Talking about endometriosis and women's health, please sign and share this petition for statutory paid menstrual leave up to 3 days per month for people with conditions such as endometriosis and adenomyosis, following the model introduced in Portugal in 2025 👇
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Sky News think a Green PM isn't out of the question
This is wild!
Zohran smiling on the street
Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!
His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.
It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
Stats on South Yorkshire gynaecology waiting list found on the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) data dashboard linked on @endometriosisuk.bsky.social 's website 👇
www.endometriosis-uk.org/gynaecology-...
I'm glad Sheffield council voted today to join calls on the government to properly fund women's health care, and to ask NHS South Yorkshire ICB to take urgent action to address the gynaecology waiting list ✅
& to thank all the fab health care workers supporting women's health in Sheffield and SY 🙏
So important women's health services receive proper funding - I was going to say in my speech that endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women, who are half the population, and can cause chronic pain, infertility, painful periods and heavy menstrual bleeding but takes on average ~9 years to diagnose! 🤯
8. Amendment to be moved by Councillor Martin Phipps, seconded by Councillor Angela Argenzio That the Motion now submitted be amended by:- 1. the addition (under the section "notes") of new paragraphs (h) and (i) as follows, and the re-lettering of the original paragraphs (h) to (o) as new paragraphs (j) to (q):- (h) that South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board has been told by the Government to cut c.50% of its running costs; (i) that the largest specialty waiting list in NHS South Yorkshire ICB per 100,000 is Gynaecology at 2356.9 as of August 2025, and this has nearly tripled in the last 5 years, and is now worse than the national average; 2. the addition of a new paragraph (r) as follows, and the re-lettering of the original paragraphs (p) to (r) as new paragraphs (s) to (u):- 3. (r) to send a copy of this resolution to the South Yorkshire ICB requesting that it takes urgent action to reduce the Gynaecology waiting list, working with the Government to achieve this, and to ask the Health Scrutiny Sub-Committee to consider inviting the ICB to a future meeting to report on progress; the addition of new paragraphs (v) and (w) as follows:- (v) to write to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with a copy of this resolution, to call for proper funding of our health services, and for greater investment in women's healthcare; and (w) to express thanks to all health care workers supporting women's health in Sheffield and South Yorkshire.
Unfortunately no time for speeches on Labour's motion “Protecting fair access to IVF treatment” at full council today, but I'm really glad it and our amend passed.
Shocking that gynaecology waiting list is the largest one per 100,000 in South Yorkshire NHS: it's nearly tripled in the last 5 years!
Labour have learned absolutely nothing from losing majority control of Sheffield council, and are nationally repeating the same mistakes.
Labour to abolish the committee system 🤦♂️
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Urgent: don't cut disability benefits. It is wrong to balance the books by taking from the people who are least able to pay Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/benefit-cuts/
@sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @martinphipps13.bsky.social
Labour are continuing to do a great job... disillusioning voters who thought they'd be getting change 🫠
Proportional representation, now.
UK deserves better than the two Tory parties
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BREAKING: Treasury minister @darrenpjones.bsky.social refuses to explain why the government is cutting support for disabled young people instead of taxing the super-rich fairly
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Absolutely shocking to see a Labour secretary of state stand at the despatch box and proudly announce slashing support for some of those who need it most - including removing the UC health top-up for young people, as if young disabled people don't exist?! #DisabilityBenefits
Who does this Labour government represent?
They have a big majority with only 33.7% of the vote (and turnout was only 59.8%)
How many people who voted for them did so they could cut disability benefits?
Tax the rich, don't punish those in need of support
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This Wednesday (12th March) I will be joining the panel for All Together, One at a Time, @sayitsheffield.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Activism Panel Discussion at Sheffield Central Library
Screenshot of my decriminalise abortion petition at 99, 056
Morning ☕️ I can’t believe my petition is now less than 1000 signatures away from a government debate. I’ve been doing this with no evangelical 💰 media or Twitter. Please share and help get this over the line. Protect us from MAGA fascism petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
✍ Dear Labour,
Some ideas to tackle poverty 👇
✔ Scrap the two-child benefit cap.
✔ Bring back winter fuel payments.
✔ Insulate homes.
Yours,
The Green Party
We are doing ok for followers but this account hasn’t really picked up like Blue Bird did and the working hypothesis on this is that BlueSky has all the nice people on it and they know how to navigate life and #Sheffield and it makes them happier and more pleasant.
This is PATHETIC!
Labour taking nationalisation off the table before it even STARTS its review of Water sector.
Tell them we’re having none of it👇💪💪
ICYMI:
Know we need so much better than this Labour government?
Want to stop Reform?
It's time to join @greenparty.org.uk
Listen here ⬇️
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name
What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’?
What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?
I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
Labour's disgusting deportation stunt this week wasn't just morally bankrupt, it was politically stupid. Politicians need to find the backbone to be honest about the real source of our problems: the wealthy elite draining money from our communities
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Screenshot from the Independent with the headline 'Labour accused of trying to outdo Farage with migrant deportation videos' and a video titled 'Labour takes on Reform by releasing migration crackdown videos'
When they're not trashing climate commitments, they're trying to outdo Reform 🥀
We're not standing for that. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour are making inequality in the UK even worse.
And rather than reverse - they're now blaming vulnerable people instead.
It's just another version of Reform.
Join the alternative: join.greenparty.org.uk
Of course he doesn’t *actually* support it. He is intelligent and knows it would a climate disaster.
He’s just being crushed by the Labour Party machine.
There is an alternative that will always speak out on this join.greenparty.org.uk
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This is being proposed by the Sheffield Green Party councillors @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social 🙂
Next week, Sheffield City Council will become the latest local authority to debate a motion calling for the divestment of pension funds from companies enabling Israel’s grave violations of international law.
We call on ALL Sheffield councillors to support this motion.
From Elon Musk to Nigel Farage to Keir Starmer: these people do not care.
They don't care about nature.
They don't care about inequality.
They don't care about you.
We need to challenge the disastrous turn our politics is taking:
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