It’s August 2023. Cambridge City Council is threatening to build on St Thomas’s Square Play Park, which is beloved by local residents 🌳 It’s August 2026. Cambridge City Council is threatening to build on St Thomas’s Square Play Park, which is beloved by local residents 🌳

Private landlordism is KILLING community across Cambridge 🏡 If we want to tackle this problem, we need to build more social housing ✊ Recently, I’ve been doing some investigating into where in Cambridge we need it 💚

According to Twitter, today is the anniversary of the creation of my account, meaning I’ve posted a daily update every day for the past three years 🥳 To commemorate this special occasion, I reported some particularly nasty fly tipping in King’s Hedges yesterday evening 🗑️

Yesterday morning, I was out at the Cellarer’s Chequer to help hardworking local residents create a nice new rain garden 🪏 I particularly enjoyed doing some chiselling - what a fantastic invention the chisel is!

Anybody can make a valuable contribution to the way our city is run 💚 Today, Kathryn and I hosted another training session to help show people how!

Yesterday, I also presented two Local Highway Improvement applications to the panel, both prepared by Naomi 💚 Now we just have to hope that we get the funding 🤞 In the meantime, I’m going to keep working hard in the community! This evening, I reported an abandoned freezer 👎

Today is Local Highway Improvement Panel day 🥳 It’s like Christmas but BETTER - I get to spend the whole day looking at proposals to make streets safer across Cambridge 💚 Photo: 🫏

I’m getting ready to head over to the Guildhall to catch up with some emails 💚 While I’m there, I might take a quick look at the building’s COMMUNIST DOORS, something that I’ve been learning about recently…

Instead of working to pay back the £120 million loaned to them at the expense of local taxpayers, This Land gave their CEO a severance payment of £110,000 🙄 Thankfully, after challenging councillors, it seems like progress is being made to stop this from happening again…

This afternoon, I was over in town for the grand reopening of the Silver Street toilets, which I was really excited about 🚽 Cambridge City Council even included a little place for bats to stay 🦇

While I was walking to the shop to get some potatoes, I reported some fly tipping that I saw by the side of the road 🥔 We should all try our best to call in any issues we see around the city - it’s how we make Cambridge a better place for everyone 💚

I love Newnham 💚 It’s a beautiful area with lots of nature to enjoy 🌳 I fondly remember helping to get the Newnham campaign going back in 2022, organising what (if I recall correctly) was the ward’s first ever action day and sorting out data stuff for them early on ☺️

I love Cambridgeshire County Council’s Summer Reading Challenge, which rewards children for reading six books over the summer 📚 However, it’s essential that adults lead by example, which is why I’ll be reading six books, too 💚

Maria and I were over at Mercers Row the other day to investigate reports of antisocial parking in the area. Take a look at this van, which has already been ticketed several times 🚐

Why are homes for migrants, refugees, and low-income families being singled out for antisocial behaviour? 🤔🤔 Yesterday, I was actually over in Cambourne to discuss the latest draft of the Greater Cambridge Local Plan, which sadly has some uncomfortable undercurrents…

‘[Thy] offence is rank, it smells to heaven’ 👃 Reports allege that the county council paid Clare Hall £158,000 to drop their opposition to the C2C busway. If true, this would be a deeply sinister use of public money. I have asked the Chief Executive for the truth ✉️

It’s been a beautiful day, so I’ve caught up with some emails outside ☀️ With both councils’ full council meetings now out of the way, I’m already thinking about ideas for a new motion - maybe even TWO 😱

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board WASTED £12 million for funding NHS dental services 🦷 Working with Cllr Alex Bulat (@labouralexb.bsky.social) and local campaigners, I recently asked the county council to put pressure on our new integrated care board to do better!

The @cambsgreenparty.bsky.social are a proudly anti-racist party 💚 You have to be thick to be taken in by any of the nonsense that Hitler said, but even here in Cambridge I’ve met people foolish enough to uncritically repeat Nazi propaganda… It is an educational crisis that we must solve!

The Green Party believes that private landlords should NOT exist, something that I explained last night at full council when I argued that we need to do much more to monitor houses in multiple occupation across Cambridge 🏡

Local government reorganisation has been a shambolic process, simultaneously rushed and drawn out. Now, Labour have delayed their decision for our area, leaving councils with no direction 🙄 The incompetence is staggering! Today, I’ve been catching up on the latest news…

The @cambsgreenparty.bsky.social are working to tackle youth unemployment 💚 At yesterday’s full council meeting, I put forward a motion to take action against this pressing crisis, which I’m delighted to say passed! I particularly appreciate the useful input of the Liberal Democrats ☺️

The @cambsgreenparty.bsky.social spent the day standing up for residents at Cambridgeshire County Council’s full council meeting 💚 I particularly enjoyed voting in favour of Peter’s fantastic motion, which takes substantive action towards tackling the pollution spread by road run-off 💧

Maria, Jacqui, and I recently visited a home being retrofitted by Cambridge Retrofit Hub, work that will bring down household bills AND help tackle the climate crisis 🏡 Recently, I’ve put pressure on the county council to support this group, as they do fantastic work 💚

I spent Friday night over at the Leisure Park watching Jaws, a film that I absolutely adore 🦈 It was great to see it on the big screen 🍿 The new draft of the local plan proposes the redevelopment of the site, something that I spoke about on the radio the other morning 📻

A new draft of the Greater Cambridge Local Plan was published a few days ago 📄 You can find it here; consultations.greatercambridgeplanning.org/sites/gcp/fi... 💚 Tonight, I want to give it a proper look over! Photo: The other evening’s lovely sunset 🌅

Licensing is very important - it keeps residents using taxis safe 🚕 Today, I was over at the Guildhall to learn about the subject 💚

I spent the afternoon out in Petersfield, where I delivered some leaflets for the amazing Kathryn Fisher 💚 Beforehand, I stopped by Mill Road Cemetery. I recently argued that this area needs an accessible sharps box nearby so that used needles won’t just get left on the floor 🚮

I was back at Meadows Community Centre yesterday for a meeting of the city council’s cabinet. Here, I pushed to have Portaloos introduced near The Grafton and Mill Road Cemetery to deal with public defecation, something that was bound to happen due to a lack of public toilets 🧻

The police were over at Cambridge Community Kitchen yesterday morning to harass activists working hard to feed struggling families across our city. I got there as quickly as I could to speak with those affected 💚