Globally, SUVs produce more CO2 than most individual countries.
As cars get heavier they're also wearing down our roads more quickly.
London and Paris are looking to charge higher costs to their drivers to mitigate their damage. Sheffield should be given the same power to do so too.
🚨 The government has just taken a 10% ownership stake in ITM Power, a clean hydrogen company worth £447m.
The move will also create 400 new green jobs in South Yorkshire.
Great to see Ed Miliband using public investment to bring more energy production under public ownership.
Last week I canvassed a resident doctor who told me that he wasn't planning to strike, but felt like he had to after Keir Starmer's intervention.
No one wants to strike, healthcare workers least of all. A Labour government should not be forcing them to.
Shameful from @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
Of the first 72 people arrested following the riot at a #Rotherham hotel in 2024, and the attempted murder of the refugees housed within it, 35 had reports of domestic abuse made against them previously.
How can we begin to address this link?
✍️ @rose-mason.bsky.social
@hopenothate.org.uk
The Grenfell tower fire was criminal because it was entirely preventable. 72 people were killed by deregulation and institutional neglect.
This is a monstrous thing to say.
It also exposes something we have said for years: those who push deregulation know it kills - they just don't care.
Don't threaten me with a good time ...
✍️NEW on the Mainstream blog:
The conflict in the Middle East is putting another pressure load on Britain's cost of living crisis - it's time for the Government to step up to the plate, writes Minesh Parekh.
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/the-people-will-bear-the-brunt-of-another-government-crisis
There are political solutions to the cost of living crisis.
My pitch for wealth taxes, rent controls, and to Martin Lewisify the government, for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social 👇
www.mainstreamlabour.org/blog/the-peo...
Members from across Labour are uniting behind a call to urgently reset the Party. 🌹
Labour must rebuild democracy, restore democratic selections, end the suspension of MPs & move away from top-down control.
More details: resetlabour.co.uk
I've created a petition to get Winston Churchill replaced on the five pound note, with a Bog-moss.
Sign here please. c.org/j7ZFc4qRFn
What about two otters?
🌹 National Executive Committee 🌹
Make sure to nominate Gemma Bolton, Yasmine Dar and @mineshparekh.bsky.social as reps for Labour’s ruling body.
Together they will speak out on behalf of all members, oppose anti-democratic manoeuvres and defend & advance the rights of members.
"Good quality housing shouldn’t be left to chance. A city-wide licensing scheme would provide every renter in this city with a guarantee that, no matter where they live, they can expect to find safety, dignity and warmth at home"
✍️ Cllr @mineshparekh.bsky.social #Sheffield
Rentoul confirming the rule that literally everything John Rentoul says is wrong
bsky.app/profile/rent...
Labour have come third in a seat we have represented for the best part of a hundred years. This is the clearest rejection of the leadership yet - and its rightward turn, smear campaigns, and spiteful blocking of Burnham.
Starmer must resign or be removed today, or else risk our permanent collapse.
Drug decriminalisation is backed by public health evidence and harm-reduction principles.
For a party of government to share something so deliberately inflammatory is not just irresponsible, but really dangerous.
Policy should be driven by evidence, not fear-mongering.
Our collapse in support is a direct consequence of Starmerism sidelining members, hollowing out our internal democracy, and creating a political culture predisposed to scandal.
We need a decisive break from Starmerism and Starmer to have any chance of salvaging the remainder of this Parliament.
Andrew Gwynne stood down following his suspension from the party after anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and racist comments he made in a chat named “Trigger Me Timbers”.
This is a direct result of that toxic factionalism. The chat name itself makes light of the idea of member-led accountability.
But we should also remember why this by-election is even taking place.
For years we were told centrally-managed selections would deliver “high quality candidates". In reality, this was an excuse to entrench a toxic political culture fundamentally opposed to democratic accountability.
If Labour lose the Gorton and Denton by-election, Keir Starmer obviously must resign as Prime Minister.
This is a constituency that has consistently elected Labour MPs for decades. Responsibility for any loss will lie squarely at Starmer’s door.
Long overdue.
This is a step in the right direction, but the Labour government needs a complete reset.
Everyone implicated in the Mandelson scandal should stand down, from the top down.
There's so much wrong with this.
Morgan McSweeney, Josh Simons, and Labour Together continually bring the party into disrepute.
They all need to go.
We need a real Labour alternative. 🌹
It's vital we elect NEC reps who will stand up for Party democracy and socialist values.
Make sure to nominate the Grassroots 3 slate in your CLPs.
futureweneed.com
Peter Mandelson lobbied, on behalf of the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to reduce taxes on bankers' bonuses and to pressure a sitting PM to resign.
We need a national inquiry into Epstein's influence and contacts.
This also lays bare the failure of lifelong Lords appointments. Scrap them.
Labour must reverse this decision if it is serious about putting country before party.
We urge the party to reconsider in the interests of taking on Reform and building the strongest possible team in Westminster.
Agree? Take action👇
actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...
The leadership faction have abandoned all pretense of ever caring about winning elections.
Blocking one of the few popular Labour politicians, gifting a seat to Reform, out of pure spite.
A disgusting decision that will only hasten Keir Starmer's freefall.
Really disappointing to see this news. Crookes' strength comes from its diversity, and we are clear that there is no place for homophobia in our city.
If you experience or witness a hate crime, please remember that you can report it online at: www.gov.uk/report-hate-...
💬 'Now is the time for principles to become practice. We must stand up to Trump.'
‼️Sheffield councillor Minesh Parekh demands Starmer takes a stand in his piece for LabourList...
Read here👇
The US attack on Venezuela is despicable.
Our government must condemn this illegal attack on the Venezuelan people, enact sanctions against the US, and demand the immediate release of Nicolás Maduro.
Solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
Solidarity with the eight Palestine activists on hunger strikes.
These are prisoners of conscience, being held for opposing UK complicity in genocide.
If they die while David Lammy continues to refuse to meet them he will be directly responsible.
He must free them, and unban Palestine Action.