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Rob Bryher

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📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council // 🏢 Chair of Development Control Committee A // 🚋 Chair of Kerbside and Parking Strategy Task and Finish Group and Member of Transport & Connectivity Policy Committee

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 16m

No idea!

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

I reckon colloquially "Bingo card" now means "things we want to look clever for predicting would be mentioned" more than it means "a square of numbers to be used to play the game Bingo".

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

Of course

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

Wish it bloody didn't. We might start despairing and start doing stuff. I'm going to read How To Blow Up A Pipeline I reckon.

Troy @troyleekelly.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes ago. Yet "hope springs eternal in the human breast."

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

She didn't say it ironically. She's not funny enough to manage that.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

Shrewsbury seems like a nice place full of people who want to be fair to everyone and think both sides of the war should be peaceful and claps a multi-millionaire fascist who started with nothing and pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

It's easy to forget this is what liberalism really means.

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 15h

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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UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, the Greens were celebrating 87,000 members.

Today, they have skyrocketed 93,000 members, making this most likely the fastest growth the party has ever seen before in terms of membership figures.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 3d

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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 4d

FAIR RENTS

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really glad that the Green Party have caught up with the Labour Party on their excellent "No Landlordism" platform...of 1902. #gpconf

Old photo and manifesto of Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP, who stood on a platform of "No Landlordism".

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

I'm really glad that the Green Party have caught up with the Labour Party on their excellent "No Landlordism" platform...of 1902. #gpconf

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

I have just been (very fairly) corrected by a lectern...because I inaccurately called a lectern a podium.

I'm getting "early Twitter when it was fun" vibes 😀

I'm a Lectern @notpodium.bsky.social · 4d

correct alt: Emma standing at a *lectern

also 😍

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 4d

Green conference has voted overwhelmingly to call for the Israeli military to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. #Gpconf

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

Sure. I just don't understand why they are in the Green Party then.

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

I imagine it is a misunderstanding of what racism is? You can think she is absolutely awful and still be an anti-racist.

still.ne

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

We've certainly found "people lacking political awareness"...

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 4d

Have a read of this thread for excellent snapshots of what Green Party conference is like.
#GPConf

Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to a wonderful mother/mother-in-law looking after our kids for the weekend we are heading to Green Party Conference for the first time in a few years!

Perhaps I'll do a thread with pictures of everyone I meet or see?

Anna and I smiling on the train to Green Party Conference

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 5d

🥳 I'm so so delighted that my motion for completely building East West Rail and fully electrifying it passed overwhelmingly at conference.

🙏 Huge huge thanks to @greenchloem.bsky.social , Ed Fraser and @benwheels.bsky.social for speaking in favour.

#TrainsNotPlanes #RailNotRoad
#GPConf

E01: Electrify the East West Railway line as soon as possible

Synopsis
East West Rail will fill an important gap in the rail network and help reduce car and lorry use in the region. It will largely replace the Varsity rail line, much of which closed in the 1960s. However, it should be electrified as soon as possible to replace diesel trains.

Motion Text
insert into Record of Policy Statements “The Green Party supports the building of East West Rail in full from Cambridge to Milton Keynes to Oxford, and calls for the project to be fully electrified as quickly as possible. The railway should be accessible for everyone and be well connected to active transport routes. The route should minimise disruption to local communities as far as possible and bring benefits locally as well as regionally and nationally. The route should minimise negative impacts on housing, public green spaces, nature and wildlife and carry out appropriate mitigation works with sensitivity and generous compensation.”

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 4d

I am sitting on a publicly-run train with working wifi in England for the first time in my ENTIRE LIFE!

Thanks to all at #gpconf, it was pretty inspiring, even for this old hand 😁💚

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5d

And now, friends, to the main event... #gpconf

E04 Abolish Landlords text in Green Party conference agenda

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5d

That @greenpartyemma.bsky.social smashing it against private jets and for better rail connections from the #gpconf stage!

Screen saying E01 Electrify The East West Railway Line As Soon As Possible with Emma standing at a podium speaking.

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5d

Who are the 17% of people who are Green Party members who have a somewhat favorable opinion on Keir Starmer? And do they not understand he is a massive authoritarian liar?

YouGov poll showing Green members opinions on various Green politicians and UK Party Leaders.

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps Paula Dodds should focus her ire on those who are criminalising protest (Starmer, Mahmood) rather than those who are opposing genocide and repression (the public she supposedly requires the consent of to be able to police)?

On Saturday, police arrested about 500 people at the latest such protest. It took place despite ministers, including Keir Starmer, asking that it be postponed following this week’s deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester.

After Saturday’s protest, the chair of the Metropolitan police federation said officers policing protests in London were “emotionally and physically exhausted”.

Paula Dodds said: “Enough is enough. Our concentration should be on keeping people safe at a time when the country is on heightened alert from a terrorist attack. And instead officers are being drawn in to facilitate these relentless protests.”

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 5d

I don't know how any Starmer supporters can defend him. His 10 pledges in the Labour leadership election were basically Corbyn's manifesto then he ditched them all instantly and became Nigel Farage instead. He is SO obviously a liar, and that's not even the worst thing he is.

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