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Laura Eccott
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GPEW GPC Co-chair and SE rep.
GPEW DPWG member
UN women U.K. volunteer
Chichester tree warden
Disability advocate
Parent
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Dear @gingerbreadcharity.bsky.social it’s been a pleasure, so proud we have impacted the removal of the two child benefit cap and Child Maintenance Service reform- here’s to further progress over the upcoming year 🧡 #CMS #BenefitCap #LoneParent #Gingerbread
Gingerbread charity giftbox with a calender, tea bags, candle that says “thank you” and a charity pin in orange.
February 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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@yougov.co.uk polling shows women aged 18-50 overwhelmingly support @greenparty.org.uk - Women of @bsky.app UK, give me a 💚 if is this the future you want to see?
@feministgreens.bsky.social sure do 💚

#GreenParty #Vote #MP
HOUSE OF COMMONS IF ONLY WOMEN (18-50) COULD VOTE: 2026 Party • Green 482 • Labour 84 • Conservative 8 • Lib Dem 52 • Plaid 3 • SNP 18 • Reform 2 • Other 1 SOURCE: YOUGOV
February 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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All working parents deserve the right support at work but kinship carers, raising the children of family members or friends, have no right to paid leave from work when they take on a child.
Kinship carers paid leave petition - please sign 👇
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Sign the petition: give kinship carers paid leave from work
All working parents deserve the right support at work but kinship carers, raising the children of family members or friends, have no right to paid leave from work when they take on a child. Many are ...
secure.kinship.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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A picture is worth more than a thousand words. Vote Green, Vote Hannah 🗳️ #GortonAndDenton
Vote Green poster replacing a Vote Labour poster that is now laying on the ground of someones front garden on a grey overcast wet day.
February 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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PCC Katy Bourne legitimised far right anti-immigrant rhetoric by joining their protest #Resign #PCC #WSCC #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/su...
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne must resign
This is a time of high levels of racial and religious hate crimes. (4) (5) This is also a time of polarisation, with over half of Britons believing that differences in people’s political views are so ...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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I will be participating in @unitednations1945.bsky.social Commission on the Status of Women 70 alongside UN Women UK and UN Women across the globe 🩵 #CSW70 #ForAllWomenAndGirls
Photograph of Laura Eccott smiling in the bottom right corner. Text on a purple background : UN WOMEN UNITED KINGDOM FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS I'M IN! ARE YOU? This is how we turn International Women's Day into a lifetime of change. Protections we fought for are being rolled back. Rights that took decades to secure are under threat. That's why I'm joining CSW70 with UN Women UK. Join me. ALL of our voices are needed.
February 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Joined Shiva and others at a vigil for Iran at Chichester Cross. She says “Families like mine are silenced in Iran, I am their voice.” #HumanRightsIran #Chichester
A group of people standing in the rain for a vigil for Iran. Some hold flags, there are candles on the ground. Shiva holds a sign that says “VIGIL Families like mine are silenced in Iran, I am their voice #HumanRightsIran ”
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Yes Hannah @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social 💚
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 19d
Hundreds of volunteers hitting the streets this morning in Gorton and Denton.

Lower bills, tax the super-rich- hope will win.

Only the Greens can stop Reform in this by-election.
January 31, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Took the picture so not in it, however had an amazing night (as i always do!) with @unwomen.bsky.social UK
- bring on my 5th year attending United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 🩵
Sustainability credentials of the venue was impressive too!
A large group of attendees of an event for UN Women UK gathered together smiling for a photo. Atonte is a smiling woman holding a microphone and standing next to a screen speaking to the room on “pause, reflect, act” which was the theme of the evening.
January 28, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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@greenparty.org.uk members! Time to engage in internal democracy 🚨
Please back these conference motions 👇
joehudsonsmall.bsky.social Joe Hudson-Small @joehudsonsmall.bsky.social · 24d
Attention Green Party members!

These spring conference motions need your help – it only takes a click!

A23: tinyurl.com/ms5yatfb
A55: tinyurl.com/34ka3yw6
A58: tinyurl.com/5n7f4aak
Green Party Spring Conference 28th March Spring Conference is nearly here… These motions need your support – it only takes a click Just head to the conference platform and click “support” on all three A23, A55, A58 Swipe for info. This is not an official communication from the Green Party of England and Wales. A23 Shorten the annual ballot 1: down from three months to six weeks 2: more inclusive for new volunteers 3: backed by the party’s ERO “We shouldn’t be rudderless for a quarter of every two years” “Extremely gruelling to be campaigning for such a long period” [Link] A55 Accelerate fast tracking, then protect and strengthen member-led democracy and conference and elsewhere 1: speeds up fast tracking 2: makes workshops worthwhile 3: reduces online fees 4: speeds up friendly amendments 5: a bigger standing orders committee 6: and much more! [Link] A58: Simplify the party’s House of Lords process and ensure diversity of candidates 1: eliminates closed and undemocratic sift and interview stages 2: introduces gender and global majority diversity balancing for our list of nominees “An improvement over the current process” “Current system is pure patronage” [Link]
January 26, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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“are we safe yet?”

Beermats available: greenpartycampaigns.uk/blog/greens-...

#Fascism #Farage #Trump #ICE #UK
Do people get it now? Fascism doesn't care about the rules, it cares about the ends justifying the means. It started with removing abortions and trans rights for "safety". "... we knew this is where it was headed, so we fought it (did you?). Now that same mindset is killing mothers and nurses, locking up children, minimising gender based violence and child abuse. To that I ask "are we safe yet?" Cards with “spotting fascism” and “greens against fascism” on opposite sides. Available : https://greenpartycampaigns.uk/blog/greens-against-fascism
January 25, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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You’re welcome to join us on the green AND the party 💚
@greenparty.org.uk
join.greenparty.org.uk
(Shout out to @rachelbeta.bsky.social for the image editing skills!)
#GreenParty #HarryStyles
Hary Styles album cover “Green all the time” “party,continually” with the green party logo in the mirrorball whilst Harry Styles faces away to the left putting glasses on.
January 18, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Yesterday, I permanently removed myself from X.
It is being used to illegally create "sexualised images of children" (including using photos of real children) and also to undress images of women without their consent.
There is no if's or but's on this. This is gender based violence. #VAWG #GBV #X
January 9, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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🎄 Merry Christmas from everyone at the Green Party 💚
A MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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@macarthurboyd.bsky.social giving a nod at @zackpolanski.bsky.social ends this week with all the art Ive consumed having acknowledged his efforts as @greenparty.org.uk leader 💚
(34.30 onwards FWIW)

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The Cha Cha Slide of Fascism
Podcast Episode · Here Comes The Guillotine · 22/12/2025 · 47m
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December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on MP and Secretary of Justice David Lammy to intervene and protect the hunger strikers. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Call on MP and Secretary of Justice David Lammy to intervene and protect the hunger strikers
Eight prisoners currently held on remand for alleged actions in solidarity with Palestine have been on a hunger strike which began on 2nd November. Their names are Amu Gib, Qesser Zuhrah, Heba Muraisi...
actionnetwork.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I wont be attending or listening to The Infinite Monkey Cage further. Solidarity @robinince.bsky.social 💚
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Dec 13
Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · Dec 13
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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@greenparty.org.uk name checked in the best possible way in The War Between the Land and the Sea 💚 #DoctorWho #BBC #TheWarBetweenTV
A still of a tv with a mention from Kate Lethbridge-Stewart about the green party in The War Between The Land and The Sea, she says “The Greens have been trying to achieve these targets for decades.”
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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An emotional exhibition at Pallant Gallery by Caroline Walker really evoked times throughout my lone parenting - thank you for shining a light on the quiet moments of women caring for children pallant.org.uk/whats-on/car...
Painting by Caroline Walker of a mother crouching on the floor of a room to wave a toy in the view of a young baby dressed in a blue onesie. Drinks half consumed are on the table and plants are in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Hope is here.

Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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The Purpose of Protest brought strength and reflection to my heart, acknowledging some of the systematic harms we have stood up against over the last 7 years. Thank you Hope 93 for creating this space hope93.com/exhibitions/ #Gaza #Protest #Art @feministgreens.bsky.social
Black and white photo of Laura Eccott looking at a print of a person holding a sign that reads ‘300% increase in miscarriages in Gaza’
November 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is fundamental to our democracy & enables ordinary people, of all backgrounds, to hold the state & public bodies accountable.
Thank you to all that signed the expression of support for the 75th anniversary :
www.compassioninpolitics.com/almost_300_o...
Almost 300 organisations express support for ECHR on 75th anniversary
www.compassioninpolitics.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

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SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023 TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN) The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions MIDDLE 40% The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions 50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN) The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions Source: Oxfam
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Polling at second place…
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Just watching Unspeakable - thinking about all the people I spoke with still seeking justice for the contaminated blood scandal in the U.K.
#ContaminatedBloodScandal

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lauraeccott.bsky.social Laura Eccott @lauraeccott.bsky.social · May 20
The contaminated blood scandal enquiry is a year old today - many of the victims & families have yet to receive the compensation promised to them by the enquiry. Thank you to Contaminated Blood Campaign Group for speaking with me today - I echo your call for justice #CBC #HVC #Parliament
Glenn and Lesley from Contaminated Blood Campaign with Laura Eccott outside Parliament on a sunny day - t shirt says “infected blood, dying for justice”
October 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM