Edinburgh Greens

Green members with vote green posters on street

Thanks everyone for coming along to our midweek doorknocking. A breezy night in Gorgie Dalry but a warm reception from people living here! @edinburghgreens.bsky.social @scottishgreens.org

Next canvassing session: 6pm this evening (Tuesday 10 March) outside St Martins, 232 Dalry Road. Hope to see you there

🗓️ This is tonight!

🟩 There are still tickets available to come and hear the first ever MP for the Green Party of England and Wales Caroline Lucas.

📍7pm at Pleasance Theatre (doors open at 6:30).

Yet another great canvassing session last night with candidate @katenevens.bsky.social, local councillor @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social and former councillor @gavincorbett.bsky.social. The messages and priorities of @edinburghgreens.bsky.social and @scottishgreens.org are a hit with the residents!

A large group of people hold signs saying 'Free Palestine' and 'Help Stop the Genocide. Boycott Israeli Goods' outside Scottish Parliament.

A large group of people hold signs saying 'Free Palestine' and 'Help Stop the Genocide. Boycott Israeli Goods' outside Scottish Parliament.

Kate holds a free Palestine sign

Kate talking to Maggie Chapman MSP

The Scottish Greens join Campaign Against Arms Trade, GGEC, Mothers Against Genocide & more in calling for an immediate implementation of the boycott

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@scottishgreens.org @magscotland.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social @edinburghgreens.bsky.social

Green members standing outside building with vote green posters

Thanks to the team of @edinburghgreens.bsky.social canvassing for @scottishgreens.org candidate @lornaslater.bsky.social this morning. So much enthusiasm for Green politics right now!

Photo of Scottish Greens volunteers holding 'Vote Scottish Greens' posters and squinting into the sun.

Sun was shining for the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social doorknocking session around Pilton & Granton today. Lots of folk disillusioned with political parties who only serve the millionaires, and who'll be voting Green for the first time.
#activegreens
#votegreen

Stand Up. Fight Back. And vote for hope not hate in May 🌱

@edinburghgreens.bsky.social

Gorgie / Dalry - St Martins Community Resource Centre, 232 Dalry Road, Saturday 7 March, 10:30am - 12:30pm. Musselburgh - Maggie's Bar and Café at Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, Saturday 7 March, 10:45am - 12:45pm. South Edinburgh - Cuthbert's Café, 2-6 Spottiswoode Road, Saturday 7 March, 11am - 1pm.

The Inch - Scotmid, 94-98 Walter Scott Avenue, Saturday 7 March, 12pm - 2pm. Forth - Pilton Community Health Project, 73 Boswall Parkway, Saturday 7 March, 2pm - 4pm. City Centre - Lovecrumbs, 155 West Port, Sunday 8 March, 11am - 1pm.

Sciennes - Summerhall, Sunday 8 March, 2pm - 4pm. Silverknowes - Meeting place and time to be confirmed, Tuesday 10 March. Gorgie-Dalry - St Martins Community Resource Centre, 232 Dalry Road, Tuesday 10 March, 6pm - 8pm.

Join the movement! We have lots more door-knocking opportunities this weekend:
Sat 7 Mar:
- Gorgie/Dalry: 10:30-12:30
- Musselburgh: 10:45-12:45
- South Edinburgh: 11-1
- The Inch: 12-2
- Forth: 2-4

Sun 8 Mar:
- City Centre: 11-2
- Sciennes: 2-4

Tue 10 Mar:
- Silverknowes: tbc
- Gorgie/Dalry: 6-8

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A torn-paper effect separates this from the bottom half, which features a green-tinted photograph of Scottish Green supporters. Overlaid in large, white, capital letters is the message: "HELP US FIGHT BACK BY SUPPORTING OUR CROWDFUNDER." The poster includes a QR code, the URL "edinburgh.greens.scot/fund-2026," and the Edinburgh Greens logo in the bottom right corner.

Reform’s billionaire backers want to fill Holyrood with MSPs that will do their bidding.

@scottishgreens.org are different.

Our MSPs are not for sale. We don’t have billionaires or oil and gas barons writing our policies. Our donations come from ordinary people like you.

Another new poll. Scottish Greens on course for best ever result. 2021: 8 MSPs. Today's poll: 16 MSPs. On May 7th vote Scottish Greens.

🚨 NEW POLL!

Poll after poll has the Green vote surging ahead of May's Scottish Parliament election.

Together we can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland.
👉 www.greens.scot/join

Voters there were clear about what they wanted. They wanted hope, integrity and a politics rooted in community. Greens are the answer 💚

With the Holyrood elections approaching, Greens are proving we are not a wasted vote.

Polling shows us beating the Tories, Lib Dems, & Labour. With your help, we can beat Reform too.

In key constituencies, we can beat the SNP, secure our fair share of seats, and build a better, fairer Scotland.

Plan to convert town centre shop to short-term let hotel approved on appeal Controversial plans to convert a former Farmfoods store in Bathgate town centre into a short-term let hotel have been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government.

Terrible decision. We need homes, not Airbnbs.

Thousands of families remain on the wait list for council housing in West Lothian.

Massive congratulations to Hannah Spencer! Such an impressive win, and such a great new MP to have challenging the status quo in Westminster.

The Green movement is growing, join us!
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The National. Huge new poll says Greens set to overtake Labour at Scottish election.

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Green supporters with Vote Green posters.

Another enthusiastic set of responses for our @edinburghgreens.bsky.social door knocking team in Gorgie Dalry this morning on behalf of @scottishgreens.org candidate @lornaslater.bsky.social in Edinburgh Central. #BothvotesGreen. #VoteGreen.

Hope Wins! Scottish Greens.

Greens beat Reform! 💚

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton.

We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

Text reads: help elect Scottish Greens! Dalry - Meet outside the Co-op on 114 Dalry Road, Saturday 28 February at 10:30am. Sciennes - Meet outside Summerhall, Saturday 28 February at 1pm. Inverleith - Meet outside the Stockbridge Tap on Raeburn Place, Sunday 1 March at 11am.

Text reads: help elect Scottish Greens! Marchmont - Meet outside Cuthbert’s Cafe, 2-6 Spottiswoode Road, Sunday 1 March at 1pm. Silverknowes - Meet on Blackhall Path at Silverknowes Road, Sunday 1 March at 1pm. Abbeyhill - Meet at Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Sunday 1 March at 2pm.

More door-knocking this weekend! We'll meet in Dalry (10:30am) and Sciennes (1pm) on Saturday 28 February, and Inverleith (11am), Marchmont (1pm), Silverknowes (1pm) and Abbeyhill (2pm) on Sunday 1 March.

Join us to help Scottish Greens get elected this May!

But as suspected, the vote fell along coalition lines - Labour joined with the Tories & Lib Dems to vote through a budget which sees a 4%, not 5% council tax (despite warnings from the Council's legal officers that this could mean future cuts) and less investment in vital services. Plus ça change...

"I condemn the conservatives for proposing to remove funding for teachers working on environmental, international and outdoor education in schools, our Sustainability champions – this is funding that has supported children and young people to communicate, live, with children and young people in other countries that are being impacted by climate change, that has supported projects like planting hundreds of trees in city parks, and above all empowering children and young people to understand and rise to the challenges of climate change that will be increasingly part of their lives." Cllr Steve Burgess, Education spokesperson

"Reducing emissions from the transport sector requires a significant shift to delivering the city mobility plan. The plan itself is great, but it is not being delivered at the pace required. Our amendment sees significant investment in pedestrian crossings, school travel plans, dropped kerbs, cycle parking and a host of other schemes to support more sustainable travel and cut transport emissions." Cllr Chas Booth, Climate Spokesperson

"Funding a public diner trial would send a powerful message that this city believes that everyone, no matter their income, deserves to go out for a healthy, nourishing meal in the company of friends family and neighbours. And with the far right trying to pull our communities apart, there is no better way to help them come together." Cllr Dan Heap, communities spokesperson

We also had contributions from Steve highlighting the cynical attempts to remove the vital role of sustainability champions in Edinburgh's schools, Dan making the case for public diners and community growing, and Chas on investing in safe walking and wheeling routes across the city.

"And in administration across 4 budgets now, Labour have done nothing - absolutely nothing - to pursue the issues they were elected on and to represent the people they were formed to serve. What have they brought forward instead today? A blank page waiting to be filled with Tory and Lib Dem priorities." Cllr Ross McKenzie

This is the group's first budget since being joined by Cllr McKenzie. And he brought PROPS (😍)to demonstrate how disappointed he is by his former party's failure to deliver on their manifesto.

"By providing a very modest amount of funding relative to the council’s budget towards organisations supporting new scots, we would be recognising this core work and putting our money where our mouth is when we say that Edinburgh welcomes our new residents. If other groups choose not to adopt this budget proposal, they will be showing that their warm words towards migrants cannot be translated into tangible support when they are called on." Cllr Claire Miller, Equalities Spokesperson

"We start our budgets from the point of view of “how can we best use public money to make the biggest impact on our most vulnerable citizens” – who not only suffer the most from the cost-of-living crisis, but also bear the brunt of cuts to services. This is why we proposed a 6% council tax increase – costing households in band D an extra £15 a year, yes, but enabling significant investment in things to improve their everyday lives." Cllr Alys Mumford, Health spokesperson

Even though things seem like they might all be stitched up already, we're presenting our budget asks - Green Cllrs have learned from previous years that things we fight for might fail at first, but often bear fruit in later years! Cllrs Claire & Alys made the case for more spending on equality ♀️🦽✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🫄

"We crafted an amendment to the administration budget which would have stopped the slum lords, provided more accessible housing and better supported asylum seekers and refugees. It looks unlikely that any of these will be accepted today. Perhaps for Labour that doesn’t matter, I don’t expect them to be here next term either, but for the rest of us and for the city they have chosen to set us up for failure" Cllr Alex Staniforth, Finance Spokesperson

"I think we need to remember the folks drinking lead water, choosing between heating and eating, juggling childcare and work, kids who are developing asthma and life limiting conditions because of the ignorant obsession with cars over active and safe travel. Think of the people on the housing waiting lists, students with additional support needs. I started being happy to second our budget proposal but now end despondent at the state of this administration and chamber." Cllr Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill, Co-convener

Budget Day in Edinburgh and it seems - as in past years - Labour will be teaming up with the Tories to get their budget passed😒

It's depressing when other parties put their own interests above those of the city, but Green Cllrs will continue to fight for public money to be spent for public good ✊

An image of the Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh with a white text box on top of it saying "A budget for climate, equality, and housing justice. A public diner trial, investing in active travel, reducing rents, free bus travel for asylum seekers, landlord regulation and more. Cllr Alys Mumford explains the Green Councillor budget proposals for climate and social justice." At the bottom is a green band with a white Scottish Greens logo and the word Edinburgh

On Thursday, Edinburgh City Council will be setting its budget - find out what the Green Councillors have proposed in their budget for climate, equality and housing justice: edinburgh.greens.scot/blog/a-budge...

Great team of @edinburghgreens.bsky.social out in Gorgie Dalry today, knocking on doors and telling people how winnable Edinburgh Central is for @scottishgreens.org candidate @lornaslater.bsky.social.

Me, Q, Kayleigh & Lorna: your gorgeous top four Green MSP candidates for Edinburgh & Lothians East.

We're currently polling to elect our biggest ever group of MSPs to Scottish Parliament - we've (green) energy, movement & hope on our side. Join us, and #VoteGreen

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Ramadan Mubarak from me and the Edinburgh and Lothians East Greens!

@edinburghgreens.bsky.social

We are looking forward to seeing lots of @edinburghgreens.bsky.social members and supporters in SW Edinburgh tomorrow (Sunday 22 February) at 2pm outside the Co-op 114 Dalry Road, as part of our push to elect @lornaslater.bsky.social as Green MSP for Edinburgh Central