Claire Hunt
@clairehunt.bsky.social
Green Party councillor Goring ward, Worthing, community gardener.
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Claire Hunt
@clairehunt.bsky.social
· Aug 5
Our leadership candidates are united on our bold, radical policies. So the choice is about a communication style targeting progressive activists or a broader appeal beyond that base. Under FPTP it’s the latter that wins Green seats. #togetherwewin
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
Sussex needs a Green Mayor and Rachel is an outstanding candidate! But campaigns need funding so please donate, even small amounts are worth it. 💚
We can elect a Green Mayor in Sussex, but we need your help. 💚
Please give what you can on the link below. 👇
@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachel4sussex.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social
Please give what you can on the link below. 👇
@greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachel4sussex.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sussex needs a Green Mayor and Rachel is an outstanding candidate! But campaigns need funding so please donate, even small amounts are worth it. 💚
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Important article.
For the Israeli govt the erasure of ecosystems & people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim. It appears to be seeking what some have called “holocide”: the complete destruction of every aspect of life in Gaza 😢
#stopecocide
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the Israeli govt the erasure of ecosystems & people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim. It appears to be seeking what some have called “holocide”: the complete destruction of every aspect of life in Gaza 😢
#stopecocide
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Important article.
For the Israeli govt the erasure of ecosystems & people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim. It appears to be seeking what some have called “holocide”: the complete destruction of every aspect of life in Gaza 😢
#stopecocide
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For the Israeli govt the erasure of ecosystems & people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim. It appears to be seeking what some have called “holocide”: the complete destruction of every aspect of life in Gaza 😢
#stopecocide
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Congratulations to the new @greenparty.org.uk leadership team @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social.
A gracious speech from Zack. Indeed we all 'stand on the shoulders of giants". Thank you to @adrianramsay.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social 💚
A gracious speech from Zack. Indeed we all 'stand on the shoulders of giants". Thank you to @adrianramsay.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social 💚
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Congratulations to the new @greenparty.org.uk leadership team @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social.
A gracious speech from Zack. Indeed we all 'stand on the shoulders of giants". Thank you to @adrianramsay.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social 💚
A gracious speech from Zack. Indeed we all 'stand on the shoulders of giants". Thank you to @adrianramsay.bsky.social and @elliechowns.bsky.social 💚
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🗣⚖️ In the face of Reform and inaction over the genocide in Gaza, we must challenge the status quo.
✅Worthig Greens have been working hard on addressing the pressing issues in our society, whilst providing an optimistic alternative - this is not a doom and gloom talk!
Join us: bit.ly/3Uz9jZC
✅Worthig Greens have been working hard on addressing the pressing issues in our society, whilst providing an optimistic alternative - this is not a doom and gloom talk!
Join us: bit.ly/3Uz9jZC
"GREEN IS THE ANTIDOTE: From Gaza to Reform and the failings in between"
Siȃn Berry, MP for Brighton Pavilion, will be speaking on how best to challenge the status quo
bit.ly
August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🗣⚖️ In the face of Reform and inaction over the genocide in Gaza, we must challenge the status quo.
✅Worthig Greens have been working hard on addressing the pressing issues in our society, whilst providing an optimistic alternative - this is not a doom and gloom talk!
Join us: bit.ly/3Uz9jZC
✅Worthig Greens have been working hard on addressing the pressing issues in our society, whilst providing an optimistic alternative - this is not a doom and gloom talk!
Join us: bit.ly/3Uz9jZC
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🌊🗑Members of Worthing Greens out on a beach clean in Goring the other day!🐚
🫶Thank-you to everyone who showed up and offered a helping hand. 💪💪🏾
It is important to keep our local areas free of litter and protect our wildlife! 🐠🦈🐢
🫶Thank-you to everyone who showed up and offered a helping hand. 💪💪🏾
It is important to keep our local areas free of litter and protect our wildlife! 🐠🦈🐢
August 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🌊🗑Members of Worthing Greens out on a beach clean in Goring the other day!🐚
🫶Thank-you to everyone who showed up and offered a helping hand. 💪💪🏾
It is important to keep our local areas free of litter and protect our wildlife! 🐠🦈🐢
🫶Thank-you to everyone who showed up and offered a helping hand. 💪💪🏾
It is important to keep our local areas free of litter and protect our wildlife! 🐠🦈🐢
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We stand proudly with Worthing's trans community. We protested to spread a message of energetic resistance, inclusion and hope. Anti-trans hatred has no place here.
We continue to fight for a Worthing of compassion and inclusion for all 🏳️⚧️
Full post: worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/31/w...
We continue to fight for a Worthing of compassion and inclusion for all 🏳️⚧️
Full post: worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/31/w...
Worthing greens counter transphobic rhetoric in town center - Worthing Green Party
On Saturday, the 30th of August, Worthing Greens proudly showed our support for the trans community in Worthing. It was inspiring to see so many young people passionately advocating for what they beli...
worthing.greenparty.org.uk
August 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We stand proudly with Worthing's trans community. We protested to spread a message of energetic resistance, inclusion and hope. Anti-trans hatred has no place here.
We continue to fight for a Worthing of compassion and inclusion for all 🏳️⚧️
Full post: worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/31/w...
We continue to fight for a Worthing of compassion and inclusion for all 🏳️⚧️
Full post: worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/31/w...
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Ellie was excellent on Newsnight last night 🌱 Clear, credible, and focused on keeping our broad appeal so we can win across the country.
🗳 Don’t forget: vote in the leadership election by midday Sat 30 Aug 👉 ballot.greenparty.org.uk
🗳 Don’t forget: vote in the leadership election by midday Sat 30 Aug 👉 ballot.greenparty.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ellie was excellent on Newsnight last night 🌱 Clear, credible, and focused on keeping our broad appeal so we can win across the country.
🗳 Don’t forget: vote in the leadership election by midday Sat 30 Aug 👉 ballot.greenparty.org.uk
🗳 Don’t forget: vote in the leadership election by midday Sat 30 Aug 👉 ballot.greenparty.org.uk
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"The Greens are a political party whose time absolutely has come. In fact, it’s overdue."
Having won one of the biggest electoral swings in British political history last year, I know how we can win voters over!
🗳 Vote by 30 Aug www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Having won one of the biggest electoral swings in British political history last year, I know how we can win voters over!
🗳 Vote by 30 Aug www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Could a Green prime minister be in the UK's future?
Green Party leadership contender Ellie Chowns spoke to the Big Issue about why "eco-populism" isn't the way forward.
www.bigissue.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"The Greens are a political party whose time absolutely has come. In fact, it’s overdue."
Having won one of the biggest electoral swings in British political history last year, I know how we can win voters over!
🗳 Vote by 30 Aug www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Having won one of the biggest electoral swings in British political history last year, I know how we can win voters over!
🗳 Vote by 30 Aug www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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“For 60 years, car advertising has programmed us that driving is freedom, that cars are how we get around, that driving — even reckless driving —is a symbol of status & power. But what if a car marketing vet (aka @tomflood.bsky.social)
used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?”
used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?”
Reprogramming 60 Years of Car-Culture Marketing - Streetsblog San Francisco
Car ads and the resultant culture promotes traffic violence, according to a former car adman
sf.streetsblog.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“For 60 years, car advertising has programmed us that driving is freedom, that cars are how we get around, that driving — even reckless driving —is a symbol of status & power. But what if a car marketing vet (aka @tomflood.bsky.social)
used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?”
used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?”
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📻 Should Greens work with Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana where there’s common ground? Of course, but we have a distinct political identity & a unique ability to reach out much more broadly – & it’s crucial that we keep that!
Vote Ellie & Adrian by 30th Aug
#TogetherWeWin
Vote Ellie & Adrian by 30th Aug
#TogetherWeWin
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
📻 Should Greens work with Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana where there’s common ground? Of course, but we have a distinct political identity & a unique ability to reach out much more broadly – & it’s crucial that we keep that!
Vote Ellie & Adrian by 30th Aug
#TogetherWeWin
Vote Ellie & Adrian by 30th Aug
#TogetherWeWin
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I am calling for Parliament to be recalled immediately in light of the Israeli security cabinet's decision. We must hold the UK govt to account and secure urgent action to alleviate suffering in Gaza.
August 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am calling for Parliament to be recalled immediately in light of the Israeli security cabinet's decision. We must hold the UK govt to account and secure urgent action to alleviate suffering in Gaza.
Our leadership candidates are united on our bold, radical policies. So the choice is about a communication style targeting progressive activists or a broader appeal beyond that base. Under FPTP it’s the latter that wins Green seats. #togetherwewin
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our leadership candidates are united on our bold, radical policies. So the choice is about a communication style targeting progressive activists or a broader appeal beyond that base. Under FPTP it’s the latter that wins Green seats. #togetherwewin
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
Vote by Aug 30th
ballot.greenparty.org.uk
Reposted by Claire Hunt
Adrian Ramsay superb on Today on the absolute necessity for the Green Party to make a genuinely broad appeal. Astutely points out that the explicit ‘99% vs 1%’ appeal made by Polanski does not resonate even with most Left voters, let alone with most voters who don’t self-identify as ‘Left’.
August 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Adrian Ramsay superb on Today on the absolute necessity for the Green Party to make a genuinely broad appeal. Astutely points out that the explicit ‘99% vs 1%’ appeal made by Polanski does not resonate even with most Left voters, let alone with most voters who don’t self-identify as ‘Left’.
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Fantastic to be here in Cardiff, with @elliechowns.bsky.social and so many amazing Greens, on the road to a Senedd breakthrough and helping get Matt Youde from Grangetown elected
July 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Fantastic to be here in Cardiff, with @elliechowns.bsky.social and so many amazing Greens, on the road to a Senedd breakthrough and helping get Matt Youde from Grangetown elected
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Thanks so much for your vote of support. It really means a lot of have so many council leaders supporting us. www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/support-us
#TogetherWeWin
#TogetherWeWin
July 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Thanks so much for your vote of support. It really means a lot of have so many council leaders supporting us. www.ellie-adrian-2025.org/support-us
#TogetherWeWin
#TogetherWeWin
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Adrian Ramsay very good on @LBC @IainDale, making crystal clear that unless one appeals to wide sections of the public (not just Lefties) one WILL NOT WIN in 1st-past-the-post elections: winning which,not coincidentally,he & Ellie are past masters at doing (while Zack never has). #LBCdebate
July 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Adrian Ramsay very good on @LBC @IainDale, making crystal clear that unless one appeals to wide sections of the public (not just Lefties) one WILL NOT WIN in 1st-past-the-post elections: winning which,not coincidentally,he & Ellie are past masters at doing (while Zack never has). #LBCdebate
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“If a new political party is setting up, now, without having climate- and ecological- breakdown front and centre, then it’s hopelessly out of date”: Adrian Ramsay brilliant, on LBC #GreenLeadership debate, on why the Green Party is deeply different in fundamental starting-point from Corbyn-Sultana.
July 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“If a new political party is setting up, now, without having climate- and ecological- breakdown front and centre, then it’s hopelessly out of date”: Adrian Ramsay brilliant, on LBC #GreenLeadership debate, on why the Green Party is deeply different in fundamental starting-point from Corbyn-Sultana.
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In #LBC debate, @adrianramsay.bsky.social setting out very clearly why the Green Party needs to keep to the clear strategy that's led to a doubling of councillor numbers & quadrupling of MPs in the past 4 years, & the risks of 'magical thinking' damaging the party's credibility.
July 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In #LBC debate, @adrianramsay.bsky.social setting out very clearly why the Green Party needs to keep to the clear strategy that's led to a doubling of councillor numbers & quadrupling of MPs in the past 4 years, & the risks of 'magical thinking' damaging the party's credibility.
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There are no words to convey the horror of 21 children in Gaza starving to death in the last 72 hours. There are no words to convey the horror of nearly a million more children being at risk of the same fate.
The UK cannot stay complicit in this atrocity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
The UK cannot stay complicit in this atrocity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Gaza hospital says 21 children dead from malnutrition in 72 hours as UN warns 'last lifelines collapsing'
The UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza, as a hospital director says 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
There are no words to convey the horror of 21 children in Gaza starving to death in the last 72 hours. There are no words to convey the horror of nearly a million more children being at risk of the same fate.
The UK cannot stay complicit in this atrocity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
The UK cannot stay complicit in this atrocity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
Honoured to speak at this event and to stress that our government needs to learn from Srebrenica, name the ongoing process of genocide in Gaza and end all UK arms sales to Israel. Silence and inaction is complicity
worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/18/c...
worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/18/c...
Councillor Claire Hunt Gives talk at 30th anniversary of remembering srebrenica - Worthing Green Party
Goring Councillor Claire Hunt speaks about the importance of recognising and preventing genocide as she marks the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.
worthing.greenparty.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Honoured to speak at this event and to stress that our government needs to learn from Srebrenica, name the ongoing process of genocide in Gaza and end all UK arms sales to Israel. Silence and inaction is complicity
worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/18/c...
worthing.greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/18/c...
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This month we've seen more heatwaves.
Temperatures will keep rising unless we stop burning oil and gas.
The government can't claim to care about our future while backing new fossil fuel projects. That is why @UKLabour must stop new oil & gas extraction, starting with Rosebank.
Temperatures will keep rising unless we stop burning oil and gas.
The government can't claim to care about our future while backing new fossil fuel projects. That is why @UKLabour must stop new oil & gas extraction, starting with Rosebank.
July 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This month we've seen more heatwaves.
Temperatures will keep rising unless we stop burning oil and gas.
The government can't claim to care about our future while backing new fossil fuel projects. That is why @UKLabour must stop new oil & gas extraction, starting with Rosebank.
Temperatures will keep rising unless we stop burning oil and gas.
The government can't claim to care about our future while backing new fossil fuel projects. That is why @UKLabour must stop new oil & gas extraction, starting with Rosebank.
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When excellent MPs stand up for what’s right and then get suspended by their party we should be very worried. Chris Hinchliff has been a staunch defender of nature and is far closer to the public view than the prime minster. Such arrogance 😡. Great quote here from Craig Bennett, agree 💯 .
July 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When excellent MPs stand up for what’s right and then get suspended by their party we should be very worried. Chris Hinchliff has been a staunch defender of nature and is far closer to the public view than the prime minster. Such arrogance 😡. Great quote here from Craig Bennett, agree 💯 .
Everything he says. I’m backing @mothinali.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Greens. Anyone wanting to join us you’ve got til end July to join in order to vote for new Deputy - and Leader(s).
Visit mothinali.com
To effectively reach the widest audience, we've got to be able to speak to people on a level
This has been lacking in politics for a long time. Politics has to reflect the diversity in society
@thegreenparty is leading the way
#Mothin4Deputy
#ThePeoplesDeputy
#HeroOfHarehills
To effectively reach the widest audience, we've got to be able to speak to people on a level
This has been lacking in politics for a long time. Politics has to reflect the diversity in society
@thegreenparty is leading the way
#Mothin4Deputy
#ThePeoplesDeputy
#HeroOfHarehills
July 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Everything he says. I’m backing @mothinali.bsky.social for Deputy Leader of the Greens. Anyone wanting to join us you’ve got til end July to join in order to vote for new Deputy - and Leader(s).
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Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has said Israel's plan for a ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah would create a “concentration camp” if it goes ahead.
The already devastated Palestinian population cannot be subject to yet more unfathomable cruelty at the hands of Netanyahu.
The already devastated Palestinian population cannot be subject to yet more unfathomable cruelty at the hands of Netanyahu.
July 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has said Israel's plan for a ‘humanitarian city’ in Rafah would create a “concentration camp” if it goes ahead.
The already devastated Palestinian population cannot be subject to yet more unfathomable cruelty at the hands of Netanyahu.
The already devastated Palestinian population cannot be subject to yet more unfathomable cruelty at the hands of Netanyahu.