Oliver
oliver48.bsky.social
Oliver
@oliver48.bsky.social
Eco-socialist, ex-Lab, 75+ disabled MH survivor
Support Green & Your Party electoral pact
#FreePalestine #TaxTheRich #BLM #Feminist
Songwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AGDJDrklwM&list=
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Don't stop asking

"Where are the Epstein files"

(and how many British MPs, celebrities, millionaires
are named and shamed???)

meme via Damien Montenegro
As their candidate for Gorton and Denton, the Green Party elect Hannah Spencer, a local woman & Trafford councillor who has been a plumber since she was 16, and ran as the party's candidate for mayor of Manchester in 2024.

"Reform's worst nightmare"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA3...
January 31, 2026 at 9:37 AM
"Fancy having an actual vote to select a candidate instead of just parachuting in your talking head mate from GB News?"
[or scuppering the chances of any leadership contender who might have won]
via Reform Are Not Your Friends
January 31, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Lucy Powell MP thinks only Labour can beat Reform
She is of course famous for dismissing grooming gangs as a 'dog whistle' issue, a stupid & offensive remark which Reform Ltd used in its recruitment drive

meme via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 AM
The planet fights back ...

"From Finland to Greenland: How cracks are appearing in the future of Arctic ice-breaking"
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Icebreakers are key for Greenland’s future, despite warming seas
Rather than making the Arctic easier to navigate, climate change is making ice thicker, more mobile and more dangerous in certain areas.
www.euronews.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Note that billionaires, with their luxury yachts, islands, jets, mansions. are by far the biggest polluter and contributors to lethal climate change

"‘Deep concern’: Over 40 environmental groups urge luxury resort on Albanian island to be suspended"
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Albania urged to halt luxury resort on uninhabited island. Here’s why
Dozens of environmental organisations are urging the Albanian government to halt the mega project on Sazan.
www.euronews.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 PM
"1.6 million cubic metres of fake snow are ready for the Winter Olympics. Why is this problematic?"

'While its emissions may be marginal, artificial snowmaking is a money, energy and water-intensive process, which may soon put excessive strain on local resources'
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Fake snow is saving Italy’s Winter Olympics - but it’s a temporary fix
With the Earth warming at a record rate, the list of locales that could reliably host a Winter Games will shrink substantially in the coming years.
www.euronews.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
"Doomsday Clock: How ending Trump's war on renewable energy can pull humanity ‘back from the brink’"
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Doomsday Clock warns Trump’s war on renewable energy must end
A rapid transition away from fossil fuels could help slow down the Doomsday Clock as it edges closer to midnight.
www.euronews.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:59 AM
"Hague orders Dutch government to protect residents on this sinking island from climate change"
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...
Dutch government ordered to protect sinking island from climate change
In a sweeping victory for Bonaire residents, The Hague District Court has ruled that Dutch authorities had discriminated against the island's inhabitants.
www.euronews.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Nigel Farage may love the UK
but I suspect that he and his deputy
love having lots & lots of money more

meme via Rachel Hay & Ruggy Singh
January 30, 2026 at 11:56 AM
"For the 1st time in 40 years, Panama’s deep waters did not rise and the ocean system may be collapsing"
www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...
January 30, 2026 at 11:50 AM
"The watershed moment comes as the region looks to prioritize clean, domestic energy sources over dirty coal or imported natural gas."

'In the EU, wind and solar surpass fossil fuels for first time'
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
January 30, 2026 at 11:46 AM
It seems that the biggest single polluter in the UK
masquerading as green to get £millions in UK subsidies
is just as duplicitous, polluting & corrupt in the USA

"States gave Drax millions in tax breaks in the hopes of boosting jobs."
grist.org/accountabili...
The biomass industry promised these Southern towns prosperity. So why are they still dying?
Louisiana and Mississippi made bets that wood-pellet plants would revive towns that had fallen on hard times.
grist.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:44 AM
What is happening!?!?

In what seems an amazing U-turn
Deputy Leader of Islamophobic Reform
wants the UK to 'emulate UAE'
which has a legal system based on Sharia law
which Nigel Farage detests, or used to

"Nigel Farage criticises FGM and sharia courts in UK"
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
January 30, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Good advice on talking to "a friend, a parent, an uncle" taken in by Reform
"... Because most people caught in the Reform trap aren’t bad people.
They’re people who feel left behind - and were offered an easy villain ..."
via Dave Jones Anti-Reform
www.facebook.com/groups/19585...
Anti-Reform | **You can’t fix stupid | Facebook
**You can’t fix stupid!** …but you *can* reach people who aren’t stupid at all - just misled, anxious, or stuck in a very loud echo chamber. If it’s a stranger online, don’t bother. They’re there...
www.facebook.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:16 AM
"If anyone needs some ammunition when trying to turn Reform voters "
via John Cahill
January 30, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Make it the biggest ever anti-fascist march!
"Together Alliance is backed by 50+ organisations & campaigns, including the TUC, Unite, Friends of the Earth, Stand Up to Racism & UNISON alongside support from public figures such as Paloma Faith, Fontaines D.C., Brian Eno & Lenny Henry"
via Celia Leigh
January 30, 2026 at 11:08 AM
54 years ago on Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972
"13 men and boys" died while "taking part in a civil rights protest march against internment" when "21 soldiers from the British Army’s parachute regiment fired 108 live rounds into the crowd"
theconversation.com/bloody-sunda...
Bloody Sunday 50 years later: what it means when we commemorate trauma
Milestone anniversaries mark the point when events move from living memory to more symbolic.
theconversation.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 AM
"Immigrants! Making Britain Great since BEFORE the Norman Conquest in 1066"
via Expose Hate
January 30, 2026 at 10:46 AM
"Farage's own version of copying Trump's ICE, to form in the UK, which would cause serious violence and even murders and that would mean anyone of any race, no one would be safe, even children, is it really worth the serious risk to all of the Reform/Tory Uk supporters?"
via Angel Stroyan
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 AM
"Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer"
'Zahawi – along with his new Reform UK colleagues – has extensive property assets. In 2022, it was reported that he controlled a family property empire worth £100 million.'
www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/t...
Tory-Reform Defector Nadhim Zahawi’s Role in ‘Ultra-Luxury’ UAE Property Developer
Nadhim Zahawi, a high-profile defector from the Conservatives to Reform UK, chairs the advisory board of a luxury property developer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), DeSmog can report. Former Tory c...
www.desmog.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
As part & parcel of Labour's NHS privatisation ...

"Was it the staff meeting from hell?
Today Dental Public Health staff will still be looking for answers on the abolition of NHS England"

'Public health experts offered euphemisms not clarity over jobs'
www.bda.org/news-and-opi...
January 30, 2026 at 10:31 AM
From all Green candidates
'a public commitment to vote against all cuts & closures to council services, jobs, pay & conditions should they be elected as a councillor on May 7th'

"TUSC backs trade unionists call for Greens to join the anti-austerity fight"
www.tusc.org.uk/22140/29-01-... via @TUSC
TUSC backs trade unionists call for Greens to join the anti-austerity fight - TUSC
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) all-Britain steering committee has welcomed a new petition launched by leading trade unionists calling on the Green Party leader Zack Polanski to mobi...
www.tusc.org.uk
January 30, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Do Trump-backing warmongers
really want us all to die in WW3

"Russia & China will participate in naval exercises organized by Iran in the Oman Sea & Indian Ocean over the next few days.

American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman"

via Salif Ouedraogo
January 30, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Some facts to counter Reform's Islamophobic bile in
"a report on the economic contribution Muslims make to the British economy
- British Muslims generate at least £70 billion annually to the UK economy.
- £42 billion from workforce contributions ..."
via Kamran Ali
www.facebook.com/kamran.hijam...
Kamran Ali
Someone sent in a report on the economic contribution Muslims make to the British economy….. The press release announces the release of a groundbreaking report by Equi, an independent think tank,...
www.facebook.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 AM
"For a deeper understanding of the empire’s underlying nature and driving motives, watch ‘THE TRUST FALL: Julian Assange’ film for FREE here www.thetrustfall.org/watch
THE TRUST FALL is a peace movement."
via Kym Staton
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 AM