Emma Edwards

We’re number 8! 😍

I love this so much. He’s also spot on about the new Green buses, they really are divine.

Same! It’s so joyous 🥹

This guy sums up my feelings.

@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social

View of Overton rd taken from Gloucester rd, it’s been pedestrianise and there are benches and planters and cycle parking and space for new trees, at the top of the road, you can see contractors finishing the works.

Delighted that Overton Road pedestrianisation scheme is almost finished! As a local resident, I remember filling in the consultation. So nice to see a side road, barely used except for parking and as a cut through, now been turned into a lovely bit of public realm. Trees will be planted soon!

Well done Lionessess. Wasn’t expecting that level of stress on a Sunday night, but it was worth it in the end 💚🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Love a quick fire round!

Jeremy Corbyn's New Group Sounds Very Much Like Another Party Which Is Rising On The Left The Greens' Zack Polanski told HuffPost UK that everything Corbyn is proposing aligns closely with his party.

The Green Party is a growing grassroots movement.

I'm running to be the next leader with our collective bold, positive vision to tackle power & wealth.

I want to work with anyone who wants to take on Reform & this Government.

The moment is right now.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/whats-...

Text Reads: PROSCRIPTION OF PALESTINE ACTION AS THE LEADER OF THE GREEN GROUP IN BRISTOL, TAM INCREASINGLY CONCERNED AT THE FORCE SHOWN BY POLICE IN OUR CITY AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY THIS WEEKEND AT PEACEFUL PROTESTS. The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is having, as many warned it would, a chilling effect on freedom of speech, and there is a lack of clear guidance on what people can say or do without risking arrest. Are people at risk for advocating for the 17 Bristol citizens arrested this weekend for holding signs? When in other parts of the country, people doing the exact same were not arrested? By contrast, in Canterbury, armed police threatened to arrest a woman engaging in peaceful protest and showing support for the people of Gaza without mention of any proscribed organisation. All the while, hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are suffering from hungerand many are dying of malnutrition. The UN chief recently said that Gaza's "last lifelines" are collapsing, with humanitarian conditions breaking down at an "accelerating" pace during Israel's offensive. Bristol is built on the foundations laid down by those who stood up to overwhelming oppression. Creating an environment where peaceful protest can lead to arrests is a direct attack on the very principles Bristolians have long stood for. Urgent clarity on the law and respect for the right to peacefully protest is urgently needed. Meanwhile, we will continue to stand in solidarity with those who continue to speak out against injustice, and for the people of Palestine. Clir Emma Edwards, Leader of the Green Group, Bristol City Council

The right to protest is a key principle here in Bristol.

Cllr Emma Edwards on the Proscription of Palestine Action and the urgent need for action in Gaza.

well then

I am pleased to inform you that the N has been found! Looks like it had fallen off out of the bracket. Now it has been located it will shortly be reattached and secured. Thanks again for bringing this to my attention.

I had prepared myself and a lot of awful things this year, but I didn’t have brushing multiple ladybirds out of my cleavage on my 2025 bingo card.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ve raised it with the community development officer oversight seeing the artwork there and they can get it replaced.

Protesters oppose 'plane stupid' plans for airport expansion Dozens gathered outside City Hall ahead of Tuesday evening's full council meeting

Congratulations to @is0belrussell.bsky.social for passing this motion opposing Bristol Airport expansion.

84% of people oppose expansion (although Bristol Labour abstained...); @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social stand against this pointless climate-wrecking.

www.bristol247.com/climate/news...

SIGN - Refugee Tales - books

Pleased to mark another year of Refugee Tales, but very sorry that I have to - we need to say #RefugeesWelcome with safe, orderly routes

@refugeetales.bsky.social @refugeecouncil.bsky.social

Right now, Bristol City Council is discussing a Green motion entitled Stop Bristol Airport Expansion.

Councillors @is0belrussell.bsky.social, @serenaralston.bsky.social & @cllremmaedwards.bsky.social are speaking passionately for a green, sustainable transport system...and no airport expansion.

The mayor was standing down anyway. They voted for a change of governance system.

Thank you for standing up for democracy @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social! The government imposing governance changes on local councils without consultation or even notice, let alone consent, is despicable. Thank you for speaking up. 💚

Thanks to @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social, Bristol City Council is committed to #VisionZero: zero deaths or serious injuries on Bristol's roads by 2030.

Low traffic neighbourhoods have an important role to play in helping us achieve that.
bristolgreenparty.org.uk/vision-zero-...

You called?

Love this!! Fully behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social for our new party leader 💚

To be honest, you could probably slap down Reform councillors with a robust critical analysis of ‘Spot The Dog’, so Euripides and Aristophanes might be overkill.

Part of the reason I’m so into politics was spending all my formative summers at Glastonbury festival. I learnt more about politics at Glastonbury than I think I did in my actual degree.

you think when you do research for university dissertation it will never be of any used to in your life. But you’re wrong. It can be used 24 years later to robustly argue with Reform voters on TikTok.

“ politics should stay out of Glastonbury festival!” You mean the festival that literally incarnated into a CND festival in 1981?

Photo of a ring-bound dissertation titled: memories of a free festival: how Glastonbury festival has reflected changes in resistance culture in Britain since 1970. It’s illustrated with a collage of pictures of Glastonbury over the years created by somebody who loved a bit of terrible photo editing software in the early 00s.

For those wittering on about how Glastonbury festival shouldn’t ‘be political’, and it was better when it was ‘ just a music festival’, my university dissertation circa 2001 is available in no good bookshops.

Collage of photographs of Flora. A tiny, sassy Yorkshire terrier with big brown eyes and floppy ears.

Interrupting your doom scrolling about all the awfulness to let you know that it’s my Dog’s 5th birthday today. 🥳🥳🥳

Today I doorknocked Jackie, who - unprompted - said this:

"Labour not taking part in the committee system is just so petty+undemocratic, and it does not get them or us anywhere. There are bigger problems to deal with both locally+nationally!"

People can see, and hate, democracy getting trampled on

Deputy PM Angela Rayner says the vote on the Labour government's UC & PIP cuts for disabled people next Tuesday IS going ahead.

So the big question is - will all the Labour rebels who signed the amendment against these cuts hold their nerve? Greens will.

#PMQs #TakingThePIP