Carolyn Ramsbotham

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month.

This is the Green surge.

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Tory conference

Lib Dem conference

Compare and contrast the Tory conference and the @libdems.org.uk conference I recently attended. One party on the up full of optimism and ideas, the other on a rapid decline bereft of enthusiasm and ideas…

Robert Buckland: Leaving the ECHR would be a grave mistake | Conservative Home Withdrawal from the ECHR would upset the delicate political balance in Northern Ireland, compromise our extradition and security arrangements, and damage our moral authority abroad. Above all, it woul...

Full article is available here via @conservativehome.bsky.social: conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r...

I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.

UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

Just another reason to create our own media networks.

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

With mainstream media continually failing us with its biased coverage it is more important than ever to support independent media groups. The Byline Network is one of the best.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Things Farage won’t answer:

1. Why did he lie about buying a house in Clacton?

2. What did he know about Welsh Reform Leader Nathan Gill’s Russian Bribes?

3. Why did he lie about meeting the Russian Ambassador?

4. Why is his flagship council Kent raising taxes and cutting services?

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal.

China & India lead the race for renewable energy.

The US increased reliance on fossil fuels.

With corporate donations Trump wants more fossil fuels. Farage and Tories promising the same. Banks pouring money.

Reform UK set to hike council tax in Kent by maximum amount after "failed" cost-cutting attempts | LBC Kent County Council, governed by Reform UK, are set to hike council tax after cost-cutting attempts inspired by Elon Musk failed.

Reform UK set to hike council tax in Kent after claims its cost-cutting drive has failed

www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

#KemkaranResign

"Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms. "This will do nothing to stop the boats or fix our broken immigration system – problems caused by the last Conservative Government that Badenoch still hasn't apologised for. "I say to former One Nation Conservatives who have been abandoned by their party’s lurch to the extremes: you have a home with us. The Liberal Democrats will always fight to defend our fundamental British freedoms and the rule of law." Ed Davey

Kemi Badenoch has chosen the side of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage with her plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

The ECHR is a proud British creation, championed by Churchill, that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

We had this same scenario in the 1800's the billionaires owned everything and it was terrible.

We have let Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher lead us back there.

If the billionaires control how much housing costs, how much energy costs, how much water costs, how much banking costs, how much telecoms cost, how much 'public' transport costs, how much food costs...

Who actually controls the country?

When you thought she/they couldn't get more incompetent...

You say that, but only around 12 to 13 percent of the electorate actually voted for Reform.

Ok it was than any other party, but 67% didn't vote at all!

Lots of opportunity for sensible people to make sensible decisions...if only bothered to vote...

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

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Another big development from Green Party (E&W) conference today...

Green Party Political Broadcast. Monday 6.25pm on ITV and 6.55pm on BBC 1.

Tax wealth.

Not work.

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BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

A BBC spokesperson now says they will offer to interview Zack Polanski on the Laura Kuenssberg show "in the coming weeks" after cancelling their planned interview with him during the Green Party conference.

Requests for an interview following his election as Green leader were also denied

Nigel Farage and his Reform UK treasurer (and former tax exile) Nick Candy must be relieved that one of their more generous donors doesn’t keep his promises. “I’m moving – that is it,” Nigerian-born businessman Bassim Haidar told the Guardian in May last year after the previous government announced the end of the “non-dom” tax regime (following which chancellor Rachel Reeves enacted the changes). “What’s the logic of me living in the UK when other countries are offering no taxes at all?” he wondered. “In Monaco there are no taxes, and no inheritance tax.” He was reported to have established a “working group” of 29 non-doms looking to up sticks before the start of the September 2024 school year. Latest political donation declarations, however, show that Haidar gave Reform UK £200,000 in April this year. As laws introduced in 2009 require donors of such sums to be “resident, ordinarily resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom for the purposes of income tax”, it seems the entrepreneur has opted to stay put. For yet another erstwhile non-dom, when push comes to shove, life in a country with a tax system turns out to be preferable to tax haven tedium

Are Reform UK getting donations from a tax exile - or has this guy just failed to fulfil his promise to leave the UK? (As most of them do). Via Private Eye:

Labour membership falls by 200,000 in five years Labour remains the UK's largest political party with 333,235 members, according to new figures.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s the little details that matter. And Kemi isn’t a details woman.

Humiliating Photos Reveal Terrible Turnout For Key Speeches At Tory Conference So much for Mel Stride's attempts to rally the troops...

Oh dear...

Humiliating Photos Reveal Terrible Turnout For Key Speeches At Tory Conference
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/humili...

Green Party ditches plan to 'reduce' childbirth interventions, as it pledges 'game-changing' £50bn for healthcare The Green Party confirmed on Sky News the controversial childbirth policy is being shelved until more expert advice emerges. It also today unveiled plans to pump £50bn into health and social care - fu...

news.sky.com/story/green-...

Good!
One of my daughters and her child would have died if she hadn’t had an emergency caesarean. It should have been done sooner…

After praising Zack Polanski's communication skills, deputy leader of the Green Party Rachel Millward says,

"I remember how I felt on the morning of Brexit"

"We just literally let Farage's lies write history"