At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
19.11.2025 08:20
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
This is horrific. Not just the awful violence in Manchester but the fear this attack creates for Jewish people across the UK as they mark Yom Kippur. My solidarity and love to everyone affected.
Friends, lets hear it for the organisers of this important protest to restore our NHS.
I’m one of over 850 Green councillors and growing.
We know that things like good housing, good food, clean air and the real living wage are all contributing factors to healthy outcomes
It will send a very important message if these libraries stay open and these libraries stay open and they’re run by the council. Thank you for your time and I hope I haven’t gone on too much.
but to be outside the house. What does that cost? What cost a life, Mrs. Brabham? What cost a life? And the lives not just of people who are ill or mentally ill or lonely or autistic, but just ordinary people walking around Rock Ferry who think they’ve been abandoned by everybody.
And the question I was asking Martin Gallier we were asking, what cost a life?
Well, libraries keep people alive. Simply knowing it was there kept me alive because I knew I could go if I desperately needed to. Not to talk to somebody, not to get help, not to borrow a book,
Didn’t borrow a book when she was there, but she read the newspapers, talked to her mates, did the courses. Not sure how that would show up in Quantitative data. And now my own story, very quick. Last week was World Mental Health Prevention day on the 10th last Wednesday.
One about my mom, because why not? Everyone loves their mom. And one about myself. My mom, when she stopped work, she was very lonely. So she went to the library three, four times a week for various courses, learning how to write, creative writing, grammar courses.
Well-meaning the charity, no matter how dedicated and how well-run it is, the message will still be sent. The council don’t care. They don’t care about us. We have nothing left in Rock Ferry.
I don’t want to labour the point, so I’m going to tell you one little stories or two, actually.
They’re taking our library away. We have nothing left. This is all we have. They don’t care. They, I’m afraid, is the council, is you. And it’s the same argument if it’s turned over to a charity, no matter how meaning the charity.
Wirral's libraries committee was privileged to hear David speak about the message that closing Wirral Council's library would mean to his community.
Visiting Greens in Parliament
“Those who effectively approve of this behaviour would rather see our communities divided than offer practical solutions to repair society. It is no coincidence at all that their political parties are funded by billionaires and oppose taxes on the super-wealthy.”
“Operation Raise the Colours is a divisive and far-right campaign that encourages unauthorised use of council lampposts and graffiti on roundabouts. I’m glad to see only a small minority on the Wirral have taken part in it.
These new flags on The Rake leave people feeling confused, scared and intimidated. That’s not OK.
It’s also not OK for council workers to be dealing with abuse and threats. Which is what is stopping them taking these flags down. That’s really not OK.
Threats against Council workers are not OK
What is fantastic about England is that we welcome diversity.
Flying the flag for a sporting event is fine. Flying the flag to intimidate - not so much.
Cllr Foulkes: “All potential models from re-tendering to full public ownership. No decisions have been made and All options will remain firmly on the table.”
Jo: “It used to be our Merseyrail and it should be our Merseyrail again.”
Cllr Jo Bird: “I'd like to ask the chair of the Transport Committee for his response to the call from three rail trade unions. Greens support their call for Merseyrail to be brought back into public hands when the contract expires in 2028.”
Kimberley:”Privatisation has failed. The RMT note that Merseyrail has spent over £211 million in dividends. This is £10 million per year on average.
This money could have been spent helping people with disabilities and making fares fairer.”
Instead, we paid out £1.50 for every passenger journey from people like you and me straight into shareholder profits.
So the Greens, the RMT, ASLEF and TSSA, the trade unions for transport, we are all calling for Merseyrail to return. To be brought back into public hands.”
Return Our Merseyrail
Jo Bird:”Last year, Merseyrail recorded 28.3 million passenger journeys. In the same year, it paid out £44 million in shareholder profits. That’s money that could and should have been used to improve train services, accessibility and reduce fares.
It’s not something we ever supported. We were against that concept from the very beginning. It’s the wrong option for Birkenhead market, for the traders, for the town.
We consistently voted against it, subsequently when it was asked for extra funding as well.
Green Cllr Jo Bird said: “Nobody has said sorry. Why is that? Is that because nobody is sorry? It’s really not good enough.” She said one thing she had learned was to seriously question what she was told by officers going forward.
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