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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Croydon Council taken to court over failure to provide services to residents Secret deal between the Conservative Mayor and Council officers to close the counter service is being challenged because it breaks the law and the Council’s own rules insidecroydon.com/2026/07/01/p...
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Perry’s council facing High Court threat over Access Croydon
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council is being dragged into the High Court next week to face claims that it is failing to meet its statutory responsibilities on housing as a consequence of making its offi…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hospital roofs replaced by rockets and guns. Buried in the smallprint - Starmer's defence plan means slashing funding for hospitals to pay for bullets and bombs. Will @andyburnham.bsky.social go along with this?
Ar the post pmqs lobby, the pms spokesperson didn't rule out cuts to some hospital building programmes to pay for increased defence spending
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Serving as an MP is a privilege and should be viewed as such by those who do the job – not as a part-time role or a get-rich-quick scheme. We need a ban on second jobs for MPs now.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As Tony Benn said, "If we can find money to kill people, we can find the money to help people." Labour prefer to kill people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer trims investment budgets to fund extra £15bn for defence
The plan outlines how billions will be spent on equipping the UK armed forces in the years ahead.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Labour – won’t tax wealth, will tax refugees Tells you everything you need to know about their twisted values www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Refugees would be told to repay around £10,000 under new asylum bill
The Home Office will be given powers to recover costs from adults who have received asylum support under new laws.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/06/2026
Three demands for Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham: Will he tax wealth? Fix our broken voting system? And end the gutting of local services? The challenges facing our country require real change.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/06/2026
"We do think we should be taxing the extremely wealthy. This isn't ordinary people's fault. This is fossil fuel giants. These are the people who need to be paying." Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward on cutting bills and making polluters pay.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Build, Baby, Build’ is just Thatcherite trickle-down economics - but letting rich people invest in luxury flats doesn’t build the affordable social housing we really need @rachelmillward.bsky.social on Green plans for a public owned housing developer www.placenorthwest.co.uk/green-party-...
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Green Party would radically change how we deliver housing - Place North West
The current profit-based model for building housing has not worked, argued the party’s deputy leader Rachel Millward at Housing 2026 in Manchester yesterday. Her solution is this: a new approach that ...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/06/2026
"The impacts of the climate and nature crisis are well and truly with us. A strong economy must be a resilient economy, a sustainable economy and a future-proofed economy." Zack Polanski speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference 2026: Delivering Growth.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As we sit sweltering in yet another day of record temperatures, we need to start turning up the heat on our elected politicians There is so much we can do to adapt to extreme heat - we need our councils and our government to start delivering insidecroydon.com/2026/06/26/i...
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In this heatwave, we need to turn up the heat on our politicians
CROYDON COMMENTARY: We know many of the measures we as a society, as a nation and as a borough, need to take to deal with the kind of heatwave that we have endured this week. PETER UNDERWOOD says i…
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Greens fight to make housing affordable While Labour defends developer profits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir Sadiq Khan's affordable homes target faces legal challenge
The mayor cut the affordable housing quota for new developments in London from 35% to 20%.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Our Government has a legal obligation to prevent genocide - No military support or arms for Israel - Boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Israeli state and complicit businesses - Prosecutions for people who have committed or enabled war crimes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
Israel rejects the new report by the three-member expert panel, calling it a "libellous sham".
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tackling the housing crisis starts with making better use of the properties that already exist Letting developers build more unsuitable and unaffordable properties just makes the problem worse We need to buy up empty properties to use as social housing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mayor urged to intervene in empty homes problem
It comes as about 2.7% of all homes in London are said to be empty - an 81% increase since 2016 when Sir Sadiq Khan became mayor.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In June 2024, then-Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper promised a Labour government would “overhaul”; the scheme entirely if it continued to fail. Almost two years on, promises have not been kept. re&utm_source=web_share_api&share=72de5df6-405b-415e-8fd2-3830d1360c35
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Honour Promises Made to Windrush Generations
Hey! 👋 Survivors of the Windrush scandal have been given apologies and memorials, but the reality is that many are still being denied fair compensation. 😔 On Windrush Day (22nd June) we're taking the ...
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Croydon Green and Independent Group. Working hard for Croydon
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Zack Polanski calls for Proportional Representation before the next election, to improve the quality of our democracy
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Climate breakdown is here. We must double down on efforts to decarbonise but that's not enough. We need new rights at work to protect us from climate danger - failing to act now will endanger workers' lives and cost our health service dearly.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Half measures or backsliding on climate action would be a moral and political failure from Andy Burnham." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Backsliding on climate would drive Labour into obscurity, Zack Polanski says
Debate in Labour and union movement over climate commitments as many call for Burnham not to allow drilling in North Sea
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/06/2026
A strong set of results in the local elections last night. Congratulations to our candidates, campaign teams and volunteers, and thank you to everyone who voted Green! 💚
Green Party by-election win in Woodside (Haringey) Council — Green 43.3% (+6.1), Labour 41.0% (+2.7), Reform 7.2% (+0.1), Conservative 4.6% (−2.4); green rosette shown with slogan Real hope. Real change.Green Party holds North Acton (Ealing) council by-election — GRN 30.2% (+1.4); LAB 24.1% (-4.6); LDM 19.6% (+8.3); RFM 11.6% (-0.1); prominent green rosette and Green Party logo.Green Party announces Dalston (Hackney) Council by-election win, listing results: GRN 57.7% (-2.6), LAB 36.0% (+6.9), RFM 2.7% (-0.1), LDM 2.5% (-2.0), states "Green HOLD" alongside a large green rosette and party logo.Green Party announces Hackney Central council by-election win, showing vote shares: GRN 45.3% (-1.6), LAB 41.9% (+12.4), LDM 5.6% (-1.6), RFM 4.0% (-0.7), with a large green rosette and the slogan "Real hope. Real change."
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As above, so below The changes in our climate could lead to far more subsidence and put millions of homes at risk Yet another reason why our Government needs go further and faster to prevent climate change www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Millions of homes in London, Essex and Kent at risk of sinking as climate crisis worsens
Analysis pinpoints areas most vulnerable to hotter, drier weather causing ground to shrink and drag foundations down
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/06/2026
Green MPs' response to the violent unrest in Belfast.
Green Party Logo. 
This morning we have seen the horrific reports from Belfast of people driven from their homes based on nothing but the colour of their skin, with some politicians, including some in the House of Commons, using a truly horrendous individual incident to blame a whole community.

Bold text: As Green MPs we condemn this scapegoating as racist, wrong and at odds with British values. 

Headshots of the Green MPs appear alongside a list of their names:
Sian Berry MP, Ellie Chowns MP, Carla Denyer MP, Adrian Ramsay MP, Hannah Spencer MP.


Green Party imprint.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/06/2026
"It's not a company that we should be commissioning because of their involvement in ICE in America and the genocide in Palestine." Mayor of Hackney Zoë Garbett on why Palantir should not be allowed contracts for our NHS and policing on LBC’s Cross Questions.
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A fairer voting system is better for all of us It’s obvious we need to get rid of the First-Past-The-Post system. We already use PR systems in the UK for lots of elections and we should be using them for Councils and Westminster @makevotesmatter.bsky.social insidecroydon.com/2026/06/08/w...
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We need new election system which makes all votes matter
CROYDON COMMENTARY: One month on from Croydon’s local elections, PETER UNDERWOOD, pictured right, takes another look at our electoral system There is a growing consensus that FPTP, the first-…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
From bakers to farmers to anyone running a small business - rip-off Britain is squeezing us all. It's time for a real plan to secure our food resilience: supporting farmers, bringing down costs for small businesses, and giving workers proper rights and decent pay.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have written to the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson, calling for the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice to be rejected. Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
Image is a letter. It reads: Dear Keir and Bridget,
Reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice
I am writing as Interim Women and Equalities lead of the Parliamentary Green Party to raise
serious concerns over proposed guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission,
which is not fit for purpose and will harm trans people living in the UK.
The Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations is the culmination of
years of well-funded campaigns to drive a minority group out of British public life. It sets out
a system of segregation where trans people are excluded from services and spaces that reflect
their gender, and in some cases also excluded from services and spaces that reflect their sex
assigned at birth. Where unisex facilities exist, trans people will be forced into them. Where
they do not exist, trans people will be left with nowhere to go.
Your own Equalities Impact Assessment1 on the code admits there will be a significant
impact on those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment - from forcing trans
people to out themselves by using disabled toilets to putting trans women at greater risk of
sexual violence by making them use men’s services.
The Code of Practice is both cruel and confusing. Inconsistencies between the Code of
Practice and its Equalities Impact Assessment, the Gender Recognition Act and the European
Convention on Human Rights will leave organisations and service providers at risk of
litigation from all sides. Frontline staff in spaces like cafes, gyms, and offices will be forced
to police gender, whilst the costs of creating self-contained gender neutral facilities are
estimated by your advisors as reaching £600m, which the government is providing no
funding to cover.2 I am pleased to see associations, like the Women’s Institute and
Girlguiding, given a potential route to serving trans and cisgender women, but this does not
counteract the pain caused by the majority of the guidance.

Letter continued: By enacting this guidance, trans people will simply be scapegoated. Research by Translucent
found there was just one complaint to English Unitary Authorities in 2025 concerning trans
women’s use of single-sex spaces, such as toilets and changing rooms.3 By refusing to act,
your government is once again playing politics with trans people’s lives, rather than tackling
real problems, like the soaring cost of living, rising inequality and the ongoing climate
crisis.

Trans people of all ages and backgrounds exist in communities across the country - and
always have. They have every right to thrive just as their cisgender friends, family members,
and colleagues do. When Labour brought in the Gender Recognition Act in 2004 it promised
trans people they could live their lives with peace, privacy, and dignity. Now you are
breaking that promise.
I believe there is a real risk of trans people being essentially segregated from public spaces. I
urge you to withdraw the code and take legislative action to create an equalities framework
that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
How Labour-Tory marriage of convenience is failing Croydon insidecroydon.com/2026/06/06/h... #Croydon #LabCon @croydongreens.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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How Labour-Tory marriage of convenience is failing Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the Green Party deliberately excluded from the planning committee by a Labour-Tory pact at the Town Hall, new councillor PAUL AINSCOUGH, pictured left, says that the boroug…
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Croydon Green Party @croydongreens.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Labour and Conservatives are working together to keep all the power for themselves, prevent any scrutiny, and stop residents having a say Greens are now effectively the opposition party on Croydon Council insidecroydon.com/2026/06/06/h...
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How Labour-Tory marriage of convenience is failing Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the Green Party deliberately excluded from the planning committee by a Labour-Tory pact at the Town Hall, new councillor PAUL AINSCOUGH, pictured left, says that the boroug…
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Labour keep spouting stupid slogans like ‘build baby build’ and repeating the lie of ‘affordable housing’ If we want to really fix the housing crisis the Government must give Councils the money to buy up empty properties and build new housing to rent out www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/06/2026
Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide. The experts already have. A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading human rights organisations all agree: it's genocide. Andy, why won't you call it what it is?
CALL IT WHAT
IT IS:
GENOCIDE

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/06/2026
@sianberry.bsky.social MP for Brighton Pavilion, discusses why she is leading a parliamentary campaign against Palantir on LBC this morning.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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How Labour-Tory marriage of convenience is failing Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: With the Green Party deliberately excluded from the planning committee by a Labour-Tory pact at the Town Hall, new councillor PAUL AINSCOUGH, pictured left, says that the boroug…
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/06/2026
Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/06/2026
“Those who seek to use this tragedy to incite violence, create division in our communities and further their own political ambitions, are deeply irresponsible and deserve no place in our public life.” - Siân Berry MP for Brighton Pavilion
A quote graphic from Siân Berry MP for Brighton Pavilion which states:
 
“Those who seek to use this tragedy to incite violence, create division in our communities and further their own political ambitions, are deeply irresponsible and deserve no place in our public life.”
 
“We also reject attempts to scapegoat the entire Sikh community for an act carried out by a single individual and we stand in solidarity with them.”
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Labour's secret deal with Tories to block Greens on planning insidecroydon.com/2026/06/01/l...
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Labour’s secret deal with Tories to block Greens on planning
EXCLUSIVE: Once the election results were in last month, Croydon’s Labour leader agreed what’s been called ‘a shabby, short-sighted stitch-up’ to keep Green councillors away…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Go Greens!!
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
First they came for the trans women…. Then they came for women who wanted an abortion…. Then they came for women who are feminists… Are you speaking out, or cheering them on? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Oppressing women is how authoritarianism begins. So listen to what Reform is saying | Zoe Williams
We saw it when Russia jailed members of Pussy Riot, and again when the US overturned Roe v Wade: misogyny is a powerful political weapon. Let’s focus on fighting it, not ‘understanding’ it, writes Zoe...
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Disposable barbecues are a danger to life and should have been banned by now Please don’t buy them and definitely don’t use them in any green space www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Londoners told not to use disposable barbecues in heatwave
Heat health alerts have been issued in what is being forecast as London's first heatwave of the year.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
6.1 million people across the UK are living in fuel poverty. Meanwhile BP are doubling their profits during the energy crisis. Pleased to see the Mayor agree with my call to keep the energy cap in place. We have to lower people's bills.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
With the updated EHRC code of practice, the Government is still leaving trans people with a real fear of being excluded from essential services and public spaces. My statement in full: greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...
Image is a quote graphic that reads: “The draft guidance will mean trans people are barred from services they have previously had no issue accessing, and service providers who want to be inclusive will be putting themselves at legal risk.


“The Government has failed so it is now up to Parliament to reject this document and instead create a legal framework with clear and equal rights for all, which protects trans people’s rightful place in society.”
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Dairy #FactoryFarming - another awful element of our broken #FoodSystem, where supermarkets and multinational manuufacturers are allowed to call the tune www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise
Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Why is our Government hiding the dangers we face from climate and nature breakdown? Please sign this petition calling on the Government to hold an emergency briefing from leading experts so the public know the risks and understand why we must act. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
People's Emergency Briefing - Claimate & Nature Crisis

with an image of Chris Packham looking at the earth
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UN vote confirms that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change - the only opposition comes from those trying to make a profit from our own destruction Our Governments need to stop being destroyers and start being saviours www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution
The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20/05/2026
Today's Climate Change Committee report warns our way of life is under threat from heat, flooding, and drought. The Government must take concrete steps to protect people's lives and introduce a Climate Protection Unit in Number 10.
Quote graphic, quoting Green MP Adrian Ramsay saying "The most fundamental duty of any government is to keep the public safe, and yet today’s CCC report shows we are sleepwalking towards catastrophe and the government is failing to meet the moment. That is why today I am calling on the Prime Minister to establish a dedicated Climate Protection Unit in Number 10, with the sole purpose of working cross-department to drive forward the recommendations in this report."
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 19/05/2026
We support the Global Sumud Flotilla. The Israeli Navy has forcibly stopped the flotilla near Cyprus, detained 12 UK nationals, and reportedly fired upon remaining vessels. The UK government has a duty to protect its citizens and must condemn these actions and demand that aid is allowed into Gaza.
Graphic that says We Support the Global Sumud Flotilla. We refuse to stand by while Israel's illegal siege starves Gaza. These boats carry more than aid. They carry a message. The genocide ends when the world finally rises up.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Strong #GetGreensElected foundation built by @croydongreens.bsky.social, looking to the future. (Reminder there's also a Tory mayor who just hung on)
Councillors Labour 30, Tory 28, Green 8 (up 6), Lib Dem 2, Reform 2
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Independent are predicting a Green win in Croydon – but it’s incredibly close and it will only happen if you vote for it If you want a real change for the better #VoteGreen on May 7th www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
screenshot from the article showing Croydon coloured pale Green with the caption:
Croydon
Current control: NOC
Predicted winner: Green minority
Seat projection Lab-12 Green +11, Con -4
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Horrendous attack in Golders Green. Thinking of the victims, their families and everyone who will once again be shaken by this attack. Thank you to all of those involved with the emergency response.
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