Rachel from Retford

This EDM was really good. Our local Labour MP Jo tabled it, and it had Lib Dem, Independant, Green supporters (thanks @sianberry.bsky.social ).

Just wish we could do more of this. More exams will not encourage children to read.

edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children

Teachers are resisting our schools being forced become even more intensive #ExamFactories.

Well done teachers.

Labour wedded to Victorian ideas of education and seeking to push schools even further into competition
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Command and control, heavily centralised government is so inefficient.

Straightjacket, rigid KPIs from London > actually getting stuff done across the public sector.

The worst of it is when its forced onto our children.

Yeah, I dont think this strategy will cross the pond well.

I think UK Christianity and Deep South American Christianity are in very very different places politically.

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Anthropocene as a biological event - the massive increase in human and domesticated mammal biomass vs the startling decrease in land and marine wild mammal
biomass in the past 160yrs, as documented the great team of Ron Milo in Nat Comms.
Sobering graph.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thursday night online for @greenparty.org.uk members: delighted to be talking about my recent visit to Ukraine with Viktoriya Ball, organiser of feminist youth climate movement Rozviy.

An event organised by Green Ukraine Solidarity
#StandWithUkraine
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-...

👍
Last time we did ours, the one we wished we'd had was 'more opportunities for young people'. It was in so many comments.
Fewer ppl ticked concrete things like green spaces and flooding than I had expected - even in areas with flooding.

What are you changing? We were just saying we need to update our questions...

That money could have given an elderly person time with a carer.

They say the flags will help the community. You know what helps the community? Looking after those of us who need it.

Plans to install hundreds of national flags on street furniture across Nottinghamshire | West Bridgford Wire Nottinghamshire County Council has proposed plans to install additional banners and national flags on street furniture across the county in a move aimed at

Notts County Council spending £75k on more flags. Includes six sites in Worksop.

Why? People are already doing this for free!

What a waste of public money. Shows Reform's priorities.

westbridgfordwire.com/plans-to-ins...

Gah. Didn't say in the post that its about the Green Party and links to Ukraine. 🤦‍♀️

Speaker / discussion session for Green Party members next Thursday evening.

With Natalie Bennett (just back from Ukraine) and Viktoriya Ball (Ukrainian climate activist and GPEW member).

Should be interesting. Join link in quoted post.

Yeah, that is party policy. Stay in NATO but push for reforms.

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.. starting to think that Bassetlaw was turning to Farage pretty much unanimously.

I've never been so grateful to be wrong. So happy to have our new members. Now to start working on the next elections...

Seems we're where its at right now, so if anyone else fancies it:

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The Bassetlaw Greens now have 120 members. That's just over triple what we had going into the county elections last Spring.

Reform absolutely dominated those elections here. One of them stood on a platform that climate change was a hoax and then won with over half the vote. 🤦‍♀️😟

Honestly, I was...

I recommend this to new members - it shows how all our policies fit together in a really clear, straightforward way

👍 Verging on folklore, some of them. Thier existence and sightings hotly debated...

British.

This is not somebody else's problem.

This is our future on the line.

Do something - join.greenparty.org.uk

💚 Fighting invasion and ecocide at the same time

Owen Jones in Bournemouth Subtitles read BADLAD-SKI instead of Polanski

YouTube closed captions can't cope with a Northern Accent.

We now have @owenjones.bsky.social announcing our new #GreenParty leader as

ZACK BADLAD-SKI

It was brilliant

Olive and me at GPEW conference, looking keen

Really enjoying the Green Party conference this year. It's absolutely buzzing, so much more ambition than we have had before.

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It's almost like they got so many responses because what they are doing isn't ok and they should stop and think...

In a few years time this is going to be a textbook example of capture of a regulatory body, isnt it? I hope by then we're back on track.

When politicians and governments say this kind of thing we should believe them. And stand against them.

Russia and Israel.

Samuel L Jackson studied marine biology as an undergrad and is promoting windfarms.

There is no limit to his legend.

I always really liked Ellie, in particular. In part because she seemed warm and kind.

But its a bit rich to call Zack 'divisive' when the Ellie/Adrian campaign has been so negative and attack focussed.

All the content I see from Zack is about promoting Green policy, not dragging his opponents.

Wrong country, hun 😘

What a brilliant man he was.

Huge respect.

What they did was criminal and should be prosecuted. We already have the right laws for that.

It wasn't terrorism. No one lives thier lives scared and wakes up in fear that someone might get paint on a plane.