Great write-up from @edinreporter.bsky.social
Critical Mass, the cycling campaign group, demand action on safety measures in the Old Town Street remembering a fatal incident there last year
theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/11/road...
@edcriticalmass.bsky.social
Free bus travel to ease cost of living and climate crisis. More people should get free bus travel to reduce car use and cut road congestion under Scottish Greens plans.
The upcoming budget gives Scotland the chance to expand free bus travel to even more people.
Lower climate emissions, lower pollution, less congestion, better mobility, and more money in your pocket.
Affordable, accessible and reliable bus services are good for everyone. π
Im a keen cyclist, but I think that reliable, electric, public transport is more important in this case
Conference shows Scotlandβs appetite for real land reform bylines.scot/news/scotlan...
Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
STV News article: Greens to force vote at Holyrood on Rosebank oil development
Scotland doesn't need more fossil fuels!
Workers and communities need politicians and companies to be honest and invest in stable, sustainable jobs for the future - not dying industries. #StopRosebank
The verdict marks the culmination of a ten-year case that started in a fierce political battle within the Parliament in the run-up to Brexit.
It's time we had sight of the Russia Report π
www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...
The rule of law has delivered:
Profiteering
Poverty
Poor housing
Low wages/pensions
Queues for hospital appointments
Premature death to many
Sewage in rivers
Cuts in spending on essential services
Closure of libraries, community centres.
Whose law, who rules? Govts appease corporations/rich.
UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't.
6.1m households in fuel poverty, Β£4.43bn debt
Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%.
Profit last year Β£30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
No govt checks profiteering.
I'm not looking at the bad news first, but here's some good news that l didn't know π
That's now over 75 000 Hectarces planted in Scotland since 2019
Hooray for the tree people π³
Record high as 30 million trees planted in Scotland last year | STV News news.stv.tv/scotland/rec....
Zack Polanskis increasing popularity has huge implications for the future of British politics.
Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
π 21,600 second homes in Scotland
π 43,000 homes left empty for 6 months
Let's get homes for living in, not for hoarding.
Help us fight Scotland's housing crisis. greens.scot/join
Youβve heard of βtoxic masculinityβ - well this is a new βtonic masculinityβ
Telegraph article with headline: Scotland gives councils power to charge unlimited tax on second homes
Everyone should have an affordable place to call home, but in many communities with high rents, a shocking number of landlords are hoarding property.
Greens are going to change that ‡οΈ
It became so tiring to hear British politicians not answering to questions, letβs hope that journalist would demand other than Green politicians to answer questions.
An image of Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York and Rachel Millward, candidate for Mayor of Sussex and Brighton. In big text between then the words "Hope can win" are in bold. There is an arrow pointing to Zohran saying "Mayor of New York", and another pointing to Rachel saying "Mayor of Sussex and Brighton?". At the bottom of the graphic there is a Rachel for Sussex campaign logo which depicts a marlot, and a legal imprint.
New York just elected @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, who offers real hope, over billionaire funded opponents.
In May, Sussex & Brighton will face a similar choice between real hope and real change with a @greenparty.org.uk mayor or a big money backed Reform mayor with no real plan for the future.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.
(And no to Rosebank!)
youtu.be/em__qJO8Fy0?...
Zack you are cool in your own way! As a LGBT person from the Eastern Europe, who grew up in the ethos of Solidarity I feel fully represented by you! Great work.
Lower bills.
Tax billionaires.
Let's get to it.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
European Movement signatories on a first draft of the ECHR. Credit: ECHR
75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it.
We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life.
We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!
Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wallβyour struggle is ours too
Tomorrow, we will adopt our Enlargement Package, which will commend Ukraineβs remarkable commitment to its European path over the past year.
The Commissionβs message is clear: Ukraine is ready to move forward.
I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.
He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.
How can the UK survive when most of its member states want to leave? youtu.be/CnLkIsKxEEw?...
NEW: βNigel Farage is not my friendβ¦heβs just a handsome & stylish English gentlemanβ
The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her βgood friendβ after saying that he was her βgood friendβ
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Wonderful to see you in Edinburgh @guyverhofstadt.bsky.social
Scotland's place is indeed in the EU! @yesforeu.bsky.social is working hard building ties with MEPs in the European Parliament - see below
www.thenational.scot/news/2558905...
