Jane Baston
@janebaston.bsky.social
💚 Green Party activist & trade unionist
📍 Birmingham
📍 Birmingham
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Today is Human Rights Day. We reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of all people to freedom, life and safety from Palestine to Congo, Haiti to Sudan, and here in the UK, amidst inadequate living standards, privacy infringements and persecution for political action.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today is Human Rights Day. We reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of all people to freedom, life and safety from Palestine to Congo, Haiti to Sudan, and here in the UK, amidst inadequate living standards, privacy infringements and persecution for political action.
The university funding system is fundamentally broken.
Students paying increasing tuition fees, graduates repaying their loans for decades, and staff being underpaid. It doesn't work for anyone.
We need a system that is free and accessible for everyone!
Students paying increasing tuition fees, graduates repaying their loans for decades, and staff being underpaid. It doesn't work for anyone.
We need a system that is free and accessible for everyone!
15 years ago today the Tory & Lib Dem government tripled tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
Young people, our economy and society are robbed of the learning and skills universities offer- whilst graduates face average debt of £53,000.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. Scrap tuition fees.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The university funding system is fundamentally broken.
Students paying increasing tuition fees, graduates repaying their loans for decades, and staff being underpaid. It doesn't work for anyone.
We need a system that is free and accessible for everyone!
Students paying increasing tuition fees, graduates repaying their loans for decades, and staff being underpaid. It doesn't work for anyone.
We need a system that is free and accessible for everyone!
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"The European Convention on Human Rights safeguards all of us"
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"The European Convention on Human Rights safeguards all of us"
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
@adrianramsay.bsky.social discusses the importance of the ECHR and how potential reforms threaten a range of our fundamental rights and freedoms.
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This is obscene.
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This is obscene.
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
That others in politics can’t or won’t say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face.
We are the 99.999%.
Tax the super rich.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Today House of Commons will debate Railways Bill
Great that franchises are coming into public ownership but we also need
🚄 Publicly owned rolling stock (trains)
🚄 An end to competition + private profit
🚄 Accountable passenger watchdog
🚄 Lower fares, new lines, investment!
Great that franchises are coming into public ownership but we also need
🚄 Publicly owned rolling stock (trains)
🚄 An end to competition + private profit
🚄 Accountable passenger watchdog
🚄 Lower fares, new lines, investment!
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today House of Commons will debate Railways Bill
Great that franchises are coming into public ownership but we also need
🚄 Publicly owned rolling stock (trains)
🚄 An end to competition + private profit
🚄 Accountable passenger watchdog
🚄 Lower fares, new lines, investment!
Great that franchises are coming into public ownership but we also need
🚄 Publicly owned rolling stock (trains)
🚄 An end to competition + private profit
🚄 Accountable passenger watchdog
🚄 Lower fares, new lines, investment!
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Some GOOD NEWS: this week marks the 25th birthday of the UK’s FIRST offshore wind farm! 🥳🎂
25 years ago, offshore wind was still a risky, unproven idea.
Now, the UK leads the world in harnessing clean power from our coasts. 🧵
25 years ago, offshore wind was still a risky, unproven idea.
Now, the UK leads the world in harnessing clean power from our coasts. 🧵
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Some GOOD NEWS: this week marks the 25th birthday of the UK’s FIRST offshore wind farm! 🥳🎂
25 years ago, offshore wind was still a risky, unproven idea.
Now, the UK leads the world in harnessing clean power from our coasts. 🧵
25 years ago, offshore wind was still a risky, unproven idea.
Now, the UK leads the world in harnessing clean power from our coasts. 🧵
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In their refusal to convert some of the vast swathes of space for car owners into safe mobility lanes, the powers that be in Birmingham are actively preventing people from cycling.
I mean, who's going to cycle here when the average short commute is like this....
I mean, who's going to cycle here when the average short commute is like this....
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In their refusal to convert some of the vast swathes of space for car owners into safe mobility lanes, the powers that be in Birmingham are actively preventing people from cycling.
I mean, who's going to cycle here when the average short commute is like this....
I mean, who's going to cycle here when the average short commute is like this....
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🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎯ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY🎯
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
The Green Party has passed 180,000 members!
That's enough to fill Ally Pally 18 times - and we're not getting any littler 😉
All across the country, thousands of people are joining to build a positive movement of hope.
Be part of it. Join today ⤵️
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Our 2026 Fund Her Grants are open! 🙌💰
Are you a 2026 candidate? From low income or underrepresented communities?
Apply for small grants to help you with the cost of standing for something💪!
Find out more here 👉 https://www.elect-her.org.uk/fund-her
Are you a 2026 candidate? From low income or underrepresented communities?
Apply for small grants to help you with the cost of standing for something💪!
Find out more here 👉 https://www.elect-her.org.uk/fund-her
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our 2026 Fund Her Grants are open! 🙌💰
Are you a 2026 candidate? From low income or underrepresented communities?
Apply for small grants to help you with the cost of standing for something💪!
Find out more here 👉 https://www.elect-her.org.uk/fund-her
Are you a 2026 candidate? From low income or underrepresented communities?
Apply for small grants to help you with the cost of standing for something💪!
Find out more here 👉 https://www.elect-her.org.uk/fund-her
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Green Party reiterates our commitment to justice for the people of Palestine.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Green Party reiterates our commitment to justice for the people of Palestine.
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it.
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target
But we're not done. We're doubling our target.
Let's take the fight to Reform this May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Take action, take power back from the corporate giants.
Today we say: Amazon, open the box and take responsibility for your supply chain ✋
#MakeAmazonPay #blackfriday #amazonopenbox
Today we say: Amazon, open the box and take responsibility for your supply chain ✋
#MakeAmazonPay #blackfriday #amazonopenbox
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Take action, take power back from the corporate giants.
Today we say: Amazon, open the box and take responsibility for your supply chain ✋
#MakeAmazonPay #blackfriday #amazonopenbox
Today we say: Amazon, open the box and take responsibility for your supply chain ✋
#MakeAmazonPay #blackfriday #amazonopenbox
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
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Pavement parking impacts everyone and is a major barrier to walking and wheeling local journeys.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
Woman calls for pavement parking ban after falling out wheelchair on school run
Aideen Blackborough was left lying in the road after being forced to manoeuvre her way around a vehicle blocking the pavement in Great Barr
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Pavement parking impacts everyone and is a major barrier to walking and wheeling local journeys.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
The result of the national pavement parking consultation is long overdue and we cannot afford to wait, so want to see marked bays and measures on a street-by-street basis.
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Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
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Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Sheer cruelty on display in the Home Secretary's proposed new asylum laws, which could see refugee families with children suddenly uprooted and deported after spending years rebuilding their lives in Britain. Shameful capitulation to Reform's agenda at the expense of the most vulnerable.
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It's day 4 of resident doctors' industrial action in England.
With no credible offer from the Government on the table, our work to restore pay and jobs for resident doctors continues. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
With no credible offer from the Government on the table, our work to restore pay and jobs for resident doctors continues. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It's day 4 of resident doctors' industrial action in England.
With no credible offer from the Government on the table, our work to restore pay and jobs for resident doctors continues. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
With no credible offer from the Government on the table, our work to restore pay and jobs for resident doctors continues. www.bma.org.uk/our-campaign... #PayRestoration #EndTrainingCrisis
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This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings
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From Birmingham to Belém! Our Cardboard Carnival was part of the Global Day of Action for climate justice.
Thanks to Friction Arts, Woodcraft Folk, XR Brum, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and everyone else who took part.
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Thanks to Friction Arts, Woodcraft Folk, XR Brum, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and everyone else who took part.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
From Birmingham to Belém! Our Cardboard Carnival was part of the Global Day of Action for climate justice.
Thanks to Friction Arts, Woodcraft Folk, XR Brum, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and everyone else who took part.
1/3
Thanks to Friction Arts, Woodcraft Folk, XR Brum, Birmingham Friends of the Earth and everyone else who took part.
1/3
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Great to be up in Aberystwyth today speaking to members of Ceredigion Green Party. As with all parts of Wales members old and new working hard to help us get @walesgreenparty.bsky.social members elected to The Senedd, Local councils and Westminster.
Roll on next year!✊💚🏴
Roll on next year!✊💚🏴
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Great to be up in Aberystwyth today speaking to members of Ceredigion Green Party. As with all parts of Wales members old and new working hard to help us get @walesgreenparty.bsky.social members elected to The Senedd, Local councils and Westminster.
Roll on next year!✊💚🏴
Roll on next year!✊💚🏴
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Today we mark Palestinian Independence Day.
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today we mark Palestinian Independence Day.
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.
#PalestinianIndependenceDay
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Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it
Billionaires and corporations are driving climate breakdown. It’s time to tax their wealth and build a fairer future.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
It's time to tax the rich.
www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...