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for pressing the PM on the ridiculous, debasing state visit of King Charles to Trump's America
#PMQs
A really bad and also terrible attempt at a joke from Badenoch there. Actually the Labour MP wanting to raise adult sex education is doing a good thing.
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