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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 50m

Climate crisis: the board game?

In our latest Substack post, CGP member @davidhughesbluey.bsky.social breaks into 'Daybreak' the climate-themed boardgame from the creator of the bestseller 'Pandemic' open.substack.com/pub/chiltern...

Climate Crisis: The Board Game?

David Hughes breaks open 'Daybreak', the climate change boardgame

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17h

A record 1,611 people — including 11 children — died while homeless in 2024.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have failed to fix Britain’s housing crisis.

A home is not a privilege.
A home is a human right.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Right-wing politicians are claiming that inequality is falling in the UK based on a tiny change in one national statistic. This is not the case in reality. Inequality is rising. In this post, I explain why and what we can and should do about it.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Inequality is not falling

The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It happened in a comment on this blog in t...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 20h

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large…

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 19h

This is no longer just a movement; this is a statement. People are fed up with the status quo, and they clearly want something different.

Real hope and real change is coming.

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

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 23h

Next in-person meeting!

White Hill Centre
White Hill
Chesham HP5 1AG

Monday, 27 October 2025

7.30pm

Hope you can make it! 💚

whitehillcentre.org.uk

ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 1d

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Our first Substack submission is live! Please subscribe (it’s free!), comment or even contribute if you’d like to have your say on a local, National or global issue 💚 open.substack.com/pub/chiltern...

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Jess Hobson @jessrhobson.bsky.social · 1d

Incase anyone forgot, here’s your reminder that Student Nurses are out there working full-time hours for free on placements.

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 1d

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 1d

Renewable energy has overtaken coal as the world's largest energy source.

Developing nations are now leading the way towards the green energy transition. As the West are still trying to cling on to the energy sources of the past.

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

As the world moves forwards and embraces renewable energy,

At Conference, the Tories plot to drag us back — abolishing the Climate Change Act and ‘maximising extraction’ of North Sea oil and gas.

Graphic featuring a close-up wind turbine over farmland under a cloudy sky. Headline reads: “THE WORLD MOVES FORWARD WITH RENEWABLES AS TORIES LOOK BACK.” Below is a quote from Green MP Carla Denyer: “The news that renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity shows our world is moving in a cleaner, greener, healthier direction, but the Tories are plotting how they can block both people and the planet from benefitting from this transition.” Bottom shows Carla Denyer’s headsh

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 2d

join.greenparty.org.uk

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 2d

Let's make hope normal again.

We need a society that works for the many not the few.

That is what The Green Party stands for.
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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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 3d

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 3d

Ofwat has just announced a 36% increase to waterbills.

Since privatisation, water companies have paid out £78 billion in dividends to shareholders.

Water is being treated like a luxury, not a human right, and enough is enough.

We need to nationalise water now.

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 3d

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 3d

The Home Office is set to give police greater authority to restrict protests, allowing officers to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated demonstrations.

This is an attack on democracy. The Labour government just doesn't like being held accountable for their actions.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

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'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

Green Party Conference 2025 just passed a motion that would Abolish Landlords!

Through a programme of unprecedented council house building, taxation and housing those who need it, a Green government would eliminate profit from a human right.

Housing for all.

Letting agent sticking a FOR RENT sign to window.

Text reads

Green Conference votes to
Abolish
Landlords

Greens
Organise

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Buckinghamshire fire authority are proposing cuts to eight fire engines and two stations, despite already losing over a third of its firefighters since 2010.

These cuts would seriously threaten public and firefighter safety. The FBU is demanding immediate investment to rebuild the service.

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 4d

We cannot have a prosperous society without proper wealth redistribution.

Twickle down economics has failed. It's time we push for a tax system that taxes wealth equally and not work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tax wealthiest to end rip-off Britain, says Green leader Polanski

Zack Polanski sets out a new direction for the Green Party in his first conference speech as leader.

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ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 4d

You've got that right Rachel😤

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

"The system that has caused such destruction of nature is the same system that rips us apart from each other." - @rachelmillward.bsky.social

ChilternGreens @chilterngreens.bsky.social · 4d

True and inspiring words from one of our co-deputy leaders, @mothinali.bsky.social. The Green Party has and will always show solidarity for the people of Gaza.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

"I feel sick at this Labour government's lack of action."

@mothinali.bsky.social makes his first conference speech as Deputy Leader of the Green Party.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 5d

We don't have a migrant crisis.

We have an austerity crisis that’s being blamed on minorities.

Greens are here to fight the misinformation fed to all of us by the right.

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