Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚

@NewhamGreens councillor for Royal Victoria ward

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[Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚 @RoyalDocksRob]

Very pleased to have been elected to represent the people of Royal Victoria ward, #Newham - as Green councillors we will turn up and stand up for our residents. Thank you to all of you who put your trust in us.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister and Bridget Phillipson to reject the cruel and confusing EHRC Code of Practice.

Legislative action must be taken to create an equalities framework that protects trans people’s safety, dignity and humanity.

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated

Jasmine Fox is now an independent.

➡️ Kicked Out
Brian Black
Oliver Bradshaw
Paul Thomas
Bob Ford
Bill Barratt
Ed Hill
James Regan
Mark Broadhurst
Paul Bean
Adam Smith
Daniel Taylor
John Allen
Nicole Brooke
Patrick Lambert
Maxine Fothergill
Ian Cooper
Edward Harris
Isabella Kemp
Aaron Roy
Jay Cooper
Caroline Gladwin

➡️ Defected
Amelia Randall
Nicola Brown
Christopher Marriott
John Roddy
Peter Colley
Dean Burns
Jack Goncalvez
Charles Whitford
Chris Large
Luke Cooper
Scott Cameron
Kieran Mishchuck
Kathryn Shaw
Joanne Blythe
Alistair Hendry
Graham Eardley
Andrew Barry
Todd Ferguson
Owain Clatworthy
Dawn Saunders
Cain Parkinson
Brandon Dodd
Roger Tarrant
Susanne Desmonde
Nick Farmer
Jo Monk
Ashley Monk
Matthew Jones
Jamie Hanlon
Jasmine Fox

➡️ Suspended
Lynn Dean
Ben Rowe
Glenn Gibbins
Paul Heyward
Robin Perry
Alan Dennison

➡️ Disqualified
Andy Osborn

➡️ Resigned
Mark Whittington
Jack McGlenen
Gaynor Jean-Louis
Wayne Titley
Donna Edmunds
Luke Shingler
Desmond Clarke
Andrew Kilburn
John Bailey
Sam Booth
David Maclean
Robert Bloom
Rowland O’Connor
Rob Parsonage
Christine Parsonage
Karen Knight
Anna Thomason-Kenyon
Richard Everett
Jack Bradley
Angie Nash
Richard Morgan
Daniel Thomas
David Cumming
Desmond Watt
David Taylor
Michael Ramage
Stuart Graham
Andrew Thorp
Shaun Knowles
Tony Hill
Todd Ferguson
Sarah Shields
Ewen Sinclair
Daniel Devaney
Stuart Prior
Barry Martin
Stephen Mousdell
Andrew Harrison
Kenny Hope
Mick Lee
Kate Rowland
Joseph Soper
Marc Stanley
Trevor Bridgwood
James Sidlow
Nathaniel Menday
Mark Tucker

➡️ Lost Seat
Mike Morris
Clarence Mitchell
Alan Cook
Mark Shooter
Kira Gabbert

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Ok, the Environment Agency is really taking the mick now.

The photograph they are using below is of the Stapleford Tawney illegal waste site, next to the River Roding near Epping. They were informed about this site in February 2025, but did absolutely nothing and allowed illegal waste dumping to continue for a whole year. It was only in February 2026, when I organised a petition & got the media down to the site that they even bothered to close off the entrance & get a legal closure order.

So the EA apparently want members of the public to report serious waste crime so they can sit there & do naff all about it? Even now, they aren’t doing any testing to see if the site is contaminating ground water & the River Roding. They have also given no commitment to clearing up the site whatsoever. Will the EA agree to remove all of this rubbish that they allowed to be dumped on this site next to our river, or do they just plan to leave it there forever to rot?

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Nigel Farage's work over the last 11 weeks broken down:

- Parliamentary votes registered (including on immigration): 0

- Violent racial divisions stoked: 1

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The prospect of Reform in charge of our NHS is truly terrifying.

Not only do they want to introduce a US style charging system, they don't understand basic evidence.

[Lambeth Green Party @Lambethgp]

The new EHRC code of practice will isolate, exclude, and harm our trans communities. Lambeth's Green councillors are calling on local MPs @helenhayes_ @FloEshalomi @BellRibeiroAddy and @SteveReedMP to oppose it, sign EDM 240 against it, and stand with Lambeth's trans residents.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @RachelMillward responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.

[Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚 @RoyalDocksRob]

@scottjelfs @ZackGold16 @ZackPolanski @PatMillsUK That's moving within the same country - Switzerland is about 1/3 the size of England, with good public transport - trains that run like clockwork! So it's easy to move home and still regularly visit friends & family, and work or run a business etc in the canton you left.

[Lambeth Green Party @Lambethgp]

Our Cabinet Member for Transport, Environment, and Climate Crisis is Cllr Ciara Alleyne

[Lambeth Green Party @Lambethgp]

Our Cabinet Member for Finance and Community Wealth Building is Cllr Zvikomborero Chihoro

[Lambeth Green Party @Lambethgp]

We have Cllr Ciara Alleyne as Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for the Climate Emergency and Future Generations

[MagsDisabledGreen @MagsLewisGreens]

Noted Surrey colony of at-risk #swifts destroyed during nesting season | Birds | The Guardian why are we do wantonly destructive of such beauty? And why are our laws so inadequate? https://t.co/XMNjXpiZAP

[Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚 @RoyalDocksRob]

@Pumpkin33749 @moo12619443 @Clarion_Group @DorkingSwifts https://t.co/NLpVYPNHJ1

[Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚 @RoyalDocksRob]

@DorkingSwifts @moo12619443 @Clarion_Group Sounds like planning enforcement fail - get on to the local councillors

[moo @moo12619443]

@Clarion_Group I wonder how your founder William Sutton would feel about you demolishing Regents House in Dorking during swift breeding season. @DorkingSwifts worked with you to educate and encourage you to this endangered species and you have completely disregarded the advice!!

[Dorking Swifts @DorkingSwifts]

Please support the Dorking Swifts! We need everyone to help! https://t.co/7eew2mBsAf

@ChrisGPackham
@MeganMcCubbin
@birdshannah
@BBCSpringwatch
@SPARE87222070

[Dorking Swifts @DorkingSwifts]

They survived a 6,000-mile migration from Africa.

They did not survive a demolition in Dorking.

Swift colony lost at Regent House owned by @Clarion_Group was demolished during the breeding season.

We want answers.

@_Chris_Coghlan @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin @birdshannah

[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

Wtf! This is heartbreaking and pure eco vandalism. We need to name and shame @Hill_Group_UK @MoleValleyDC and @SurreyPolice for this. 👇

A building that was a noted nesting site for swifts, among the UK’s most at-risk birds, has been demolished during the nesting season, highlighting significant weaknesses in the protection of wildlife from development, campaigners say.

Contractors for the housebuilder Hill Group carried out the demolition of Regent House near Dorking station in Surrey over the last few weeks, during the nesting season which runs from 1 March to 31 August.

Footage captured last week shows swifts attempting to return to nests in the building, which was known to be home to one of the largest populations of the birds in the Mole Valley area in Surrey. They approach and then repeatedly turn away because their nests are no longer there.

The building was a known habitat for nesting swifts. Volunteers for Swift Protection Association Reigate have recorded very intense low-level flying involving as many as 40 birds using about 20 sites in the eaves of the building in early spring and summer for several years.

Demolition and construction work are heavily restricted during the nesting season under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. It is an offence to intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while it is in use or being built, or to disturb dependent young.

Annie Griffin of Banstead Swifts, a volunteer group that monitors and tries to stabilise swift populations, said residents raised the alarm with Surrey police wildlife officers in early May, shortly after the swifts returned from migration and were observed nesting in the building. Mole Valley district council (MVDC) was also told about the birds’ presence.

Despite this, demolition proceeded during peak nesting season,�� said Griffin. “Conservationists are now describing the incident as a significant wildlife crime, raising broader concerns about the enforcement of environmental protections during development across England.”

Regent House was demolished as part of a development of 126 flats by Clarion housing association. An impact assessment carried out for the developers by the Arbtech environmental consultancy said demolition and construction should take place outside the nesting season.

If a different timeframe could not be avoided, it said, an ecological expert would have to undertake a thorough inspection before the start of any work and all active nests would have to be retained until the young had fledged.

The Guardian asked Hill Group and Clarion if such an ecological inspection had taken place in the last few weeks, but they declined to answer. They also refused to say the timeframe for the demolition could not be avoided.

https://t.co/OcZuZguX6r

[Cllr Rob Callender🏳️‍🌈🤘💚 @RoyalDocksRob]

@scottjelfs @ZackGold16 @ZackPolanski @PatMillsUK Surely it depends on the amount of wealthy people who the tax applies to and how it is applied? Now, the internet tells me that Switzerland's annual wealth tax ranges from c 0.05% - 0.88% on net assets - depending on the region = approx €9.5 billion per year.