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30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West
Today, we published the annual @forbes.com World's Billionaires list. There have never been so many billionaires as there are today, and they have never been as powerful as they are now. www.forbes.com/billionaires/
Thank you email for joining the Green Party
Just joined UK’s Green Party for a few reasons. Starmer himself suggested ppl like me leave the Labour Party when he assumed leadership. Request granted. But the Greens’ recent success & polling (and more importantly their policy goals!) show them to be robust & viable.
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Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This - from our very own @bobeaglestone.bsky.social ⬇️
English degrees - dispelling the myths about employability. www.dearenglishmajor.com/blog/3-big-r...
Picture of poster in Manchester window : real hope,real change, vote Green
Poster from campaign : emblazoned in yellow : vote Hannah vote Green with green background
Picture of Manchester window with poster saying : everyone welcome in our community.
Picture of Manchester window with crafted display saying: Vote Green with gold moons hanging beneath.
I joined 1000s in an amazing people powered campaign for inspirational #HannahSpencerMP 💫💚💫
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@greenparty.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
#MakingHopeNormal 💚 joyful community driven hard work, come rain or shine. Magnificent people of #Gorton&Denton have spoken! 💚💚
Let's get menancing.
(Lowering bills, protecting NHS, funding public services....)
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🟩 @greenparty.org.uk announces this was the biggest campaign day in Green Party history!
🐝 2000+ campaigners mobilised in ONE DAY!
💚 Thank you to everyone who's made it happen
Manchester Green Party graphic on a green background with hannah spencer. it’s a green win! the gorton and denton residents chose hope, not hate. here’s to change. thank you very much to all of our volunteers that helped elect hannah, our 5th Green MP and 1st in the north!
✅ Hope HAS WON!
💪 Only the GREENS can take on Farage
🇬🇧 Politics has changed forever
🪠 Hannah the Plumber is now Hannah Spencer the MP for Gorton and Denton!
🐝 The FIRST NORTHERN GREEN MP
🥀 Labour have been replaced
🚫 Reform's rise has been halted. Hate has been defeated.
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Today's the Day! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer
Wow! Labour have been getting more and more desperate with every passing day.
But this is off the charts. Inventing a tactical voting website?!
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Dear Lucy On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist. This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public? In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win. You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want. As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.” Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,
Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform?
I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...
If you are in Gorton & Denton and want to vote for hope rather than hate, this is what you will do tomorrow
Photo of Hannah Spencer Green candidate at Gorton and Denton bi-election.
Pic of window poster in Gorton that reads : real hope, real change, bite green.
Out again today on @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer💚💚 campaign - in the hope to bring different voices to parliament - she is a superstar of energy & compassionate, community listening, social concerns & keen awareness of ‘local’ national & global issues #VoteGreen 💚💚💚💚
Wonderful post by @gailmarshall.bsky.social on books, reading, connection, and lifetimes of reading. @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @barbarableiman.bsky.social #EnglishCreates
Poster for Read It Forward! 10% of Bookshop.org children's book sales go to BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust in February 2026.
📣Final call for Read It Forward! Throughout February, the wonderful @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% of all children’s book sales to Scottish Book Trust and @booktrust.org.uk
Here's where to shop 👉 uk.bookshop.org/lists/about-...
Key findings from the Lorensbergs Ltd Netloan survey include:
🔹Overall library funding is rated inadequate or worse by at least half of libraries
🔹Over 50% of libraries rely on additional funding to what’s provided by councils
Read the full results: https://ow.ly/ncPJ50YlX3B
I feel increasingly sorry for this generation of children. They are endlessly told what to do. These young men say they engage with sport, schoolwork and socialising with family and friends. They like reading online. All of these behaviours are extremely positive
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Yes, Emagazine such a brilliant resource - I found it a rich seam for A-level teaching especially, inspiring articles and ideas …
Photo outside Green Party Manchester HQ tonight
Photo of a Green Party leaflet
Well into the evening ! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social volunteers working away… Feel the love ! And determination…and #Hope ❤️ and please get folk to vote @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer 💚 #Gorton&Denton
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Join us for 28 Days of Sustainability, an exciting month-long festival of sustainability action and learning.
Featuring talks, celebrations, film screenings, activities, and more – including an IOE gardens workshop 🪴🌷
www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...
Happy 117th! 🎉💫👏🏽 #Poetry ❤️
#Hope & so much love & energy going into @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social #GortonDenton campaign 🙌🏼
#PeoplePower 💫❤️ ❤️
Many shifting to #Green 💚 🎉policies getting across, stark heartening hopeful contrast 💚❤️ to Reform. Messages sinking in, fingers crossed for Thursday! #HannahSpencer 💫 #VoteGreen 💚
Out canvassing in #Gorton&Denton for @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer 💚 undecideds now shifting to positive choice #Green 💚 🙌People from Italy! Shetland! Cardiff, Hull, Exeter, Bristol, London, Rotherham - all over UK! pitching up to support. #VoteGreen #Hope #Sense
Interesting to hear this. Sounds good thinking re L3 Oracy qual - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social
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Something the Government want you to forget...
