Martin Phipps

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Labour have learned absolutely nothing from losing majority control of Sheffield council, and are nationally repeating the same mistakes.

Labour to abolish the committee system 🤦‍♂️

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Urgent: don't cut disability benefits. It is wrong to balance the books by taking from the people who are least able to pay Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/benefit-cuts/

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Rachel Reeves confirms 15% cut to Civil Service running costs Savings will be from back office and administrative roles rather than front-line services, chancellor tells the BBC.

Labour are continuing to do a great job... disillusioning voters who thought they'd be getting change 🫠

Proportional representation, now.

UK deserves better than the two Tory parties

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BREAKING: Treasury minister @darrenpjones.bsky.social refuses to explain why the government is cutting support for disabled young people instead of taxing the super-rich fairly

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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

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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This Wednesday (12th March) I will be joining the panel for All Together, One at a Time, @sayitsheffield.bsky.social LGBTQ+ Activism Panel Discussion at Sheffield Central Library

Screenshot of my decriminalise abortion petition at 99, 056

Morning ☕️ I can’t believe my petition is now less than 1000 signatures away from a government debate. I’ve been doing this with no evangelical 💰 media or Twitter. Please share and help get this over the line. Protect us from MAGA fascism petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

✍ Dear Labour,

Some ideas to tackle poverty 👇

✔ Scrap the two-child benefit cap.

✔ Bring back winter fuel payments.

✔ Insulate homes.

Yours,

The Green Party

We are doing ok for followers but this account hasn’t really picked up like Blue Bird did and the working hypothesis on this is that BlueSky has all the nice people on it and they know how to navigate life and #Sheffield and it makes them happier and more pleasant.

This is PATHETIC!

Labour taking nationalisation off the table before it even STARTS its review of Water sector.

Tell them we’re having none of it👇💪💪

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ICYMI:

Know we need so much better than this Labour government?

Want to stop Reform?

It's time to join @greenparty.org.uk

Listen here ⬇️

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’?

What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?

I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

Labour's Reform copycat strategy plays into Farage's hands Migration is good for this country – and it’s time more politicians had the guts to say it.

Labour's disgusting deportation stunt this week wasn't just morally bankrupt, it was politically stupid. Politicians need to find the backbone to be honest about the real source of our problems: the wealthy elite draining money from our communities

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Screenshot from the Independent with the headline 'Labour accused of trying to outdo Farage with migrant deportation videos' and a video titled 'Labour takes on Reform by releasing migration crackdown videos'

When they're not trashing climate commitments, they're trying to outdo Reform 🥀

We're not standing for that. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour are making inequality in the UK even worse.

And rather than reverse - they're now blaming vulnerable people instead.

It's just another version of Reform.

Join the alternative: join.greenparty.org.uk

Of course he doesn’t *actually* support it. He is intelligent and knows it would a climate disaster.

He’s just being crushed by the Labour Party machine.

There is an alternative that will always speak out on this join.greenparty.org.uk

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This is being proposed by the Sheffield Green Party councillors @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social 🙂

Next week, Sheffield City Council will become the latest local authority to debate a motion calling for the divestment of pension funds from companies enabling Israel’s grave violations of international law.

We call on ALL Sheffield councillors to support this motion.

From Elon Musk to Nigel Farage to Keir Starmer: these people do not care.

They don't care about nature.
They don't care about inequality.
They don't care about you.

We need to challenge the disastrous turn our politics is taking:

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REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE WHOSE SIDE IS LABOUR ON? Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

So Labour can find the money to 'relax' their changes to the non-dom tax regime but they can't find the money to restore the winter fuel allowance or lift children out of poverty by scrapping the two-child benefit cap 🤔

Whose side are they on?

A newspaper headline reads Rachel Reeves to soften non-dom tax changes to woo rich for growth push

This iteration of Labour really are the Continuity Conservative Party, aren't they?

The catastrophe of Starmerism is paving the way for Nigel Farage.

New post 👇

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This is genuinely very concerning

The irresponsible, environmentally dangerous and economically unfounded case for reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport Mayor Oliver Coppard is preparing to pump vast amounts of public money into the project – but has refused to say how the supposed benefits were arrived at.

EXCLUSIVE 💥

For weeks I've been investigating Oliver Coppard's plan to use vast sums of public money to reopen Doncaster Sheffield Airport

What I found was shocking: not only is it environmentally reckless, there's also serious unanswered questions over the business case ⬇️

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Did you vote Labour in 2024?

Is this what you voted for?

Richard Littlejohn - Have I got a deal for you, Donald... Forget Greenland and buy Britain instead! Daily Mail 10 Jan 2025

The patriotic Daily Mail calling for a foreign nation to take over Britain