Amanda Jobson
amandajobson.bsky.social
Amanda Jobson
@amandajobson.bsky.social
A creative, mother, Green Councillor for Hastings Borough Council. UK
💚Swimming, cycling, active traveller, carlite 🎷 Ageing champion making our community stronger 💚

Promoted by Tracey Lord
Behalf of Hastings Green Party 30 The Broadway TN35 5EH
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Zack Polanski is playing an important role in projecting Green values — but this revival belongs to the whole movement.

Over 800 councillors, four MPs, peers in the Lords and a fast-growing membership are driving our shared success.

#GreenSurge
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Two massive data centres planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh would each cause similar amounts of climate emissions to Edinburgh Airport. I've emailed Edinburgh Council to demand a full Environmental Impact Assessment. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ed...
Edinburgh Council - require Environmental Impact Assessments for massive new data centres
Two massive data centres are being planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh. Each one would emit more than 200,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s roughly the same as all the emissions from E...
www.foxglove.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Beautiful Coast #Hastings
But when will water companies learn?
Marine life has already been lost because of southern waters irresponsible action
#biobeads
#marineconservation
#sussex
#cleanup
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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30 years of COPs

30 years of rising emissions

And still overwhelmingly dominated by the burning of fossil fuels
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Great community meet up
With Chinese Community
#Hastings
Southern Water failed to turn up! for advice pop up
but we had a great time.
#biobeads
#sussex
#environment 💚
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Good to see new business opening up in St Leonards on sea.
MOTH shop is a unique place, David the owner makes handmade pieces, with artists makers, in this beautiful space.
Go see! On Norman Road 💚
#localbusiness
#sustainablebusiness
#keepitlocal
#eastsussex
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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🌿 Huge thanks to @RachelMillward, Deputy Leader of the @TheGreenParty & our inspiring Sussex Mayoral candidate, for joining Cllr Paula Warne in Hastings campaigning for the Ashdown & Conquest by-election! 💚
Your energy for a fairer, greener Sussex is contagious 🌱
#VoteGreen
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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open.spotify.com/episode/4Es4... wirth listening to the second half of this podcast covering @zackpolanski.bsky.social almost exclusively positive.
Did the government willingly collapse the China spy trial?
open.spotify.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Regardless of the mainstream media attack on Zack Polanski, here's the truth about #benefits.

Who are you voting for...?
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good news 4 progressives 💚
🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
October 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Good Greens 💚💚💚💚
A recent poll had Greens just ahead of Libdems and now we've overtaken them membership numbers across Great Britain.

Greens are on the up!
join.greenparty.org.uk
LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems!

Let's keep it going!
👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽
join.greenparty.org.uk

Latest stats available:
85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership
83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🌱 Could you be a Green Councillor?
Since 2021 our Green councillors have shown what hard work, commitment and care for the community can do.
This May we are standing a Green candidate in every seat.
💚 Ready to make a difference?
👉Email by 15/9 [email protected]

#PartOfTheSolution
September 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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⚠️ LAST DAY FOR EARLY BIRD TICKET DISCOUNTS ⚠️
🐝 We are delighted to bring you a talk by Dave Goulson on Saving Our Insects - 23rd October at The Stade Hall.
🎟 Tickets are currently just £6. So book now to secure your seat at actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... 🐞
All welcome. 🦋
September 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Brilliant to listen to young people
#freshers week #Hastings #eastsussexcollege
With fellow Greens

@hastingsgreenparty.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Believe in Zack

#backzack 💚
Quick, cheeky final day interview!

Voting for the Green Party Leadership & Executive Elections closes at midday Saturday.

Voting link below. 👇🏼
youtu.be/7_qea8dS-mA?...
The Green Party's Leadership Race: An Exclusive Interview with Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Simple Politics
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#backzack 💚✅
Whatever happens when voting closes on Saturday, this is my last week as Green Party Deputy Leader.

I just want to say a huge thank you to every single member - your energy has powered me across England & Wales these past few years.
August 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Great to hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social on radio 4 this morning

We do need a stronger bolder leader with a vision for our future & don't forget our youth 💚✅💚
August 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Dead right 🤬
@hastingsgreenparty.bsky.social

There are some people who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing! How do we teach future generations about gardening and growing things ( and how easy it is!) without allotments ?
Tragically, not everyone has a garden or balcony.
August 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Too many people are living in terrible conditions, struggling with basic needs for their children's future.
We need to be fighting for them on every corner.
#backzack 💚
Is ‘picking fights’ a way to win votes, or does it turn people off?

With the Green Party leadership race in full flow, @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social joined us in the studio to share their vision on how the Party can best connect with the public.

Listen now!

#UKPolitics
July 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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📢 Q&A 📢

𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬?

Whether it's the Afghan data breach story or anything else from Westminster this week...

📧 Email [email protected] (voicenotes welcome) or reply here.

We’ll answer later today in our Q&A.
July 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Help #youngpeople thrive with #arts in #schools #uk 💜
We were thrilled to join the Arts and Minds Campaign to deliver their open letter calling for the restoration of arts education in the UK to Bridget Phillipson and Lisa Nandy at Parliament — and with 10,000 signatures! Let's keep up the pressure. Sign the letter: actionnetwork.org/forms/open-l...
July 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Since MPs voted in favour of proscribing Palestine Action at the start of July, the ban has been condemned by UN experts, civil liberties groups, cultural figures and hundreds of lawyers as draconian and setting a dangerous precedent by conflating protest with terrorism.
Man arrested in Glasgow for holding sign allegedly supportive of Palestine Action
Arrest under the Terrorism Act happened after the man refused to stop displaying the sign when asked by police
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A Bold natural born leader
#backzack 💚✅
🚄 Thrilled to be returning to meet Green Party members across the country!

🙌🏼 This weekend:

📍 Derby (East Mids hustings) Saturday

📍 Bath (South West hustings) Sunday

💚 Come say hi - and get involved in the campaign below 👇

#BackZack
July 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Getting our #energybills down is part of the solution #uk
Wake up Gov
wheres the action 💚
#climateaction
Don’t pile one fake solution to climate breakdown on another!

Putting carbon capture & storage @ #DRAX is hemorrhaging tax payers money only to make the problem worse!

Green energy & a mass insulation programme will make GB citizen’s warmer & lower bills.

www.mpwatch.org/blog/bioener...
MP Watch | BIOENERGY AT DRAX—THE FACTS Article
Along with environmental and democratic allies, we aim to address the democratic deficit, by building and realising the potential of grassroots community groups to expose and oppose MPs of bad faith ...
www.mpwatch.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM