Robin Bennett

SODC Green group proposed amendments

After nearly 7 years as a councillor, it's my first council budget meeting tonight as part of the opposition group, so I'm proposing some budget amendments... we'll see what we can get through! @southandvalegreens.bsky.social

Weird how the minister talks about a ‘deal’ not a procurement process, as if negotiating with a foreign power… councils often have to get 3 quotes to spend a thousand pounds!

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

how many do you have?!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social highlights that this Epstein/Mandelson moment goes far beyond politics into the integrity of our institutions, as Arlene Foster nods in unlikely agreement! The whole of last night's #Newsnight is well worth 30 minutes of your time.

NB: It's not just Mandelson. The Tories' chief election strategist Isaac Levido was also a lobbyist for Palantir.

Under both the Tories & Labour, this predatory mass surveillance corporation has had its tentacles deep into the heart of government.

Great choice!

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

Nice work. Homes England is the most dysfunctional governmental organisation I've come across. I've heard it compared to an octopus, as there seems to be no central co-ordination to it... although that's unfair to octopuses.

Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today.

Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE.

They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today

My daughter’s school watch films on YouTube with ads every 2-3 minutes, in class!

Wood 2026 initial lineup poster, featuring Morganway, Noble Jacks and more

First artists announced for Wood 2026! 🤩
Read more on our new website at woodhq.org

Nice to have a mention for The Dreaming Spires' album "Normal Town" from The Clarion... an unexpected Batman comparison as well!

Today in Oxford @truckmusicstore.bsky.social, 6pm. See you there if you're in the neighbourhood! The album is getting some nice reviews, including 4 stars in the new issue of Mojo.

are Reform voters craving the return of the Danish dominance of 911 AD, while the Lib Dems hang on to Wessex?

I think we can officially now say the #GreenSurge of 2015 looks on the graph like a foothill. Great!

Could you help this surge even higher?
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🚨 | @greenparty.org.uk has hit 150,000 members.

It's incredible that in less than two months, the party has grown from 68,500 to 150,000.

Happy Monday everyone 😀

Have a great last hurrah and good luck with the move!

We can’t keep up - it’s now 6k

Or by the time you’re reading this, it’ll be another number 🤷‍♂️

as a 1/16th hot Chilean, I approve this message...🌶️

(that's also a Saint Etienne reference)

You folks do seem suddenly

Green Party or Saint Etienne? The latter just had a Top 10 final album!

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BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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

Wrongly. For example, Zack’s conversation videos in Clacton are nuanced and empathetic, not binary. It’s a sensationalist article.

I don't see any comparison between what Zack is doing and Bannon/Farage, and the article does not provide evidence to that effect. He specifically does engage a diversity of views, for example in his podcast.

For supposed strategy geniuses, Morgan McSweeney and co always seem to choose the worst possible option for any given moment...

Now this is Content

it's a shame, when the council have clearly done a good job with the adjacent Covered market. Plenty of retail options for local wizards, though!