@cllxben.bsky.social
Nottingham and East Midlands Green Party Co-Chair Dad, Cyclist, Inventor, Green Party, former Borough Councillor, keen runner, enthusiastic OCR participant, tree hugger, PhD Chemist, increasingly grumpy.
About a year ago we had one so close that it killed out TV and broadband router. I was working on a scaffold at the time.
Very close to us too
Holes in your uppers?
Wooly nylon thread & a needle 🪡 is all you need to patch up holes in your uppers.
Bookmark this video.
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Why we've not even notionally separated audit and consultancy in the UK is a mystery, perhaps only solved by looking at the links with the big four and government.
Same organisations now redrawing our local gov functions across the uk. I wonder who will benefit?
Back to the big stuff. For fuck sake.
this Sunday. You're about to give advice to the local church group on practical issues around their next excellent community project. You've got four of your kids school mates round to help solder and glue together their scitech project.
Oh and the whole house needs tidying, painting, and sorting
You're on a committee where people will ask "who is doing this? and have we done that?" but nobody else ever seems to do this or has done that. Hundreds of little fuck you moments stacking up and up and up. But yet again you've volunteered to open the coffee provision to miss your kids playing sport
the shop not coming on time, apps constantly logging you out, taking time out for a gym session only to find you've forgotten your water bottle and one of your kids (probably) has borrowed your padlock. The car has started making a clunking sound and its MOT is due next week and you've not booked it
One of those days where you just feel like every little thing is against you. Big things like the shit storm the world over, smaller things like local planners giving two thumbs up to building houses on radioactive waste sites, and yet kicking off about permitted development rights,
Ofwat £22m fine proposal for South East Water for repeated supply failures.
"Proposal" = companies with criminal convictions negotiate, may never pay.
Thames Water to pay 2024 fines by 2030 or never.
2024 fines on Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water quietly waived.
Execs never fined or prosecuted.
Plumber wins by-election for Greens
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
That title gave me a much needed laugh today
His principles were the exact same. Simply put, they were absent. He lacks them and just tells the lies he, personally, needs to gain more power.
Imagine your party has won a historic byelection.
You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members.
Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg!
#isitok
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,
I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all.
Thanks,
Zack Polanski
Can't argue with them numbers!
If only desperate Labour Ministers could be bothered to
"... look at the difference decriminalising drugs has made in Portugal"
For "an evidence based policy which had consulted hundreds of experts in the field" go to @greenparty.org.uk
meme via Glyn Goodwin
Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas
Premiering at 7pm:
youtu.be/HSw620OysHc
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,
Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform?
I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...
Yes 🙌
The change starts here!!!
Let's get our ducks in a row!
If you want to make hope normal again, you can:
JOIN join.greenparty.org.uk
DONATE donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk
and
HELP GET HANNAH ELECTED!!!
gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk#get-involved
And when they have all our defence and medical information, Starmer will say, nobody told him, it didn't come across his desk. Which assistant will have to resign?
Listening to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and Hannah Spencer on @boldpolitics.bsky.social whilst getting some plaster on the walls!
More normal people in parliament please 💚
#voteGreen
I agree too
A level of humanity we're missing in our politics.
The only time I ever saw my teak tough, boxer, bouncer, brawler dad ever cry was on the day our lurcher Brandy died.
Dogs connect with us all and show our humanity
Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests.
It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.
Love dogs (don't have one yet but my heart aches for one), love Hannah & Zack & the Green Party & they make me want to move to Manchester to be part of her (coz she's gonna win) constituency, lol. Need to find out about the Green candidate here in Birmingham (hope they love dogs too, lol).
Derbyshire Dales Greens were up in Denton & Gorton today to help Hannah Spencer become our 5th MP.
A fun and satisfying day, and a real privilege to be involved in such an important political moment.