Alexi Dimond

Two photos. The top one shows a team of Sheffield Green campaigners with Green Peer Natalie Bennett, holding a Sheffield Green Party banner with a a big flower on it. Underneath that, another photo shows the same banner with Hannah Spencer crouched beside it, and a bigger crowd of Sheffield Green volunteers grouped around. Both photos are in a park. Text reads, Congratulations, Hannah! For winning a 41% vote share in the Gorton & Denton by-election and becoming our first Green MP in the North! Hope is here. join.greenparty.org.uk

Congratulations, #MPHannahSpencer!🎉 Congratulations, #GortonAndDenton!🎉 Congratulations, all of us! 🎉

#IslandOfNeighbours #HopeIsHere #HopeBeatsHate

💚Green: 14,980
➡️Reform: 10,578
🥀Labour: 9,364

Hope can be normal. Equality & justice matter.
Let's do this.🌱

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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 💚

What an amazing result, on the back of such a hard-fought campaign 💚

A fantastic triumph of hope over hate, graft over grift, people power over billionaires' cash.

So happy that Hannah will now represent the people of Gorton & Denton - & all of us too - as the first Green MP in the North 💚

Hannah Spencer in a park with a whole lot of Green volunteers surrounding the Sheffield Green Party banner.

Zack Polanski in a park, chatting with Sheffield Green volunteers.

THANK YOU to all the amazing #SheffieldGreens who worked so hard to get #HannahThePlumber elected! 💚

Lost count of trains🚆 carpools arranged 🚗 help & generosity🙏

Hannah inspired support all across these islands, from Cornwall to Shetland, NI to Norfolk. So proud of everyone. People Power! ✊

Ambitious citizen investor project tackling climate breakdown in Sheffield smashes £1m target two months early The opening round of Sheffield Climate Investments could be used to fund solar panels for schools as well as better insulation in council homes.

"This is local people choosing to put their savings into something good for the planet" – @alexidimond.bsky.social

A project designed to tackle climate breakdown in #Sheffield by raising capital from citizen investors has hit its target much earlier than expected.

✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

Northern Powerhouse Rail must be properly funded https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2026/01/19/northern-powerhouse-rail-must-be-properly-funded/ 19th January 2026 Real Hope, Real Change

Sheffield Greens are fighting for proper funding for Northern Powerhouse Rail. Here's Councillor @alexidimond.bsky.social calling out the Government's "unfair and inequitable" funding strategy.
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#RealHopeRealChange

Green Councillor @alexidimond.bsky.social calls out Sheffield Labour and Lib Dems for excluding newly-granted refugees from the housing register.

It's 2026, and there's never been a better (or more urgent) time to join the Green Party!

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📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time.

Join us and join in ⤵️

Hope and action. It's up to us.

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#HopeIsHere

Absolutely nothing in the government press release about safe speeds, which is disappointing.

Why councillors should pledge for Palestine Alexi Dimond makes the case for councillors pushing to ensure their councils aren't complicit in Israel's crimes

Writing for Left Foot Forward, @alexidimond.bsky.social makes the case for why councillors should make the @pscupdates.bsky.social Pledge for Palestine.

I'm encouraging councillors to pledge for Palestine & emulate the strong stance taken by Sheffield Council against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s

@greenparty.org.uk @pscupdates.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social

We are already locked-in to a return to a Pliocene climate - 3C hotter, sea level eventually ~20m higher

A return to an Eocene hothouse beckons, threatening oblivion

We have to stop burning fossil fuels NOW

We have already hit our £100k target in just a few hours 🤯

This is what hope looks like 💚

We're not stopping there. Help us beat Reform in May ⤵️

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.

In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target

But we're not done. We're doubling our target.

Let's take the fight to Reform this May.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

Opposing genocide is not terrorism.

Make your choice.

www.wedonotcomply.org

Cllr Alexi Dimond (Green Party) speaks at the Sheffield March for Palestine 18th Oct 2025 YouTube video by Graham Wroe

According to C4 news, UK arms sales to Israel reached their highest level in June 2025, & 2nd highest in Sept 2025.

Yesterday, I called on Labour reps who say they oppose genocide to leave the party.

youtu.be/k06IxOa7cII

Other parties are available. Be part of the change 💚

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

At Full Council last week, Labour could not refute specific evidence of their role in war crimes 👀

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Contact: brienne.prusak@newyork.msf.org MSF survey of staff and their families in Gaza shows almost half of those killed in the war were children Israel’s disregard for children’s lives clearly indicates that this war is being waged against all Palestinians. A recent retrospective mortality survey of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and their families found an appalling death rate during Israel’s all-out war on Gaza, especially among children, which is consistent with data provided by Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The survey was conducted by MSF’s research arm Epicentre and covered 2,523 people—MSF workers and their family members—between October 2023 and March 2025. Compared to Ministry of Health estimates prior to the escalation of war on October 7, 2023, the mortality rate was approximately five times higher among the population surveyed (0.41 deaths per 10,000 people per day). For children under 5, the mortality rate increased approximately tenfold (0.70 deaths per 10,000 people). For babies less than 1 month, the mortality rate was six times higher (42.3 deaths per 1,000 live births).

“The children of Gaza are being decimated,” said Amande Bazerolle, deputy manager of MSF’s emergency department. “This disregard for children’s lives clearly indicates that this war run by Israel in Gaza is against all Palestinians. Israel’s allies must put all their efforts behind ending the genocide that’s taking place before our very eyes.” Among MSF staff and households surveyed, 2 percent of people died and 7 percent were injured during the period from October 2023 to March 2025. Three-quarters of the deaths were due to war injuries, the vast majority of those from blasts. Forty-eight percent of the people who died from blast injuries among our colleagues' households were children (19 children under 18 years old) and 40 percent were under 10 years old (16 children under 10 years old). In total, more than 56,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 132,000 have been injured since October 7, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While the results of MSF’s survey—conducted among staff and their families—cannot be extrapolated as representative of the entire population of Gaza, it provides a chilling snapshot of the terrible toll of this war on civilians. This data demonstrates that no one is immune to the effects of this conflict. Medical staff and their families, including MSF colleagues, could be considered to have better access to health care than the rest of Gaza's population. However, in addition to the high rates of mortality and injury, MSF’s survey also found that two-thirds of people with chronic diseases experienced one or more treatment interruptions.

This lack of access to health care is the result of the Israeli campaign to systematically destroy the health system and the means of survival of the whole population. Only 18 out of 36 hospitals remain even partially functional, even as medical needs have exploded. Hospitals are also running dangerously short of essential supplies. Meanwhile, Israel continues to block most medical evacuations despite the fact that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10,000 people are in urgent need of medical and surgical treatment that cannot be provided inside Gaza. The quantitative data from MSF’s study helps illustrate part of the reality in Gaza and supports other available data, a point emphasized by the study coordinator Dr. Wendelin Moser, an epidemiologist working with MSF Epicentre. “When we compared the names of deceased individuals due to violence from our survey with the list of war-related deaths from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, we matched nearly 90 percent,” Dr. Moser said. “This indicates the validity of the Ministry of Health statistics on the number of deaths in Gaza since October 7.” MSF calls on Israeli authorities to stop the genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and to lift the siege on food, fuel, medical, and humanitarian supplies immediately. MSF is also calling on Israel’s allies to help facilitate the urgent medical evacuations of people whose lives are in danger, particularly children. This press release can be found online here.

MSF survey on Gaza: almost half of those killed were children

The Independent. London heatwave killed 263 people – with climate crisis to blame for most, study says. Study finds around 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths in Europe during recent weeks were the result of the climate crisis.

Climate breakdown is killing people.

Failure to act is a choice. Every day we make that choice more people will die and costs will rise.

We can choose:
🚌Better, cheaper public transport
⚡️Cleaner, cheaper renewable energy
🌲Restored forests, landscapes and biodiversity

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

And Starmer has nothing to say

There is no way that the UK government, and those of the rest of the western countries looking the other way, are not complicit in genocide

Obscene, indefensible and criminal

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Frustration in Sheffield as rail electrification project paused The scheme is being halted short of Sheffield on the route to London, Department for Transport says.

If you live in the north, this government (like the last one) holds you in utter contempt. They just could not give a shit about you or your quality of life.

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Things are happening on the British Left.

If you care about tackling inequality, corporate greed, and the climate crisis, a fighting ecosocialist Green Party is in your interest.

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CAAT and ICJP condemn High Court ruling over UK F-35 exports to Israel The High Court's F-35 judgement is a cowardly ruling that absolves any responsibility from it of the UK's compliance with international law

"This is a cowardly ruling that absolves any responsibility from the court to rule on the UK government’s compliance with international law."
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UN: Thousands of Gaza infants face death as formula milk runs out YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

580 fragile infants at Nasser Hospital, Gaza, are dying NOW for lack of formula milk.

Israel is preventing a drop of it from getting in, fearing that... Hamas men will drink it all.

And the West sits by idly, twiddling its blood-stains thumbs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFf...

"We would be looking to the ultra rich, not the poorest in society..."

Leader of Stroud District Council, Cllr Chloe Turner explains why the Green Party opposes the Government's cruel plans to cut disability benefits.

DWP welfare cuts to result in 150,000 in poverty - despite major U-turn The modelling comes after Keir Starmer offered major concessions last week after a rebellion over 120 Labour MPs threatened the government with defeat in the Commons

DWP benefit cuts to push 150,000 people into poverty despite partial U-turn.

How many will die prematurely?

Last year HMRC failed to collect £46.8bn of taxes.

Please tell your MP to oppose the cruel cuts.

This panicked political fix to an indefensible policy lacks both competence and compassion.

I urged the Secretary of State to do the right thing: scrap the cuts entirely and co-produce a plan with disabled people.

🥀 Sadly, it seems the government "fundamentally disagrees".