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Promoted by S Gleave on behalf of Dover & Deal Green Party, 17 Belmont, CT14 7QU

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

Promoted by S Gleave on behalf of Dover & Deal Green Party, 17 Belmont, CT14 7QU

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

This scheme to support pensioners who are struggling but dont quite qualify for penion credit has just been extended to Fri 7 March: https://t.co/oulVAq4l0D

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

This handsome boy just turned 10, but he looks sad because someone's birthday balloon has ended up on the beach 😢 posing a danger to wildlife 🦭 . Thankfully it has now been disposed of properly. 💚 💚 💚 #2minutebeachclean

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

Looking forward to seeing author and politician Natalie Bennett on Sunday 16th February at The Art Club in Dover 13.30-15.00 and the Port Arms in Deal 16.15-17.30. Copies of her excellent book 'Change Everything' will be available to purchase or bring your copy for her to sign...

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

We are migrating to Bluesky - join us there! @greensdoveranddeal.bsky.social

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

This is outrageous - why are we paying @SouthernWater?

[Deal Town @Deal_Town]

Do not swim warning issued for DEAL

"Southern Water are the polluter and the Environment Agency is our guardian. It seems to me that something's gone terribly wrong here somewhere because the pollution is going up"

https://t.co/hPPw5cO8uL @Feargal_Sharkey

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Such a pity ...

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Fuel duty staying frozen and discounted for another year, at 10 x what it would have cost to keep the £2 bus fare cap.

Make it make sense 🤦
#Budget2024

[Sian Berry @sianberry]

A rocketing bus fare rise hits young people, families and all those who can't afford a car. It entrenches years of unequal burdens, is the opposite of a progressive transport pricing policy, and means less for better travel across the country. Incredibly poor. #Budget2024

[GreensDoverDist @GreensDoverDist]

@AshfordGreens Congratulations to Thom - you will be amazing!

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked attack.

One of the attackers had three previous convictions for similar offences of common assault in the previous three years. As it happened the thugs were brothers, and the sons of one of Britain’s richest property tycoons.

But they were in luck. When they eventually appeared before Recorder Christopher Hehir in Southwark Crown Court, the judge was in a forgiving mood. The thugs were given suspended sentences—one of 15 months and one of six months.

Fast forward to last week when the same judge had to consider a different kind of case involving two young women who did not attack anyone, but did throw a can of soup at a painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

No one needed surgery. The picture frame was moderately affected because—fun fact—tomato soup is apparently “slightly acidic”. But His Honour Christopher Hehir reacted very differently, jailing one young woman for more than two years and the other for 20 months.

[VoteClimateUK @VoteClimateUK]

@GreensDoverDist Thank you so much for following @VoteClimateUK
We need more members
To persuade @UKLabour to #ActNow vs #ClimateEmergency
Pls join https://t.co/cq2QUQkPDR!
Pls can you share with your friends, colleagues and followers to ask them to join?
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[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

#Grenfell

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Keir Starmer said wealth creation is a priority for his government.

But he's cut the Winter Fuel Allowance for vulnerable pensioners and refuses to tax the super-rich fairly.

Who are you trying to create wealth for Prime Minister?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Keir Starmer says cutting the winter fuel payment is a choice he had to make.

But when asked about a wealth tax - Rachel Reeves said their spending commitments didn't require extra investment.

So his tough choices are to not tax wealth of billionaires.

Choices.

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Longtime policy of @TheGreenParty

[Peter Findley @findley_peter]

Our water is a disgrace

[Ironside @ironside_uk]

Guess what separates Europe’s cleanest rivers and seas from the UK’s? Public ownership. | We Own It @we_ownit https://t.co/nhvH03OOR9

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

My quote for Morning Star:
“With a new government, we have an opportunity to turn around the bleak situation in the NHS, and rebuild the service. But this will only happen if Keir Starmer commits to significant investment in the service.” 💙💙💙

https://t.co/lIyZCI1suk

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"