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Kate Martin

@ktmartin.bsky.social
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English and loving living in North Wales. 💚 Mountains, valleys, rivers and seas, even with more rain!

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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 4h
Lots of sympathy.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 5h
Caroline Lucas has always addressed inequality, increasing taxes on the wealthy, increasing spending on a range of public services as well as improved public provision, increasing minimum wage alongside a range of environmental and climate policies. It'd be in previous Green manifestos.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 5h
I didn't say that. I said their focus had changed. Caroline Lucas addresses a range of issues as leader but I still heard her messages on climate and environmental issues. In fact I still do
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 5h
Fabulous. Well worth the effort.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 5h
Many in the Greens do care about the environment and climate but their voices don't get heard so much.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 7h
It looks magical.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 7h
He should sack Hesgeth for this. I mean, he shouldn't have been anyway near the job in the first place.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 9h
The First FEMALE Chancellor. No more misogynistic Rachel from Accounts crap. No more listening to Osborne, Kwarteng and Hunt. Acknowledge the shitshow Rachel Reeves took over from and how she started to turn the economy around even with Trump in the WH & the effects of war in Europe and Iran.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah. Sorry I was agreeing with you. It's just vile.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13h
Yes. At last some in the media are really showing who they are. We need them to keep on at it.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14h
It's a comment on fantasising about sexual abuse.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14h
Yes. One of them fantasises about sexually abusing one of the Reform candidates as his daughter in a bath.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 18h
Ukrainian civilians are dying every day while Trump allies with Russia and paints Zelenskyy as the villain. There is blood on Trump’s and Musk’s hands as they pander to a brutally imperialist dictator and enable genocidal violence against Ukraine. They are complicit in Putin’s aims.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 16h
And Kwasi Kwarteng and George Osborne.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 17h
It wasn't. A female police officer was smashed on the back and badly injured. But let's ignore a female being attacked.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 17h
We can now see that political parties will promise whatever ... is quite a leap from the Reform documentary!
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Using sledge hammers to attack security guards and the police?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Absolutely this.Tell the people the facts and possible threats. Stop with the abstract 3% by 2030 or 3.5% by 2035 and say what is needed for our security and defence, now and in the future. We know, from Ukraine and other wars, that warfare, active and online, is changing.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
At least Meloni seems to be still on the side of Ukraine and calling out Trump and Putin.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
That's not produce. That's top quality produce.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
👏👏👏
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
But it's not down to this man? Celebrate the first female Chancellor, please.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So if you're can't access mains gas supply, as is the case in many rural places, including large areas of Scotland and Wales, you just pay the ever increasing prices for oil or lpg? Log burners aren't good for air pollution. And is heating by gas such a great thing for the climate emergency?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
As long as they remain our friends and don't vote in far right governments.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ditto Kwarteng and Osborne.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
And Farage.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/10/2026
Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time
Screenshot of a statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reporting a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv targeting critical energy infrastructure, including the CHPP-4 power plant. Zelenskyy says a residential building was also damaged and caught fire, warns of further Russian missile attacks, and criticizes the lack of advance warnings from Ukraine’s partners. An accompanying nighttime photo shows flames engulfing part of a multistory residential building, with debris scattered across the ground.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That must have been horrible and scary. I hope you're okay now.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The political action on the climate emergency has really developed over the last 10 years despite the noise from the right and the fossil fuels lobby.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Really? That's your argument?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
So who's attacking Caroline Lucas over her calling out the motion zionism is racism that was passed at the last Green conference?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A demand. Great. I love being told what to do.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The climate emergency and the actions needed.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I was on the telly.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They're so blinkered and unthinking. They've forgotten that they've joined the Green Party which used to focus on the climate emergency and environmental issues. Caroline Lucas was and is very successful at getting her message across on these and other issues.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They're only jealous of your misinforming skills.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes to a middle economic block alignment, including EU, but to watch the elections in major countries to minimise the risk of being in a group dominated by far right led governments.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes. And make it part of a much needed reform of the complex tax system the UK's ended up with.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Can you revive a zombie river? Our cities are full of rivers that have been buried in concrete after industrial pollution filled them with filth. But there's a global drive to bring them back: to "daylight" these forgotten rivers. I had a lovely day out in Sheffield today, seeing it actually happen.
Helen and six of the members of the Sheffield Castlegate project team, all in hard hats and fluorescent jackets.A worksite with a 12 metre wide trough dug into the ground, currently reinforced with large yellow metal bars across its width.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The only good thing about a Con, with Kemi, lead would be if it's at the expense of Reform and Farage. But a Con lead with no acknowledgement of what went so wrong from 2010 to 2019 would be depressing. But then again, the vote is currently still split between 5 parties.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes. But we have Healey. With the drive and intellectual understanding of a modern western economy and its demographics? The question is, why?
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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Starmer’s government inherited a criminal justice system failing in key areas: poor police investigations, low public trust, spiralling court delays and overflowing prisons. Dealt a bad hand, they've made some progress! They picked the right priorities to focus on, and saw some improvements.
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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NEW REPORT: Under Keir Starmer, England and Wales’s failing criminal justice services made tentative steps towards improvement. But the new government has already put this fragile progress at risk and real improvement requires more difficult political choices. 🧵
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Performance Tracker 2026: Criminal justice system | Institute for Government
The Starmer government made fragile progress on criminal justice, but sustaining this requires further action and difficult political choices.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No I hadn't heard of her. I think people are questioning the fairness on the way the press treat people and their personal lives from the different parties?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes but most houses aren't new build. Gas heating isn't good for the climate emergency.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But the move away from gas heating is necessary for the climate? I'm reading posts by people who work in the sector and they seem very much against this for the negative impact it'll have on non gas heating provision.
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So just carry on with gas heating? How is that okay for the climate?
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Kate Martin @ktmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But could it be mentioned so people knew of it?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’
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