@emilylincobrien
Food systems geek Green Party Councillor: Ouse Valley & Ringmer. Cabinet lead at Lewes District Council for Climate, Nature & Food 🥕 Consultant Promoted by Anthony Shuster on behalf of Lewes District Green Party of Manor Barn, Kingston near Lewes, BN7 3PB
This article rings true. The real answers to the housing crisis lie with local authorities (not deregulating the planning system & trashing nature) yet we are starved of ££ to deliver 👇
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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?
What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚
Hope won 💚
Hope won 💚
20,000 doors knocked in Gorton and Denton this weekend alone.
Only the Greens can stop Reform here.
Hope is with the Green Party.
Delighted to welcome Cllr Brett Wright, who represents part of Eastbourne on East Sussex County Council, into the Green Party!
FULL UPDATE!: We learn from the Times in this morning’s paper that indeed as I surmised (see thread below) the Govt >haven’t< released an unredacted version of this bombshell report. What a scandal.
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Without paywall: archive.ph/2026.01.23-0...
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
What actual planet are we living on when a supposedly democratically elected government is doctoring pictures to support their toxic narrative? This stuff cannot become normalised, it just can't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The draft NPPF's biggest test is its ability to provide a positive pathway through the climate crisis. To do so, it must deliver against legally binding net zero carbon targets & secure the resilience of communities. However, it shows a tangible regression on climate policy.
Blog: buff.ly/myrgqvi
Lovely piece exploring our 'snowballing' movement.
At Lewes District Council, we've been busy sharing what we've learned on our journey, and busier putting it into practice. Nature is not a resource to be bought and sold, ignored, trashed, or exploited.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Really delighted. I always thought @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social was great, and was very poorly treated.
A very big welcome to @greenparty.org.uk
I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital.
Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
🚨 🚩 Labour + Tory leadership in West Sussex blocked a review of public pension investments despite 3,283 people calling for action on companies complicit in the Palestinian genocide.
Silence isn’t neutrality — it’s complicity.
WGP continues to fight. ✊🏾🇵🇸💚 #Divest #WSCC
🎄 At last night’s @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social meeting, #Bradford Conservatives brought forward a proposal to bring #Christmas Cheer ... by cutting Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in our district ...
🗣️ I was lost for words. Luckily I had a poem prepared ...
#WealthTaxNow
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history
75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men
Is this what democracy looks like?
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
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Devastated this unecessary attack on nature has been forced through, by a government in thrall to fake promises by the development industry.
This won't fix our housing crisis, because evidence shows developers focus on profit not need, but it will trash nature.
#Trashforcash
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Starmer turns to cop to fend off green threat
Is this same Labour Government expanding airports,
refuses to rule out extracting more fossil fuels from the Rosebank Oil Field
Intent on destroying bats, newts and doesn't care about nature?
Not sure going to Brazil alone is going to do much good.
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So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform....
Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally.
It's time for Proportional Representation.
www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zack with a dog behind him on a wall
Since I launched my leadership campaign, @greenparty.org.uk number of new members is bigger than the entire Liberal Democrat party put together!
We're now at 129,000 members.
And 5000 of those joined today. I'd like to be on Laura K more often!
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So in all my fifty *cough* something yrs I have NEVER been inspired to join a political party. Ever. Yesterday, after seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social ‘s video of Ben Zephaniah’s poem, I joined the Green Party.They understand Britain the melting pot & give us love & hope, not hate & division Join us
If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, why has there been a surge in Green Party membership? #bbclaurak
Just watching Ed Milliband on #BBCLauraK - both he & Victoria Derbyshire miss the point.
Much 'policy' ££ on energy bills comes back to customers as discounts - but the eye watering 24% of your bill which goes as profit to privatised companies sure does not.
