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Allan McLeod
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Green Party member🍉 Trade unionist🤝 Humanist🌹 Socialist⚒️ Republican✊🏼 Federalist🇬🇧 NHS Care worker🩺 Polymath🔬 Pro-European🇪🇺 Science Graduate🎓 Makes mead🍺 Collects charity shop ties👔 Own views😈 Bi🏳️‍🌈 He/They💜
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Welcome!!

Anyone who wants to follow you, it is easy: join.greenparty.org.uk

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Two Welsh councillors defect to the Green party
Two well-known councillors have joined the Green Party
www.walesonline.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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mothinali.bsky.social
listening to these stories breaks me everytime, there's no training that can prepare you for these stories yet we've got to do what we can to help.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
Workers have the right to unionise, solidarity

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
UK union accuses GTA maker Rockstar Games of firing employees attempting to organise
According to The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, the developer fired more than 30 staff last week for being members of a union-affiliated Discord channel
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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brumgreens.bsky.social
We're calling it now: first Labour MP to defect to us will be before Christmas.

www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...
Councillor who chaired Labour group defects to Greens after 42 years in party
Cllr Kath Whittam resigned from the Labour Party earlier this summer
www.mylondon.news
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
You know the climate change 💩 is hitting the fan when it's November, you're in Scotland, it's drizzling, and the coat you're wearing is making you feel quite over-heated 🫤
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.middleeasteye.net/news/horrifi...
Zack Polanski reacts to 'horrific' increase in UK-Israel trade during Gaza genocide
Green Party leader calls for a boycott campaign resembling the one against apartheid South Africa
www.middleeasteye.net
November 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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carladenyer.bsky.social
Our SEND system is broken and it's failing children and their families. They deserve better - their voices must be heard by government.

Today I joined the #EveryPairTellsAStory demo in Bristol. Each pair of shoes represents a child who has been failed by the SEND system.
Dozens of pairs of shoes on the grass. The ones nearest the camera bear a label: "Freddy's school didn't support, instead expelled him!" Carla stands on the grass outside City Hall in Bristol surrounded by dozens of shoes each of which tells the story of a child who has been failed by the current SEND system A handwritten note from Carla, and her hand just after pinning it on the board
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
The Orb in Darlington has an excellent whisky selection. Enjoying a dram of Ardbeg 10. Slainté 🥃☺️
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are not the same thing:
Social Democracy seeks to regulate capitalism according to socialist values and sentiment, whereas Democratic Socialism seeks capitalism's abolition while retaining a political democracy
🌹🤝✊🏾
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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owenjones.bsky.social
Could Keir Starmer end up in the dock - at The Hague?
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
A spectre is haunting Britain, the spectre of ecosocialism 👻💚😉
October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
Poverty can be abolished. It exists because the powers that be allow it to exist
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12d
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.

Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.

Child poverty is a political choice.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. CHILD POVERTY IS A POLITICAL CHOICE Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
Anyone trying to strip you of these rights is dangerous
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12d
Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...
SOME OF THE THINGS THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS GIVES US Protection from torture Right to a fair trial Right to privacy & family life Freedom of expression Freedom of religion & belief Freedom of assembly Protection from discrimination Right to free & fair elections Accountability for the state Prohibition of slavery & forced labour Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Partv, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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colbobs.bsky.social
Come on, you're fed up, suspicious or dissatisfied with Labour and Reform.
join.greenparty.org.uk
PEOPLE ARE SICK OF PANTOMINE POLITICS! THE PARTIES (Labour and Reform ) BACKED BY BILLIONAIRE DONORS NO EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD WORK FOR THEMSELVES NOT PEOPLE GREENS WILL WORK FOR YOU! TAX WEALTH NOT WORK Greens would tax unearned wealth fairly at the same level as wages - with capital gains tax increased to same rate as income tax and just an extra 1% on multi-milionaires and 2% billionaires to fund our public services. TAKE BACK OWNERSHIP Greens would bring utility companies like gas. electricity and water back into public ownership so that the huge profits can be used to bring down our bills and not just fill the off-shore bank accounts of the super-rich. TACKLE COST OF LIVING Greens would take the power of unscrupulous developers and landlords to provide more affordable housing to rent and buy. We would prioritise regenerating derelict sites rather than destroying more local greenspaces. GET INVOLVED ! "We're not here to feel disappointed by Labour. We're here to replace Labour" - Zack Polanski The Green Party Leader.
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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goodlawproject.org
We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12d
I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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tacc.org.uk
🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification and it closes on Sunday. This is, sadly horrifically being driven by non experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/

www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification - NHS England - Citizen Space
This site contains surveys and consultations that are run by NHS England.
www.engage.england.nhs.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
There should be safe routes into this country for people who are in danger back home. Our asylum process is cruel & forces people to do dangerous things to get here
carladenyer.bsky.social Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 14d
For the vast majority of people (except Ukrainians and Hongkongers) there is NO WAY to claim asylum in the UK without coming by small boat

The only way to stop people making dangerous boat crossings to the UK is by creating safe and managed routes

Govt's plan is delusional
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Poor old Laurence Fox.

At least he can pay it from his well paid acting career...

Oh wait.

🤣
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
Important.
@transactualuk.bsky.social have released a new report about the harm caused by the Supreme Court misjudgement & the EHRC's interpretation of it.

It shows how the ruling & interpretation is also harming cis women. Those it was supposed to "protect".

transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
“It’s made everything much worse for me. I’m a cis woman and it was supposed to protect me. I was never scared of men in the first place. I didn’t need this ruling, but now we’ve got it I am now scared of some women, so will avoid the places they gather in their so-called safe women only spaces.” CIS WOMAN, ENGLAND “The most recent is that I went to the ladies’ loo at Victoria station. A group of young women gathered around me and told me I should get out saying ‘don’t you know you’re not allowed in here anymore’. I … locked myself in a loo. They stood outside and were banging on the door and shouting that they were going to call the police and that I was ‘disgusting’ and had no right to be born and all sorts of horrible things …I’m a cis woman and just happen to be tall and quite flat chested and wear my hair short. Before the ruling any challenges had been gentle, like ‘oh by the way this is the ladies’ and people were embarrassed or apologetic when I said ‘it’s okay I’m a girl’. but now it’s aggressive and horrible…” CIS WOMAN, ENGLAND I felt so ashamed. I avoided using public toilets for weeks. Gender-non-conforming cis woman, East Midlands
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
When I was an LP member I heard condemnation of parties for standing in elections multiple times. They'd tell other parties to stand down for a clear shot against a Tory, without offer of reciprocity if another party had a higher chance. Labour must stand down to avoid splitting the anti-reform vote
owenjones.bsky.social Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13d
Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote?
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Many political possibilities for @TheGreenParty.

Want to be part of it? Now's a great time: join.greenparty.org.uk

www.cityam.com/mayor-polans...
Mayor Polanski? It’s more likely than you think…
With their polling surging and their membership growing rapidly, the Green Party could be contenders to take control of City Hill in 2028
www.cityam.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
allansjmcleod.bsky.social
This is what Farrage tried to take away. He is a dangerous man and he must never be out PM
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
Human rights groups call for UK regulator to be downgraded over "disturbing" single-sex spaces guidance

A number of groups have launched formal proceedings claiming that the regulator is not "fit for purpose".

gcn.ie/ehrc-downgra...
Human rights groups call for UK regulator to be downgraded over "disturbing" single-sex spaces guidance
After issuing guidance on single-sex spaces in the UK, the EHRC is facing calls to be downgraded by human rights groups.
gcn.ie
October 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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bsky.realhackhistory.org
These Arch Linux people are getting out of control.
Sign that says “YOU CAN’T SPELL HATRED WITHOUT RED HAT” and a drawing of a red baseball cap.
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM