🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿

Progressive, (True) Democrat & Green Party Member
Rent Controls, Four Day Week, Wealth Taxes & Tax Justice,
House Building, Proportional Representation

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Every Time A Centrist Breaks A Pledge,
A Green Progressive Is Born

Policies Green Progressives Stand For:

- Wealth Taxes & Tax Justice
- House Building
- Rent Controls
- Proportional Representation
- Water Nationalisation
- Home Insulation and Climate Action
- The Four Day Week Campaign
- Civil Liberties
- Holding Shameful Labour To Account

https://t.co/cr4PI8AftW

[NEF @NEF]

A few disappointing absences from yesterday's budget:

🔒Rent controls

💰Equalising capital gains tax rates with income tax (so investment income is taxed at the same rates as income from work)

🌍Any mention of that small issue of... the climate crisis...

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Didn't appreciate how bad a politician John Healey is until now. His answers here are just plain weak.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sophy Ridge: "Burnham.. promised to end 40 years of neoliberalism.. that wasn't a budget to end 40 years of neoliberalism, right?"

John Healey: "I would say that's wrong"

Who knew you could dismantle decades of neoliberalism by making gherkins a tiny bit cheaper?

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

John Healey promised it would be a "continuity Labour government with a change of leader".

His Budget has delivered exactly that.

[Generation Rent @genrentuk]

The Chancellor had the chance to help the poorest renters. Instead, housing benefit has been frozen again.

Local Housing Allowance is stuck on 2023 rates, yet rents have skyrocketed by over 23%. We need action on soaring rents.

Join us: https://t.co/gehTTUDHRA

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Even Burnham’s own Labour Party faction says today’s budget has “missed opportunities”.

Nothing on taxing wealth, or on rent controls, or unfreezing LHA, or unfreezing the personal allowance tax threshold

[Mainstream @mainstreamlbr]

Ending 40 years of neoliberalism can only be delivered by radical action to facilitate wholesale change to the economy.

A comment from Mainstream's Interim Council on the Government's Budget.

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

@DarrenBar88 Yes

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Does ANYONE believe Burnham’s Budget is the end of (bond market) neoliberalism?

Seems more like Continuity Keith to us…

[Ashley Cowburn @ashcowburn]

No mention of the housing benefit freeze in John Healey's Budget speech.

Looks like it remains despite calls from over a dozen charities this weekend.

Andy Burnham called for the freeze to end while mayor of Greater Manchester.

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Truly pathetic budget for the scale of crisis the people of Britain are in.

- Nothing in rent controls or unfreezing LHA

- Nothing on taxing wealth, or any significant cost of living measures

- Nothing on increasing the personal allowance for working people

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

The freeze on local housing allowance continues

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Despite rising rents, the government has chosen not to end the freeze on housing support in today’s #Budget2026.

For years, rents have continued to rise but support hasn’t. As a result, too many people are being forced to decide between paying the rent and putting food on the table.

While the government's decision to provide more support with energy bills is positive, keeping housing support frozen means many will still struggle to afford the essentials.

The government wants to end the need for emergency food. It won't achieve that while housing support remains frozen.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Was that it?

It all felt very familiar.

A Labour Government totally unwilling to take on power and wealth and give our country the investment we so desperately need.

https://t.co/i9idDx4vyY

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Andy Burnham is asked about Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields.

He says "Use of our resources can support and accelerate a clean energy future"

We are truly down the rabbit hole with this utter nonsense.

Invest in renewables, insulate homes & say no to fossil fuels.

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

@ToryFibs £3.75 a month (on average) = brilliant
(For the Burnham propagandists)

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

@PippaCrerar Blatant client journalism from @pippacrerar.

“Government say opening a new oil field is good actually, economically & environmentally”

Obviously a lie.

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

😆😆
Momentum have lost touch with reality

[Momentum 🌹 @PeoplesMomentum]

Burnham has laid out a bold vision for Britain. Now, we must turn his vision into action.

Socialists are already organising across our movement. But we need you.

It’s time for a socialist Labour Party ready to deliver change.

Join Labour. Join Momentum
https://t.co/pefyHkWiS7

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Do mainstream (and their members) really believe any of this will happen in the budget?

[Mainstream @mainstreamlbr]

A comment from Mainstream's Interim Council on the Government's Budget.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Russell Brand’s trial is devastating. Testimony describes him as a rabid animal, demanding sex every few hours from whoever happened to be around, and taking it regardless of consent

Brand’s defense is that women knew he was a degenerate maniac, so they should have expected it by being in a room with him (several allege he attacked them in public and tried to drag them into bathroom stalls)

This is separate from FIVE disturbing allegations in Channel 4 Dispatches. Brand has zero regard for women as human beings - I can’t even imagine how many victims there truly are

Blows my mind that so many people peddle his lunacy portraying him as a truth-telling martyr being smeared by the establishment - and buy his newfound religious hucksterism

Makes sense he’s leapt into the movement of sexual offenders and pedophiles, where he belongs (other than prison)

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

@UrbaneSlave 🤣🤣 if pro Zionist green Councillors want to go independent, that’s absolutely fine

[🌿 The Green Progressive 🌿 @greenprogressve]

Labour’s Sunday deadline for Green council groups to disavow the ZiR motion has passed.

How many Green groups (if any) have capitulated to Labour’s demand?

How many power sharing council arrangements have Labour collapsed as a result?