@janebaston.bsky.social
💚 Green Party activist & trade unionist 📍 Birmingham
Hannah and Zack having a selfie
Final weekend. One last push.
This is about whether you want local plumber Hannah Spencer or the extreme Reform candidate.
It's hope vs hate.
It's Greens vs Reform.
Hope can win.
We are mums. Daughters. Sisters. Survivors.
We understand what safety really means.
Our voices should never be used to justify exclusion or discrimination of trans people.
If you agree, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk
Playgrounds would become crack dens if greens were in power policing minister says.
Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years.
That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”.
Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives.
This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.
BREAKING: ALL OF THE FILTON24 ACQUITTED OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY
The Filton24 defendants have been formally acquitted of aggravated burglary, after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today offered no evidence for the charge.
Support the Filton24 here:
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Something the Government want you to forget...
19.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 1713 🔁 717 💬 64 📌 173
a bar chart that says greens close the gap to reform in gorton and denton from 1st february. green party is on 34% reform is on 39% labour are in free-fall on 21% with others on 6%
🚨 1 WEEK LEFT
🟩 GREENS CAN WIN! We're SO CLOSE!
📢 There's phone-banking from home, leafleting, door-knocking, letter writing + bundling and election day!
👇 Please sign up + share the link
gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#action-days
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A very happy #LunarNewYear to all who celebrate!
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Ditching equality would start the race to the bottom, says UNISON.
🚨 Reform UK’s plan to scrap equality laws would fire the starting gun on a race to the bottom.
UNISON warns that ditching protections would let bad employers act with impunity and drag the UK backwards on fairness and rights.
unsn.uk/4cywGfU
"It’s a sign of the state of politics now – Labour prioritises landlords and Greens prioritise tenants."
Seems to sum up the difference fairly well. Greens fighting for the people, Labour defering to the money.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/excl-l...
Small businesses are so important for our country, they symbolise the hardworking spirit of British people, who try and make something of themselves. Often people who struggle for conventional jobs end up working for themselves
We need to do all we can to continue supporting these entrepreneurs
A landscape image of agricultural hills and fields in south Lebanon. Overlaid text reads: “REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.” and “INVESTIGATE ISRAEL GLYPHOSATE ALLEGATIONS.” Beneath this is a quote asking what assessment the Government has made of reports that Israel sprayed glyphosate over areas of south Lebanon, what assessment has been made of the environmental and human health impacts, and whether the matter has been discussed with the government of Israel. A small circular image of Natalie Bennett appears with the label “Natalie Bennett, Green Party Peer,” and the Green Party logo is displayed at the bottom.
Allegations of glyphosate spraying by Israel over south Lebanon demand careful assessment of environmental and human health impacts.
The Government should provide clarity on its assessment and whether it has talked with Israel on this issue.
#EnvironmentalJustice #InternationalLaw
It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
Graphic with a green background and blue rubbish sack, saying "Billesley Greens have cleared over 150 sacks of rubbish!"
Like all @brumgreens.bsky.social campaigners, @cpgarghan.bsky.social and I work really hard all year round to make a difference in Billesley. This figure is from litter picks we have have organised and carried out ourselves, but doesn't include when we go to workdays organised by other groups.
16.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming.
Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.
🚨 10 DAYS TO GO until election day!
🚫 You don't want to wake up with a REFORM UK MP!
👇 CAMPAIGN with us
gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#action-days
Gender pay gap won't close for another 30 years.
Myth of equality used to hike women's state pension age.
Women hold 69% of low-paid & insecure jobs.
Women hit first by benefit cuts, wage freezes, two-child benefit cap. More likely to be unpaid carers.
Why are govt policies loaded against women?
Bus lane fines are easy to avoid and are reinvested back into transport. It's currently paying towards recent Iron Lane junction improvements, decluttering of Broad Street, Dudley Road improvements, further bus lane enforcement cameras and the upcoming A38 cycleway extension.
15.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Do you want to help Hannah beat Reform in Gorton and Denton, but just can't make it in person?
Then join me tomorrow at 6:30pm for some phonebanking! Link is in the thread. 💚
“I’m really worried for my friends and neighbours who are immigrants, or the children of immigrants, who’ve kept our city region moving.”
Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, says the threat of adopting ICE-style tactics would put hardworking communities in the firing line.
Mandatory ID cards. Scrapping jury trials. Calling genocide protesters “terrorists."
There’s a strong authoritarian edge to the Labour Government. With no plan to help people, clearly thrown in the towel in Gorton & Denton.
It's Greens Vs Reform.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
🚨 Over 50 leading academics have sounded the alarm on the UK's voting system
⚠️ In an era of multi-party politics, First Past the Post risks “random and arbitrary” results like never before
🗳️ The experts' letter warn Ministers they must address this to stem growing instability and distrust
This looks pretty similar to what the data is telling us in our ward. Almost nobody on the doorstep is still planning to vote Labour. We are the only ones who can stop Reform. It's going to be close, but we can do it.
13.02.2026 08:52 — 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Labour are done.
And Reform offer no solutions - their extreme division will just make things worse.
The Green Party want to lower bills, protect our NHS and rebuild our public services.
Hannah Spencer, our local plumber, for the win! 💚
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We welcome the court’s finding that the proscription of Palestine Action was UNLAWFUL.
This case has exposed a deeper problem where the line between direct action and terrorism has become dangerously blurred.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
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“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.”
Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.
Dear Home Secretary, We write as Parliamentarians who either originally opposed the proscription of Palestine Action or who have come to see it as wrong and unworkable. Today’s decision by the high court vindicates our position and we welcome the ruling. The Home Office’s position has put enormous pressure on the courts and the police. We understand that 2787 people have been arrested for terrorism offences for peacefully holding signs that express their support for Palestine Action, including more than 250 on 9thAugust of last year who are aged over 60 years old. And one outcome of the proscription of Palestine Action is that more people were arrested for terrorist offences in just one day than have ever previously been arrested under terror legislation in an entire year in the UK (REF). Proscribing Palestine Action has also had grave consequences for fundamental human rights and our international reputation. Mr Justice Chamberlain granted permission for a judicial review of proscription on the grounds that included it being contrary to the Human Rights Act 1998 and amounts to a disproportionate interference with Articles 10 and 11 on the rights to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of assembly). And you will know that Volker Turk, the United Nations' human rights chief, called the proscription “disproportionate and unnecessary”, warning that a broad definition of terrorism, that encompasses serious damage to property, places the UK outside international law. (REF). A cross-party submission to the High Court, which many of us signed, warned that “proscription risks becoming a blunt tool to silence dissent and criminalise legitimate protest and democratic debate—particularly where it relates to British complicity in atrocities committed by the Israeli government and the broader struggle for Palestinian human rights.” Today’s verdict is an opportunity to change course, and we hope you will now commit to ending the suppression of UK citize…
Ellie Chowns MP Carla Denyer MP Sian Berry MP Adrian Ramsay MP Shockat Adam MP Ayoub Khan MP Jeremy Corbyn MP Nadia Whittome MP Manuela Perteghella MP Adnan Hussain MP Liz Saville Roberts MP Ben Lake MP Ann Davies MP Llinos Medi MP Iqbal Mohamed MP Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Lord Cashman Baroness Smith of Llanfaes Lord Freyberg Baroness Uddin The Right Honourable Lord Hain Lord Tope OBE
Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action.
Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.
Right now @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social beg the courts for more injunctions to ban effective protest and picketing, this time for persons unknown.
Instead of resolving this dispute, they try to ban protest.
Solidarity is not a crime.
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#StrikeMap
Green MP Ellie Chowns didn't hold back on yesterdays question time. Addressing the real issues Labour seems to avoid
13.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 90 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 2Labour’s vote is collapsing everywhere.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
