Carl Parker
@caparker.bsky.social
💚 Cheltenham Greens Social Media Officer
🐄 Vegan For The Animals | 🐈 Certified Cat Father
🐄 Vegan For The Animals | 🐈 Certified Cat Father
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
Always really irks me when I see fellow 'ethical vegans' still buying products from companies that enable and invest in a genocidal state.
If you support animal rights, it should go without saying that you also support the human rights of Palestinians in #Gaza & the #WestBank.
If you support animal rights, it should go without saying that you also support the human rights of Palestinians in #Gaza & the #WestBank.
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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📸💚 The 'Dream Green Team' in Cheltenham today!
Thanks to Daniella Radice, South West Field Organiser, and Cllr Adrian Oldman & Cllr Gary Luff from Stroud Greens for helping us out as we spoke to residents in Prestbury and Swindon Village this weekend.
🗳️ We hope to have your vote on the 1st May!
Thanks to Daniella Radice, South West Field Organiser, and Cllr Adrian Oldman & Cllr Gary Luff from Stroud Greens for helping us out as we spoke to residents in Prestbury and Swindon Village this weekend.
🗳️ We hope to have your vote on the 1st May!
April 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📸💚 The 'Dream Green Team' in Cheltenham today!
Thanks to Daniella Radice, South West Field Organiser, and Cllr Adrian Oldman & Cllr Gary Luff from Stroud Greens for helping us out as we spoke to residents in Prestbury and Swindon Village this weekend.
🗳️ We hope to have your vote on the 1st May!
Thanks to Daniella Radice, South West Field Organiser, and Cllr Adrian Oldman & Cllr Gary Luff from Stroud Greens for helping us out as we spoke to residents in Prestbury and Swindon Village this weekend.
🗳️ We hope to have your vote on the 1st May!
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Calls for a #WealthTax are growing - and government's excuses are looking more and more feeble.
This week's rally showed the energy of this movement and the breadth of support (78% of the public!) for this common sense policy.
Now we keep the pressure up!
This week's rally showed the energy of this movement and the breadth of support (78% of the public!) for this common sense policy.
Now we keep the pressure up!
March 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Calls for a #WealthTax are growing - and government's excuses are looking more and more feeble.
This week's rally showed the energy of this movement and the breadth of support (78% of the public!) for this common sense policy.
Now we keep the pressure up!
This week's rally showed the energy of this movement and the breadth of support (78% of the public!) for this common sense policy.
Now we keep the pressure up!
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Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share?
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer says there's no money - I don't believe him
The government cites 'difficult choices' when they are harming the most vulnerable, but increasing defence spending is apparently easy.
metro.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share?
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...
Almost feels like a microcosm of wider politics right now, with voting intention moving away from the centre towards either end of the scale.
For me, the left (rather than the toothless, uninspiring centre) is where you find true alternatives to the right-wing ideas that are taking hold.
For me, the left (rather than the toothless, uninspiring centre) is where you find true alternatives to the right-wing ideas that are taking hold.
🎉 Green WIN! 🎉
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💚 Congratulations to Sam Jones of Warwick District Green Party on being elected in All Saints & Woodloes Ward!
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💚 Congratulations to Sam Jones of Warwick District Green Party on being elected in All Saints & Woodloes Ward!
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Almost feels like a microcosm of wider politics right now, with voting intention moving away from the centre towards either end of the scale.
For me, the left (rather than the toothless, uninspiring centre) is where you find true alternatives to the right-wing ideas that are taking hold.
For me, the left (rather than the toothless, uninspiring centre) is where you find true alternatives to the right-wing ideas that are taking hold.
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🌹 Labour are reportedly losing one party member every 10 minutes on average right now, with 16% of those leaving heading to the Lib Dems or the Greens!
📈 It seems clear from recent rhetoric that Labour are trying to win back potential Reform voters who, according to polling, are growing in number.
📈 It seems clear from recent rhetoric that Labour are trying to win back potential Reform voters who, according to polling, are growing in number.
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌹 Labour are reportedly losing one party member every 10 minutes on average right now, with 16% of those leaving heading to the Lib Dems or the Greens!
📈 It seems clear from recent rhetoric that Labour are trying to win back potential Reform voters who, according to polling, are growing in number.
📈 It seems clear from recent rhetoric that Labour are trying to win back potential Reform voters who, according to polling, are growing in number.
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Cruise ships - not only enormously environmentally destructive, but carefully designed for the maximum benefit of infectious diseases
#PublicHealth #OneHealth
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
#PublicHealth #OneHealth
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Nearly 100 fall sick on cruise ship after gastrointestinal outbreak
Royal Caribbean has increased cleaning on the ship
www.independent.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Cruise ships - not only enormously environmentally destructive, but carefully designed for the maximum benefit of infectious diseases
#PublicHealth #OneHealth
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
#PublicHealth #OneHealth
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
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🗳️ We were hugely disappointed to see the #CANBill blocked in parliament last month, with Max Wilkinson (Cheltenham MP) abstaining from voting in a crucial moment for climate action.
🟡 Although the motion was put forward by the Lib Dems themselves, they failed to stand by it when it mattered most.
🟡 Although the motion was put forward by the Lib Dems themselves, they failed to stand by it when it mattered most.
February 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🗳️ We were hugely disappointed to see the #CANBill blocked in parliament last month, with Max Wilkinson (Cheltenham MP) abstaining from voting in a crucial moment for climate action.
🟡 Although the motion was put forward by the Lib Dems themselves, they failed to stand by it when it mattered most.
🟡 Although the motion was put forward by the Lib Dems themselves, they failed to stand by it when it mattered most.
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✈️ Plans to expand Heathrow have been branded as irresponsible by our Green MPs, as Labour seem adamant in putting 'growth' over common sense.
🌹 Labour aren't showing the required commitment to their climate targets & they risk worsening climate breakdown with reckless policies!
🌹 Labour aren't showing the required commitment to their climate targets & they risk worsening climate breakdown with reckless policies!
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
✈️ Plans to expand Heathrow have been branded as irresponsible by our Green MPs, as Labour seem adamant in putting 'growth' over common sense.
🌹 Labour aren't showing the required commitment to their climate targets & they risk worsening climate breakdown with reckless policies!
🌹 Labour aren't showing the required commitment to their climate targets & they risk worsening climate breakdown with reckless policies!
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When things seem a bit much,as they often do this century, I find making positive changes helps. Here’s a change you could make today, our voices are needed more than ever. 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 with the policies needed to tackle the climate crisis.
join.greenparty.org.uk
January 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
When things seem a bit much,as they often do this century, I find making positive changes helps. Here’s a change you could make today, our voices are needed more than ever. join.greenparty.org.uk
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1. Now, on top of all the other things we can't have, we learn we can't have new hospitals. Why? Because Starmer's government is committed to a higher principle than saving lives: saving money. Never mind that trying to keep old hospitals running costs a fortune: a classic false economy. ...
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January 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
1. Now, on top of all the other things we can't have, we learn we can't have new hospitals. Why? Because Starmer's government is committed to a higher principle than saving lives: saving money. Never mind that trying to keep old hospitals running costs a fortune: a classic false economy. ...
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This is a big breakthrough!
Carla Denyer, one of the leaders of @TheGreenParty is talking about the ways we could, and should be, reducing airborne infections, including SARS-CoV-2.
archive.ph/tvCZD
Carla Denyer, one of the leaders of @TheGreenParty is talking about the ways we could, and should be, reducing airborne infections, including SARS-CoV-2.
archive.ph/tvCZD
January 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is a big breakthrough!
Carla Denyer, one of the leaders of @TheGreenParty is talking about the ways we could, and should be, reducing airborne infections, including SARS-CoV-2.
archive.ph/tvCZD
Carla Denyer, one of the leaders of @TheGreenParty is talking about the ways we could, and should be, reducing airborne infections, including SARS-CoV-2.
archive.ph/tvCZD
Brilliant article from Carla Denyer that demonstrates once again how much more progressive the Greens are on healthcare issues in society.
It's okay to be sick and to look after ourselves appropriately, rather than pushing through and causing more harm!
www.independent.co.uk/voices/healt...
It's okay to be sick and to look after ourselves appropriately, rather than pushing through and causing more harm!
www.independent.co.uk/voices/healt...
It’s time to speak up and say these hard three words: I’m not well
In the midst of the NHS winter crisis, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer speaks openly for the first time about her health in a bid to promote a cultural shift in how we approach sickness and wellbei...
www.independent.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Brilliant article from Carla Denyer that demonstrates once again how much more progressive the Greens are on healthcare issues in society.
It's okay to be sick and to look after ourselves appropriately, rather than pushing through and causing more harm!
www.independent.co.uk/voices/healt...
It's okay to be sick and to look after ourselves appropriately, rather than pushing through and causing more harm!
www.independent.co.uk/voices/healt...
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📰 It's heart-breaking to see our hospitals in Gloucestershire struggling to function this winter.
Overcrowded A&E departments mean increased waiting times for sick residents, and consistent NHS underfunding has made 'critical incidents' more likely.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overcrowded A&E departments mean increased waiting times for sick residents, and consistent NHS underfunding has made 'critical incidents' more likely.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Gloucestershire NHS trust to discharge 140 patients over ‘extreme winter pressures’
People told to attend A&E alone as acute trust cancels operations, declaring ‘critical incident’ amid rise in flu cases
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
📰 It's heart-breaking to see our hospitals in Gloucestershire struggling to function this winter.
Overcrowded A&E departments mean increased waiting times for sick residents, and consistent NHS underfunding has made 'critical incidents' more likely.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overcrowded A&E departments mean increased waiting times for sick residents, and consistent NHS underfunding has made 'critical incidents' more likely.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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⬇️ Important information regarding Pension Credit + Winter Fuel Payment from #Cheltenham Borough Council!
If you qualify for Pension Credit, you are also eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment - just make sure you apply for Pension Credit by 21st December! 💚
www.gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim
If you qualify for Pension Credit, you are also eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment - just make sure you apply for Pension Credit by 21st December! 💚
www.gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is extra money for pensioners to bring your weekly income up to a minimum amount - what you'll get, apply, eligibility.
www.gov.uk
December 11, 2024 at 8:21 AM
⬇️ Important information regarding Pension Credit + Winter Fuel Payment from #Cheltenham Borough Council!
If you qualify for Pension Credit, you are also eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment - just make sure you apply for Pension Credit by 21st December! 💚
www.gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim
If you qualify for Pension Credit, you are also eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment - just make sure you apply for Pension Credit by 21st December! 💚
www.gov.uk/pension-credit/how-to-claim
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UK based?
Unhappy about lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals?
Then please support, and share widely, this petition to direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings.
🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Unhappy about lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals?
Then please support, and share widely, this petition to direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings.
🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
December 8, 2024 at 5:11 PM
UK based?
Unhappy about lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals?
Then please support, and share widely, this petition to direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings.
🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Unhappy about lack of testing for COVID and spread of infections within hospitals?
Then please support, and share widely, this petition to direct @UKHSA to monitor, and report on, numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings.
🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Stop arming Israel.
December 5, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Stop arming Israel.
👇 He's let slip the exact problem with FPTP at the end there - the incumbent rarely has any incentive to change the voting system because they just profited from status quo!
“Proportional representation is not our policy & we won’t be making time for it. He didn’t do too badly under the system as it it”
Keir Starmer tells Ed Davey at #PMQs
Keir Starmer tells Ed Davey at #PMQs
December 4, 2024 at 12:57 PM
👇 He's let slip the exact problem with FPTP at the end there - the incumbent rarely has any incentive to change the voting system because they just profited from status quo!
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Cheltenham council 'had plans to close tip back in March'
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
Cheltenham council 'had plans to close tip back in March'
The Swindon Road depot is to close on January 10 to undergo a prolonged closure to consider the site’s long term future
www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Cheltenham council 'had plans to close tip back in March'
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
This is a crucial piece of local infrastructure - if we close this site, we are providing more excuses for fly tipping, and reducing opportunities for residents & businesses to dispose of waste responsibly.
Ashleigh is right: "Recycling needs to remain accessible to as many people as possible."
Ashleigh is right: "Recycling needs to remain accessible to as many people as possible."
Plans to close 'much-loved' Cheltenham tip after Christmas decried by opposition
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
♻️ www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/chelten...
#LDReporter #Gloucestershire
Plans to close 'much-loved' Cheltenham tip after Christmas decried by opposition
'We need to reflect on the waste associated with the holidays and ensure that it's disposed of correctly into the new year'
www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
This is a crucial piece of local infrastructure - if we close this site, we are providing more excuses for fly tipping, and reducing opportunities for residents & businesses to dispose of waste responsibly.
Ashleigh is right: "Recycling needs to remain accessible to as many people as possible."
Ashleigh is right: "Recycling needs to remain accessible to as many people as possible."