🏳️‍🌈 At today's Bradford Council meeting, the Conservatives will bring forward a motion to ban the flying of flags showing support and solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities, Palestine, Ukraine and many others. 🟢 Green Party councillors will oppose this divisive politics.

"A lot of these 'debates' - that aren't necessarily debates - they're just clickbait or just trying to fuel some sort of moral panic." Drag star Bimini talks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social about the bigotry behind media 'debates' on trans people, and why lived experience matters.

‼️ Andy Burnham is open-minded about giving the green light to oil and gas licences in the North Sea. ‼️ Ed Miliband is ready to approve production at the Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea. ⛔️ The Green Party are clear: there can be no new oil and gas in a #ClimateEmergency.

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💰 Farage's financial fallout continues ⬇️ ➡️ His personal approval ratings plummet. ➡️ And Reform polling down. ✅️ For politics that puts people and planet before personal interest: Join.greenparty.org.uk

🗣 “We’ve seen absolute chaos as a result of these recent temperatures, and such a massive human cost, yet we haven’t heard a peep from government about how they plan to protect us all.” 📰 Green MP Hannah Spencer to introduce bill on maximum workplace temperatures🌡 👏 💚

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "When we hear Andy Burnham say we need to cut welfare to essentially fund warfare, I don't think that's right - I don't think we should be pitting these things against each other." 👏👏👏

"Hatred is becoming normalised. Division is growing deeper." @zackpolanski.bsky.social criticises "grifters who lead these movements, or champion this hate or call unnecessary by-elections" Who could he be talking about? 🤔 Join the fightback: Join.greenparty.org.uk

📰 The number of days exceeding 30C in the UK more than trebled between 2015 and 2024 compared with the 1961-1990 average, according to the Met Office. 🔥 More heat records broken. 🔴 But Labour are still considering drilling for new oil and gas. Join.greenparty.org.uk

💩 Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Water bosses raking it in. ‼️ Nationalise water now!

"I will make sure that our district has a strong voice in this new group and within the LGA. Bradford's issues deserve to be heard nationally, and I intend to make sure they are." Cllr Matt Edwards on his election as Deputy Leader of Green group on Local Government Association.

💬 "This boring technocratic centrism has failed. It failed for Sunak, it failed for Biden, it failed for Starmer. People need something different." ✅️ Gary Stevenson is right - it's time for a wealth tax.

🗣 "He's very rarely in the constituency, he's very rarely in parliament. There was months when he didn't vote. It's called not doing your job!" 🔨 Hannah Spencer nails it. ➡️ Nigel Farage doesn't even do the job his constituents elected him to do. And then there's the money...

✋️This by-election is about one person, and one person only: Nigel Farage. ✅️ For politics that puts people and planet before self-interest, join the Green Party: Join.greenparty.org.uk

The allegations against Farage are mounting. So he resigns to avoid being sanctioned by parliament. This by-election is all about him, not the people of Clacton or the country. @zackpolanski.bsky.social was right: "he will do anything...if it personally benefits him."

‼️ Yorkshire Water downgraded to one-star rating. But boss (paid £3M over two years) says the 'future is bright' ⁉️ For who? Households? Shareholders? Or for herself? 🤔 The Green Party would bring water back into public ownership - for people, not profit ✅️

📰 ICYMI from the T&A ⬇️ Green Party Councillors representing the Holme Wood and Bierley ward have written to Bradford Council Leader, Councillor Stephen Place, calling for assurances that ongoing (bin) collection problems will be addressed. Read more ⬇️

💰 £5 million 'gift'. 💰 £1 million from nine second jobs. 💰 £22,500 an hour from gold bullion company. 💰 £££ from convicted criminal. 💰 Owns five homes. ➡️ Is Nigel Farage obsessed with money? 🔊 Sound up! ⬇️

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "The first priority for our new Prime Minister has to be a wealth tax." #WealthTaxNow

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "If Burnham is going to change course, he must put a halt to this government’s dangerous anti-migrant slant." ✅️ Safe and managed routes. ✅️ Break up the failing Home Office. ✅️ Allow asylum seekers to work. Join.greenparty.org.uk

🚰 Water must be brought back into public hands - for people, not profit. 🟢 Public ownership now.

"The next prime minister needs to act, and this time not in the interests of fossil fuel giants, but in the interests of the very people who trusted the government to make their lives more liveable." Hannah Spencer MP calls on Andy Burnham to tax wealth to bring bills down ✅️

“Residents are fed up and confused. People are doing everything right, putting their bins out earlier this week as asked because of the weather, and they are still not being collected." Councillor Iain McInnes calls on Reform-led Bradford Council to do better on bin collections. Read more ⤵️

🗣 "Engaging in a global arms race does not make the world more secure." ☮️ Ellie Chowns makes the case for a nuclear weapon-free world.

📈 Energy costs going up. Again. 🥀 Labour may not be doing anything about it, but the Green Party has a plan: 🟢 Move policy costs off bills before winter - saving £150 🟢 Break the link between electricity & gas 🟢 ⬆️ Renewables 🟢 Insulate homes 🟢 End profiteering

"It is a damning indictment of this Labour Government that, two years into their term, access to dental care remains a postcode lottery and millions of people are being left in pain without basic care they are entitled to." Adrian Ramsay calls for action to tackle dental crisis.

🤑 Only the Green Party will properly tax the multi-millionaires and billionaires. Join.greenparty.org.uk

🗨 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "We are the home of progressive politics" ✅️ Replace Labour. ✅️ Stop Nigel Farage becoming PM. Join the Green Party today, for real hope and real change: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Andy Burnham's speech made no mention of the #ClimateCrisis, included no commitment to public ownership of water and said nothing about the urgent need to properly tax the super-rich. Will this just be a Labour rebranding exercise? For the real deal: Join.greenparty.org.uk

‼️ Labour's Harriet Harman and Sarah Champion discuss why they think Labour MPs would support cutting disability benefits to fund military spending under Andy Burnham. Is this the type of change we will get from Burnham’s new government?