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Cllr Chloe Turner

@minchchloe.bsky.social
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🌿Green Party councillor 🌿Leader of Stroud District Council 🌿Member of Gloucestershire County Council for Minchinhampton division

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How do we fix this mess?
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
We have a leadership election coming up in the @greenparty.org.uk It’s a strong field, but for me the future of our party clearly sits best in the hands of @elliechowns.bsky.social & @adrianramsay.bsky.social, who have shown how to win & use power to secure positive change #TogetherWeWin
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This month’s Shopping List from #Stroud District Foodbank, if you’re in a position to donate
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The candidates in the @greenparty.org.uk leadership election are all inspiring leaders, but I’m backing @elliechowns.bsky.social and @adrianramsay.bsky.social because they’ve blown me away with what they’ve achieved in Parliament in their first year 💚
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Some of the spontaneous floral diversity in my lawn this #NoMowMay ☺️
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Join Ellie Chowns and I on Tuesday 20 May at 8pm for our online launch event. Come and hear our thoughts and ideas about how we can make transformational change in our party, in our communities and in the halls of power at every level of government. Sign up: mailchi.mp/ellie-adrian...
Promotional image for Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay’s Green Party Co-Leader campaign. They are standing outdoors in front of greenery, smiling. Ellie is wearing a teal blazer and white top, while Adrian wears a light pink shirt and blue blazer. The text reads: "Ellie & Adrian – Together We Win", "Support us – Together We Win", and includes the website "www.ellie-adrian-2025.org". A disclaimer at the bottom states the material is campaign-related and not an official communication from the Green Party of England and Wales.
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🥁The first cows will return to #Minchinhampton and #Rodborough Commons from tomorrow! 🥁 🙏Please keep speeds low, especially at dusk & in poor weather 🎉And all welcome at the @nationaltrust Marking Day celebration at the Old Lodge this Sat, 17th May, 11am - 3pm
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great to see @elliechowns.bsky.social and @adrianramsay.bsky.social launch this campaign As a party, we’re growing fast, united & serious about power. So impressed with both Ellie & Adrian for all they’ve achieved as Green MPs, & now would be proud to see them lead us #TogetherWeWin
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ten bird species singing on Besbury Common this morning, including a lovely nuthatch, and lots of encouraging signs of spring
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Good to join you at the table at the first meeting of the Emergency Board @minchchloe.bsky.social Thames Water does not deserve the £3bn gift from the Govt. They have failed and must be put into #PublicOwnership NOW!
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks @tom--scott.bsky.social Great to see so many people out there today committed to holding Thames Water to account 💦 #weownit #saveourrivers #sewagescandal
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
At the RCJ for the inaugural “Emergency Board” of Thames Water, standing up for the bill-payers, workers & natural environment of Gloucestershire, while closed door discussions take place re the company’s future inside. Give us a seat at the table! With @greenjennyjones.bsky.social & Steve Williams
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great to hear from @renishaw.bsky.social Stroud Brewery & Howard Tenens, & other #StroudDistrict businesses about their fantastic sustainability work at the Local Strategic Partnership today. A reminder that we can vote with our feet by spending our 💰 at our many great, ethical & local businesses
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New lows for the government today, with the aid budget slashed and no UK minister sent to the Rome nature convention 😰
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Liverpool Green Party 🐦 @liverpool.greenparty.org.uk · 12/02/2025
Ukrainians yes, Palestinians no. Is there a word for that?
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This webinar was a really helpful dive into the practical implications of climate change for council service lines and how councils will need to react and transform - slides will be shared here localpartnerships.gov.uk/resources/tr...
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Replay - transformation programme webinar
In this free transformation programme webinar, we will draw on our experiences working with authorities at all stages of their transformation journey
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Many thanks to @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social for publishing my article on access to justice: www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
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Justice denied
Law For Change was born out of frustration at the wretched state of public law enforcement in the UK.
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The beautiful Peace Doves in #Tewkesbury Abbey. 9000 paper doves, each decorated with messages of love and peace by local schools, community groups, and residents. Such a lovely reflective space 🕊️ www.tewkesburyabbey.org.uk/peace-doves-...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@adamhorowitz.bsky.social Little Metropolis at the @goodonpaper.bsky.social party last night, highlight of a great night #Stroud 🎶 ✨
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Nice little biodiversity oases these green lampposts (plants and bird/insect boxes), just off Oxford St
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Green polling average is higher & staying higher than anything I can remember. Our membership is higher than I can remember (close to 60,000), we just got our best ever General Election result and we've quadrupled our cllrs in the last 5 years. Now is the time join join.greenparty.org.uk
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’d welcome support from local Labour friends and colleagues to push back against this terrible plan. This is surely not what you voted for? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Watch Rachel Reeves' major speech as chancellor lays out Heathrow plans
Watch as Rachel Reeves made a major speech on the economy on Wednesday (29 January), during which she pledged to “fight” for “growth” and said that Britain “can do so much better.”
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Heavy rain held off just long enough this pm for a really enjoyable couple of hours chatting to residents in Thrupp about their county council concerns. Lots of worries about local government reorg, the logic of which is a mystery to us all, but helpful to be able to talk through the practicalities.
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Worcester Green Party @worcestergreens.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Well said @carladenyer.bsky.social This government deliberately chose yesterday to prevent voting on a law that would have been pivotal in tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. Shameful.
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Failed by Labour 😞 So much work from so many into this Bill, from @carolinelucas.bsky.social who first brought it to Parliament, to the amazing @zero-hour.bsky.social team, @rozsavagemp.bsky.social for bringing it today, & everyone who’s done so much to champion it🌿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Climate and Nature Bill falls as MPs vote to end debate - BBC News
The proposed law would have compelled the UK to meet new legally binding targets on climate change.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The government is ousting the head of the Competition & Markets Authority on the grounds that the CMA is not "sufficiently focused on growth" (*not* its role). He's being replaced by a former boss of Amazon UK. Grim even by Keir Starmer's standards. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2025
The Government are planning to approve expansions in a desperate attempt to boost 'economic growth'. Four UK airport expansions including Heathrow would cancel out the carbon savings of Labour's clean energy plans in just five years. The Government must rethink.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
NO MORE AIRPORT EXPANSION
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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQClimate Change Committee:
"There should be no net airport expansion."
"We must ask who these decisions would be made for and why. Whose advice is the Government listening to, when record-high wealth inequality is causing harm to the economy and society in many different ways, while frequent flying is the preserve of the super-rich?"
Siân Berry MP, Brighton Pavilion
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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When things seem a bit much,as they often do this century, I find making positive changes helps. Here’s a change you could make today, our voices are needed more than ever. join.greenparty.org.uk
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Great to discuss the #CANBill tonight with #Gloucestershire MPs, @zero-hour.bsky.social and a brilliant group of young people from across the county. God speed to @rozsavagemp.bsky.social and cross-party supporters in Parliament on Friday 🌿
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There is something in the simplicity from this Guardian politics summary…
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
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Worcester Green Party @worcestergreens.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"The Green Party is clear – President Trump is a misogynist, a racist, a convicted criminal and, we believe, a fascist." The joint statement from our Co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay can be found here: greenparty.org.uk/2025/01/20/s...
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Statement ahead of President Trump's inauguration: "a dangerous turn toward right-wing populism" - Green Party
Green Party Co-Leaders, Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer released a joint statement ahead of President Trump’s inauguration saying:  “We must stand up for peace and democracy in what will be a dangerous...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Lammy praises Trump’s “incredible grace & generosity” on #BBCR4today. His earlier verdict was more accurate (“dishonest, xenophobic”). A man who made “criminal efforts” to overturn 2020 election result, who will trash climate & nature & threaten minorities. Solidarity with all who feel fear today
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
River & lakeside walk in the Cotswold Water Park this morning, Cetti’s warbler and treecreeper👌
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 16/01/2025
This is by far the most wonderful story I've read all week. I'll be linking to it in tomorrow's newsletter. I haven't seen it get too much attention so I'm sharing it here as well. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar
Women with little to no formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Please sign. Please repost.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Vital reading for the government with its current obsession with growth at all costs (growth of what and for whom is never spelt out). A commitment to restore nature was conspicuous by its absence from PM’s Plan for Change, launched last month - that urgently needs to change 👇
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Window to stop decline of England’s nature closing fast, watchdog says
Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The conversation around the climate crisis isn’t to change or not to change – change is coming for us whether we’re ready or not. Time for leaders to take their heads out of the sand - we need to decarbonise, fast, and make our communities resilient. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Economic growth could fall 50% over 20 years from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Office for Environmental Protection review says of 43 environmental targets: 9 on track, 12 partially on track and 20 off track Says: “This gov must act urgently and decisively to catch up.… It has several legally-binding commitments only a few years away. The window of opportunity is closing fast”
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This Government has the chance to get on track to meet legal environmental commitments – but the window of opportunity is closing fast warns OEP | Office for Environmental Protection
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Beautiful spooky sunset coming over the common on my bike earlier tonight
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Off to #Gloucester this morning to chair the Environment Scrutiny Committee at the county council, which today is a deep dive into Gloucestershire’s public transport system (and its shortcomings). Looking forward to pressing officers on what more GCC can do to improve matters on all things 🚊 🚌 🚈
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Alarmed by so many aspects of Labour’s rushed AI plans - opening up of our data to bad actors, job losses, bias in policy development (and the small matter of “unleashing” something with vastly more processing capacity the human brain…) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Greens oppose plans to postpone (read cancel) the May 2025 elections in Gloucestershire stroud.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/01...
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Greens oppose ‘desperate and undemocratic’ plans to postpone Gloucestershire County Council elections
Gloucestershire Greens say the Gloucestershire County Council elections in May must go ahead, for the sake of public trust in local democracy.
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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I love Love to Ride!
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just signed up for Glos Toads on Roads for the first time, excited to meet the amphibians of #Chalford 🐸 Here’s the form if you’d like to do the same www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ee6...
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
No devolution of power in Labour’s plans to do away with the tier of local govt most people call “the council”, the reverse 😩 Services still needed, but delivered more remotely, with less accountability & community engagement. And in the process, huge cost, resource & recruitment challenges 🤯
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Cllr Chloe Turner @minchchloe.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
💡Digital tech is a huge help in my role as a councillor, but I’m increasingly conscious of my digital carbon footprint and looking to reduce it ✅Great tips here if you’d like to join me davidsuzuki.org/living-green... ✅And for small businesses, here: www.southoxon.gov.uk/wp-content/u...
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How to reduce your digital carbon footprint
Every email, website visit and item streamed has an environmental cost. Tread lightly in the virtual and real world. Reduce your digital carbon footprint.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 01/01/2025
Today marks the introduction of Zero Emission Zones (ZEZ) in major portions of 14 Dutch cities, including Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Delft—intended to decarbonize the logistics sector while increasing the attractiveness of urban areas and decreasing air/noise pollution.🧵
Photos of the newly-introduced Zero Emission Zone in the center of Rotterdam, which only permits electric vans and trucks, as well as cargo bikes, to enter.
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Andrew Bell @agreenbell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
"Stop fantasising about a decarbonised utopia and start acting on resilience-building strategies that can protect our communities and steward a path through the rising tide of trouble." Great piece by @rupertread.bsky.social on the need to refocus on adaptation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won't happen – so here’s what to do instead | Rupert Read
With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods, says Rupert Read of Climate Majority
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