Jonathan

Lessons here for this side of the pond too

@green--jenny.bsky.social

Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, MPs find The Environmental Audit Committee found the government's measures are not enough to meet targets.

We need more Council houses in towns and cities, but instead Labour will concrete over the countryside to build more unaffordable mansions

If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...

Putting humans in two decades-long limbo is the sign of a government that has completely lost its moral compass, but how many other Labour MPs will have the courage to say “not in my name”?

CALDER VALLEY MP HAS 'LOST HIS WAY' ON HOW TO PROTECT WALSHAW MOOR, claim environmental groups. They're asking MP Josh Fenton-Glynn to explain his vote against two crucial House of Lords' amendments to the contentious Planning & Infrastructure Bill on Thursday. Read more at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk

Truth!
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It's always been about the rich white guys; women are insignificant to them.

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

WTAF 😠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

But you can't register land purely on environmental grounds? On peat bog, does planting sphagnum to slow the flow count as an economic benefit? And access to the bog count as a social benefit for health and wellbeing?

Image of countryside with words reading: 'Let communities own rivers, woods & moors. Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws'

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!

Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.

We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

It’s from this, btw. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's funny how much the BBC and Labour have in common. Challenged by the Right, they immediately throw their base under a bus, in a doomed and foolish attempt to appease those who will always hate them.

WORTH 20 BILLION TIMES MORE THAN A NURSE? Wit image of Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw (for some reason...) REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns.

Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth.

Time to tax the super-rich properly.

Sadiq Khan congratulates Zohran Mamdani on New York mayoral victory as he takes dig at Trump “New Yorkers faced a clear choice – between hope and fear – and just like we’ve seen in London – hope won."

“New Yorkers faced a clear choice – between hope and fear – and just like we’ve seen in London – hope won."

Photo of Zarah and Zohran Mamdani, Mayor-elect of NYC

The Mayor of New York City 🍎

This is what socialist representation looks like!

Exclusive: Violent Maccabi fans were organised fighters 'linked to IDF', UK police found MEE can reveal new intelligence which led to ban on Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game this week

"500-600 fans" were "experienced fighters ... intent on serious violence and ... not afraid of fighting with police."

These were the people Starmer and Nandy were absolutely determined to inflict on the people of Birmingham.

They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.

They’re wrong.

New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.

If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

Hugely concerning that govt is considering slashing funding for desperately needed home insulation to cut bills in the short term. It’s vital to protect the Warm Homes Plan for long term investment to fix poor housing. Why not use a wealth tax to cut energy bills instead, Rachel?

Zohran smiling on the street

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Climate change – the world after tomorrow Records of chaos following historical climate change offer a warning to contemporary global society

Historical evidence indicates that beyond the immediate impacts of climate change, societal order disintegrates, then starvation and sickness arrives. What are we doing to save our children and grandchildren from this fate? @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice

The Convention protects your right to:
✅ Access environmental information
✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature
✅ Seek environmental justice affordably