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Colin Boyle

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#Rotherhithe #Councillor | #Scot | #RejoinEU | Born 335 ppm | linktr.ee/rotherhithegreens | ttwdigital.co.uk Promoted by Anna Crowley on behalf of Southwark Green Party, both c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.

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Cllr Benali Hamdache @greenbenali.bsky.social · 1h
We’re all inspired by Mamdani. Mamdani has so many more powers than the Mayor of London To fix our city, I’m calling on more devolved powers for London. Devolved powers on the level of Scotland or Wales www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
mylondon.news
London 'should get same devolved powers as Scotland and Wales'
Green Party London Assembly Member Benali Hamdache argues London;s housing crisis is unique and the GLA needs autonomy to properly tackle it
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1h
“While our councils are delivering in their communities, we fight for change on the national level too so that we can all have a place we call home." Zack Polanski on Green action on housing, locally and nationally.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h
Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 9h
RAF had flown over 600 flights for Israel over Gaza by Aug 7th 2025: "Britain continues to run near daily surveillance flights over Gaza... ...RAF Shadow aircraft have run more than 600 flights over the Palestinian territory from the Akrotiri airbase..." www.theguardian.com/politics/202... (2/x)
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UK’s surveillance flights over Gaza raise questions on help for Israeli military
Government says it controls what information is shared as critics question the role of intelligence gathering
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12h
The Greens are proposing rent controls. Naga Munchetty to @rachelmillward.bsky.social (in so many words), won't somebody please think of the landlords?
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 9h
Reservoir progress too slow - Green deputy leader www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reservoir progress too slow - Green deputy leader
Rachel Millward claims there has been a "woeful lack of investment in essential infrastructure".
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 11h
Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney is not your saviour.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌊 The concerning thing isn’t just that global SST is at a record-breaking +0.75°C above the 1991–2020 baseline. It’s the trajectory 🤯
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Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s bad enough we stand on the precipice of climate collapse, it’s far worse that the advertising industry is helping to push us over the edge. The new A-Z of Badvertising from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency (via @crisortunity.bsky.social & myself) spells out how they are doing it 👇👇👇
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest blog is on Burnham's promise of 'pragmatism' in the North Sea, why it's a weaselly word that is providing cover for deeply unpragmatic actions, and why the climate movement needs to talk more about the climate crisis. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
businessgreen.com
What does true pragmatism look like in an age of climate crisis?
Andy Burnham has promised a 'pragmatic' approach to North Sea drilling, but who gets to decide what that word even means?
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
who doesn't love flying blind?? > UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about ​their climate risks #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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UK regulator abandons mandatory climate disclosures for listed companies
Britain's financial regulator has dropped plans to require listed companies to inform investors about ​their climate risks after firms raised concerns about implementation ‌costs and competitiveness.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/10/2026
📺 Watch our Party Political Broadcast tonight. Tune in on ITV1 and BBC One, or via our social media channels.
Green Party advert for party political broadcast, with picture of Zack Polanski. 

Text reads: Party Political Broadcast. Thursday, October 1. ITV 1: 6.25pm. BBC 1: 6.55pm.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ I’m not a fan of zealous language policing, but when the Telegraph, Spectator, Express etc. claim that the “Orwellian” Green Party is “banning” words like “father” & “mother”, I do object to this flagrant abuse of words like “ban” & “Orwellian”.
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There couldn’t possibly be some sort of election in the USA soon?
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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Ok, so to map out more fully *why* it's a problem for Burnham to accept hospitality from Everton. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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Ray Casey's Truth on Teesside account @raycasey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shame on the Darlo Labour. Leader Steve Harker, and deputy Chris McEwan voted against a probe into the Teesworks fiasco Shame on the Tories too, who were whipped by their master, Ben Houchen Darlington Council votes down call for NAO probe into TVCA and STDC northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Darlington Council votes down call for NAO probe into TVCA and STDC
Darlington councillors have rejected a Green Party motion calling on the government to enable a National Audit Office investigation into public spending connected to TVCA, Teesside Freeport and STDC
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
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Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026
If a politician crying on a stage in a speech he would have planned meticulously is all you need to jump back on board the Labour train, you were never really off it and care more about performative politics than actual cruelty.
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Much rhapsodising over Burnham’s conference speech, and sure, he’s at least claiming he’ll move beyond the inconsequential tinkering of his predecessors. But his failure to even mention the biggest problems facing the UK unfortunately means that even on his chosen issues, he will ultimately fail.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some good stuff in here, but missing one key word - climate That's right. Not a single mention of the greatest threat this country, and the world, have ever faced Really quite bizarre www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Burnham giving first Labour conference speech as prime minister - watch live
Under the plan, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.
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Alex Mace @alexmace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham spoke for an hour today at the Labour Party conference and only mentioned the climate once. He did not rule out more drilling in the North Sea. He did not rule out more runways. He did not talk about insulation or retrofitting.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really pleased to see the National Commission on Electoral Reform. But I remember the fate of the Jenkins Commission, so the “commitment” to implementing Proportional Representation *after* the next General Election leaves me somewhat apprehensive.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/09/2026
"It is clear that Labour needs the Greens to keep them in check everyday to push them towards the real transformation this country needs." @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the Prime Minister's speech at Labour conference.
HOPE IS NOT JUST A SLOGAN, IT NEEDS TO MEAN REAL CHANGE

ZACK POLANSKI
LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY

"Unlike his predecessor, we have a PM who talks like he gets it. But sadly like his predecessor he isn’t prepared to break from the powerful and wealthy interests that have created an inequality, affordability and a climate crisis.
 
Hope is not just a slogan, it needs to mean real change. The speech today had no wealth taxes, no rent controls, no water nationalisation and a strong hint of more North Sea drilling.
 
It is disappointing that we have a country ready to break from the last 40 years, a Labour government with the majority to do it, and yet what we see are more half measures, reannouncements and tinkering."

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a quick update on what I've been up to as your MP in the last couple weeks!
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 28/09/2026
Labour Chancellor John Healey gave a keynote speech at the party's conference today in Liverpool. In his speech, he forgot to mention some important topics.... 🧵⤵️
5 important topics Labour's chancellor ignored in speech.
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Colin Boyle @colinboyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like we can turn the world into paperclips all by ourselves.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking of people of Bangkok. Yes, they are used to floods, but this is huge scale. "The capital recorded 487mm of rain between Sept 1 and 25, compared to an average of 269mm for the same period from 1991 to 2020" #ClimateEmergency www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...
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All 50 Bangkok districts declared disaster areas
All 50 districts of Bangkok were declared disaster zones on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain that caused widespread flooding, traffic problems and disruptions to daily life.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

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Lewis Call @lewiscall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
End the genocide in Palestine. Divest from Palantir. Welcome refugees. Stand up against far right racism. Vote Zack Polanski for Holborn and St Pancras MP.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski with Muslim women in Camden.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thrilled to visit Oxfordshire’s first of the new Quiet Lanes: filtered to motor traffic, safe for us cyclists and walkers and horse-riders. First time I have ever felt safe to cycle to the fabulous Rectory Farm: love supporting local businesses.
Me in hi viz by the shepherds pit lane QLBike and QLEntrance now safe.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Europe is living its most extreme heat event in its history with 6 days >40C at the end of September 41,3C yesterday at Seville Thousands of stations up to 5C above their late September records 4000+ stations in Western,Central and Northern Europe will break records next days.
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published, kickstarting the modern environmental movement and enraging polluters. It eventually led to the pesticide DDT being banned and to Richard Nixon’s creation of the Environment Protection Agency which lasted until Trump destroyed it.
Silent Spring front cover
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