Shane Collins
@shane-collins.bsky.social
Green Party Councillor for Frome East on Somerset Council. Director of the Green Gathering Festival.
FFS, this is getting ridiculous. De-banking now de-webbing.
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors. This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent. www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!
Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
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This is progress.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11mo agoLoved this short film by @owenjones.bsky.social. My biggest takeaway is how much talent there is in @greenparty.org.uk Brilliant, kind, smart, articulate people making change. Absolutely time to harness that energy and scale us up massively. Let's do this! 💚 youtu.be/Ds3R8AckpXs?...
We have the momentum, about 1000 joining every day. Come join us.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11mo agoLoved this short film by @owenjones.bsky.social. My biggest takeaway is how much talent there is in @greenparty.org.uk Brilliant, kind, smart, articulate people making change. Absolutely time to harness that energy and scale us up massively. Let's do this! 💚 youtu.be/Ds3R8AckpXs?...
Running out of countries in the Middle East for Israel to bomb. greenparty.org.uk/2025/09/09/g...
Greens condemn Israeli strikes on Qatar - Green Party
Reacting to reported Israeli strikes on Qatar, Dr Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire and Parliamentary Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, said: “Targeting negotiators in Doha is reprehens...
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Really, really comprehensive interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social discussing a strategy of community organising within the party, speaking for the marginalised, what can be learned from Zohran Mamdani, Farage, putting more money in your pocket, and Palestine open.spotify.com/episode/4sb6...
I will unite the British left. This is how | Zack Polanski interview
PoliticsJOE Podcast · Episode
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excellent chat.
RobynRox@robynroxmusic.bsky.social · last yr.I'm not a single-issue voter by any means. I'm a member of the Greens because their policies match my values well. I'm trans, too, and I #BackZack as I think it will help get the message across that the Party supports us. If you're on the left, watch this. Maybe join us and vote for him to lead us.
CCS allowing fossil fuels to carry on business as usual as the climate collapses.
#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 2y ago🚨STOP FOSSIL FUEL GIANTS🚨 LOCKING IN GAS USE FOR DECADES Support the RALLY for my legal challenge against UK carbon capture plans👉 actionnetwork.org/events/stop-... Tuesday, March 04, 12:30 PM Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London, WC2A 2LL GB More details in 🧵 below 1/
Institute of Actuaries Report on climate risks. Required reading. We have been warned. Over 2oC - 25% drop in population and global GDP, 3oC-50% drop in GDP and 50% drop in population. We need rapid change to stand any chance of keeping below 2oC and tipping points. actuaries.org.uk/document-lib...
FFS, now Labour row back on banning new gas boilers by 2035 ad making solar PV mandatory on new housing.... When are you going to join the only Green Party ?
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2y agoEd Miliband promised a "rooftop revolution." It seems to have stalled even before the barricades. Sadiq Khan promised a "retrofit revolution* but now says he needs government permission. We need less noise & actual action to tackle climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hard to feel much sympathy for the Tufton St secretly US funded right wing 'think tanks' who have taken over and privatised politics in the UK.
The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2y agoNotorious Donald Trump-backing Tufton Street just got its internet cables CUT by activists An underground climate group cut the fibre optic cables at Tufton Street - home to climate denialists, far-right groups and anti-trans orgs www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Very good quote. morality does not require religion.
Literary Pearls@literarypearls.bsky.social · 2y ago"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
Too bloody true. Thankyou @greenparty.org.uk
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 2y agoToday is Human Rights Day. There is now overwhelming evidence that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Any Government wanting to be taken seriously on human rights would not be selling arms to Israel.
Ha, 30 years since the three day eviction Claremont Rd, M11. Well worth a read.
Roger Geffen@rogergeffen.bsky.social · 2y agoTransport Sec Louise Haigh will publish her Integrated Transport Strategy on Thursday. That's precisely 30yrs since the Dept for Transport's bailiffs began evicting the squatted/barricaded homes of Claremont Rd to make way for the awful M11 Link Road. Hope she can deliver a very different 'vision'!
This is interesting. I'd never heard of 'bullet ballots' where people only vote for the President and not the multitude of other officials up for election. In the 7 swing states there were considerably more bullet ballots than the 1% which is the average. www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-secu...
Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked
'Musk is guilty as fuck'
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Do these peoples have memories ? 2008 crash caused by de-regulation, Grenfell caused by de-regulation. Huge disparity in wealth caused by de-regulation.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Chancellor has ordered the FCA to tear up rules, encourage more risk-taking, grow finance industry. Expect more speculation on shares, bonds derivatives; price of food/commodities. Bankers will get bigger bonuses, people will get hunger & cost of bailouts. leftfootforward.org/2024/11/exce...
