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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb.bsky.social

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Green Party councillor, Wirral. Co-leader of Green group of councillors. Climate // Transport, Health, Public Realm Heat Pumps & Solar // 🚴‍♂️🚊🌎 Other things. Often wrong about stuff.

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · Nov 27

e-bikes and small, fluffy dogs for everyone 🐶

A small, fluffy white dog stands on the back of an orange Tern GSD bicycle. It's a sunny winters day. Patio setting with house and heat pump in the background

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 1d

Pay out should be in e-bike credits 🫡

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Car finance scandal: Payouts of £700 per driver under compensation plans

Lenders could pay out £8.2bn in compensation for car finance mis-selling, the FCA says.

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 1d

Really hope we see a lot more micro-EVs in the UK in the years ahead. Smaller, slower, lighter, cheaper...

*EXCLUSIVE* Dacia Hipster - A car with no rivals !

YouTube video by Petrol Ped

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 1d

"With sustainability comes empathy and compassion. These are all traits that you get when you decide to take care of the place that gives you life..."

"We need greener cities, with fewer cars."

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award

Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 5d

How on earth do you know about Keeping Up Appearances??!!

Side note: Patricia was born just down the road from where I live, and in January councillors honoured her with the 'Freedom of the Borough' www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2486883...

Dame Patricia Routledge receives Honorary Freedom of the Borough

DAME Patricia Routledge has received Wirral’s highest honour.

www.wirralglobe.co.uk

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Low Traffic Future @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Event incoming!
🗓️ Thursday 16th Oct 2025. 8–9pm

Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency 🚗↘️

Join us and Izzy from @wearepossible.bsky.social where we explore the art of communicating the case for reducing car dependence

🔗 Register now (it's free!) actionnetwork.org/events/commu...

Banner image showing a cartoon streetscape with tram at the centre. Headline reads 'Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency'

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 7d

infinite dropped kerbs ♾️
you can almost smell the accessibility 🙄

A series of junctions disappear into infinity. Lots of entrances on a UK road with seemingly endless dropped kerbs for pedestrians

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 9d

Wirral Labour have (until quite recently) hammered Wirral Greens. We've gone from 1 councillor to 14 in that time 🤷‍♂️

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 9d

Bella Sankey, the leader of Brighton and Hove Council, has urged Labour members to “get over” their “squeamishness” over attacking the Green Party.

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Labour must ‘get over squeamishness’ about attacking Greens – council leader – LabourList

Labour members need to "get over" their "squeamishness" about attacking the Green Party, Bella Sankey, the leader of Brighton and Hove Council, has urged, warning…

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members.

This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15).

(Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 10d

a cartoon of beavis and butthead sitting next to each other wearing nasa uniforms

Alt: a cartoon of beavis and butthead sitting next to each other wearing nasa uniforms

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 11d

1) Willaston, near the village 'square'
4) Neston?

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 12d

Banned driver given another ban. Genius

Birkenhead News @birkenheadnews.bsky.social · 12d

Driver's ban extended after driving while disqualified www.birkenhead.news/drivers-ban-...

Driver’s ban extended after driving while disqualified

A disqualified motorist has received an extended driving ban after he was spotted driving a Ford Transit van in Wirral with a severely cracked windscreen. Officers from Wirral targeted team…

www.birkenhead.news

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 12d

it's one of those days when you take a detour through Port Sunlight

Bike resting near a bridge in Port Sunlight, Wirral. Blue skies. Trees to either side. Old building in background

Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 13d

(Said with a degree of sadness from me, as my local council were no where to be seen with #CarFreeDay efforts, despite frequent requests from @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social councillors)

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 13d

Good for business. Good for people.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 13d

This past weekend Londoners got a glimpse of the future of Oxford Street as it went traffic-free for the day.

Here’s what they thought ⬇️

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 14d

Sir, your pickup truck *almost taking off* when you hit a speed hump at 35mph is nature's way of telling you to *slow down*

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 17d

The inefficiency of fossil fuels is a feature, not a bug

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17d

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel.

Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 18d

This is Utrecht's reinvented Amsterdamsestraatweg.

The municipality faced a unique challenge: How to transform one of the busiest car routes into a greener, more liveable space?

FInd out how they did it: buff.ly/p06KxAA

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 21d

Sorry if I've ruined your day, Dave 😂

On the plus side, he's well and truly lost the argument... as have those who campaigned against our 20mph work on Wirral!

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 21d

motion for live world class track & field athletics to be a broadcast live 24/7

Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 21d

"I've never seen the roads so dangerous in my 39-year career," said the man who has no idea how ridiculous he sounds.

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured.

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales

Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 22d

Day by day my Instagram feed becomes more dominated by cute little Maltese puppy videos

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22d

How do we fix this mess?

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 23d

We have The Post, up in Liverpool (covering all of Merseyside)

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The Post

The Liverpool Post

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25d

Folks, the "I bought this before Elon went crazy" bumper stickers ain't gonna cut it. You gotta get rid of your Tesla. Anything less is a tacit endorsement of this man and his dangerous ideology.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25d

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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Cllr Ed Lamb @edwardlamb.bsky.social · 26d

Great advice. Have started with River Man by Nick Drake

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