A Leftist Railfan

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

100+ people are expected to defy Labour’s absurd ban at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday.

🥀 Labour is complicit in Israel’s genocide, and they’re proscribing direct action groups to try and hide their own guilt.

Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes: 52%. No: 48%.

🚨 NEW POLL

🟢 Yes: 52%
🔴 No: 48%

With the powers of an independent country, Scotland could do far more tackle inequality, build our public services, protect our environment, and defend human rights.

👉 Help us make it a reality: www.greens.scot/join

Wes Streeting:
Suggests the work NHS England does is useless.
Says he's going to cut half of the jobs (without saying who).
Piles a bunch more projects onto the staff.
Doesn't set a budget for the projects.

Staff:
We are demoralised and unproductive.

Wes Streeting:
Why is NHS England so useless?

#backzack

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is genocidal scum.

YouTube video by No Justice Zack Polanski calmy dismantles Andrea Jenkyns over 'net-zero zealotry'

Reform are fossil fuel funded — and they call themselves patriots while working to wreck our country.

I’ll always take the fight to them until everyone knows the truth.

Here’s my Radio 4 debate on @nojusticemtg.bsky.social stream:

🔗 youtu.be/r9lWv4rVhZo?...

Labour are right to lower the voting age.

But if they're truly serious about creating a fair democracy:

Time to abolish the unelected House of Lords.

And time for Proportional Representation for all elections.

Congratulations Katie!

#GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen

Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.

💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!

Let's make it absolutely massive.

stoptrump.org.uk

Ed Miliband delivers defiant defence of Britain’s role in tackling climate crisis In first annual statement, environment secretary fought back against climate deniers, but his rhetoric needs to stand up to mounting political pressure

Zack Polanski, deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk, said: “Right now, we subsidise jet fuel instead of trains. That’s a political choice and it’s time for this government to make different ones."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actual #trainwindowviews this time, courtesy of @festrail.bsky.social on the Welsh Highland Railway today.

Ffestiniog railway tomorrow!

#trainwindowviews - except this would fall under #buswindowviews

Llanberis - Wales. (Snowdonia)

Carla Denyer says she will not stand again as Greens co-leader to focus on MP role Exclusive: Announcement comes at time of change for party as deputy leader Zack Polanski launches leadership bid with ‘eco-populism’ vision

Carla has been a great co-leader and will continue to be a fantastic MP both for her constituency and for the green movement overall. It is a privilege to know her and to work with her.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These results are insane.

Here is a nice change to a labour post I'm sure we can all get behind:

Sending so much love and solidarity to those affected and worried by the Supreme Court's awful, regressive decision passed this morning, taking us backwards at a time we should be moving forwards and making progress. We wholeheartedly support the calls to appeal this decision to the European Court of Human Rights. At a time when trans and non-binary people bear the brunt of so much discrimination, we will continue to play our part: fighting for liberation, for equality, and for a fairer country for the whole LGBTIQA+ community. In solidarity, LGBTIQA+ Greens

🏳️‍⚧️✊

Unsurprising that Labour, who removed clean air targets from its manifesto, is giving diesel and petrol hybrids another half a decade to be sold.

The 2030 phase out only applies to cars sold in the UK. Spinning this as a tariff response is nonsense.

My full response 👇

Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric Exclusive: 136 organisations tell PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summit

Absolutely right. Time for politicians to start telling the truth - that migration is good for this country - instead of dancing to Nigel Farage's tune and whipping up dangerous anti-migrant hate.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Our roads no place for SUVs

European Transport Safety Council found that in a collision between a modest-size SUV (1,600kg) and a lighter car (1,300kg), the risk of fatal injury decreases by 50% for the occupants of the heavier car but INCREASES by almost 80% for the occupants of the lighter car.

What the Greens think they are doing A response to left commentators' criticism of the Green Party's performance

There’s been a string of left wing commentators having a go at the supposed underperformance of the Greens (latest was Owen Jones in the Guardian yesterday).

It really frustrates me how poor that analysis is, so here’s my review of their claims.

colinboyle.substack.com/p/what-the-g...

Thank you to Neil from @greenwichcyclists.bsky.social for meeting up with me today near Silvertown Tunnel to express the London Cycle Campaign’s concerns around the lack of proper cycle connections in the tunnel, which is opening on Monday.

Hundreds of landlords tried to hike rents above cap, investigation finds HUNDREDS of landlords attempted to hike rents above government limits, in some cases trying to double them, an investigation by The National has…

In one case a landlord tried to raise rent by a staggeringly unaffordable 121%, from £520 to £1150!

Over the last year the rent cap has kept increases to a maximum of 12%. But the SNP allowed it to expire this morning.

They must reinstate the renters protections immediately.

A screenshot of a page on shop.labour.org.uk showing a 'Labour is Tackling Illegal Migration' leaflet for sale

Labour’s recent leaflet that boasts about deporting more people than the Tories is gross.

Labour is failing to provide safe and legal routes into the UK for asylum seekers, while seemingly revelling in turning people’s lives upside down.

My full response > greenparty.org.uk/2025/04/01/l...

The institute for fiscal studies describes itself as the UK's leading independent economics research institute.

What is the IFS, exactly?

From the BBC today.

👀

Not only cruel, but completely incompetent.

🚨 JUST OUT — privatised water companies DUMPED sewage for MILLION hours in 2024.

Are you sick of this 💩? Do you want to end the profit from pollution crisis?

Sign our petition for public ownership, starting with Thames Water: tinyurl.com/cd9y2pf8

Carla speaking into a microphone at a rally, wearing a casual comfy outfit. Behind her is a person in a hoodie in a wheelchair, and a DPAC sign.

Choosing to cut support for disabled people, knowing that many already live in poverty, and that being disabled means that life almost always COSTS MORE - that's a political choice

Pleased to join @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social in Bristol today, angry that it had to happen

(📸 by Clare Reddington)

I explained to the Mayor several times "plant based by default" still means meat & dairy is available but you put the other options first.

He just repeatedly pretends to misunderstand what I'm asking.

This is not the behaviour of a self proclaimed "climate leader."

Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority

The switch to 20mph roads in Wales meant:

🟢 100 fewer dead or seriously injured
🟢 26% fewer injured
🟢 The lowest 3 month casualty figure since records began 46 years ago

That's in just the first year. Real lives saved, real families spared a lifetime of pain and hardship.