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Cllr Corin Ashwell

@corinja.bsky.social
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Green Party councillor for #Sydenham, #Lewisham Cabinet member for Environment, Transport, Nature & Climate Action lewisham.greenparty.org.uk/

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Alexi Dimond @alexidimond.bsky.social · 16h
The time is now for community energy! Last Saturday me and Cllr Ruth Abbey attended the Places of Worship Energy Resource (Sheffield POWER) launch event, hosted by Sheffield Community Energy. It was fantastic to be part of such a positive event!
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 16h
What a day: meetings about plant-based diets, proposals to help with high street waste, video call with London Councils Transport & Environment committee, out talking to businesses in Deptford, then a school streets workshop. Followed by evening of emails. And making family dinner. Phew.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/09/2026
"Miliband was right to highlight the threat that climate breakdown poses to our national security – though the full extent of these threats, highlighted by UK intelligence agencies in a report last year, have never been fully released." Adrian Ramsay asks: where does Labour stand on climate?
WHERE DOES LABOUR STAND ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS?

ADRIAN RAMSAY
MP FOR WAVENEY VALLEY

"Miliband asked where each and every party stands on tackling the climate crisis.
The Green Party is unequivocal: it means no new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. It means no green light for a third runway at Heathrow. It means massive investment in our homes, green energy sources and transport in ways that both tackle the climate crisis and cut people’s bills.

So we ask Labour: where do you stand on these issues?"

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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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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry
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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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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICYMI: In the latest issue of London Cyclist magazine, we caught up with some of the newest cycle cafes to open in the capital ☕️ Check out the full feature 👇️
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London's Cycling Cafes
Cycling and café culture share a long history, so we sent Sam Stephenson and Tom Bogdanowicz on a very special coffee run to visit some newer names...
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Buses v cycling? A 🧵... Too often, the bus 'industry' defaults to attack cycling as cause of buses (in London) getting slower & slower. Good to see that somewhat countered here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i... by @theguardian.com data team. 1. Bus speeds dropping is a "global problem"... 1/13
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London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised
As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society
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Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️ @corin-ja.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Swapped the default search on my phone from duckduckgo to ecosia, let's see how we get on www.ecosia.org
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 20/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford his basic needs like groceries with his basic income alone and that his job should pay for all the fun stuff because that's the point of a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Delightful session at the Ruskin Park community sauna in Camberwell this afternoon, what a superb way to relax & invigorate of a weekend. Easy to get train from Crofton Park to Denmark Hill to get there too. www.community-sauna.co.uk/locations/ca...
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Camberwell | Outdoor Sauna & Cold Plunge in Ruskin Park, London - Community Sauna Baths
Sweat, plunge, and chill at our outdoor sauna in Ruskin Park, Camberwell. Featuring four saunas, plunge pools, showers, and marsh garden views. Book your session now.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 20/09/2026
The sun is shining at the #LondonCycingFestival today ☀️ Great to see so many families enjoying themselves 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 Well done @londoncycling.bsky.social
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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Terrible policy when domestic transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in the UK. We need to be going all-in on helping people AWAY from reliance on fossil fuels, not subsidising their use even more than we already do.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 18/09/2026
Wonderful to join the New Cross Bike Bus this morning - enabling so many families to cycle to local schools in Lewisham. With over 870 school streets, more & more children are walking & cycling to school in London - a healthy, green and fun way to start the day 💚
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Great to be starting my constituency tour today. Over the next three weeks, I'll be visiting halls and pubs across market towns and villages, talking to you about my work representing you in Parliament and listening to your views.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Lewisham Mayor’s Business Awards are open for voting & loads of fantastic local businesses have made the shortlist. lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/b...
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Business Awards 2026
The Mayor of Lewisham Business Awards are a yearly opportunity to celebrate our local businesses and acknowledge the outstanding contribution they make to the borough.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is it with people & gum? I don’t chew it myself but if I did I’d put it in a tissue and find a bin when done with it, not stick it to the underside of any available bench or table
Underside of a bench at a station platform with several pieces of used gum stuck to it.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have a great chippie near us, Brockley’s Rock, but it’s a rare treat because it is expensive now. As it should be really, given fish stocks and the environmental cost of fishing. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Can fish and chip shops survive? ‘We made more money by closing than staying open’
Soaring fish prices, labour costs and changing tastes all spell bad news for Britain’s chippies. Is this the end for the seaside staple – or will a few innovators succeed in keeping them alive?
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think it’s a symptom, not a cause of selfishness in society, and also probably a big dose of “up yours” to acceptable behaviour & norms, which speaks to a feeling of impotence amongst many.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’; accompanied by deregulation of the City, weaken the authority of the courts. That would be the return on donations by the super-rich. Cost borne by the old, sick, disabled, unfortunate; cuts to public services.
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Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’
Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“United we stand, divided we fall” - @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social Across the country, everyday people are coming together to show that love will always be stronger than hate. Start organising in your local communities today. 🔗 actionnetwork.org/forms/regist... 📷 Together Festival Liverpool
Diverse group gathered on grass outside a brick building for a community rally, posing with signs reading "FARAGE FREE ZONE" and bright event posters promoting a Liverpool celebration.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A summer of extreme heat, wildfires, and drought have shown we cannot afford to wait until 2028 for the next National Adaptation Plan - urgent action is needed now.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Enjoyed Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari film. A little confused why I keep seeing heartwarming Hollywood big budget movies about how terrible living in a billionaire oligarchy is, yet we keep doing it.
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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform have made £72m from two donors in a single day. Absolutely obscene. And Labour refuse to cap political donations. The Green Party are funded and powered by you. Please donate to help us win Holborn & St Pancras today! donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...
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Donate to the Green Party - Green Party
We need your help to stand up to the billionaires backing other major parties and fight for social, environmental and climate justice. Donate now.
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Busy morning at Sydenham ward surgery taking to residents & dealing with casework, followed by a short ride to the Perry Vale ward assembly to present the work we’re doing on #LoveLewisham Lots of great responses from the active community there. Very hopeful.
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 11/09/2026
The role lynx can play in woodland regeneration and ecosystem repair should be a key consideration for the UK Government's ambitions for nature. Thanks to @joshnewburymp.bsky.social  for raising this issue: f.mtr.cool/uqz0sqdcdt
Lynx among autumn leaves with text urging Labour to be ambitious and restore what's been lost.Lynx in grass with quote that reintroducing lynx could aid nature restoration and rural communities - Josh Newbury MP
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gosh, I wonder what could go wrong? 🤦 "Has been one of Europe’s fastest-growing hedge funds and quickly developed a reputation for using leverage to take big concentrated bets on the debt of struggling corporates" www.ft.com/content/a621...
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London hedge fund Arini hit by Europe’s thorniest credit trades
Exposure to Aston Martin and Altice International has weighed on fund run by 35-year-old Hamza Lemssouguer
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Plug-in solar in Britain is (already) starting to get a lot cheaper than at launch week. More products are being signed off as compliant, as hoped/expected. This is more like it. And I imagine prices will come down a fair amount further still.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"... Montgomerie's resignation is symptomatic of the party's failing bid to replace the Conservatives as the preferred political choice of the ruling class."
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The Null Montie
Without a doubt this has been the worst week in Reform's short history. Their party conference was meant to draw a line under Nigel Farage's...
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Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️ @corin-ja.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
So #eotr26 was everything I hoped it would be. Weather stayed fine, great festival loos & showers, delicious food, even better beer & cider, and such incredible #music. Probably too many highlights to list but M(h)aol, caroline, ØXN, Nana Benz du Togo, Felice Brothers, Folk Bitch Trio, and the […]
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He’s running. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...
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Exclusive: Green Party leader Zack Polanski tells CNJ he WILL go for Holborn and St Pancras
Green leader lays out hopes for by-election
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Excited for @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras seat, it’s a good choice for him. No small task but if we can get across our message, that we are a party that genuinely challenges the status quo & established power, hopefully that will resonate with voters.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
'Bring back premature death, lung damage in children and more hospital admissions' is quite the bold campaign slogan.
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Solve the School Run @solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're dreading all this, give us a follow and share this post to support our campaign for healthier, safer and more pleasant school runs. #streetsforkids #londonparents #saferoads #schoolsstreets #activetraveltoschool
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James McAsh @jamesmcash.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our local MP, Miatta Fahnbulleh, faces a choice: protect the planet and the people of Peckham or prioritise the profits of polluters. Help her make the right one. Tell her: No New Oil & Gas. Sign the petition 📝 www.southwarkgreenparty.org.uk/nonewoilandgas
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The number of times I delete a social media viral-type post after realising I failed to read the assignment, I should just give up trying to be cool 😆
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Imagine living so well that even the mourning of your death is an expression of collective joy. We were going to do a paragraph each for @theartsdesk.bsky.social but... you can't just write one paragraph about Dolly. Anyway, here's some more thoughts and memories theartsdesk.com/new-music/do...
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Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️ @corin-ja.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
I’ve always had time for #GordonBrown but I do get annoyed with Nu Lab centrism with passive assertions like “we’ve lost [a] sense of social obligation” rather than my view which is that neoliberal radicals have deliberately undermined & imposed economics inimical to social solidarity. He almost […]
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 28/08/2026
Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe (Dover) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 28.8% (+2.7) ➡️ RFM: 27.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 17.1% (-16.0) 🌹 LAB: 14.6% (-9.2) ◼️ RES: 10.7% (New) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) No LDM (-9.0) or HER (-7.9) as previous. Green GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2023.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🎉 A historic win for Greens in Dover. ✊🏽 We will always take the fight and win against Reform, Restore or whatever the far-right call themselves. 💚 We will always champion our communities. We will always put people before profit.
Poll showing greens beating reform 28.8 to 27.5
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Good result for @kent-green-party.bsky.social last night in by-election for Dover ward of Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret’s www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/g...
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Green Party triumph in council by-election as right-wing vote splits
A by-election dubbed the “fight for the right” handed the Green Party a historic victory last night by just 34 votes.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I've written a big-ish piece on the rollout of plug-in solar in Britain, and some important facts being left out of nearly all coverage (I couldn't resist, sorry...) bylinetimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
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The Small Print Ministers Left Out of the Plug-In Solar Announcement
A single company currently holds a monopoly on compliant devices, and planning restrictions, renter protections and grid registration rules have barely been mentioned
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is very worrying. The idea that carbon capture can compensate for #Rosebank emissions suits the oil industry and must sound appealing to Gov. But it’s total BS for a number of reasons. Please read and share Andrew Boswell’s explanation below. 🙏o
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If a petition gets 100,000 signatures it will be considered for a debate in parliament. currently at 27,592: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... mediasovereignty.org/petition/ please share.
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Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Saw headline on this & thought it'd be Labour Party apologism, but actually it presents a decent case. If true that Jackdaw gas would be supplied to & used in UK I can see an argument for it. Not so sure about the certainty on CCS for Rosebank, though www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Can even see this effect at a local level, where we’ve allowed wildflower meadows to grow or created areas of local parks that aren’t mown monoculture they’ve remained green in face of 5 heatwaves www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At City Hall this afternoon, very exciting!
Selfie of me - middle aged white man - in front of City Hall
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Cllr Corin Ashwell @corinja.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congratulations to all the young people getting their GCSE results across #Lewisham today. I spent the morning celebrating at St Matthew’s in Blackheath where the pupils have achieved phenomenal results. Credit to staff & leadership & a lot of hard work!
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