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Came second in the 2024 UK General Election. 🥈🗳️
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At the Green Party conference in Bournemouth we agreed to:
🏚️ Abolish landlords (the daily Mail are loving that one)
💻 Repeal the online safety act
🚂 Electrify the new varsity line
🇵🇸 further toughness re the Palestine war - against the Blair/Trump plan
🦡 end badger culling
🏳️⚧️ reform trans healthcare
🌍 climate strategy, natural habitat network
🌳 global biodiversity framework targets
🎈 stop all outdoor balloon releases
Plus a big bunch of internal organisational stuff. Absolutely delighted! 💚
💚💚💚 ANNOUNCEMENT 💚💚💚
I am standing for the Green Party in the local elections. In the ward of Old Moat, Manchester. On May 7th 2026.
It’s time to make the rest of Manchester Green. To replace disappointment with hope. This time it’s real.
Promoted by Sean Duggan on behalf of Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party) all at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester. M21 9PH
💚🐸🌳🚲🚶🚃🦆🦇💚
It’s a beautiful thing to see Vote Green posters popping up on people’s windows *outside* Gorton and Denton.
Because yes, we do have local elections in May (ours were not cancelled/un-cancelled)
In unsung election campaigning stories, this laser printer has done 11,544 sheets of paper over the course of the Gorton And Denton by-election for Hannah and the Green Party.
And it has been _mostly_ fine.
So I’ve bought it an additional paper tray, as a treat, because the local elections are coming. 💚
Here’s a map of road deaths in Manchester from 2020-2024… every single one an unacceptable loss of human life. And preventable.
The council and mayor may have adopted a “Vision Zero” strategy, but it actually needs implementing. Otherwise it’s just nice words and continuing death and injury.
I used to live just off Oldham Road in Ancoats, and it’s such a wall of tarmac. There’s some proposed walking and cycling improvements and they do look mostly very good.
Have a read of what Walk Ride GM are saying about it, and local people please respond to the consultation if you can. 🙏
https://www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/speak-up-for-the-fantastic-oldham-road-scheme/