Jerome Cox-Strong

"When we stand together, the Green Party is there with you. We are anti-fascist, we are anti-racist, and we will not stop fighting until this fight is won."

@jeromecs.bsky.social speaks on behalf of BH Greens at the Brighton & Hove Against Racism Unity March today.

Ed Poole and Zack Polanski

I pestered that @zackpolanski.bsky.social bloke in the street and managed to get a pic!

Thanks Zack!

Also great to meet @zoegarbett.bsky.social @dylanmlaw.bsky.social @liamshrivastava.bsky.social @richiebryan.bsky.social
@jeromecs.bsky.social
@jamesonions.bsky.social
Sonali Bhattacharyya and Faaiz Hasan in person!

List of councillors and organisers from Brighton and Hove who are supporting Zack Polanski in his candidacy for leader of the Green Party. Full text at backzack.com

🚨 Just two weeks left to vote!

Huge thanks to Brighton & Hove Greens - the energy from members across England & Wales is powering this campaign!

🗳️ Vote today 👉 ballot.greenparty.org.uk

Green members holding a Greens for Palestine banner outside L3 Harris arms factory in Brighton

Proud to join the community action outside L3 Harris this morning - end the genocide now

L3 Harris cannot be allowed to continue to operate in Brighton with impunity.

End complicity in genocide, now.

Why I'm running for the @greensorganise.bsky.social Steering Group!

Yet another by-election in Brighton thanks to a Labour resignation- time for another opportunity to make them pay!

Election for Steering Group of @greensorganise.bsky.social is open #GreensOrganise

Who are we feeling chat? 😄

From a first glance at candidate list/statements, @edpoole1975.bsky.social @tamhauyu.bsky.social @jamesonions.bsky.social @ruthyphro.bsky.social @jeromecs.bsky.social stand out to me

Two party politics is crumbling. There's no time to waste.

So I'm standing for Deputy Leader of The Green Party. I'll empower new leaders from all backgrounds & ensure we cut through in media like never before.

Hope Can Win.

Find out more & get involved rach4deputy.com.

#rach4deputy

Why I'm backing Zack Polanski to be the next leader of the Green Party.

#backzack

& join @thegreenparty.org.uk before July 31 to have your say

Only one GPEW leadership candidate will **actually** win us elections *and* mobilise a mass movement *and* actually stand up for the marginalised.

And that candidate is Zack - not the duo offering more of the same.

#BackZack

Greens call for voters to have their say on ‘devolution’ plans Green councillors in Brighton and Hove are calling for an emergency full council meeting to discuss Labour’s proposal for a

"A clear example of politics being done to people, not for them – the residents of Brighton and Hove deserve to have their say."

Hear from Green opposition leader Steve Davis on devolution proposals for a Sussex-wide mayor:

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/01/08/g...

I think we all need to stop saying "Cass Review" and exclusively refer to it as the "Cass Scandal" or something

‘Entrenched car culture’ leaves millions of Britons in transport poverty Study finds drivers spending up to a fifth of pre-tax income on running a car as lack of infrastructure deters people from cycling

💸 Millions of people in the UK can't afford to own cars, or can't drive for whatever reason.

🛑 The lack of non-car options means they are trapped around where they live.

🚍 Getting around needs to more affordable, which means less focus on private cars.

🧵A thread on #CarCulture 👇

Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice

Further confirmation that transphobia has been institutionalised in the UK - and that the Labour government are gleefully accelerating it.

Turning up for Pride isn't enough - why aren't local Labour voices speaking out against this and truly supporting the trans community when it really matters?

Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice

UK Labour confirms its status as the most overtly anti-trans Government in our history, and Wes Streeting as the standard bearer for that transphobia.

This approach was condemned by the Council of Europe just last week, but Streeting's "experts" know better.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. CALL IT WHAT IT IS: GENOCIDE Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Amnesty International says there is "sufficient evidence" that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

The UK Government has to end all arms sales to Israel immediately.

The hostile immigration environment is alive and well under Labour. In fact, it looks as if it might be even more hostile than under the Tories.

Wonder who had that on their political bingo card going into the election?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

South-west France swelters in ‘staggering’ 26.9C November night heat Temperatures of this week would be exceptional for summer, says climatologist, never mind late November

🚨Towns in France roasted in “completely extreme” overnight temp of 26.9C (80.42F).

“It’s very exceptional – even for summer, let alone late November,”.

Scientists described the night-time heat as “staggering” and “phenomenal” so late in the year. #climate www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Will Labour’s 2030 green energy goal cost more than 2035? They should come clean | Nils Pratley Ed Miliband argues the UK should race towards becoming a ‘clean energy superpower’, but costs to the consumer shouldn’t be ignored

Putting aside the fact that there's about as much chance of Labour's plans achieving their goals as me becoming an astronaut, it really says something about how much denial there is of climate breakdown when the Guardian runs something like this.

Not one mention of the impact (or cost!) of inaction

Hanover Community Association AGM - very well attended!

**Still** filling up - 25 was the key number for quorum... think that's been reached (and more!)

seated crowd file into Hanover Community Centre, Brighton for Annual General Meeting. Screen to right side of picture showing Hanover Community Association General Annual General Meeting 2024, 25 November 2024, 6.30pm

Filling up nicely at the AGM for Hanover Community Association - where I've been coming since I was about 2 months old!

Positive changes on the agenda to expand the area of benefit to the entire ward and build on great work across decades to date

There's not really much denying that some areas like London and Greater Manchester have obviously benefitted from the outsized public profile of their mayors - but that doesn't mean the system itself works, just that those places have benefitted where others get overlooked...

Dozens of councils to be abolished under biggest reforms in 50 years Move aims to end two-tier system of local government and replace it with larger unitary authorities, aiming to save the taxpayer about £3 billion over five years

Jim McMahon's passion for elected mayors and jumbo-authorities and suggestions that other systems are "not acceptable" aren't great signs for Labour's devolution plans...

Scrutiny and connections to local areas matter - which is why committee systems that engage *all* elected Cllrs work better!

YouTube video by Cokies Collection Sharon Van Etten & Ezra Furman - Feel So Different

New Sharon Van Etten *and* it's a Sinead O'Connor cover? Absolutely yes.

Just to note that the Barnes/fool's mate analogy was enjoyed by someone 🫡

100 years ago tomorrow.

New York Times, November 23, 1924: “The automobile looms up as a far more destructive piece of mechanism than the machine gun. The reckless motorist deals more death than the artilleryman. … Immediate action [is necessary] to halt the homicidal orgy of the automobile.”

This is a profound test for the UK Government: ministers must state clearly that they will uphold international law and execute any arrest warrants.

Controversial opinion: if you starve innocent civilians, you should face the consequences. www.ft.com/content/0b62...