Matt Dimond-Brown

Green Party member, rugby union addict, dog-lover, explorer. Married to my best friend. Proud Uncle. Now using Bluesky instead of this toxic platform.

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Nigel Farage promised to cut council tax. Reform councils across England raised it by an average of 4% this year. In Worcestershire, 9%. When challenged, Farage said "council tax has to go up" and urged "patience." Patience won't pay your heating bill. #ReformUK #CostOfLiving

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Want proof Green politics works?

I spoke with @ernesturtasun, a Green minister in Spain's government, about how Greens in power are making real change to lower people's bills, protect the planet and stand up to Trump.

The change when Greens win!

🎥 https://t.co/1fLVaqu3N3

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Reform promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" in Worcestershire. They delivered a 9% council tax rise — the largest in England — and needed a £60m emergency government bailout to avoid effective bankruptcy. Promises vs reality. #ReformUK #CostOfLiving

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Green councils have a track record. In South Oxfordshire, Greens inherited a £3m deficit and cleared it without hiking taxes. Green Matt Jenkins is now doing the same in Worcestershire. Evidence-based politics — not promises. #GreenParty #CostOfLiving

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

By 2040 the UK will have roughly 2 workers per retiree, down from 3.5 today. That's not a migration problem. That's a birth rate problem that started in the 1970s. Reform can't deport it. #ReformUK #Demography

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Green investment creates jobs here — plumbers fitting heat pumps, electricians installing solar, builders retrofitting Tewkesbury homes. Skilled work, local wages, a permanent future. #GreenJobs #Tewkesbury #GreenParty

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Reform scrapping net zero doesn't save jobs — it kills the ones we're about to create. The green economy is Gloucestershire's economic future. Reform want to scrap it before it arrives. #GreenJobs #CostOfLiving #ReformUK

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

DESPITE NET MIGRATION HAVING FALLEN BY 82% SINCE ITS PEAK NEARLY HALF OF BRITONS INCORRECTLY BELIEVE ITS ACTUALLY INCREASED!

This is a shocking indictment of the abject failure of UK news shows to get the actual facts about net migration across to the public and call out the bull**** by the likes of Nigel Farage.

If UK news shows can’t get the job done let’s do it ourselves!

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Abolishing Indefinite Leave to Remain means a Nigerian surgeon or Indian engineer can never settle permanently in the UK. They'll just go to Australia instead. Reform calls this a plan. #ReformUK #Immigration

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Congratulations - real progress on #NaturesRights

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Severn Trent paid out hundreds of millions in dividends while discharging sewage into our rivers. Green policy: public ownership means those profits fix the pipes — not the shareholders. #SevernTrent #Tewkesbury #GreenParty

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Severn Trent keeps discharging sewage into our waterways. Reform's deregulation agenda would weaken enforcement further. Tewkesbury deserves clean rivers, not permission to pollute more. #SevernTrent #Tewkesbury #ReformUK

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Net migration is already down to 204,000 — roughly where demographers say it needs to be for basic population stability. Reform want it near zero. That's not control. That's self-harm. #ReformUK #Immigration

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

The Severn Vale floods. It always has. But the floods are getting worse and more frequent. We can argue about that, or we can do something. Reform choose argument. We choose action. #SevernVale #Flooding #GreenParty #ReformUK

[Rachel Millward @rachelmillward]

Not acceptable @BBCr4today, @margarethodge declared @TheGreenParty "antisemitic". The only rebuttal was that Zack "wouldnt agree".

We take strong action against antisemitism. @ZackPolanski is hounded by vile cartoons and Nazi salutes. Antiracism is baked into our principles.

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Reform want to scrap the Warm Homes Plan. Greens want to expand it. One approach saves Tewkesbury families hundreds of pounds a year. The other saves nothing. #Tewkesbury #CostOfLiving #ReformUK

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Tewkesbury's older housing stock loses heat and money every winter. A Green Warm Homes programme would insulate every home that needs it, powered by a wealth tax not a hike on ordinary bills. Lower costs, warmer homes, local jobs. #Tewkesbury #CostOfLiving #GreenParty

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Reform's core vote is older, British-born, outside cities. That's exactly the demographic that needs social care most. Their immigration policy would collapse the system those voters depend on. #ReformUK #SocialCare

[Matt Dimond-Brown @Matt_DB]

Reform want to deregulate energy markets further. History shows what that means: prices spike, companies profit, families struggle. Tewkesbury deserves better than that gamble.

#CostOfLiving #ReformUK #Tewkesbury