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Green Party MP Shares List Of All Her Meetings And Urges Colleagues To Do The Same Exclusive: Green MP and former party leader Siân Berry has shared a list of all her official meetings with lobbyists and has urged all other MPs to...

All MPs should have to publish details of the lobbyists they are meeting.

We have a right to know who is influencing our representatives and which groups MPs aren't listening to

Good to see @sianberry.bsky.social setting an example for others
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Urban farming: The growers producing food in London London may seem an unlikely place to grow crops but farms can be found across the city.

Labour’s plan to sell off allotments is idiotic. We need to allow more people to grow food in London and make better use of the spaces we have.

For example, in Croydon we have glasshouses that have stood empty for years that could be brought back into use.
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Inner London to lose out in funding rebalance, says IFS report The shake-up will affect the share of central government funding distributed to councils in England.

Government funding was slashed over the last 15 years and Councils were left fighting each other for the crumbs

A fairer system is not just about how we share out the funds, it must include an increase in Council funding to the level we really need

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Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary? | Common Dreams There was no pressing military necessity for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan

As we mark 80 years since the nuclear massacre in Hiroshima it is important to be clear – using nuclear weapons was wrong then and it is wrong now

Killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people is a war crime and must never be allowed to happen again
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'Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man' Shaun Thompson is challenging the Met Police's use of live facial recognition technology.

Guilty until proven innocent

Police are working outside the law and against justice. You will be treated as a suspect just for walking down the street

Facial recognition cameras are turning our country into a police state

@bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social

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BBC headline "Farage calls on police to share immigration status of charged suspects" above a picture of him

Why? Reform have failed to explain why the immigration status of suspects is relevant or why they ‘need’ to know

The British justice system is based on the idea that everyone is equal before the law – if you don’t agree with that, there are other countries you can go to

A photo of a poster, which reads "Not in our name: Women in support of the Trans+ community. We are a collective of women from every corner of society - who reject completely and categorically - the active discrimination and exclusion of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people."

I've signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social 'Not In Our Name' open letter. We are cis women in support of the trans community and we are clear: those who continue to target this minority group do not speak for us or represent our interests. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

BBC headline “What to do if your planned holiday destination is affected by wildfires” above a picture of clouds of smoke filling the sky over some houses

Work with others to stop climate change and at the next election #VoteGreen

If you vote Labour you are voting for someone who cannot represent you.

Telling comment: " a certain set of people who behave in here (Parliament) more like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people thinking about how to improve the country."

Imagine having to choose between watching your children die of starvation or risking the chance that they will become orphans because you were shot dead standing in a food queue. #gaza

Steve Reed is typical of Keir Starmer's Labour - they only listen to millionaires who want to make bigger profits while ignoring the experts and the people they are supposed to represent

If you want real change, you have to #VoteGreen

Guilty until proven innocent - police will scan your face without your permission when you haven't been accused of any crime

There has been no change in the law or regulations but the police are completely changing our fundamental principles of justice

Heathrow Airport's third runway expansion plans to cost £49bn Heathrow says expansion is

As climate change makes more of the planet unliveable, Heathrow wants to expand capacity for more polluting flights

Are they expecting an increase in demand for tourist trips to go and see the devastation?
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Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition Technology will now be used up to 10 times a week across five days, up from four times a week across two days

The fact that police facial recognition technology has been put on our streets and expanded repeatedly over nearly ten years - by two Governments - without a single piece of specific legislation being voted on by MPs is utterly outrageous and sinister.
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Picture of Keir Starmer below the BBC headline "UK to recognise Palestinian state unless Israel meets conditions"

Keir Starmer says Israel will decide UK foreign policy

Forget democracy or decency, Starmer says the UK’s support for the recognition of the state of Palestine will depend entirely on the decisions of the Israeli Government

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Smut - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

With Tom Lehrer leaving us in the same week that pornographic websites became inaccessible without age verification, this seemed the most fitting tribute - as both will be sadly missed
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Pecksniff: Exclusive! We reveal far right plot behind Epping riots In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

The racists shouting abuse outside hotels aren't 'ordinary people expressing genuine concerns' - they are only there because the far-right organised these demonstrations of hate

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🎉 Amazing to welcome Cllr Trey Campbell-Simon) to the Green Party this week!

🥀 Trey left Labour and joined the Greens to be in a party that actually matches his values.

🙌🏼 Delighted to have his backing to be the next leader of the Green Party.

Standing outside of the places where vulnerable people have been forced to live and shouting abuse at those people is not a protest, it is a hate crime

Judge rules car makers must release Dieselgate documents The High Court has today ruled that unredacted legal documents in the £6 billion ‘Dieselgate’ litigation against several major car manufacturers must be made public. Environmental campaign groups Mum...

BREAKING: We won! 💪 🙌

We are absolutely delighted at the decision the High Court has made, making documents in October’s #Dieselgate class action publicly available due to the high level of public interest in this case.

Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave After an unusually cold early summer, Finland has seen two weeks of temperatures topping 30C.

All over the world, every day, climate change is causing extreme heat and extreme rain

If we don’t act it is only going to get worse – crops will fail, animals and people will die

Reaching and passing #NetZero is more important than ever
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A Labour Council is attacking low paid workers and their union

I'm proud to have been a union member throughout my working life and I believe we need to be supporting our vital workers, not attacking them and cutting their pay

The consultation on the PSPO for Croydon town centre closes on 27 July

The PSPO is harmful for everyone in our town centre and does nothing to tackle the problems that people in Croydon face

Please respond to the consultation and say No to the PSPO
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‘Unfair and regressive’ council tax a 'danger to democracy' | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) MPs are calling on the government to undertake an urgent review of the current council tax system – dismissing the link between taxes paid and the quality

Council tax is an unfair tax. Labour and Conservative Governments have refused to change it and so we are left with rising bills and failing Councils

We need Government to start funding Councils fairly
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Why do we need a new party?

All the policies they keep talking about are already policies of the @greenparty.org.uk

Or is it that there are Green policies that they won't support and they just don't want to tell you that?

A large group of volunteers sat in the walled garden

Peter and one of the volunteers smiling at the camera next to one of the hedges

Peter giving instructions to a group of volunteers

Joined the Friends of Park Hill Park yesterday to support a fantastic group of volunteers from Deloitte, who did an amazing job in the walled garden

Volunteers do a brilliant job and Councils should never forget how much they do to make our towns nicer and happier places to live

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Treys resignation statement. Online alt text version updated shortly.

Picture of Trey

🙌🏼 Huge welcome to Councillor Trey - our new Green Party councillor!

🥀 He's not leaving the Labour Party - they have left him.

💚 Delighted he's found his new home in the Green Party as we continue to grow.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Statement on the appointment of Government Commissioners to oversee Croydon Council - Sutton & Croydon Green Party The Government’s decision to appoint commissioners to take charge at Croydon threatens local democracy and doesn’t provide the solutions we need to deal with Croydon’s financial situation. It is clear...

We have published a statement on the appointment of Government Commissioners at Croydon Council

We need both debt relief and fair funding for Croydon, and these Commissioners must not act against the best interests of Croydon residents
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Sizewell C nuclear power plant costs rise to £38bn Households will pay £1 a month towards the construction of the UK's second new nuclear power plant.

Too expensive, too slow, and too risky

The Government should stop wasting our money on nuclear projects that will be out-of-date by the time they are built

We should be investing in quicker and cheaper renewable energy
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