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Ray Harding

@rayharding.bsky.social

Greyhounds, sport, education, environment, music. Green Party, retired Council CEO.

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Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice? The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and the rate of errors being made in payments of what I ...

Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

23.10.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

DOUBLED!!!

Absolutely extraordinary.

Thank you everyone.

This is the movement.

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22.10.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1406    ๐Ÿ” 315    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

18.10.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 841    ๐Ÿ” 360    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

This!
Get in touch with your local party and help any way you can. Deliver leaflets, knock on doors, organise social events, post on social media. There is a role for everyone.
Thank you, some very exhausted local party officers. ๐Ÿ’š

18.10.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Speaking at a regional conference in Manchester, it was amazing to see so many new members feeling absolutely energised and ready to take on the challenges ahead and unite this country behind hope.

18.10.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 95    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

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18.10.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1361    ๐Ÿ” 364    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just ยฃ6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

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18.10.2025 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2008    ๐Ÿ” 505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 152    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63
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How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa South Africaโ€™s history shows how an electoral system can change everything. Sometimes, democracyโ€™s biggest dangers arenโ€™t coups or revolutions, but the quiet impact of the rules th

How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa electoral-reform.org.uk/how-first-pa... Electoral Reform Society โ€“ ERS

18.10.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe. And Americans are now significantly less safe

11.10.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is what Labour should be doing. They probably will now the Greens are ๐Ÿ˜‚

11.10.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 202    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have to expect the right wing and their media to start attacking Zack and the Greens vociferously because itโ€™s been so long since thereโ€™s been a voice or a party calling out wealth inequality instead of blaming asylum seekers for our problems.

11.10.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of those clips which can't get any bett... oh, no, it just did.

11.10.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฏ ye giddy gods! Weโ€™re within 5k of breaking six figures!

๐Ÿ’š people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!

join.greenparty.org.uk

09.10.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

09.10.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1124    ๐Ÿ” 312    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing โ€“ and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - thatโ€™s bigger th...

๐ŸŒณ Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

12.07.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Floating around with mum!

25.06.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20804    ๐Ÿ” 2363    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 308    ๐Ÿ“Œ 192
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โ€˜Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacksโ€™ โ€“ a history of British protest in pictures Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to ...

"Protesting has never been easy, but over my career I have watched laws steadily tighten, step by boiled frog step. Now, every detail seems to fall under police control."

#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

06.07.2025 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 103    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.

06.07.2025 09:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2326    ๐Ÿ” 703    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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'He's done nothing': Nigel Farage accused of only using Clacton 'for photo opportunities' There are murmurs of discontent in Clacton, and Nigel Farage remains an elusive presence in his own constituency.

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

06.07.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1251    ๐Ÿ” 358    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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The government are introducing a new bill to reform elections โ€“ hereโ€™s what we want to see One year on from the General Election and we are eagerly awaiting the governmentโ€™s Elections Bill, expected to be tabled in the next session of this parliament.The bill is likely to c

The government are introducing a new bill to reform elections โ€“ hereโ€™s what we want to see electoral-reform.org.uk/the-governme... Electoral Reform Society โ€“ ERS

06.07.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข No More First Past the Post Elections! Thursdayโ€™s election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning election...

๐Ÿšจ Thursdayโ€™s elections prove it: First Past the Post is broken. 5 parties, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented. We need Proportional Representation โ€” NOW.
โœ๏ธ Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

02.05.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just ยฃ6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.

Very exciting to hear that not only are people voting for @greenparty.org.uk

They're taking the second obvious step and joining too!

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

01.05.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 185    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025 Results 

 

Thank you 

 

With photo of Zack Polanski, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay 

 

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2025 Results Thank you With photo of Zack Polanski, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

๐Ÿ’š Thank you for voting Green!

Want to be part of a winning team?

Join the Green Party today โคต๏ธ

join.greenparty.org.uk?mtm_campaign...

01.05.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 326    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
24.04.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So, just after Labour decides to implement the most discriminatory policies ever by a Labour government & comes out in support of a deeply transphobic judgement in the Supreme Court, Labour loses so much support it could be reduced to 41 seats. Less than the SNP and LDs.

Starmer & McSweeny must go.

24.04.2025 18:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 91    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

We need more of this. Pivoting to the Greens is now viable, especially if on the ballot you're already known as the incumbent.

The more defections to the Greens, the easier it will be to defect, and Starmer's Labour will have to respond in some way.

24.04.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A group of people stand behind a red banner with white lettering that reads 'NO NEW OIL AND GAS.' Among the people behind the banner are Carla Denyer MP and Ellie Chowns MP.

A group of people stand behind a red banner with white lettering that reads 'NO NEW OIL AND GAS.' Among the people behind the banner are Carla Denyer MP and Ellie Chowns MP.

Pleased to join @stopcambo.bsky.social this week handing in a petition with a million signatures calling on the government to do the bare minimum to protect us from the climate crisis - commit to no new oil and gas. Time for govt to listen!

24.04.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 202    ๐Ÿ” 56    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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