Cllr Victoria Chester
@cllrchester.bsky.social
Town and Borough Councillor for Horley East & Salfords with the Green Party.
She/her. 🏳️🌈 💚
She/her. 🏳️🌈 💚
Horley Town Council - West Horley bi-election - TOMORROW 5th June - vote for my colleague Neha! #VoteForHope @eastsurreygreens.bsky.social 💚
June 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Horley Town Council - West Horley bi-election - TOMORROW 5th June - vote for my colleague Neha! #VoteForHope @eastsurreygreens.bsky.social 💚
Come on BBC, you have to do better than this.
#impartiality ❓️
#representation ❓️
#Disappointed 😠
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#impartiality ❓️
#representation ❓️
#Disappointed 😠
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Notice anything here?
The BBC doing a "Glasgow special" with the Tories (who have 1 Cllr compared to our 11), & TWO Labour reps. ❌️
The Greens are the 3rd party of Glasgow - time for the BBC to stop their bias for the parties of the past & properly reflect Glasgow in their broadcasting 📺
The BBC doing a "Glasgow special" with the Tories (who have 1 Cllr compared to our 11), & TWO Labour reps. ❌️
The Greens are the 3rd party of Glasgow - time for the BBC to stop their bias for the parties of the past & properly reflect Glasgow in their broadcasting 📺
June 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Come on BBC, you have to do better than this.
#impartiality ❓️
#representation ❓️
#Disappointed 😠
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
#impartiality ❓️
#representation ❓️
#Disappointed 😠
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Inconsiderate pavement parking is one of my biggest bugbears - I've been pushing for better enforcement since I was elected 3 years ago! Pavements are for people not cars! Just basic manners. So frustrating #parksafe @eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
It’s been four and a half years since the Government consultation on banning pavement parking with still no outcome.
“For most people, being pushed into the road to walk around cars is not nice. But for some, that is literally putting them off leaving the house.”
“For most people, being pushed into the road to walk around cars is not nice. But for some, that is literally putting them off leaving the house.”
May 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Inconsiderate pavement parking is one of my biggest bugbears - I've been pushing for better enforcement since I was elected 3 years ago! Pavements are for people not cars! Just basic manners. So frustrating #parksafe @eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Why our #votingsystem needs to change 👇
@greenparty.org.uk believes we need a better way to represent residents and provide hope - now more than ever!
With SCC & RBBC Green Group leader Jonathan Essex, and fellow Horley cllr Neha Boghani.
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social #makevotesmatter
@greenparty.org.uk believes we need a better way to represent residents and provide hope - now more than ever!
With SCC & RBBC Green Group leader Jonathan Essex, and fellow Horley cllr Neha Boghani.
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social #makevotesmatter
"First Past the Post forces people to vote tactically, which to me seems to undermine the entire principle of democracy." - @cllrchester.bsky.social
Young activist Amelie Abass spoke to three Green councillors about why we need to change the voting system.
Watch here: youtu.be/GS1OyrsErFc
Young activist Amelie Abass spoke to three Green councillors about why we need to change the voting system.
Watch here: youtu.be/GS1OyrsErFc
May 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Why our #votingsystem needs to change 👇
@greenparty.org.uk believes we need a better way to represent residents and provide hope - now more than ever!
With SCC & RBBC Green Group leader Jonathan Essex, and fellow Horley cllr Neha Boghani.
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social #makevotesmatter
@greenparty.org.uk believes we need a better way to represent residents and provide hope - now more than ever!
With SCC & RBBC Green Group leader Jonathan Essex, and fellow Horley cllr Neha Boghani.
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social #makevotesmatter
Seeds and Science Sunday!
I've finally (after ~3yrs of neglect).got round to (re)starting on the garden, and this year we might actually get something planted.
It was also water-testing weekend, hence the pop-uo lab on the kitchen table...
I've finally (after ~3yrs of neglect).got round to (re)starting on the garden, and this year we might actually get something planted.
It was also water-testing weekend, hence the pop-uo lab on the kitchen table...
March 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Seeds and Science Sunday!
I've finally (after ~3yrs of neglect).got round to (re)starting on the garden, and this year we might actually get something planted.
It was also water-testing weekend, hence the pop-uo lab on the kitchen table...
I've finally (after ~3yrs of neglect).got round to (re)starting on the garden, and this year we might actually get something planted.
It was also water-testing weekend, hence the pop-uo lab on the kitchen table...
@wtscotsocial.bsky.social is there a reason why these katkins are pink? (Sorry, I really should know more about trees!) 😁🌳💗
A quick pop out to gather some sunshine rewarded us with springtime riches, on the banks of the river. Glorious sunshine, and signs of life returning all around.
I love these pink katkins - are they are from a special mind of hazel?
#katkins #signsofspring
I love these pink katkins - are they are from a special mind of hazel?
#katkins #signsofspring
March 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@wtscotsocial.bsky.social is there a reason why these katkins are pink? (Sorry, I really should know more about trees!) 😁🌳💗
You sometimes forget what beauty is just around the corner.. (especially in Horley!)
March 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You sometimes forget what beauty is just around the corner.. (especially in Horley!)
On the bus home (many a bemused look!) 😄
(Thanks to the Asian Social Group for organising and welcoming all to this event in Redhill - hopefully we'll have one in Horley next year!)
(Thanks to the Asian Social Group for organising and welcoming all to this event in Redhill - hopefully we'll have one in Horley next year!)
March 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On the bus home (many a bemused look!) 😄
(Thanks to the Asian Social Group for organising and welcoming all to this event in Redhill - hopefully we'll have one in Horley next year!)
(Thanks to the Asian Social Group for organising and welcoming all to this event in Redhill - hopefully we'll have one in Horley next year!)
Trying to look 😎 with a face full of 🎨..... 😁
Holi Celebrations with the Asian Social Group in Redhill Memorial Park.
#holi2025 #holifestival #holicelebration #holi
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Holi Celebrations with the Asian Social Group in Redhill Memorial Park.
#holi2025 #holifestival #holicelebration #holi
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trying to look 😎 with a face full of 🎨..... 😁
Holi Celebrations with the Asian Social Group in Redhill Memorial Park.
#holi2025 #holifestival #holicelebration #holi
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Holi Celebrations with the Asian Social Group in Redhill Memorial Park.
#holi2025 #holifestival #holicelebration #holi
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Ashlee, who has gone missing from Horley, reportedly has links to Greenwich in east London. She was last seen on Tues 11th March at around 3pm.
Ashlee, from Horley, was last seen on Tuesday
Call 999 if you see missing Surrey 14-year-old girl
www.getsurrey.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Ashlee, who has gone missing from Horley, reportedly has links to Greenwich in east London. She was last seen on Tues 11th March at around 3pm.
Apparently we should be "celebrating" the removal of these land management schemes.. they are so good that we are getting rid of them them?!
Hard to imagine less sense being spoken.. #facepalm 🙄
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greencllrscott.bsky.social
Hard to imagine less sense being spoken.. #facepalm 🙄
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greencllrscott.bsky.social
Farmers in my constituency and across the UK have been left high and dry by the government's shameful sudden cancellation of the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
No warning, no support—just chaos. This is no way to treat the people who put food on our tables.
No warning, no support—just chaos. This is no way to treat the people who put food on our tables.
March 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Apparently we should be "celebrating" the removal of these land management schemes.. they are so good that we are getting rid of them them?!
Hard to imagine less sense being spoken.. #facepalm 🙄
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greencllrscott.bsky.social
Hard to imagine less sense being spoken.. #facepalm 🙄
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greencllrscott.bsky.social
Greens being uninvited to a meeting with Thames Water..🤔
Well at least TW are turning up to this one - they bailed out of our O&S mtg at the last minute after promising to be there for the last 3 months!
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Well at least TW are turning up to this one - they bailed out of our O&S mtg at the last minute after promising to be there for the last 3 months!
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Dear @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social,
I was invited to join your roundtable with Thames Water.
Will you call for them to be nationalised?
Stopping us from being there isn't going to stop me asking the questions!
I was invited to join your roundtable with Thames Water.
Will you call for them to be nationalised?
Stopping us from being there isn't going to stop me asking the questions!
March 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Greens being uninvited to a meeting with Thames Water..🤔
Well at least TW are turning up to this one - they bailed out of our O&S mtg at the last minute after promising to be there for the last 3 months!
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Well at least TW are turning up to this one - they bailed out of our O&S mtg at the last minute after promising to be there for the last 3 months!
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Love a bit of art/science cross over (welcome counterpoint to the news being so relentlessly grim) 💚
A blog on the gift of a painting, and how the tanker collision in the North Sea (and the two-plus oil and chemical leaks a week) underline that we need to move away from the fossil fuel industry as fast as possible. The govt is consulting on that now - please have your say.
sarahfinch.co.uk?p=135
sarahfinch.co.uk?p=135
March 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Love a bit of art/science cross over (welcome counterpoint to the news being so relentlessly grim) 💚
Wahoo!!! We have Internet again - finally!!
Openreach failed to attend 3 appointments but turned up unexpectedly today. I was pretty much out there dancing in the streets.. 👯♀️😜
(OMG FINALLY!!!)
Openreach failed to attend 3 appointments but turned up unexpectedly today. I was pretty much out there dancing in the streets.. 👯♀️😜
(OMG FINALLY!!!)
March 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Wahoo!!! We have Internet again - finally!!
Openreach failed to attend 3 appointments but turned up unexpectedly today. I was pretty much out there dancing in the streets.. 👯♀️😜
(OMG FINALLY!!!)
Openreach failed to attend 3 appointments but turned up unexpectedly today. I was pretty much out there dancing in the streets.. 👯♀️😜
(OMG FINALLY!!!)
Reposted by Cllr Victoria Chester
Did you spot GACC Chairman Peter Barclay on BBC South East last night?
We're calling out more fantasy from Gatwick for suggesting expansion could increase air cargo through the airport.
(Start at 14:54) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
We're calling out more fantasy from Gatwick for suggesting expansion could increase air cargo through the airport.
(Start at 14:54) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Did you spot GACC Chairman Peter Barclay on BBC South East last night?
We're calling out more fantasy from Gatwick for suggesting expansion could increase air cargo through the airport.
(Start at 14:54) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
We're calling out more fantasy from Gatwick for suggesting expansion could increase air cargo through the airport.
(Start at 14:54) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Gorgeous crisp morning walk through Riverside; the ground frosty and the strong (almost) spring sunshine misting off the rivers surface.. the ducks were loving it!
We passed several areas of flooded woodland - this is actually a very special kind of habitat, celebrated by
#worldwetlandsday today 💚
We passed several areas of flooded woodland - this is actually a very special kind of habitat, celebrated by
#worldwetlandsday today 💚
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Gorgeous crisp morning walk through Riverside; the ground frosty and the strong (almost) spring sunshine misting off the rivers surface.. the ducks were loving it!
We passed several areas of flooded woodland - this is actually a very special kind of habitat, celebrated by
#worldwetlandsday today 💚
We passed several areas of flooded woodland - this is actually a very special kind of habitat, celebrated by
#worldwetlandsday today 💚
I'm not sure if they're on this platform, but the Windbourne Singers' version of 'Song of the Lower Classes' is the perfect backdrop for this.
It sounds like a modern lyric reflecting today's issues, but actually comes from Chartists movement in the 1830s!!
#ChangeIsNow
youtu.be/12HwvPpWUx0?...
It sounds like a modern lyric reflecting today's issues, but actually comes from Chartists movement in the 1830s!!
#ChangeIsNow
youtu.be/12HwvPpWUx0?...
February 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'm not sure if they're on this platform, but the Windbourne Singers' version of 'Song of the Lower Classes' is the perfect backdrop for this.
It sounds like a modern lyric reflecting today's issues, but actually comes from Chartists movement in the 1830s!!
#ChangeIsNow
youtu.be/12HwvPpWUx0?...
It sounds like a modern lyric reflecting today's issues, but actually comes from Chartists movement in the 1830s!!
#ChangeIsNow
youtu.be/12HwvPpWUx0?...
Active Hope' was the resolution reached by our 'Citizens Assembly' at the @theatrecentre.bsky.social
this afternoon..
Following the lead set by Andy Smith & #CreativeCrawley, we read aloud Andy's play then discussed how we can all work together to meet the challenges of climate change..
this afternoon..
Following the lead set by Andy Smith & #CreativeCrawley, we read aloud Andy's play then discussed how we can all work together to meet the challenges of climate change..
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Active Hope' was the resolution reached by our 'Citizens Assembly' at the @theatrecentre.bsky.social
this afternoon..
Following the lead set by Andy Smith & #CreativeCrawley, we read aloud Andy's play then discussed how we can all work together to meet the challenges of climate change..
this afternoon..
Following the lead set by Andy Smith & #CreativeCrawley, we read aloud Andy's play then discussed how we can all work together to meet the challenges of climate change..
I love the idea of recording this historic event through the medium of paint - takes the term #lifedrawing to a whole new level! 🎨💚
#ActivistArt #ProtestPainting
#Lowry #ArtDeclares
@monicadyerartist.bsky.social
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @defendourjuries.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
#ActivistArt #ProtestPainting
#Lowry #ArtDeclares
@monicadyerartist.bsky.social
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @defendourjuries.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I love the idea of recording this historic event through the medium of paint - takes the term #lifedrawing to a whole new level! 🎨💚
#ActivistArt #ProtestPainting
#Lowry #ArtDeclares
@monicadyerartist.bsky.social
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @defendourjuries.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
#ActivistArt #ProtestPainting
#Lowry #ArtDeclares
@monicadyerartist.bsky.social
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @defendourjuries.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
You may have heard about some of the draconian anti-protest laws that have been creeping into our legal system, but have you heard of the #LordWalney16?
They are a group of activists given prison sentences, by the infamous Judge Lord Walney, for protesting peacefully about climate change..
They are a group of activists given prison sentences, by the infamous Judge Lord Walney, for protesting peacefully about climate change..
January 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
You may have heard about some of the draconian anti-protest laws that have been creeping into our legal system, but have you heard of the #LordWalney16?
They are a group of activists given prison sentences, by the infamous Judge Lord Walney, for protesting peacefully about climate change..
They are a group of activists given prison sentences, by the infamous Judge Lord Walney, for protesting peacefully about climate change..
The time on my phone when I got home from my final meeting last night - that was a *looong* day!
(Oh, and then a budget setting meeting 8.30am this morning..)
A #councillor's work is never done..😁)
#greensgetthingsdone #greencouncillors
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk 💚
(Oh, and then a budget setting meeting 8.30am this morning..)
A #councillor's work is never done..😁)
#greensgetthingsdone #greencouncillors
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk 💚
January 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The time on my phone when I got home from my final meeting last night - that was a *looong* day!
(Oh, and then a budget setting meeting 8.30am this morning..)
A #councillor's work is never done..😁)
#greensgetthingsdone #greencouncillors
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk 💚
(Oh, and then a budget setting meeting 8.30am this morning..)
A #councillor's work is never done..😁)
#greensgetthingsdone #greencouncillors
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk 💚
🎉 Rosebank is unlawful!
🚫 New oil and gas is not the answer.
💡 Governments must invest in affordable renewable energy and home insulation to bring down bills AND emissions.
🚫 New oil and gas is not the answer.
💡 Governments must invest in affordable renewable energy and home insulation to bring down bills AND emissions.
January 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by Cllr Victoria Chester
🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.
Is the government’s planning reform bad for bats? - News - Bat Conservation Trust
Planning reforms risk devastating impacts to bats, here's what we're doing about it and how you can help.
www.bats.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.
Don't forget to add "that is why I voted against Heathrow expansion" KS!
Changing your mind for a good reason, based on solid evidence, is fine, but changing your mind for political expediency, less so...
#airportexpansion #batsornewts
#climateandnaturebill
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Changing your mind for a good reason, based on solid evidence, is fine, but changing your mind for political expediency, less so...
#airportexpansion #batsornewts
#climateandnaturebill
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Keir Starmer previously congratulated climate campaigners after Heathrow expansion was ruled illegal, saying "there is no more important challenge than the climate emergency"
Now his government says expansion is "badly needed"
Now his government says expansion is "badly needed"
January 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't forget to add "that is why I voted against Heathrow expansion" KS!
Changing your mind for a good reason, based on solid evidence, is fine, but changing your mind for political expediency, less so...
#airportexpansion #batsornewts
#climateandnaturebill
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social
Changing your mind for a good reason, based on solid evidence, is fine, but changing your mind for political expediency, less so...
#airportexpansion #batsornewts
#climateandnaturebill
@eastsurreygreens.bsky.social