Lynne Jones
@lynnejonesorguk
Grandmother with gammy knee, fearful for the future of humankind whilst ruled over by the rich & powerful. Want real change and real democratic accountability. ♥️Dysgu Cymraeg. Was Labour MP now @TheGreenParty 🌱 Sir Faesyfed & La Alpujarra
Heading for more nature depletion not the urgent restoration needed. No confidence that @andyburnham.bsky.social gets the importance of this. Nature depletion and climate change mean less food. Soaring costs. Fundamental to #CostOfLiving From @theweek.com
Back in 2006, I was part of a delegation of women from the Birmingham-Ramallah Twinning Committee detained at Tel Aviv airport and deported - despite meetings with a representative of the Israeli Embassy who was given a full inventory of our proposed visit to Ramallah. Here’s what happened:
Question in the Lords from @greenjennyjones.bsky.social To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of any slowing or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on their economic planning:
Will be out hunting for them on our moor. Hope we have had enough rain this year!
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social betony in my garden - gently spreading
Horses back of our house near the quarry that provided the stone for our Ty-un-nos. Happy summer solstice!
@mrmarkethomas.bsky.social @vincegomez.com @richardjmurphy.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social Apparently the OECD thinks the “household budget” is a good analogy for politicians to use to help voters understand the importance of debt cutting measures. From @theweek.com
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Someone who looks at Facebook (I don’t) sent me this recent post of yours. Aptly nice!
Zack works all the hours god sends but mostly in London & England. Only Cardiff in Wales. I’m working in rural areas doing small events like this. Lovely atmosphere but our efforts diluted. Wales votes are on a knife edge. Green supporters will vote PC ‘cos, wrongly think that’s way to stop Reform.
Our lead candidate @nathangj96.bsky.social for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd made a great speech at the launch of @walesgreenparty.bsky.social Manifesto! Hope you’ll be able to find some time to visit us. We also have a County Council by election in Llandrindod South, with a great candidate
Hi Zack, We’ve got a by election for a Powys County Council seat in Llandrindod South on 7 May, same day as Senedd election when we could gain at least one MS. We have a wonderful candidate, Janet Barker. Let’s get her elected!
4 crops — rice, maize, wheat and oil palm — account for 67% of all global emissions from crops”
Condolences! Here are some primroses (wild garlic not yet in flower but flowers of lungwort peeking through).
Won’t be long before the wild garlic “crop” in the shady parts of the garden is available for eating! Helping to fill the #HungryGap
@nathangj96.bsky.social Good to see you’re in Gorton and Denton! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Have you bumped into Eric and George? @breconradnorgreens.bsky.social
Our Green Party t-shirts and mugs have arrived for our stall at Knighton Market this Saturday. Getting out our message of Hope in local communities. Gorton and Denton this week - next stop May’s Senedd elections!
Importantly, there is also a negative relationship between levels of deprivation and perception that there is more that unites than divides people in an area.
“Once Europe can generate most mission-critical data on its own—early warning, tracking, cueing, fusion—American weapons stop being special. They become excellent hardware, yes, but no longer politically untouchable.”
Just catching up on my 12 December edition on “Private Eye Mature Cheddar”…
Found sorting out a cupboard: @metpolice.bsky.social ad in Observer 11 October 1992. “Work the public never see: Spending hours talking to homeless people, finding out about their lives and problems..we’ll try to give them the respect every Londoner is entitled to.” Any recent experiences of this?
Thread promotes the idea that Maduro, like Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi before him, was challenging the power of the petrodollar, and so had to be removed. China’s stance at the UN will be very interesting.