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Astrid Johnson

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@greenparty.org.uk Manchester City Councillor w/ Cllrs Anastasia Wiest & Rob Nunney. Deputy Green Group leader. Married to @mwjtweet.bsky.social: http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com (she/her)

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Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...

03.03.2026 07:25 πŸ‘ 1827 πŸ” 582 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 51
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Manchester Greens call for 'unity and resilience' after synagogue attack - Manchester Green Party Green Party Manchester Green Party councillors have expressed their support for all those affected by the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall this week.

πŸ’š Manchester Green Party councillors have expressed their support for all those affected by the synagogue attack in Crumpsall this week.

Read our councillors’ full statement on our website: ⬇

manchester.greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/03/m...

04.10.2025 18:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰ GREEN BYELECTION WIN!

πŸ’š Delighted we just won this seat in Manchester.

πŸ™ŒπŸΌ Huge congratulations to brand new councillor Zoe Marlow and the whole team.

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Join.greenparty.org.uk

25.09.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 565 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems!

Let's keep it going!
πŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΎπŸ‘‡πŸ½
join.greenparty.org.uk

Latest stats available:
85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership
83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

22.09.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 614 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 23
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Today. Gaza. Unacceptable.

23.07.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FFS, the prosecution and undermining of science based and peer reviewed research has to stop! #PublicHealth #ClimateCrisis #NatureCrisis #Equality is too important to be ideologised. This is going into dangerous territory.

25.04.2025 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Zack with members and supporters in Accrington

Zack with members and supporters in Accrington

Zack with members and supporters in Ashford

Zack with members and supporters in Ashford

Zack with members and supporters in Canterbury

Zack with members and supporters in Canterbury

Zack with members and supporters in Dartford

Zack with members and supporters in Dartford

πŸš… Last few weeks I've travelled to Worcester, Doncaster, Runcorn, Helsby, Kenilworth, Dartford, Accrington, Lancaster, Canterbury, Kettering, Cambridge + many many more!

β˜€οΈ Next: Chippenham, Totnes, Truro + more!

πŸ’š In 7 days real hope & real change. Vote for @greenparty.org.uk

24.04.2025 09:16 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
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πŸ’š We stand with trans people and the entire LGBTQIA+ community following the Supreme Court ruling on definitions under the Equality Act.

β€‹πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ We call on the Government to introduce better protections for the trans community, including self-ID of gender, so that we can all live in peace and dignity

18.04.2025 09:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#Solidarity with LGBTQIA+. @TheGreenParty’s policy is that trans men are men, trans women are women, and non-binary identities exist and are valid and supports the policy of self-ID. 3/3

17.04.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Audi alteram partem, let the other side be heard. Trans voices were not heard and were not allowed to present as part of the decision making process of the Supreme Court. There needs to be an appeal at the European Court of Human Rights. 2/3

17.04.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Catching up with the awful and regressive Supreme Court ruling redefining β€œwoman” under the Equality Act to exclude trans women. How will the government protect trans people’s safety, privacy, and dignity now?

I stand in #solidarity with my trans friends.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ1/3

17.04.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

...but also because everything outside it has begun to appear lifeless, bloodless, meaningless, and unreal.”

Hannah Arendt, 1950 preface for β€œThe Origins of TOTALITARIANISM”

11.04.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œTo yield to the mere process of disintegration has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of β€œhistorical necessity,” ... 1/2

11.04.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good morning @theurbandruid111.bsky.social, at 11am, Painswick Park, near the Rugby Club changing rooms. 🧹

06.04.2025 07:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks so much for the visit. Great to have been able to show you around Woodhouse Park, Benchill and Moss Nook today – an amazing place of community spirit and strength, but with many needs – @tomstannard.bsky.social!

04.04.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"You're taking some of the most disadvantaged people in our society and making them pay."

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social on the Government's plans for yet more cuts and the need to tax wealth properly instead.

14.03.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 10
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Labour MPs handed plea to "take a stand' against welfare cuts as backlash grows
Every Labour MP has been sent a letter by the Green Party urging them to rebel against plans to slash the welfare bill.
REAL HOPE REAL CHANGE
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Mirror Labour MPs handed plea to "take a stand' against welfare cuts as backlash grows Every Labour MP has been sent a letter by the Green Party urging them to rebel against plans to slash the welfare bill. REAL HOPE REAL CHANGE Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Over to you, Labour MPs.

14.03.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 13

We have written to every single Labour MP asking them to use their voice (and their votes!)

Cuts do not have to be inevitable.

You do not need to support this.

14.03.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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I’m deeply disappointed by the govt’s utterly short-sighted decision to fund defence by slashing aid.

Defence, diplomacy and development are intertwined. Investing in development helps build security.

There is another way to find the funds: ask the wealthiest to contribute more.

10.03.2025 17:11 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
Cottages on the Dachau Marsh

Cottages on the Dachau Marsh

Cottages on the Dachau Marsh https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/cottages-on-the-dachau-marsh-1902

10.03.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ministers have 'moral' duty to cut benefits spending, Labour MPs say Labour is anxious to reduce the rising welfare bill as it plans boosting defence spending at a time when the Chancellor is perilously short of extra cash

That must be one of the most Orwellian statements ever. It’s bad enough to cut people’s benefits. To pretend some kind of higher β€œmoral” duty while you’re doing so is insulting and offensive

09.03.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 1109 πŸ” 403 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 46
Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation

False Start I http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67552

10.03.2025 19:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue Trump’s executive order and Pierre Poilievre’s stance on trans rights fuel a divide on gender equality. Trans rights and feminism are linked and both must be defended together.

The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue:

policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

06.03.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It just may describe the human condition…

06.03.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#NoToFascism

25.02.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Manchester Greens call for more social homes for Manchester - Manchester Green Party Green Party Manchester Green Party councillors have urged Manchester City Council to build the homes Manchester needs by guaranteeing more social and sustainable housing.

At least 30% of new builds need to be for social rent! Why can’t Manchester Labour make this commitment when residents and their own members demand this? manchester.greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/05/g...

05.02.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We be having Christmas breakfast at the dandelion Community hub come along to get a full English breakfast from 10am till 2pm everyone is welcome!

16.12.2024 21:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very happy to wake up to see
@wheelsforwellbeing.bsky.social on here.

Follow them if you are interested in accessibility and getting around by walking, wheeling or cycling.

Thoughtful work under pinned by lived experience.

14.12.2024 07:38 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Entrenched car culture’ leaves millions of Britons in transport poverty Study finds drivers spending up to a fifth of pre-tax income on running a car as lack of infrastructure deters people from cycling

πŸ’Έ Millions of people in the UK can't afford to own cars, or can't drive for whatever reason.

πŸ›‘ The lack of non-car options means they are trapped around where they live.

🚍 Getting around needs to more affordable, which means less focus on private cars.

🧡A thread on #CarCulture πŸ‘‡

14.12.2024 10:56 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 14
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Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, William Blake was born #OTD 28 November 1757.

This painting - The Ancient of Days - is in the collection at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

28.11.2024 08:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0