Sophie mate.
That’s per person, per day.
For a two week holiday:
£2.25 x 14 x 4 = £126
For the working class family who save up all year to go on just one budget package holiday (all my childhood holidays), trust me that’s not an insignificant amount of money.
I’m soo deeply sorry that you have to pay an extra £2 to use your phone on your expensive holiday.
My heart bleeds for wealthy people like you who are now having to queue at airports for 10 mins or fill out a bit more a paper work or pay £2 for our right to national sovereignty
🏳️⚧️ Thrilled that our motion supporting the trans community was passed unanimously by Norwich City Council!
🏳️⚧️ The council states clearly that trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary people are non-binary.
🏳️⚧️ Transphobic extremists are not welcome in Norwich!
Labour's manifesto promised to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition & acceptance".
That entails ending the Tories' ban on puberty blockers.
Young people – cis & trans – must have access to healthcare they need. I'll always stand with the trans community.
It’s not even been a year since you lost your council seat in Hackney to
@TheGreenParty
but now you’re all the way up in Broxtowe trying to pretend like you’re this hyper-local candidate while an actual councillor for the area has been blocked from the process?
Keir Starmer has appointed an out-and-out homophobe as his Shadow Justice Secretary.
If you forgot, Shabana Mahmood sided with parents protesting against schools in Birmingham who were teaching about the very existence of gay people.
This party is in the gutter. 🥀
Getting minor dogpiled yet again so it’s a good time to share again that you can hurl all the abuse and insults you want at me, but I won’t stop standing up for the trans and non-binary community.
I just wish others would do the same.
🏳️⚧️ Thrilled that our motion supporting the trans community was passed unanimously by Norwich City Council!
🏳️⚧️ The council states clearly that trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary people are non-binary.
🏳️⚧️ Transphobic extremists are not welcome in Norwich!
Infuriating to see
@UKLabour
join forces with Tories in East Suffolk to vote against new Green leadership.
Despite
@TheGreenParty
removing a Tory majority in East Suffolk, Labour and Tories teamed up to vote for each other in all council positions.
Vote Labour, get Tories here.
Labour should be very careful with their huge shift to the right because in places like Norwich, I am losing count of the people who voted Labour last year but have told me they can’t do it anymore because of Keir Starmer.
Labour are being called Tories by their own voters.
🥀 We’re disgusted by Keir Starmer’s comments about trans women yesterday.
Greens will always stand up for:
✅ Self-ID and a simplified gender recognition process
✅Legal recognition for non-binary and intersex people
✅ Ban on conversion therapy
✅ Ending the spousal veto
Just imagine putting standing for election as a proud transphobe, being suspended from your political party and then causing said party to lose the election to the TORIES in one of the strongest Labour areas of the country.
Truly embarrassing.
Last night
@GreenJennyJones
put forward a fatal motion to the governments draconian move to restrict the right to protest.
@UKLabour
backed the government.
@LabourLordsUK
helped take away our right to protest.
Yet another reason to join
@TheGreenParty
.
My god.
@LabourLordsUK
confirming tonight
#Labour
will support the Government in its unprecedented abuse of power to restrict the publics right to protest by abstaining on the fatal motion to stop them. Absolutely shocking.
@UKLabour
have tonight brought a feather duster to a
You all happily share a video of her dancing in-front of a parade as you want someone to stan but Angela has made it very clear she is happy to fall in line behind whatever new transphobic line Labour are pushing that day.
Graham Linehan produced a whole video accusing me of grooming, editing a picture of mine to say I support the molestation of children and essentially trying to threaten me because I passed a council motion. Do you really think this is the sort of person you should be promoting?
Graham Linehan, speaking to Andrew Doyle of cancel culture & accountability, of feeling betrayed by likes of Graham Norton, who also happened to have had role in Father Ted.
@acadofideas
#battlefest
We knew she was a bigot for supporting homophobic protests against schools in Birmingham but the mask is completely off now!
By continuing to keep Shabana Mahmood on the cabinet, Labour show complete contempt for the entire LGBTIQA+ community.
Send them a message on 2nd May!
🚨 BREAKING: Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she agrees with JK Rowling's "gender critical" views.
Mahmood, a key ally of Keir Starmer, says that she believes "biological sex is real and is immutable" and said JK Rowling has "lead the fight in this area".
As a former member of the Labour Party, I really cannot believe what the party has become.
No principles, no democratic values and equality seems to be have been completely ditched while all minority groups are thrown under the bus.
The institutions of the party are rotten.
So the Labour Party is now actively meeting with hate groups.
I’ll say it again for those that don’t seem to have gotten the message - if you’re a member then this is what your money is going towards!
🚨 BREAKING: constituency poll shows Greens would win Bristol Central, defeating Thangam Debbonaire.
🟢 GRN 49% (+23)
🔴 LAB 40% (-18)
Green GAIN from Labour (20.5% swing)
Via
@wethinkpolling
, 25 June - 1 July (+/- vs 2019)
Also your understanding of national sovereignty is extremely poor for someone who claims to be so patriotic.
Membership of the European Union has never impacted the sovereignty of our own Parliament (us leaving showed that pretty well in fact).
For those of you (and there are a lot) who still follow Graham Linehan on here, these are the delightful things he's said about me for passing a trans/non-binary rights motion in Norwich and leading a campaign about transphobic flyposting.
Stop giving his platform oxygen.
Labour Whip throws off the mask with dog-whistle transphobia.
If the Labour Party is happy to harbour people like this and Rosie Duffield on its parliamentary benches, how are they any different to the Tories on LGBTIQA+ rights?
@TheGreenParty
stands with trans people.
Again, if you’re a Labour Party member, candidate, councillor etc and are still in the party, THIS is what you are standing for.
We do all see your complete silence while your votes continue to go in the Labour box and £££ go into Labour pockets.
Don’t show your faces at Pride.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, confirms Keir Starmer.
Starmer told ITV today he agrees with NHS reforms that would ban trans people from single-sex wards. When asked if trans women should be allowed on women's wards, he said: "I disagree".
Just handed in my notice as Deputy Restaurant Manager and looking forward to January when I will be starting as a
@TheGreenParty
Campaign Organiser in Suffolk 🎉 🎉🎉
GREEN WIN IN THURSTON - MID SUFFOLK 💚
Congratulations to Cllr Austin Davies who has just been elected with more than double the votes of the closest party, after an incredible campaign!
Grn - 845
Con - 399
LD - 37
Lab - 32
💚💚💚
I don’t want to catch anybody saying that voting for
@TheGreenParty
is wasted vote or that voters should hold their nose and vote Labour. Bristol has voted Green and sent a clear message that it is fed up with the system as it is. If you want Green, join us and vote Green.
Labour back oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
Any pledge they make about climate change is an outright lie.
For net-zero by 2030 and action on the biodiversity crisis, it’s only
@TheGreenParty
.
@ChrisMasonBBC
Very strange that you would review Reform UK who have no elected representatives beyond 9 councillors and not review the Greens who have an MP, 8 MSP’s, two government ministers, 3 AM’s, 500 councillors and form administrations for various councils...
Both Norwich MP’s, Clive Lewis and Alice McDonald, voted to keep the cruel two-child benefit cap tonight.
Over a third of Norwich childen are in poverty. Even a small wealth tax on the rich would lift them out of it.
What do you say to them
@labourlewis
@AliceMLabour
? Shameful.
Here in Suffolk,
@TheGreenParty
removed THREE Tory councils!
✅Taken control of Mid Suffolk - 24 seats (+12)
✅Largest party on East Suffolk - 16 seats (+11)
✅Largest party on Babergh - 10 seats (+6)
Total seats: 51 (+29)
Proud day to be Suffolk Campaign Organiser 💚
Labour have welcomed guidance which:
-Tells trans children they don’t exist
-Will out children to their parents, risking abuse.
-Will legitimise transphobic abuse in schools
If you’re an ally, you cannot vote Labour.
@TheGreenParty
will always stand with the trans community.
If anyone shows up with Labour Party banners to Norwich Pride this weekend, I’ll be fuming.
You cannot throw trans people under the bus supporting a party that has become explicitly transphobic and then come and wave flags at Pride under that banner.
Take a stand or stay away.
I left the Labour Party back in 2014 because I am a socialist through and through.
The Labour Party simply is not - they will change based on whatever they think is popular and will usually get that wrong too.
I joined
@TheGreenParty
to be part of a socialist party.
Just blanket saying any vote for a party that isn’t Labour is a vote for the Tories is honestly an argument which makes me lose so much respect for people. If you actually think that, I really do lose hope.
Proud of
@TheGreenParty
for standing up for refugees and what is right. Perhaps find some principles
@UKLabour
? You’re looking very much like Tories right now.
When will the
@HoCpetitions
be back up and running?
I think there are lots of people who would want to sign a petition calling for the resignation of a certain Secretary of State for Health.
Would you sign to force a debate in Parliament on ending the puberty blocker ban?
Can we be mature and accept that both NIMBY and YIMBY are extreme positions when it comes to housebuilding?
Blocking anything in your area but also accepting anything in your area are both so far from a well functioning planning system and neither will fix a housing crisis.
We’ve been doing this election after election after election. Emailing a Labour MP asking them to support PR is absolutely pointless and I find it disingenuous to suggest that it will do anything at all.
If we want PR, we need to end the two-party system, not reinforce it.
@GreenJennyJones
@FayeKamsika
@RussInCheshire
@TheGreenParty
I understand what you're saying but I still don't agree
Not this time
Every person who signs up with us we will ask to send an email to their MP to say they are "lending their vote" and we want PR
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to consign the Tory party to history
As a Green, I feel like I get more flack, rudeness and abuse from those in Labour than in any other camp as if I am not just trying to argue for what is right. The partisan behaviour really does not reflect well on them.
Sewell (Norwich) election result:
Green GAIN from Labour.
Grn: 51.4% (+22.3)
Lab: 38.5% (-13.2)
Con: 7.7% (-4.0)
LDEM: 2.3% (-5.2)
@NorwichGreens
now up to 11 councillors strengthening their position as the official opposition on Norwich City Council.
No please do watch it!
Thangam repeatedly lies about NHS privatisation and Labour’s record on Gaza in between answering questions that Labour had planted in the audience from ex-councillors.
The Greens don't want you to watch last night's
@bristol247
hustings because their lies were exposed. Only Labour has a plan to transform Bristol and beyond🌹
If you are still undecided on how to vote in Bristol Central, watch this:
GREEN GAIN from Labour in Colchester 💚
So proud of
@kcufoglu
who ran an incredibly positive campaign in the face of a nasty campaign from Labour who truly embarrassed themselves.
Well done Kemal and
@ColcGreenParty
!
The Labour lot love to berate
@TheGreenParty
and say that Greens standing for election ‘let’s the Tories in’…
Well tell me why
@WaveneyLabour
are actively campaigning in the Beccles by-election when there were only 100 votes between the Greens and Tories at the last election?
Keir - you and your Tory mates have been fanning the flames of this culture war against the LGBTIQA+ community from the start.
If there is no place for hatred then look inwards at yourself and your party who are contributing to this hatred. Because this what fucking happens.
My thoughts are with the victims of this awful homophobic attack and their families and friends as they recover.
There is no place for hatred of any kind in our society.
Great to see people from across the political spectrum backing Labour.
The only party offering hope and unity.
The only party which can end Tory chaos and transform Britain for the better.
If you want a change of government, you have to vote for it.
#VoteLabour
People would let Labour get away with being literal Tories and still vote for them but would completely slate the Green Party for having one or two policies they don’t agree with or which aren’t perfect… like you’re kinda part of the problem.
Very pleased to say that I have managed to get Norwich City Council to fly the trans flag at City Hall on Trans Day of Remembrance later this month on the 20th November.
🏳️⚧️ I’m very excited to see this flag being proudly flown at the top of City Hall 🏳️⚧️
Here in the East, we are in prime position to elect the next
@TheGreenParty
MP with
@AdrianRamsay
.
📈 In Suffolk we more than doubled our councillors from 24 to 60
📈In the Waveney Valley constituency, vote share was 43%
We can win.
Join the momentum:
It is truly wild that people in Labour tweet things like this when the party with the uncosted manifesto was them. The Green Party manifesto however? Fully costed and with lots of policies that tax those at the top to pay for public services.
@ZackPolanski
@MayaGoodfellow
I wonder if the
@TheGreenParty
has produced a policy document with expected costs and revenues from their plan to tax the super rich?
How much will it actually raise after the expense of employing and training thousands of new tax inspectors? Have the obvious issues such as
Even worse that Labour and the Tories had admitted to have private meetings beforehand to coordinate their attempts to oppose Greens in all council positions.
This is after the Labour Party campaigned against Green councillors arguing that it was either them or the Tories.
Do you want to see
@AdrianRamsay
as a
@TheGreenParty
MP in the East?
We have a by-election in West Depwade where we are fighting to elect a new Green councillor.
Last May, we topped the poll in the Waveney Valley constituency.
Join an action day here:
Hey Alice,
I’m a councillor for Sewell ward in Norwich North.Lots of people wonder what happened to Keir’s first set of pledges below.
Every single one was ditched.
Can you help explain how anyone can trust what he, or any Labour representative campaigning for him, says?
Norwich has one of the highest proportions of trans people in the UK.
The new Labour Health Sec Wes Streeting is banning gender-affirming care for trans kids despite the deaths this has already caused.
@AliceMLabour
@labourlewis
As Norwich MP’s, will you be fighting this?
News on Victoria Atkins' emergency puberty blockers ban. Wes Streeting's position is that, subject to the outcome of the court proceedings and consultation, he will renew it and convert it into a permanent ban.
“Join the Labour Party so you can have no input into policy and have any remotely principled representative deselected”
“…oh and if you like a tweet by Caroline Lucas, you’re out”
For a proudly socialist and truly democratic party, join
@TheGreenParty
Often people tell me they want a Labour govt.
Often they say the reason they aren’t members of the Labour Party — no-one’s ever asked them.
I’m asking you.
If you want a Labour government, please join our party today to be part of the change we need:
The SNP and Scottish Labour should be seriously considering whether individuals on their benches should retain their whip or be re-selected at the next election.
If you see transphobia as seriously as it should be, these people should not be representing your parties.
So
@TheGreenParty
have more councillors on my council (Norwich City) alone than Reform UK have in the *entire country* but for some reason, Reform UK are entitled to coverage here and the Green Party are not. Why did you make this decision
@ChrisMasonBBC
?
@ChrisMasonBBC
Very strange that you would review Reform UK who have no elected representatives beyond 9 councillors and not review the Greens who have an MP, 8 MSP’s, two government ministers, 3 AM’s, 500 councillors and form administrations for various councils...
If you want an indication of where the Labour Party is right now and whether or not it’s going to do anything to tackle the crises we face, signing off a council deal with the far-right party
@reformparty_uk
but rejecting deals with
@TheGreenParty
gives you a pretty good idea.
GREEN GAIN ON NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
@catherinerowett
elected in West Depwade by-election, taking
@TheGreenParty
from 5th to 1st place.
Well done Catherine and everyone who came in to help! 💚
Don't you dare show up to any Pride events under the Labour Party. If you're backing a leader who supports removing trans people from the Equality Act and backed the Tories overruling gender recognition progress in Scotland, you aren't welcome.
🌈🪧 PRIDE MARCH ANNOUNCEMENT
We are excited to be marching in a range of cities across the country this year!
📍Join us in Birmingham, Brighton, Manchester & London.
Check your emails for more information on how to sign up to march with us!
Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’
Labour criticise Tories for reduced living standards… and then proposes the exact same strategy.
@TheGreenParty
will always stand against austerity. Only investment in people will get us out of this mess.
So I see
@BThroughParty
are now also crumbling?
To any members now feeling a bit lost, I think you’d find a good place in
@TheGreenParty
.
We are a proud socialist party which actually has a cohesive and detailed policy platform and stand proudly with workers and trade unions
I wouldn’t say that the Green Party printing direct quotes and confirmed u-turns is ‘dodgy literature’.
Your Labour manifesto doesn’t include £28billion for climate action like you promised, and does include increased NHS privatisation.
What exactly is incorrect here Bella?
Massive solidarity with Cllr Davis, Cllr Stutely, Cllr Oliver and Cllr Everett who have bravely resigned the whip of a Labour Party that has abandoned its principles.
We now see Norwich City Council in no overall control with Labour losing its majority.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour just LOST its majority on Norwich Council after four city councillors quit.
Three of them said in a statement that the national and local Labour party no longer aligns with their principles.
🟥 LAB 19 (-4)
🟩 GREEN 13 (=)
⬜️ IND 4 (+4)
🟧 LIB DEM 3 (=)
How can MP’s be this tone deaf?
“Team London, always on your side 🌹”
Translation: “Team London, always on your side unless you’ve got more than two kids because the rich bankers in our city couldn’t possibly pay any more tax 🥀 ”
It’s so clear why we need Green MP’s.
Proud to have been chosen to be the Deputy Leader of the Green group and Official Opposition at Norwich City Council!
Looking forward to helping lead an increased group of
@NorwichGreens
councillors as we fight for a fairer and greener city 💚
Both Aldershot and Farnborough (my hometown) have a large Nepalese population who bring so much to the area.
It must be horrible to see your MP then seek to demonise immigration and refugees while people of colour are attacked across the country.
Call this what it is: fascism.
💚
@WalesGreenParty
outpolled the Lib Dem’s in the Senedd regional list
💚
@scottishgreens
won double the number of seats than the Lib Dem’s in Holyrood
💚
@sianberry
won nearly double the number of Lib Dem votes for London Mayor
Why a Lib Dem and no Green?
@SophyRidgeSky
So proud of our
@NorwichGreens
campaign in Norwich South for
@_Jamie_Osborn
- the highest ever green vote in the constituency and second place!
LAB: 47.6% (-5.9%)
GRN: 18.3% (+13.5%)
CON: 12.9% (-16.1%)
REF: 11.6% (+8.4%)
LDEM: 7.9% (-1.6%)
POW: 1.0% (NEW)
IND: 0.7% (NEW)
💚💚
Horrendous news.
For the climate, for our environment and rare species in Norfolk, for congestion in Norwich and for our county councils finances.
This road is not needed in the slightest and is an incredibly reckless decision on pretty much every front.
It’s official,
@transportgovuk
have committed to providing £200m of funding towards our Norwich Western Link project, a new dual carriageway between the A47 and Broadland Northway to the west of Norwich.
Great news for people and businesses in the area, and Norfolk as a whole.
I really resent commentators like Owen Jones pushing this narrative that Green Party doesn’t represent the working class because it’s just lazy and wrong.
As someone who grew up working class, I left Labour because it was clear they didn’t represent me. The Green Party do.
So a lot of people keep asking - why on earth are you, as a socialist, voting Labour when its leadership essentially hates everything you stand for?
So I did a video explaining why!
Would love your thoughts 👇👇👇
Very proud of the whole
@NorwichGreens
team today. Two gains from Labour who have failed to take the council back from NOC.
15 Green Party councillors in Norwich - just four away from Labour.
Norwich has shown how much it appreciates the work of Greens here 💚
A heartwarming canvass story: A resident said she is voting Green because her 6 year-old son has been reading all our newsletters which inspired him to start doing his own litter-picks around the area and even wanted to get a picture with me! 💚
#GetGreensElected
@NorwichGreens
‘There just, frankly, is no money left’
The Labour Party are trying to fool the entire country into thinking we do not have the wealth in this country to deliver the most basic support for people.
They’re lying. The only thing that has run out is their political will.
'There just, frankly, is no money left'
Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell says the Labour Party can't make promises it 'can't afford to keep' as she defends Keir Starmer's plan to keep the two-child benefit cap in place
I mean, I’d say your interviews are part of why so many just do not even engage with political content and political reporting when this is the quality of your research and questioning.
I’m delighted to report that news of the death of the long serious political interview
was premature. My
@BBCPanorama
Election Leaders interviews all aired in prime time on
@BBCOne
with sizeable audiences - one and a half to over two million. You can watch any or all of them on
I am so proud right now. It has been such an honour working with
@MidSuffolkGreen
as the Suffolk Campaign Organiser and these gains are so well deserved.
The first ever majority Green council in the country and it came about from councillors truly embedded in their communities.
🎉 GREEN MAJORITY in Mid Suffolk 🎉
💚 Huge congratulations to Mid Suffolk Greens for taking majority control of the council for the first time!
#GetGreensElected
|
#LocalElection2023
Huge solidarity with all workers on strike today as
@RMTunion
takes more action.
Workers are taking a stand for fair pay and conditions - let’s hope employers and the government get back around the table and pay workers the respect they deserve.
@TheGreenParty
is behind you ✊🏻
This is not the end of the Green Party in Parliament.
This is just the beginning. As we see a Tory government in chaos and a Labour Party abdicating responsibility, a Green light shines through.
We are ready to elect a cohort of MP’s.
Join today.
As UK’s first Green MP, I’m proud of what I’ve achieved: saying the previously unsayable, making climate part of mainstream political narrative & changing how Parliament works. But I’ve decided not to stand at next General Election.
Me for
@theipaper
👇
Huge solidarity to
@MothinAli
who is being subjected to vile islamophobia from the far-right when he is actually on the streets trying to calm things down.
He’s an inspiration to councillors across the country.
The Labour Party has abandoned its socialist roots. It is no party of the people and it is sad to see.
It is a sorrow state of affairs because while we need the Tories out, I’ve got absolutely no confidence that the Labour Party understand the issues we are facing as a country.
Every single moment today I’ve come back to just how surreal this result has been and I’m so proud to see Mile Cross go green with that swing!
Let this be a message to Labour councils everywhere not to take our council estates for granted.
🚨 Green Party GAIN Mile Cross (Norwich)
🟢 GRN 43% (+26)
🔴 LAB 40% (-12)
🟣 REF 6% (+6)
🔵 CON 6% (-21)
🟠 LD 3% (-1)
The 'Stop the Tories' website (
@MVTFWD
) told voters to back Labour here to "stop the Tories".
You should be ashamed of yourself
@redditchrachel
. To take a hardworking person in your community and make transphobic comments about them on national television, knowing the abuse that is likely to come from that, is absolutely disgusting.
It’s not a matter of opinion.
In fact I did NOT apologise for my comments relating to the Green Party’s extreme policies on gender and self ID ideology and am happy to come on to your program to explain my position in more detail. As Deputy Chair for Women, I am clear that the law allows me to say
If anyone wondered why I have been quiet over the past 4 days,it’s because I very nearly died in while walking in Wales and am recovering in hospital. Thank you to all NHS staff who’ve been the loveliest people and everyone who had me in their thoughts ❤️
An uplifting story from today. Spoke to a man who ripped up his polling card and was insistent he wasn’t going to vote because of the way the government has behaved. After speaking to him and telling him that there is hope for something better, he said he’ll be voting Green 💚
The Labour Party, who run Norwich City Council, continue to throw their support behind Right to Buy and now it will mean our award-winning net zero homes will be sold off just 5 years after being built with taxpayer money. Shameful.
@TheGreenParty
would scrap Right to Buy.
A Tory MP feeling empowered to be explicitly transphobic to a constituent, using a platform that he must be aware will lead to a dogpile.
This is what we have reached as a country. We continue to slide backwards and backwards and it’s just horrific to watch.
@moira_robin
Both you and Emma are men. The vast majority of those suffering with true gender dysphoria- of which there are a minuscule number - recognise that, despite whatever they may need to do to make sure they’re happy.
1/2
The incredible
@NorwichGreens
team after gaining two seats from Labour cementing our position as the official opposition with 13 seats on Norwich City Council 💚
Elf bars should be banned.
I cannot believe in 2022, we have seen a disposable vape pop onto the market and become so popular despite being a bulky single use waste of plastic which end up littering our streets and parks.
It appears as though I am being tweeted at by that disgraced TV writer / hater of LGBTIQA+ people again.
I’ve blocked them so I’m not getting notifications but it is delightful to know that little old me occupies so much of their headspace.