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Steve Cambridge

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Retired, left of center, managed wild garden lover, book worm, art lover, single parent survivor, cambs grad comp/sci, I sometimes go fishing. Green Party member 💚

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · May 12

I don't want to be rude but it seems to me you weren't paying attention when they were in opposition.
This was all predicted by many, many observers.

Jeremy corbyn's the nicest man you could ever meet and look what they did to him.

They don't care about you.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 9h

I live on a council housing estate with approximately 350 homes.
The city council is currently insulating council properties on the estate.
That number is 110, so that means 240 houses have been lost. Many of them are high occupancy.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

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.

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Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 9h

Cambridge, England, winter 2024.

Black and white picture of a lake in Cambridgeshire England, framed by trees.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

I used to go down to the women's pond with my partner and sit on the bench while she swam (too cold for me!).
That's how ridiculous this all is.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

The moment you start thinking about meditating you will fail.
Mindfulness isn't about thinking, it's about living the moment you're in.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 17h

You know those days when it's cold but the sun's out and you stand there, eyes closed, head tipped back, soaking up the warmth of the sun (apprecity).
That's how to meditate.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah right, it's like we haven't got eyes to see and ears that hear.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

Only Marxist/ socialist ones like UBI. My goodness just think how many writers, artists and poets etc we could produce.
We'd become the envy of the world! 😂😂
Yeah, not gonna happen eh.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

To be honest it would be nice if we didn't have to have benefits. That would require at least a doubling of the standard state pension.
It might actually save tax money, I can't be sure but it certainly would give pensioners more dignity.
After 50yrs work, we deserve that at least imho.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

I supported Corbyn 2015-2019.
He was leader of the Labour party, he had a massive slice of the country behind him, thousands cheering him on at Glastonbury and he made a pigs ear of it.
Just like he's doing now.
He's past, it's over and it will all just end up being a waste of time and hope.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 10h

The full state pension I get is £920/month.
You try living on that.
The latest figures show 2.1 million of pensioners in the UK live in poverty.
These are the ones that need those benefits (not the vast majority), concentrate on that number.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 12h

Be there.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 12h

Cambridge is literally owned by the university and its colleges.
The housing, the land, the 'commons'.
It is said you can walk from Cambridge to London and not step off Trinity college land (not exactly true but not bloody far off!)

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

This is how we turn our country around.

Away from the forces of hate and division.

We're going to do it together.

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

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 ↩️

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 12h

I don't see a problem with maintaining pensions benefits, we're already in poverty as it is.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome!

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

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 ↩️

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 13h

Brilliant!

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 13h

Well I guess when you're paying tens of thousands of pounds for it, then maybe!
I wanted to do a sustainability masters, by the time I'd worked out what one year would cost me I was 30 grand down.
Education should be free but that's never going to happen with the establishment parties we have.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 17h

You know those days when it's cold but the sun's out and you stand there, eyes closed, head tipped back, soaking up the warmth of the sun (apprecity).
That's how to meditate.

Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 18h

I'm lucky enough to have Muslims living next door to me and they're every bit as kind, caring and wonderful as this man. 💚

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

"That's the difference a Green councillor can make."

Co-Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social speaks to Aaron Bastani of Novara Media.

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Steve Cambridge @stevencambs.bsky.social · 18h

If I'm honest I've waited my whole life to vote for a party like this, to be inspired like this, to actually start beliving that hope isn't a false prophet.
I'll be 70 by the next election.
The wait is over.
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