Cllr Peter Gilbert
@PeterGilbertUK
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💚 @TheGreenParty Councillor for Ecclesall Ward #Sheffield 💙 Social Care Worker 🤍 Social Enterprise consultant
Sheffield, England
Joined November 2014
UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs denounces the UK's crackdown on Palestine Action, saying it has helped create "a climate of complicity". "framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes," she said. https://t.co/yVOruoDxyz
middleeasteye.net
The UN’s top expert on Palestine accuses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ‘enabling genocide’ in Gaza and calls out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel
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With millions in public money handed to private interests and serious questions over transparency and accountability, why hasn’t there been an inquiry into the goings-on on Teesside? Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
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Really enjoyed this sweeping account of the Greens' leftward shift from the People party to Polanski, by unofficial Green party historian @AdamRamsay
novaramedia.com
Zack Polanski’s smash-hit eco-populism might seem like a sudden gear-change for the Green party. In fact it’s part of a tectonic shift some of its members have been driving for more than a decade....
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Long Ashton (North Somerset) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 55.7% (+25.1) 🌳 CON: 17.7% (-7.2) ➡️ RFM: 15.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 5.7% (-28.8) 🌹 LAB: 5.4% (-4.5) Green HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.
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"Labour says it's no longer doing austerity - but it's using a definition of austerity which means nothing to most people" @GeorgeMonbiot tells the Canary #austerity #costofliving #keirstarmer #ukpolitics #labourparty
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Are supermarkets listening? 👀 We exposed @RedTractorFood's greenwashing & urged supermarkets to demand REAL environmental standards on their products. 6,000+ shoppers have spoken. Still no response. 📢 Add your voice — tell them to #UpYourStandards! 👉 https://t.co/kNk9pJCqf6
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People have tried to say that the Green surge is just on social media. Or in a bubble that's just about polls and just about new members. Yet up and down the country - Greens are also winning elections. Huge congratulations to Canterbury Greens! 💚🎉 https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
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Wincheap (Canterbury) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 39.1% (+24.1) 🔶 LDM: 24.1% (-12.2) ➡️ RFM: 16.3% (New) 🌹 LAB: 12.8% (-25.5) 🌳 CON: 7.7% (-2.6) Green GAIN from Liberal Democrat. Changes w/ 2023.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #Planning bill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
⚠️Planning bill update ⚠️ as expected Labour was whipped into voting down every amendment that would protect nature from this bill. They rejected the most basic fluffing protections for endangered species. They even rejected saving chalk streams! Now it goes back to the Lords
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“The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s genocide is one of the great journalistic crimes of our age.” @mehdirhasan and @owenjonesjourno flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
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Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour. He's selling our children and our grandchildren down the river for a profit" "He is knee deep and sky high in vested interests with fossil fuel companies"
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Another council meeting, heated courtesy of the hot air pumped out by the Tories. Reform fully backed the Tory white paper. Again proving there's nothing different about reform It's just a more extreme version of the same sleazy politics, backed by the same billionaires working
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With this devastating decision by @SteveReedMP today, being told what to do by #Nature hating @RachelReevesMP, this @UKLabour Govt is causing probably the biggest weakening of environmental protections I can remember in this country Mark my words, it will come back to bite them
Steve Reed has told MPs to vote down an amendment to the planning bill which would protect hedgehogs and dormice https://t.co/hv9PGs6qCa
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“Here’s the bias of politics: leftwing policies are portrayed as unrealistic and childish, while the centre and right’s ideas are framed as sensible and all that’s possible.” My column on a system that welcomes Reform and dismisses the Greens as fantasy.
theguardian.com
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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“Policies that favour ordinary people are disregarded as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich are seen as a realistic status quo.” My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens.
theguardian.com
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Apparently we can't afford to help President Lula save the rainforest, but we can afford to pay Drax to burn 250 year old Canadian trees…
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Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support. Worryingly, families told the Eye, the county councillor responsible co-owns a private care
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Congratulations to our newest @nsomersetgreen councillor, Cllr Mike Dunn, on winning the Long Ashton ward by-election in North Somerset with a huge Green vote!
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The Government must give us more time in Parliament to progress #EllasLaw and make breathing clean air a human right. Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant @EllaRobertaFdn, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
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Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 33% (-) 🟢 Greens: 17% (-1) 🔵 Conservatives: 16% (-) 🔴 Labour: 15% (-) 🟠 Lib Dems: 11% (-) Changes from 5th November [Find Out Now, 12th November, N=2,339]
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