Cllr Emma Garnett
@greenpartyemma.bsky.social
Green Party county councillor for Parks (Oxfordshire) & sustainability researcher @ox.ac.uk
Books. Bikes. Buses. Trains. Cooking. Hiking. Nature. Climate. Inequality. Public Health.
She/her
Promoted by James Thorniley at 12A Merlin Road, OX4 6EP
Books. Bikes. Buses. Trains. Cooking. Hiking. Nature. Climate. Inequality. Public Health.
She/her
Promoted by James Thorniley at 12A Merlin Road, OX4 6EP
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There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I'm third from left in the pic below from yesterday, at a @defendourjuries.bsky.social action, sitting on the ground between friends in chairs, and the man far left in mustard clothing, my new friend Adam, was up to mischief, but making a very serious point. Watch: www.instagram.com/p/DRkQRFdjWMm/
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm third from left in the pic below from yesterday, at a @defendourjuries.bsky.social action, sitting on the ground between friends in chairs, and the man far left in mustard clothing, my new friend Adam, was up to mischief, but making a very serious point. Watch: www.instagram.com/p/DRkQRFdjWMm/
Heading to our County Green group away day by bus (how else 🚌 🤩) and this is peak multi modal infrastructure:
♟️ Bollards
🚲 20 Sheffield Bike Stands (40 spaces)
👩🦽 Clutter free pavements
🚏 Bus stop
🪑 Bench
🌦 I'd just add a weather proof shelter, live bus information & some pavement improvements.
♟️ Bollards
🚲 20 Sheffield Bike Stands (40 spaces)
👩🦽 Clutter free pavements
🚏 Bus stop
🪑 Bench
🌦 I'd just add a weather proof shelter, live bus information & some pavement improvements.
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Heading to our County Green group away day by bus (how else 🚌 🤩) and this is peak multi modal infrastructure:
♟️ Bollards
🚲 20 Sheffield Bike Stands (40 spaces)
👩🦽 Clutter free pavements
🚏 Bus stop
🪑 Bench
🌦 I'd just add a weather proof shelter, live bus information & some pavement improvements.
♟️ Bollards
🚲 20 Sheffield Bike Stands (40 spaces)
👩🦽 Clutter free pavements
🚏 Bus stop
🪑 Bench
🌦 I'd just add a weather proof shelter, live bus information & some pavement improvements.
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Around 140 arrests
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice today, as the judicial review over the ban on Palestine Action began, approximately 150 people defied the ban.
Arrests took around 6hours to complete, with an estimated 140 arrests made.
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice today, as the judicial review over the ban on Palestine Action began, approximately 150 people defied the ban.
Arrests took around 6hours to complete, with an estimated 140 arrests made.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Around 140 arrests
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice today, as the judicial review over the ban on Palestine Action began, approximately 150 people defied the ban.
Arrests took around 6hours to complete, with an estimated 140 arrests made.
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice today, as the judicial review over the ban on Palestine Action began, approximately 150 people defied the ban.
Arrests took around 6hours to complete, with an estimated 140 arrests made.
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Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tory front benches equally furious at a tax on mansions and hundreds of thousands of kids being pulled out of poverty. Shameful stuff.
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Cheering the two child limit ending isn’t patting Starmer’s Labour on the back or ignoring his record. It’s acknowledging 8 years of hard campaigning and ridding the country of a cruel, toxic policy. Half a million children won’t be hungry anymore. Celebrate today. Tomorrow, pick the next fight.
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I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully.
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling?
lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...
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🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
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Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The ribbon has been cut on East Oxford Community Centre, marking the end of the construction phase of its development, a £5.9m project. Next door, the city council is building 12 energy-efficient flats for social rent, due for completion in the new year.
www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The ribbon has been cut on East Oxford Community Centre, marking the end of the construction phase of its development, a £5.9m project. Next door, the city council is building 12 energy-efficient flats for social rent, due for completion in the new year.
www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
Another episode of "me moving scooters from blocking Divinity Road-Morrell avenue pavement".....
Voi: a) get on bluesky so I can shame tag you and b) sort this out! Stop making walking a hazard for my residents and others.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
Voi: a) get on bluesky so I can shame tag you and b) sort this out! Stop making walking a hazard for my residents and others.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Another episode of "me moving scooters from blocking Divinity Road-Morrell avenue pavement".....
Voi: a) get on bluesky so I can shame tag you and b) sort this out! Stop making walking a hazard for my residents and others.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
Voi: a) get on bluesky so I can shame tag you and b) sort this out! Stop making walking a hazard for my residents and others.
@badlyparkedox.bsky.social
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Cold weather update thread:
Oxford City: SWEP has been activated. Details 👇https://www.oxford.gov.uk/homelessness/swep
We will update this thread if further councils follow suit.
Oxford City: SWEP has been activated. Details 👇https://www.oxford.gov.uk/homelessness/swep
We will update this thread if further councils follow suit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Cold weather update thread:
Oxford City: SWEP has been activated. Details 👇https://www.oxford.gov.uk/homelessness/swep
We will update this thread if further councils follow suit.
Oxford City: SWEP has been activated. Details 👇https://www.oxford.gov.uk/homelessness/swep
We will update this thread if further councils follow suit.
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Reform's polling isn't getting better. They're leading for sure but stagnation is occurring and I don't think we're anywhere near the ceiling for the Green Party. Heh heh heh.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reform's polling isn't getting better. They're leading for sure but stagnation is occurring and I don't think we're anywhere near the ceiling for the Green Party. Heh heh heh.
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this is abhorrent
At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
this is abhorrent
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We're already celebrating one of our Budget asks - the fare freeze - but what else can the Chancellor do for public transport on Wednesday?
⛽End the 5p fuel duty cut
❄️Unfreeze fuel duty
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
🛩️Tax private jets
🚘Set out plans for a pay-per-mile EV charge.
⛽End the 5p fuel duty cut
❄️Unfreeze fuel duty
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
🛩️Tax private jets
🚘Set out plans for a pay-per-mile EV charge.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We're already celebrating one of our Budget asks - the fare freeze - but what else can the Chancellor do for public transport on Wednesday?
⛽End the 5p fuel duty cut
❄️Unfreeze fuel duty
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
🛩️Tax private jets
🚘Set out plans for a pay-per-mile EV charge.
⛽End the 5p fuel duty cut
❄️Unfreeze fuel duty
✈️End aviation's tax-free fuel status
🛩️Tax private jets
🚘Set out plans for a pay-per-mile EV charge.
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Close on a hundred people demonstrated on Saturday 22 November 2025 at Campsfield to oppose the reopening of the immigration detention centre in Kidlington. It is expected that the phase I (refurbished, 140 beds) Campsfield will reopen in the coming days.
keepcampsfieldclosed.uk
keepcampsfieldclosed.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Close on a hundred people demonstrated on Saturday 22 November 2025 at Campsfield to oppose the reopening of the immigration detention centre in Kidlington. It is expected that the phase I (refurbished, 140 beds) Campsfield will reopen in the coming days.
keepcampsfieldclosed.uk
keepcampsfieldclosed.uk
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Been a while since we checked this graph - the growth since Zack became leader is genuinely incredible.
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Been a while since we checked this graph - the growth since Zack became leader is genuinely incredible.
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Musk has stated "time and time again, that he wants to use Twitter to make the far-right win across the world. There are thousands of interesting, clever, otherwise reasonable people who know this and who still refuse to leave his platform."
Baffling, as @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com says.
Baffling, as @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com says.
aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?
Behold! I have had a thought.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Musk has stated "time and time again, that he wants to use Twitter to make the far-right win across the world. There are thousands of interesting, clever, otherwise reasonable people who know this and who still refuse to leave his platform."
Baffling, as @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com says.
Baffling, as @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com says.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Just on the new 3A route now going to the rail station and stopping for the second time to keep to timetable. Congestion Charge does seem to be working rather well. I think we will get data early in December.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just on the new 3A route now going to the rail station and stopping for the second time to keep to timetable. Congestion Charge does seem to be working rather well. I think we will get data early in December.
The latest @findoutnow.bsky.social poll has us second on 18%!
This is one poll, but even @politico.eu 's poll of polls has @greenparty.org.uk on 16%: only one point behind the Tories and two points behind Labour.
Incredible scenes.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
This is one poll, but even @politico.eu 's poll of polls has @greenparty.org.uk on 16%: only one point behind the Tories and two points behind Labour.
Incredible scenes.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The latest @findoutnow.bsky.social poll has us second on 18%!
This is one poll, but even @politico.eu 's poll of polls has @greenparty.org.uk on 16%: only one point behind the Tories and two points behind Labour.
Incredible scenes.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
This is one poll, but even @politico.eu 's poll of polls has @greenparty.org.uk on 16%: only one point behind the Tories and two points behind Labour.
Incredible scenes.
www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...
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Entitled to lower bills.
Entitled to a liveable planet.
Entitled to make hope normal again.
Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Entitled to a liveable planet.
Entitled to make hope normal again.
Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Entitled to lower bills.
Entitled to a liveable planet.
Entitled to make hope normal again.
Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Entitled to a liveable planet.
Entitled to make hope normal again.
Know your entitlement. Know our collective power.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is so so frustrating!
Trains should have guards. Railways should get used.
Trains should have guards. Railways should get used.
Chiltern Railways has confirmed Oxford to Milton Keynes services will not start this year. The delay, first reported by the Clarion in September, has been picked up by national media this week. Chiltern says “We understand this will be disappointing to people looking forward to using the new route.”
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is so so frustrating!
Trains should have guards. Railways should get used.
Trains should have guards. Railways should get used.
Highways!
One of the highest profile responsibilities of the County Council.
There is now a new webpage with loads of useful info. Take a look ⬇️
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...
🧵
One of the highest profile responsibilities of the County Council.
There is now a new webpage with loads of useful info. Take a look ⬇️
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...
🧵
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Highways!
One of the highest profile responsibilities of the County Council.
There is now a new webpage with loads of useful info. Take a look ⬇️
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...
🧵
One of the highest profile responsibilities of the County Council.
There is now a new webpage with loads of useful info. Take a look ⬇️
www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-an...
🧵