Local Election Alert!
On my way to beautiful Stroud to meet lovely local Greens, take lots of photos, and listen to some of the local voters.
(Also to meet up with the amazing Green💚🌻Molly to hear her news.)

Young people are faced with climate catastrophe and shit jobs

They earn relatively less and pay more for everything, especially housing

No wonder they’re depressed

We need to give them more hope and start sharing more of the country’s wealth with them

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With war in the Middle East and Ukraine fighting for its future, am I the only person who wonders why parliament was debating pet theft?

Dear Mr Sunak,
On behalf of pretty much every doctor in the land, pretty much every person on a waiting list in the land, pretty much every sick person in the land, and increasingly most voters in the land...

🗣️ Almost two thirds of people in destitution live with a chronic health condition or disability. Cutting people’s eligibility for benefits won't help.

The PM's speech was an irresponsible war of words on people who already aren’t getting enough support.
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.The Green Party is fully committed to restoring the Erasmus programme, which gave such brilliant educational opportunites to so many young people.

Freedom of movement is not a threat - it's a blessing.

Sad that Labour has turned its back on something so valuable.

As I yesterday predicted, the government and Labour have rejected the Commission’s proposal for free movement of young people. Tough toenails if you want to work or study in Europe. Tough to you too who want to work or study here. Vote ⁦The Green Party⁩

✅Only The Green Party is clear we must phase out factory farming

⚠️With the right support to farmers, who do care and have been forced into this by a govt that doesn't

🐄Intensive farming of cows in sheds not just cruel- it's wrecking our rivers 👇

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Couldn't agree more with
Carla Denyer co-leader of The Green Party talking about bizarre and grubby stories from the Tory party

Have a listen to her on #bbcqt last night

It was a lively show from Buxton 👍🏼

Why on earth would a government reject the chance for young people to live and work in the EU?

Ideology is trashing their opportunities

And sadly Labour agree

Greens would embrace a mobility agreement as a step towards EU membership
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'I know as an engineer that the technology is pretty much there... The barrier is the policies and political will'

The Green's Carla Denyer says climate change has been apparent for decades, politicians just haven't prioritised it

#bbcqt bbc.in/3U37X8O

We’re far short of having enough compassionate voices for refugees in parliament

Bristol, please elect Carla Denyer for us all!

When you have to debate a climate science denier on Question Time...

#BBCQT

🦫 Starmer is going to allow development on ‘unattractive’ areas of the greenbelt

🐛 But unattractive to who?

🦔 Places where we aren’t can be very attractive to wildlife

🐞 Which is the point about greenbelt

#NotAboutTheView

⚠️Climate is becoming a culture war.

🛑Politicians are trying to turn climate into a dividing line, rather than a way to bring people together.

💚Help us tell the positive story of climate action. Donations doubled all week.

wearepossible.org/donate

So proud of Carla Denyer - a voice of empathy and common sense that is so desperately needed in Parliament

While we were sewing scrubs or making sure our neighbours were OK . . .

Some Tory councillors and cronies were getting fat off PPE contracts

Many of which didn’t deliver

This money must be clawed back and invested for benefit of us all not to finance their plush country homes

📣 In case you missed it: we've announced Councillor Tony Dyer as our nominee for Leader of the Council, and Councillor Heather Mack for Deputy Leader, after May’s election.

After May 2nd the council will be run by 8 policy committees, plus a Leader and Deputy of the council.

Greens stand solidly against the rotten Rwanda refugee deportations

We’ll always stand for a kinder and fairer approach

I trust that Ed Miliband understands the climate emergency and is committed to tackling it

But he has been trapped in Reeves’s fiscal straitjacket and forced to abandon £28bn green investment

Why not tax wealth fairly to find the tens of billions needed to save our climate?