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Graham Wroe

@tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social

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Climate and Nature activist, Blogger and writer for Sheffield Telegraph and Sheffield Star. Born at 316ppm. Formerly @GrahamWroe on Twitter.

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 13d

Police waste £3m arresting climate protesters while the real criminals continue to overheat the planet.

By Graham Wroe In August 2024, Reclaim the Power was organising a climate protest camp near Drax Power Station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter. But it never happened as police arrested…

Police waste £3m arresting climate protesters while the real criminals continue to overheat the planet.

By Graham Wroe In August 2024, Reclaim the Power was organising a climate protest camp near Drax Power Station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter. But it never happened as police arrested many of the organisers before it began. The protest camp was to involve “six days of workshops, communal living and direct action to crash Drax’s profits”. Following the arrests, the camp was cancelled because the police had seized the necessary equipment.

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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 21h

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3h

“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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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 8h

How much longer will the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 and C5 hide AMOC collapse from the British people?

Campaigners were at City Hall today to demand London Assembly members start planning for the UK being plunged into a far colder, drier climate which would decimate agriculture. 🧵

AMOC campaigners with the AMOC bomb outside London's City Hall

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 8h

The campaigners did many interviews this morning but not one with any of the main broadcast organisations.

MPs and Lords will soon be briefed on AMOC collapse and the other threats facing us. Make sure your MP attends. See www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 8h

This is an important. In Sheffield the situation is as bad as Croydon. We have a Mayor promoting re-opening the airport and investing in the arms trade and a Council making little progress on decarbonisation. Meanwhile, AMOC is a massive threat to all our lives. insidecroydon.com/2025/10/09/c...

Council fails to spend £4m grant on climate change in 9 years

CROYDON IN CRISIS: ‘The council declared a climate emergency in 2019, but where’s the emergency response? This is a fight for survival, not a PR exercise.’ That’s according to one…

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 12h

We must nationalise our greedy polluting water companies now! sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2025/10/09/n...

New leader echoes Sheffield Councillor in conference speech

https://sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2025/10/09/new-leader-echoes-sheffield-councillor-in-conference-speech/

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 1d

"One source told the Guardian they feared [the report] was being suppressed because the government was unwilling to face the issues raised."

If this is true it's the most flagrant dereliction of duty and breach of the social contract imaginable. Their job is to keep us safe, that's the deal

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 1d

"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 16h

Of course our national security is threatened by climate catastrophe. But at last some important people are beginning to notice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

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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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 1d

Forged Solutions, complicit in Genocide

Today campaigners from around the country blockaded the Forged Solutions Factory in Meadowhall, Sheffield. Here is what happened. Hilary explained why Forged Solutions are complicit with Genocide, by manufacturing parts for F-35 fighter jets that are…

Forged Solutions, complicit in Genocide

Today campaigners from around the country blockaded the Forged Solutions Factory in Meadowhall, Sheffield. Here is what happened. Hilary explained why Forged Solutions are complicit with Genocide, by manufacturing parts for F-35 fighter jets that are exported to Israel. She asked Forged Solutions "Why do you still have two licenses to produce components for F-35? Do you not care that you are breaking international law?

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 2d

Great work from Cllr Marieanne Elliot and team. www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...

How a local project is battling flooding in a historic Sheffield park

A community-led project, called Bringing Back the Brook, aims to restore natural water flow, reduce flooding risk and boost biodiversity in a Sheffield park.

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 2d

Greens are Not Lovin’ It

Sheffield Green Party organised a protest yesterday at the site of a proposed 24 hour drive-through MacDonald's, on London Road. Despite the previous planning application being turned down, McDonald's have resubmitted an almost identical application without addressing any…

Greens are Not Lovin’ It

Sheffield Green Party organised a protest yesterday at the site of a proposed 24 hour drive-through MacDonald's, on London Road. Despite the previous planning application being turned down, McDonald's have resubmitted an almost identical application without addressing any of the concerns of local residents. The protest was attended by Councillors, including Green Party Councillors Alexi Dimond, Douglas Johnson and Maroof Raouf, and Labour Councillor Ibby Ullah, and was supported by local residents, Cooperation Sheffield and Extinction Rebellion.

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the first party political broadcast in a very long time that understands the trouble we’re in.

Great job @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 3d

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Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay

Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 3d

Adam Ramsay's take on a very successful Green Party Conference.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

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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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3d

Israel’s cheerleaders are conflating Jewish people with Israel and its crimes.

This is a lie - and as @naamoduk.bsky.social's Emili Stevenson tells me, it’s dangerous.

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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 3d

Rachel is a breath of fresh air! youtu.be/eohI6SRMvkE?...

Thousands Are Joining the Green Party. Here’s Why | Deputy Green Party Leader - Rachel Millward

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4d

Are Reform UK getting donations from a tax exile - or has this guy just failed to fulfil his promise to leave the UK? (As most of them do). Via Private Eye:

Nigel Farage and his Reform UK treasurer (and former tax exile) Nick Candy must be relieved that one of their more generous donors doesn’t keep his promises.

“I’m moving – that is it,” Nigerian-born businessman Bassim Haidar told the Guardian in May last year after the previous government announced the end of the “non-dom” tax regime (following which chancellor Rachel Reeves enacted the changes). “What’s the logic of me living in the UK when other countries are offering no taxes at all?” he wondered. “In Monaco there are no taxes, and no inheritance tax.” He was reported to have established a “working group” of 29 non-doms looking to up sticks before the start of the September 2024 school year.

Latest political donation declarations, however, show that Haidar gave Reform UK £200,000 in April this year. As laws introduced in 2009 require donors of such sums to be “resident, ordinarily resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom for the purposes of income tax”, it seems the entrepreneur has opted to stay put.

For yet another erstwhile non-dom, when push comes to shove, life in a country with a tax system turns out to be preferable to tax haven tedium

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 4d

I had to leave the Green Party Conference early today to visit the mosque that was firebombed in Peacehaven.
It's times like this we've got to come together as a community to stamp out hate and those thay seek to divide us.

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 5d

It wasn't asylum seekers who increased anyone's rent or energy bills, the rich did that.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4d

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

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