Kath Murphy

Great trespass along the River Dart today to kick off @righttoroam.bsky.social's 9 river trespasses in November - protesting the inadequacy & unworkability of the Govt's 9 river walks pledge

We trespassed in an estate owned in the Cayman Islands & later met up with kayakers from Friends of the Dart

Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election Though there's still a few years left until our next General Election, the Green Party renaissance will give Sir Keir some food for thought.

Let's make this happen. Together.

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The centre is falling apart and the right is rising.
Not just in the UK, but all over the world.

Thankfully, there is hope!
Whether that be the Greens in the UK, France Insoumise or Zohran Mamdani.

Socialists are fighting back.
@hasanabirepeater.bsky.social
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"Councillors estimate the cost of providing free car parks to be around £10 - £15 [per household per year]: equivalent to a ten per cent increase in council tax."

- I find this story interesting mostly because it's rare that the true cost of free parking sees the light of day.

Hasan Piker discusses his role in politics and whether he'd run for office with Zack Polanski

REVEALED: Companies which have armed Israel placed staff in the department licensing arms exports Arms industry staff have been seconded into the Department of Business and Trade and Ministry of Defence.

Revealed: companies which have armed Israel placed staff inside the department which licenses arms exports:
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

The Labour MP Rubbing Shoulders With the Far-Right Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham Stringer – who has been the MP for Blackley, M...

🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government.

He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

Here it is. First poll to put Greens in 2nd, ahead of Lab and Con, each on 16. (Very close to Yougov's latest, before the FindOutNow whatabouts).
And the Rachel Reeves story hasn't even shaken out yet. ouch

Gambling companies claim there is “no social ill”.
Yet harm falls hardest on the poorest communities — this is a tax on desperation.

#GamblingReform #SocialJustice

The political debate about immigration is completely divorced from the reality of what is happening, which is that it has been falling quite rapidly for some time now and is likely to continue doing so
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For the vast majority of people (except Ukrainians and Hongkongers) there is NO WAY to claim asylum in the UK without coming by small boat

The only way to stop people making dangerous boat crossings to the UK is by creating safe and managed routes

Govt's plan is delusional

Good to see Green MPs help vote down Farage's attempt to destroy our rights against
- torture
- slavery and forced labour
- discrimination
- And rights TO a fair trial
- freedom of thought, expression, conscience, and religion.
ALL enshrined by the ECHR

Proud to be part of such a principled team!

Raise your voice  | South West Future Journalists Awards The South West Future Journalists Awards is your chance to help share your voice and other voices to the world

Raise your voice  | South West Future Journalists Awards

The South West Future Journalists Awards is your chance to help share your voice and other voices to the world

Visual representation of the richest 0.1%'s carbon emissions being 4000x larger than the poorest 10%'s Source: Oxfam Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

A new report shows the US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%.

Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying.

Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.

The famously progressive Lib Dems

Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,

"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

A quote from Rachel Millward in the Guardian says "‘Failed, chaotic and expensive’ – these are the words used by today’s report to describe the government’s asylum accommodation system, but they apply just as fittingly to the Home Office as a whole which has spent decades wasting taxpayer money in a destructive pursuit of the most hostile migration system possible."

A quote from Rachel Millward in the Guardian says "‘Failed, chaotic and expensive’ – these are the words used by today’s report to describe the government’s asylum accommodation system, but they apply just as fittingly to the Home Office as a whole which has spent decades wasting taxpayer money in a destructive pursuit of the most hostile migration system possible. This is just one in a litany of reports which lays bare the Home Office’s dysfunction – in this case, allowing private companies to make obscene profits while vulnerable people are put at risk and community tensions are ratcheted up to breaking point. If we are to have a functional and fair migration system, the Home Office must be broken up so that migration can be dealt with by a department designed to make the system work, not simply project a hardline stance to the public no matter the cost to the taxpayer or the impact on migrants."

In today's Guardian I spoke about the need for the Home Office to be broken up to ensure migrants are dealt with by a department designed to make the system work rather than simply projecting a hardline stance to the public.

“We’re one of the richest countries in the world. The money’s not being spent in the right places.”

Reeves’ new budget is coming.
The right will tell you we can’t afford a better country.

We’re here to tell you that we can!
@mothinali.bsky.social

The momentum continues!!!

A massive welcome to all the new members, thank you for joining our journey to make hope normal again and create a politics of belonging.

Contact your nearest branch chair to get involved! We need you!

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost!

Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members.

That's +26,000 members in the last week.

Hope is feeling normal again....

As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records.

Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.

Reminder that “Brexit is bad because we can expel fewer asylum seekers“ is not an anti-racist position

The breaking down of anti-racism norms *in elite circles* in British politics is starkly at odds with the direction of public opinion on race. Adam Bienkov @adambienko... • 4h Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist. Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

Almost like the problem is and always was elite radicalisation, and not Yer Da on Facebook

Labour are failing.

Just join the Green Party.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Senior Tory can't name his party's leader in Wales during embarrassing GB News interview...

This Conservative politician was asked 6 times who the Welsh leader of his party is and he couldn't remember.

(It's Darren Millar and he has been in the role for almost a year...)

Wes Streeting on the lessons of the Caerphilly defeat - Labour aren't telling a compelling story about who they are, who they're for & what they are driving to do.

On the contrary, I'd argue voters have a very good idea who you are, who you're for and what you're doing.

Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly.

Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”.
Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election.

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