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Green MPs Hannah Spencer, Ellie Chowns, and Carla Denyer standing in the House of Commons chamber

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as an MP

Earlier today, the new Member of Parliament for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer was sworn in.

Chuffed to be the most popular leader with young people!

Thanks, guys! 💚

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What a lot of Green councillors at the LGAI conference in Leeds today.

Talking about lots including: community cohesion, climate resilience, emotional labour, social isolation, who's voices are not being heard in your council?

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

Don't really know ... but 0% turn-out in many areas is clearly damaging to voter trust and sense of control.

And many going further: join.greenparty.org.uk

Millions of people to see their local council elections delayed Most wanting a delay are Labour-led but two are Tory councils and one is a Lib Dem authority.

Disappointing to see so many Labour and Tory councils avoiding elections across the country.

Presumably because they think they'll lose.

People have the right to vote for their elected reps.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Person falling on ice as a glitter approaches

There is now a line of grit - but a lot of people have fallen in the meantime.

Even when we don’t have freezing rain in Sheffield, this surfacing is really slippery. Further up the hill it forms part of a cycle route, on a steep hill.

A bone-headed decision from councils past, and now we’re stuck with it.

Ok, I am feeling slightly bruised ...

Also sheet ice on the cycle routes on Asline Rd. Lots of falls from bikes and walkers today

Watch out - Sheet ice at Sheffield station.

Yet again no gritting on a key route from @sheffieldcouncil.bsky.social or @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social

ANOTHER WAR CRIME Image credit: Hosny Salah Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Israel’s ban on 37 humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, from entering Gaza is another war crime.

The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.

After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

All of us at Sheffield Green Party send deeply-felt condolences to Bolton Green Party @boltongreenparty.bsky.social and to Vicki Attenborough's family & friends, as well as the friends & family of the woman who died alongside her. We are grieving for and with you. Heartbreaking. 💔

Swift bricks are such an easy win:

Easy to make a difference to the #NatureEmergency;

Easy for builders to install.

Hope is here.

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Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts. Landowners burn heather for driven grouse shooting, leading to harmful air pollution, increased flood risk, and increased wildfire risk, all while releasing tonnes of carbon into the air, accelerating...

Heather burning should stop. Please add your name to this petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

When you adopt the policies you once opposed, you risk becoming like the very forces you once criticised. Labour’s temporary asylum plan echoes the harsh approaches they used to stand against.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know the @greenparty.org.uk is popular?

This poll shows 75% of people support this top GP policy of introducing a wealth tax of 1% on assets above £10m and 2% on assets above £1bn

yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...

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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳

Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.

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Sign days "to the right is our new state of the art calorie burning exercise equipment. (Okay it's the stairs)." "Instructions for use: Walk up / down"

Just got this new equipment installed at the council ...

Compost Connection The Compost Connection is a new venture in Sheffield which will turn food waste into a high quality living compost. This will reduce the amount of food waste sent for incineration or to land fill and ...

and you can register your interest in Compost Connection here:

home.compostconnection.co.uk

"Hopefully we can prove this is a better solution": Sheffield's compost revolution-in-the-making Compost Connection is helping local communities prove there's a better way to handle our food waste than shipping it off to industrial facilities.

Here's a great new independent business in Sheffield that collects food waste and produces compost. Just what we need for better soil health and less incineration.

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/hop...

via @nowthenmag.bsky.social

Have a read of this thread for excellent snapshots of what Green Party conference is like.
#GPConf

House building slumps to lowest level since 2020 sees job losses and falling confidence in Labour’s plans to fix the housing crisis. Latest figures[1] from the construction industry show a sustained and deepening decline in housebuilding in the UK as the slowdown reaches depths not seen since early 2020.The lack of confidence in the sector is resulting in lay-offs and recruitment freezes. Green Party Spokesperson, Cllr Matthew Snedker said; “The housing crisis is one symptom of the cost of living crisis. Houses remain at historically high prices[2], with most people finding house ownership unaffordable, as wages fail to keep pace with house price inflation. It’s no surprise that house building is stalling when people simply can’t afford to save for deposits when they are struggling to get by” Most worrying is the slowing down of new work in the pipeline. New orders have fallen for eight months in a row. Even big names in the industry are starting to see their order books dwindle. This long term downward trend has led to construction companies seeing subdued market conditions, heightened business uncertainty and growing risk aversion among clients. Cllr Snedker continued “The housing crisis is causing very real damage to communities up and down the country. A record 169,050 children are now homeless in temporary accommodation in England[3], a 12% increase on last year. Homelessness has long-lasting consequences for children with families regularly placed out of area, far away from their school, GP and community. The educational attainment, health and development of homeless children plummets when they become homeless.[4] “This is the perfect time to take advantage of falling borrowing costs by increasing the supply of public housing. Replacing the 1.4 million social homes lost since 1980[5] would reduce people’s housing costs, bring

job security to tradespeople and inject much needed confidence into the construction industry. “The Green Party’s Right Homes, Right Place, Right Price Charter[6] would provide 150,000 new social homes every year through new build and the purchase of ex-council housing stock. It would give local authorities right to buy powers for several categories of property and make sure we keep social homes for local communities in perpetuity.” ENDS [1] https://www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/d53e54e883da40448dcb05af5ed1bf26 [2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingaffordabilityinenglandandwales/2024 [3] https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/another_record_number_of_children_homeless_in_temporary_accommodation_after_12_increase_in_a_year [4] https://sharedhealthfoundation.org.uk/our-work/families-experiencing-homelessness/ [5] https://england.shelter.org.uk/support_us/campaigns/social_housing/loss_of_social_housing#:~:text=We're%20selling%20and%20demolishing,of%20650%20social%20rent%20homes. [6] https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/providing-fairer-greener-homes-for-all/

House building slumps to lowest level since 2020 with job losses and falling confidence in Labour

It’s no surprise that house building is stalling when people can’t afford to save for deposits

This is the perfect time to replace the 1.4 million social homes lost since 1980

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Ministers didn't do cost review of English council mergers The government relied on a report by a lobbyist group that now says reorganisation could make no savings.

So, Government wants a massive cut in local democracy that will cost more in a huge local government reorganisation?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Makes no savings? Makes no sense.

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Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? YouTube video by The Guardian

It's Friday - so why not watch this sketch with Patrick Stewart: What has the ECHR ever done for us?

youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?...