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Claire Sheppard

@shinyshep.bsky.social

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Green Party and community campaigner. 2024 Green GE Peckham and Lambeth & Southwark GLA candidate and CoFounder Nunhead Knocks also market research field queen. Likes crows.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hey @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social you’re an economist, do you think people with very little deserve even less? Do they deserve to be punished for having the temerity to claim benefits? Or would it make more economic sense to tax those who could well afford it like multi millionaires & billionaires?

Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · Mar 14

Cutting lifeline benefits for disabled people is not what Labour MPs were elected to do. People were promised ‘change’ and instead face cuts that even George Osborne considered a step too far...

Read my full letter 👇
sianberry.org.uk/2025/03/14/l...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 13h

@selfesteem.music-social.com your gig tonight in Brixton was astonishing. Thank you so so much

Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 13h

Self Esteem actual queen. Genuinely one of the most joyful nights of my life.

Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Aaaaand that’s my earworm for the weekend

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 1d

My kid's Clacton nursery has cut hot lunches for toddlers to save money, and sent round leaflets to parents advising us on preparing packed lunches for around 90p per day.

They have no waiting list for places because there's so few jobs here worth doing once you've covered childcare.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Urgent winter clothing appeal for UK baby banks.

In 2024 charity distributed 6,752 coats, 14,163 pairs of shoes, 2,857 blankets, 1,472 items of bedding and 45,220 pairs of socks to families in need.

Low wages/benefits; high energy, water, grocery costs; unchecked profiteering take toll.

London baby banks appeal for urgent donations ahead of winter

Baby banks in London say supplies are running low due to more families facing increased financial pressures.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

You are so welcome

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Good work Zack.

Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not for us Andy.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

It wouldn’t have been right wing enough without her contributions. Can’t imagine she herself or knows anyone who has gone through the UC process.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!

You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):

@greenparty.org.uk are surging.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

#BBCQT

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

There was someone from Labour there?

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty evident that this is already happening. Surrounded by three hard right wingers on tonight’s #bbcqt the Labour guy was basically invisible, he let Zack do all the work of standing up against bigotry - well, Zack and a hearteningly decent Shrewsbury audience.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Nate Higgins 🏳️‍🌈 @natehiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight Newham Labour councillors voted unanimously to reject full divestment of Newham’s pension fund from complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

@newhamgreens.bsky.social and Newham Independents fought strongly but Labour blocked it.

We won’t stop - now we take the fight to the ballot box.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Literally guffawed bitterly.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 1d

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 1d

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Some blokes say “I call a spade a spade” our leader isn’t afraid to call a fascist a fascist. Bravo @zackpolanski.bsky.social chapeau to you Zack. Huge respect facing down 5 right wingers in debate with humour and elan. #questiontime

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not that the Leader of the Free World is a deranged, unstable, egotistical thug, but:

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Come on in, the waters lovely and decidedly not full of shite. join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 5d

Removing benefits from those with indefinite leave to remain will leave 100,000s of families facing destitution. And if you think that mass impaired child development, a mental and physical health crisis is in the national interest, I'm afraid you simply aren't thinking things through.

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Claire Sheppard @shinyshep.bsky.social · 1d

Time to join the Green Party innit.

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 5d

So Labour want to:
- Reform the ECHR (for the worse)
- Make life much much tougher for Indefinite Leave to Remain visa holders and applicants
- Bring in draconian extra powers to police protest
- Widen facial recognition
- Bring in compulsory national ID
- Deport more people

Not very Labourish.

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