Amanda Iremonger
@greenamanda.bsky.social
Brit-European, Green Party activist, Feminist, Man City fan.
Promoted by Amanda Iremonger (Cheshire East Green Party) both at 2 Sugar Pit Lane WA16 0NH
Promoted by Amanda Iremonger (Cheshire East Green Party) both at 2 Sugar Pit Lane WA16 0NH
Is it really a difficult choice? More taxes on the wealthiest or the poorest continue to struggle? Ooh I just can't decide.
If you think the super-rich should pay more tax: join.greenparty.org.uk
If you think the super-rich should pay more tax: join.greenparty.org.uk
This is a real issue that food banks are seeing across the country: people are being forced to get into bed because they can't afford to put the heating on.
Many of them are in receipt of Universal Credit.
It's time for change. Everyone deserves a warm, safe place to call home. 🏠
Many of them are in receipt of Universal Credit.
It's time for change. Everyone deserves a warm, safe place to call home. 🏠
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Is it really a difficult choice? More taxes on the wealthiest or the poorest continue to struggle? Ooh I just can't decide.
If you think the super-rich should pay more tax: join.greenparty.org.uk
If you think the super-rich should pay more tax: join.greenparty.org.uk
Much talk last night about green-washing of Hynet (at a cost of £22 billion).
But also hope with a discussion of the opportunities the Mayoral and council elections in 2027 can bring.
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But also hope with a discussion of the opportunities the Mayoral and council elections in 2027 can bring.
join.greenparty.org.uk
January 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Much talk last night about green-washing of Hynet (at a cost of £22 billion).
But also hope with a discussion of the opportunities the Mayoral and council elections in 2027 can bring.
join.greenparty.org.uk
But also hope with a discussion of the opportunities the Mayoral and council elections in 2027 can bring.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Happy New Year to everyone - with a wish that I was curled up fast asleep not encouraging my terrified rescue dog not to pee everywhere...
Do fireworks have to have loud bangs? Time for a rethink.
Here's Harvey in happier times:
Do fireworks have to have loud bangs? Time for a rethink.
Here's Harvey in happier times:
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Happy New Year to everyone - with a wish that I was curled up fast asleep not encouraging my terrified rescue dog not to pee everywhere...
Do fireworks have to have loud bangs? Time for a rethink.
Here's Harvey in happier times:
Do fireworks have to have loud bangs? Time for a rethink.
Here's Harvey in happier times:
Make it your New Year's Resolution to help your local Green Party!
Could you become a candidate, campaigner or organiser?
Bring hope to your community - get in touch with your local party today!
For more information here (Cheshire East) - DM me, or email us welcome@cheshireeast.greenparty.org.uk
Could you become a candidate, campaigner or organiser?
Bring hope to your community - get in touch with your local party today!
For more information here (Cheshire East) - DM me, or email us welcome@cheshireeast.greenparty.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Make it your New Year's Resolution to help your local Green Party!
Could you become a candidate, campaigner or organiser?
Bring hope to your community - get in touch with your local party today!
For more information here (Cheshire East) - DM me, or email us welcome@cheshireeast.greenparty.org.uk
Could you become a candidate, campaigner or organiser?
Bring hope to your community - get in touch with your local party today!
For more information here (Cheshire East) - DM me, or email us welcome@cheshireeast.greenparty.org.uk
Want to know more and you're roughly local? We're meeting 9.30-11 at High Legh Garden Centre cafe tomorrow - just for coffee and a chat!
No need to be a member, if you're green-curious you're just as welcome!
Or join.greenparty.org.uk
No need to be a member, if you're green-curious you're just as welcome!
Or join.greenparty.org.uk
Front page of today’s iPaper.
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Want to know more and you're roughly local? We're meeting 9.30-11 at High Legh Garden Centre cafe tomorrow - just for coffee and a chat!
No need to be a member, if you're green-curious you're just as welcome!
Or join.greenparty.org.uk
No need to be a member, if you're green-curious you're just as welcome!
Or join.greenparty.org.uk
Counting my blessings tonight after listening to @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's Christmas message.
Are you?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Are you?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Together in Solidarity
At Calais Appeal, we come together with varied areas of expertise to provide essential support. We are committed to continuing this essential network of solidarity, but we need your support to do so.
www.justgiving.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Counting my blessings tonight after listening to @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's Christmas message.
Are you?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Are you?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Reposted by Amanda Iremonger
December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Candidates win by focusing on key local issues" - because those are what improve the lives of ordinary people.
join.greenparty.org.uk
join.greenparty.org.uk
Our recent by-election success in Macclesfield is described here - highlighting our focus on making things better in our local communities.
Hope is here - now to help it flourish.
www.thetimes.com/article/4512...
Hope is here - now to help it flourish.
www.thetimes.com/article/4512...
‘We’re not just tree huggers’: how Greens succeed outside net zero
The party has been making gains across the country, often focusing on hyper-local issues, and its new leader Zack Polanski has galvanized membership numbers
www.thetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Candidates win by focusing on key local issues" - because those are what improve the lives of ordinary people.
join.greenparty.org.uk
join.greenparty.org.uk
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/bowfoodban...
I forgot to send a heap of Christmas Cards, which is good because I've been able to help a good cause instead.
If you're in the same position and feeling bad about it too, here's a suggestion.
AND it's being match-funded by Aviva's Community Fund.
I forgot to send a heap of Christmas Cards, which is good because I've been able to help a good cause instead.
If you're in the same position and feeling bad about it too, here's a suggestion.
AND it's being match-funded by Aviva's Community Fund.
Nourishing Hope in Tower Hamlets
We’re building innovative financial resilience and deep community connections, with food, advice and support that help our neighbours thrive
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/bowfoodban...
I forgot to send a heap of Christmas Cards, which is good because I've been able to help a good cause instead.
If you're in the same position and feeling bad about it too, here's a suggestion.
AND it's being match-funded by Aviva's Community Fund.
I forgot to send a heap of Christmas Cards, which is good because I've been able to help a good cause instead.
If you're in the same position and feeling bad about it too, here's a suggestion.
AND it's being match-funded by Aviva's Community Fund.
Trained as a statistician, the final point resonates - if you don't measure it, how do you know it's working?
Time to end all violence against all women and girls.
Time to end all violence against all women and girls.
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trained as a statistician, the final point resonates - if you don't measure it, how do you know it's working?
Time to end all violence against all women and girls.
Time to end all violence against all women and girls.
Wouldn't it be easy to make this inclusive? Couldn't they just call it "women and trans women's conference" if they must make a thing of it? Seems designed to be gender critical.
join.greenparty.org.uk instead. You're not leaving Labour, they've left you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
join.greenparty.org.uk instead. You're not leaving Labour, they've left you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
All delegates will be able to attend fringe programme as party tries to find compromise while complying with supreme court ruling on gender
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Wouldn't it be easy to make this inclusive? Couldn't they just call it "women and trans women's conference" if they must make a thing of it? Seems designed to be gender critical.
join.greenparty.org.uk instead. You're not leaving Labour, they've left you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
join.greenparty.org.uk instead. You're not leaving Labour, they've left you.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In the run up to Christmas, shall we all consider this post from Trussell... and then maybe donate:
www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/d...
www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/d...
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In the run up to Christmas, shall we all consider this post from Trussell... and then maybe donate:
www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/d...
www.trussell.org.uk/support-us/d...
Wow, we hit 1000 members - welcome one and all!
Now to make that 1000 activists - if you've just joined (here in Cheshire East or across the country), get in touch with your local party and help make change real.
Now to make that 1000 activists - if you've just joined (here in Cheshire East or across the country), get in touch with your local party and help make change real.
1000 Members in Cheshire East! 🥳✅ Thank you to all of our members, old and new, for making this possible. Hope is growing not just in #CheshireEast but across the UK 💪💚
@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
🔗 The link to become a member is always in our bio join the #GreenParty NOW!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk
🔗 The link to become a member is always in our bio join the #GreenParty NOW!
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wow, we hit 1000 members - welcome one and all!
Now to make that 1000 activists - if you've just joined (here in Cheshire East or across the country), get in touch with your local party and help make change real.
Now to make that 1000 activists - if you've just joined (here in Cheshire East or across the country), get in touch with your local party and help make change real.
Mourning the passing of the playwright whose works I always went out of my way to see, and to act in at Uni...
Feeling old this evening...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Feeling old this evening...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mourning the passing of the playwright whose works I always went out of my way to see, and to act in at Uni...
Feeling old this evening...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Feeling old this evening...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Labour flip-flopping around trying to please everyone - first it's "get hard on immigration to please the right" now it's "get rid of the 2-child benefit cap [finally] to please the left".
I'll stick with the party which has genuine belief in fairness, equality and justice.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I'll stick with the party which has genuine belief in fairness, equality and justice.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Labour flip-flopping around trying to please everyone - first it's "get hard on immigration to please the right" now it's "get rid of the 2-child benefit cap [finally] to please the left".
I'll stick with the party which has genuine belief in fairness, equality and justice.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I'll stick with the party which has genuine belief in fairness, equality and justice.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Getting the same up here in Cheshire East in the Macclesfield Central by-election.
No wonder StopReformUK.vote recommended #VoteGreen on Thursday both in Macclesfield and in Hale (for Trafford Council).
No wonder StopReformUK.vote recommended #VoteGreen on Thursday both in Macclesfield and in Hale (for Trafford Council).
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Getting the same up here in Cheshire East in the Macclesfield Central by-election.
No wonder StopReformUK.vote recommended #VoteGreen on Thursday both in Macclesfield and in Hale (for Trafford Council).
No wonder StopReformUK.vote recommended #VoteGreen on Thursday both in Macclesfield and in Hale (for Trafford Council).
Did voters expect this level of unhumanity from a Labour government?
My country welcomes refugees, and understands that when you're fleeing, you need certainty and the chance to make a new home where you can be safe. Doesn't yours?
How did we end up here:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My country welcomes refugees, and understands that when you're fleeing, you need certainty and the chance to make a new home where you can be safe. Doesn't yours?
How did we end up here:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Mahmood’s new asylum plan: when home is ‘safe’, we’ll send you back | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Did voters expect this level of unhumanity from a Labour government?
My country welcomes refugees, and understands that when you're fleeing, you need certainty and the chance to make a new home where you can be safe. Doesn't yours?
How did we end up here:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My country welcomes refugees, and understands that when you're fleeing, you need certainty and the chance to make a new home where you can be safe. Doesn't yours?
How did we end up here:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
If John wins on Thursday, he will be the first Green Councillor on Cheshire East Council.
I"m not saying the lack of Green vision of hope for people and the planet is why our Council is so lacklustre, but John offers real hope of real change.
I"m not saying the lack of Green vision of hope for people and the planet is why our Council is so lacklustre, but John offers real hope of real change.
Are you still wondering about your vote in the Macclesfield Central by-election? Want to "stop Reform" - or any other divisive party? If so, #VoteGreen!
But most of all, choose John Knight for hope of better times to come for the people of Macclesfield Central.
stopreformuk.vote/local/cheshi...
But most of all, choose John Knight for hope of better times to come for the people of Macclesfield Central.
stopreformuk.vote/local/cheshi...
Stop the Tories and Reform in Macclesfield Central, Cheshire East Council
Vote tactically in Macclesfield Central to stop the Tories and Reform
stopreformuk.vote
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
If John wins on Thursday, he will be the first Green Councillor on Cheshire East Council.
I"m not saying the lack of Green vision of hope for people and the planet is why our Council is so lacklustre, but John offers real hope of real change.
I"m not saying the lack of Green vision of hope for people and the planet is why our Council is so lacklustre, but John offers real hope of real change.
The internet was made for this. Sorry to be ridiculing a politician... not sorry... Snorting with laughter really..
@stevebraysodem.bsky.social Thank you!
@stevebraysodem.bsky.social Thank you!
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The internet was made for this. Sorry to be ridiculing a politician... not sorry... Snorting with laughter really..
@stevebraysodem.bsky.social Thank you!
@stevebraysodem.bsky.social Thank you!
This could be John Knight, Green Party Candidate in the Macclesfield Central by-election and @zackpolanski.bsky.social laughing about Reform - but more likely their focus is on bringing hope of a better future for ordinary people in Macclesfield.
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This could be John Knight, Green Party Candidate in the Macclesfield Central by-election and @zackpolanski.bsky.social laughing about Reform - but more likely their focus is on bringing hope of a better future for ordinary people in Macclesfield.
"Keir Starmer's Labour tacking to the right to try and catch up with Reform"
Apart from meaning that the vulnerable in our society are abandoned, this just shows that they are prepared to jettison their values for popularity.
Justice for people and planet - values matter.
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Apart from meaning that the vulnerable in our society are abandoned, this just shows that they are prepared to jettison their values for popularity.
Justice for people and planet - values matter.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Laura Kuenssberg, "Zack Polanski, the new Green leader, making a big impression"
Just not big enough to be inviting on as often as Reform UK are
Just not big enough to be inviting on as often as Reform UK are
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Keir Starmer's Labour tacking to the right to try and catch up with Reform"
Apart from meaning that the vulnerable in our society are abandoned, this just shows that they are prepared to jettison their values for popularity.
Justice for people and planet - values matter.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Apart from meaning that the vulnerable in our society are abandoned, this just shows that they are prepared to jettison their values for popularity.
Justice for people and planet - values matter.
join.greenparty.org.uk
I volunteered for @citizensadvice.bsky.social for 5 years, so I can tell you from experience, people on PIP are not "gaming the system", they vulnerable and need our support and care.
Choose your party - punch down with the others or lift up with hope with the Greens.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Choose your party - punch down with the others or lift up with hope with the Greens.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Reform say a lot of stuff
None of it is costed or credible or risk or feasibility assessed
Soundbites aren't solutions as they are finding out in local councils
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
None of it is costed or credible or risk or feasibility assessed
Soundbites aren't solutions as they are finding out in local councils
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tightening Pip benefit eligibility could save £9bn a year, says Reform
Lee Anderson says ‘gaming the system’ is too common and jokes about symptoms of anxiety and depression
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I volunteered for @citizensadvice.bsky.social for 5 years, so I can tell you from experience, people on PIP are not "gaming the system", they vulnerable and need our support and care.
Choose your party - punch down with the others or lift up with hope with the Greens.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Choose your party - punch down with the others or lift up with hope with the Greens.
join.greenparty.org.uk
True - no other party has a positive message of hope for the people of Macclesfield.
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
True - no other party has a positive message of hope for the people of Macclesfield.
If Macclesfield Labour Party tell you "it's us or Reform", they're clearly trying to instill fear.
You know it's not true - just look around you! You can vote for hope of a better future.
#VoteGreen #MacclesfieldCentral
You know it's not true - just look around you! You can vote for hope of a better future.
#VoteGreen #MacclesfieldCentral
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
If Macclesfield Labour Party tell you "it's us or Reform", they're clearly trying to instill fear.
You know it's not true - just look around you! You can vote for hope of a better future.
#VoteGreen #MacclesfieldCentral
You know it's not true - just look around you! You can vote for hope of a better future.
#VoteGreen #MacclesfieldCentral
"Eventually they [Reform] have got to run something... I think that will be the test".
So far - no savings, proposed 10% increase in Council Tax, Councillors resigning, being suspended from the party... I could go on.
Keep voting Reform at your risk.
#VoteGreen for hope of a better future.
So far - no savings, proposed 10% increase in Council Tax, Councillors resigning, being suspended from the party... I could go on.
Keep voting Reform at your risk.
#VoteGreen for hope of a better future.
How should Private Eye be covering Reform UK?
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
From the latest episode of Page 94, recorded live at Cheltenham Literature Festival
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Eventually they [Reform] have got to run something... I think that will be the test".
So far - no savings, proposed 10% increase in Council Tax, Councillors resigning, being suspended from the party... I could go on.
Keep voting Reform at your risk.
#VoteGreen for hope of a better future.
So far - no savings, proposed 10% increase in Council Tax, Councillors resigning, being suspended from the party... I could go on.
Keep voting Reform at your risk.
#VoteGreen for hope of a better future.