Ruth Mersereau

Make Hope Normal Again

A city engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.”

Tools to prevent road death and injury already exist.

Helsinki can do it.

Vision Zero is achievable, no excuses.

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A reminder that Oxfordshire has also very successfully rolled out 20mph in a rural county with exceptionally limited political pushback. I really don't think this is talked about enough. Are your Cllrs refusing 20mph cos "Our LA isn't London"? Tell them about Oxfordshire! Happy to share policy docs.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Polls show that Greens are on for a BREAKTHROUGH in Caerdydd Penarth #Senedd2026 Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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We'd love for your help to hike and check part of the #SlowWays #NationalParksTrail!

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Great read from @adamtranter.bsky.social ⤵️

Technology should not be introduced at the expense of pedestrian freedom to use the highway safely and conveniently. We need to make sure that the most vulnerable road users are protected and prioritised so that our streets work for all.

Green Party deputy leader urges Doncaster to vote Green for 'real change' The deputy leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski made a visit to Doncaster last week to support its local election campaign.

The Green Party's @zackpolanski.bsky.social was in #Doncaster last week supporting local candidates for council and for the mayor

He told me the party hoped to bring new voices to the City of Doncaster Council

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Doncaster Press ask "Why vote Green?

What difference does having a Green Party representative make?"

Great to speak to Harry Harrison about @greenparty.org.uk 👇🏽

Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK

Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

“Now’s the moment to speak honestly about Brexit’s colossal harm. Most know it already. Even 54% of Britons who voted leave …say they would accept free movement for UK & EU citizens in exchange for single market access” Spot on ⁦‪@pollytoynbee‬⁩ Labour urgently needs to start making the case 👇

Greens response: "a gargantuan waste of money" greenparty.org.uk/2025/03/25/a...

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says

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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

The switch to 20mph roads in Wales meant:

🟢 100 fewer dead or seriously injured
🟢 26% fewer injured
🟢 The lowest 3 month casualty figure since records began 46 years ago

That's in just the first year. Real lives saved, real families spared a lifetime of pain and hardship.

Lorna Slater: The policies to fix broken UK society are staring us in the face Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Every one is a policy failure and with 165 in the UK, we can see exactly how our economy is failing.

Healthy societies can’t afford billionaires. Every single one is a policy failure.

'Trickle down' economics has never worked. It's nothing more than a way for the rich to hoard ever more wealth while everyone else struggles to get by.

There is a better way. 👇

Reeves scapegoating bats to cut red tape is absurd, says Packham Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’

“It’s a PR disaster for Labour …People love wildlife much more than they like these numpties banging on about bats and newts.”
Well said @chrisgpackham.bsky.social 👏😀

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The major question thrown up by Labour's benefits plans The debate has sparked a wider dilemma about the broader purpose of welfare

Who does this Labour government represent?

They have a big majority with only 33.7% of the vote (and turnout was only 59.8%)

How many people who voted for them did so they could cut disability benefits?

Tax the rich, don't punish those in need of support

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Absolutely shocking to see a Labour secretary of state stand at the despatch box and proudly announce slashing support for some of those who need it most - including removing the UC health top-up for young people, as if young disabled people don't exist?! #DisabilityBenefits

Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

Why is there ANY debate? 🤦‍♀️

20mph in Wales meant about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured in a year.

“There is, perhaps, a lesson here for politicians: sometimes it can be best to ignore the noisiest voices, and take the evidence-based course.”

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Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

"Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?" - really nice to see our motonormativity research being used to explain this. Cheers, @peterwalker99.bsky.social

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How many times do we have to say it? *Austerity doesn’t work*. More cuts to public spending is economically illiterate and morally indefensible - people didn’t vote Labour to get more Tory austerity. FFS tax extreme wealth, don’t slash public services @patmillsuk.bsky.social

Next week the Labour (yes, Labour) Government are expected to announce even deeper cuts to public services than first thought.

Labour cuts, Tory cuts, it's always the rest of us who pay the price.

The Green Party would tax the rich properly to help close the inequality gap.

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This is how our government has been corrupted: 

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 
3) Donors make a huge profit. 
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

How to raise £60 billion for public services: our ten tax reforms The UK’s super-rich have accumulated record levels of wealth in recent years, while our public services have been decimated and inequality has soared.

Cuts to public services and welfare are wrong – and unnecessary.

The government could tax extreme wealth and close loopholes instead.

Here are ten tax reforms to raise over £60 billion a year

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Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇

Reform MP Rupert Lowe hits back at party leadership after losing whip MP accused of threatening party chair says dealing with leadership is like smashing his head against a brick wall

So there are now equal numbers of Reform and @greenparty.org.uk MPs. Will we now get equal media time?

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Fiona Bruce jokes when Richard Tice keeps interrupting that she might have to put a gag on him.

How about we stop having Reform on every single TV and radio show possible and constantly giving them a platform?

It's so obviously disproportionate. And it's constant.

#BBCQT