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💚🌹Artist & Green socialist🌹💚 Art, environment, politics, my border collie, growing veg & learning Italian I hate injustice & inequality hEDS & deafness 💙 NHS Batik Artist http://buffyrobinson.co.uk mum of the @rickardsisters.com graphic novelists
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski headlining the biggest UK educators union.
This is the kind of onboarding that is going to attract a very broad approval.
Hope there will be some videos covering the keynotes.
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For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Feel free to 'opt out' of the open register to avoid having anyone able to buy your info.
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Easier said than done I'm afraid ☘️ it's everywhere!
Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos and members of the Green Party gather around the day's collected rubbish.
Before: litter everywhere!
Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos and members of the Green Party display their new hi-vis jackets.
After: A Green Party volunteer stands with bags full of collected litter.
Green Party members were out with @councillorq.bsky.social in Berridge Ward today litter picking in the local park and surrounding areas. In total, 8 full bags of rubbish have now been collected and are ready for disposal.
💚 Today we rallied. For women’s rights. For justice. For each other. Proud to stand alongside so many incredible women including and the Green Party NI members who showed up in strength. This is what Strength in Solidarity looks like. 📸 #IWD2026
London isn't the only place where Greens are putting in a good effort. Today in Birmingham, we knocked on more than 2,000 doors, delivered thousands of leaflets.
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Israeli forces launching massive airstrikes in southern Beirut only hours after issuing an evacuation order for the over 500,000 people living there displays an utter disregard for civilian lives. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
🚨 NEW | 2026 Local Elections - Greens predicted to win most seats in London:
🟢 Grn: 548 (+530)
🔵 Con: 481 (+77)
🔴 Lab: 415 (-741)
🟠 Lib: 252 (+72)
➡️ Ref: 132 (+132)
Greens would be the largest party on four borough councils 👀
Source: Bombe published in @theguardian.com
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.
Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
Spain’s PM “They say Spain is alone.”
“But they’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine and then many followed.”
“We are not alone. We are the first of many.”
this This THIS …
“changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war”
A elected second chamber is long overdue. Eight hundred unelected Peers (yes really, 800), party place people completely unaccountable to the citizens.
This has to change.
Never forget that on June 20, 1979, Pres. Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. He was a visionary.
Ronald Reagan’s first act as president was to remove them. He was indebted to the fossil fuel industry.
Imagine what USA could be today without the GOP.
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
Even if it's a tiny patio or south facing window. Dang straight.
"We showed that not only can people power win, it can win big. Hannah Spencer took on the billionaire donors and won – and the message now is that we can do that everywhere."
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”
"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
These warnings about food security are happening almost weekly now
But does anyone think the government is taking a blind bit of notice
The UKs 3 worst harvests have been in the last 5 years
By 2050, the number of calories per head globally could be halved
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Other growers sharing and swapping seeds, young plants, compost and expertise would help people start growing their own (even in containers if you have no garden)
So often I have more veg plants germinate than I need
Is this something a local Green group could help organise @greenparty.org.uk?
Everyone should be sowing their own seeds & planting their own veg garden, now more than ever.
🚨Keir Starmer’s plan to strip the right to jury trials from offences carrying up to three years imprisonment will place the country on a path toward authoritarian justice. Is that what people voted for?
CONTACT YOUR MP NOW before it’s too late!
youtu.be/mXTpGebSSB8?...
That sounds painful😫
We do what we can and social media gives us all a platform👍💚
In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
Food security is a thing of the past.
I'm sowing veg seeds to grow my own food again this year, hand-watered from rainwater butts (I'm so thankful to have a garden to grow stuff in, so many don't)🥬🥦🍅
#ClimateChange & stupid wars
Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London
Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
