Reposted by Richard BakerMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...' 831664
Reposted by Richard BakerDr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Months after the govt announced they were looking into decoupling the price of electricity from gas, we still have no further details or timelines on these plans - all while families across the UK face down surging energy bills. I've written to the SoS for Energy Security and Net Zero for answers. 5225105
Reposted by Richard BakerCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.netuk.themedialeader.comTwo-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate changeAnalysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects. 14700248
Reposted by Richard BakerCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …theguardian.comGovernment contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rulesLouise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups 481143388
Reposted by Richard BakerCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivabletheguardian.comBurnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drillingLabour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns 44863332
Reposted by Richard BakerRoss Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Immensely disappointing head-in-sand stuff from Unite's leadership. Instead of using their political clout to push for the creation of high quality, lasting jobs in green industries, they're doubling down on fossil fuel jobs which will disappear as a result of geological reality & climate breakdown 14713
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"Public control isn't public ownership" Yep & as Kevin also points out, public ownership is actually popular If Burnham planned to nationalise something he'd be shouting it from the rooftops. But as his choice of language demonstrates, he isn't going to nationalise anything 48130
Reposted by Richard BakerOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer. 12828371251
Reposted by Richard BakerSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Climate-wrecking airports, intrusive digital ID and more social security cuts. This is Labour’s unshifting agenda. Our Green amendment to the King’s Speech demands strong climate and nature action, rent controls, water nationalisation, and wealth taxes. We are listening to what people really need. 215352
Reposted by Richard Baker🔞 Evelyn - a puppy goat but spooky and such 🔞 🏳️⚧️ @jumbojorts.northsky.social · 10/05/2026Singling out the only Jewish party leader in a question about people being untrustworthy. I see we are far beyond subtlety 9357125
Reposted by Richard BakerPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 10/05/2026One of the many curiosities of this decision is that Nigel Farage is the only serving UK political leader (to my knowledge) to have been criticised by the Board of Deputies for personally using rhetoric linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories, for which he has never apologised. 30471162
Reposted by Richard BakerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Brilliant list by @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social of all the amazing wins that just happened in the past few days! Amazing new Green Councillors who will work hard in their communities to make life easier for everyone. nataliebennett.org/2026/05/10/g...nataliebennett.orgGreen highlights from the May 2026 Elections - Natalie Bennett Green Party Peer #NatalieGreenPeerThe timing (most of our utterly amazing quantity and quality of victories coming late on a Friday and then during Saturday) means the media’s unlikely to do a job good of explaining, so I’ve pulled to... 12622150
Reposted by Richard BakerBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Hilarious video that shows none of the Reform voters know any of Reform's policies. 62445228
Reposted by Richard BakerPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/05/2026At times Reform do feel absolutely committed to staying on about 23% support for ever. I’m just not sure vindictiveness plays that well beyond the already-convinced hardcore. 2508
Reposted by Richard Bakerpetertatchell.bsky.social @petertatchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Community Security Trust does great work protecting the Jewish community but it's wrong about Palestine marchers We do not support Hamas or hate Jews I've never heard any marcher express antisemitism; only opposition to Israel's mass killing of civilians - a view shared by half the Jews in Israel 071
Reposted by Richard BakerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th. 692255769
Reposted by Richard BakerCllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 24/04/2026Caught short? Yes to public loos! And I spy a nod to the @carolinerussell.bsky.social London assembly motion 👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on toilets: public spaces need public conveniences | EditorialEditorial: Architect-designed loos such as the ones in Tokyo are fantastic. But even ordinary facilities enhance cities and towns 1254
Reposted by Richard BakerBedford Green Party @bedfordgreenparty.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Delighted to announce that we've hit 500 members. 1114
Reposted by Richard BakerCycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026🚨 Not an April Fool: since Jan 2022, the Highway Code ranks road users: 🏃 Pedestrians first 🚴 Cyclists & horse riders next 🚗 Drivers have most responsibility Many missed the update, so key rules (passing distances, junction priority) are still ignored. 👉 cyclinguk.org/highwaycode 12816
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The deputy foreign minister of Cuba: "You cannot put a question mark on the system of govt we have.. if the US, the most powerful nation in the world, has had to dedicate almost 7 decades to try to destroy the system of govt, and yet failed"🎯 09442
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The ruling class of the United States can't stand the fact that the Cuban people have a universal healthcare system when they deny that very thing to their own people. So they are intent on destroying it. 18135
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026NBC interviewer: "President Trump says he believes Cuba will collapse on its own" The Cuban foreign minister: ".. then why does the US govt need to employ so many resources.. to try to destroy [our] economy?" 🎯 211146
Reposted by Richard BakerStats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 19/03/2026‼️POLL | #GE2029 without any tactical voting* ➡️ Ref: 27% (+12) 🟢 Grn: 23% (+16) 🔵 Con: 17% (-7) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 13% (+1) Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Mar (+/- vs GE2024) --- *Voters asked to state true first preference. Excludes respondents who said "Don't Know". 1311337
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026"There are some winners in all of this, I'm afraid to say. Oil producers in the United States are making billions from this war because of increased revenues, and so too now are Russia" And we're paying. 611265
Reposted by Richard BakerNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026With Green politics on the rise, want to understand Green #Philosophy? I've got a book for that, with @wiltonsquare.bsky.social 😏 wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...wiltonsquarebooks.comChange EverythingA practical and hopeful guide for anyone who wants a fairer, greener future by a former Green leader 16122
Reposted by Richard BakerDr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 13/03/2026When people #VoteGreen this May, they know they'll be voting for someone locally rooted, someone who deeply cares about the issues affecting our communities, and someone who will work their socks off to make hope normal again. 110340
Reposted by Richard BakerCarla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This summer, govt will set legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for 2038-42 – critical for reaching net zero by 2050 🏭🌍 I’m part of the Environmental Audit Committee, which is urging the government to centre communities. 6 key takeaways from our report, published today 👇 515150
Reposted by Richard BakerTurn Left Media @turnleftmedia.co.uk · 02/03/2026"If you marched against the war in Iraq, no one could really say you supported Saddam Hussein [...] Khamenei was a right wing hardliner in Iranian politics [...] Mothin is a leftist following a gay vegan Jewish leader." @benmclaine.bsky.social defends @mothinali.bsky.social on GB News 💚✊ #Iran 97225
Reposted by Richard BakerCatherine Read @cathread.bsky.social · 28/02/2026This is an amazing interview. Not because of the interviewer, he was hostile, but the ability of Zack to answer so many questions, honestly, logically, with evidence and qualification is astounding. Such a brilliant leader. 💚 614118
Reposted by Richard BakerLiam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 01/03/2026As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession. 23139891063
Reposted by Richard BakerPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 01/03/2026A seven-word headline that manages to be both misleading *and* racist. 1012123
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, do you regret not standing in Gorton & Denton yourself? No, says Zack, because in the Greens we aren't unprincipled opportunists who parachute ourselves into seats to further our own careers (in so many words) #GMB 926060
Reposted by Richard BakerSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Reader, they chose Hannah! Can’t wait to see her at work on Monday 💚👏💚 1756259
Reposted by Richard BakerBedford Green Party @bedfordgreenparty.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Hope has won! 071
Reposted by Richard BakerThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 25/02/2026On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets. Lying to voters is all they have left. All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday. 17518283
Reposted by Richard BakerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Dear @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... 1262168831
Reposted by Richard BakerElection Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20/02/2026Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 30.4% (+22.9) 🌹 LAB: 27.7% (-12.8) 🏘️ OL: 16.2% (New) 🙋 Ind: 11.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 8.3% (-15.3) ➡️ RFM: 2.7% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-5.9) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) No Ind (-21.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023. 935780
Reposted by Richard BakerThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 19/02/2026🚨 Our latest Green Party Political Broadcast drops this evening 🚨 ITV1 at 18:25 BBC One at 18:55 Youtube at 19.00 624066
Reposted by Richard BakerNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026A new style of the US trying to force regime change. Unlikely to end any better than the military version www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comNo fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got realDiplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative Trump tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step in 33314
Richard Baker @bakerrb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Extract from Marco Rubio's speech in Munich yesterday. Pure, naked imperialism and white supremacy. 000
Reposted by Richard BakerSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Huda Ammori is scathing about Yvette Cooper, & rightly so. Cooper banned Palestine Action in order to protect companies supplying arms to Israel during a genocide, and in doing so attacked the rights of every single one of us. And all of it was unlawful. 314076
Reposted by Richard BakerJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026"Reform UK last year received £200,000 from a tiny UK firm run by a churchwarden in Potters Bar who has worked for an Iranian-Kazakh billionaire who recently bankrolled Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos...It listed tax debts totalling more than its political contributions"open.substack.comRevealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripledInfluential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election 512167
Reposted by Richard BakerBold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests. It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster. 19415135
Reposted by Richard BakerZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green. 1062650665
Reposted by Richard BakerParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions! www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 21712265
Reposted by Richard BakerCarla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Starmer has serious questions to answer about what his government knew, and when, about Mandelson's Epstein ties. Shocking that this man was made ambassador - he should have no role in public life. And we absolutely need a police enquiry into leaks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comMandelson could face police inquiry over alleged leak to EpsteinMet police assessing reports of alleged misconduct in public office after government information apparently shared 2425277
Reposted by Richard BakerMothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 31/01/2026We're out campaigning in Gorton and Denton for the by-election on 26th of February. it's time for change in this community, it's time for hope, it's time to VOTE GREEN 316143
Reposted by Richard BakerSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Excited to see Hannah Spencer selected for this important by-election. I wish I could go and join the campaign, but since I can't make the time work, I've donated the cost of my train fare. Maybe you're in the same position? Just thinking of how much of their dodgy donations Reform will use. 0287
Reposted by Richard BakerLeft Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 30/01/2026So much for being anti-establishment...leftfootforward.org‘Man of the people’ Nigel Farage attended Davos as adviser to Iranian billionaireSo much for Farage being an anti-establishment figure. 03323
Reposted by Richard BakerThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/01/2026Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚 651577452