Ray Harding
@rayharding.bsky.social
Greyhounds, sport, education, environment, music. Green Party, retired Council CEO.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The majority of £1, £5 and £10 donations have helped this get to almost £150k.
If every party member donated £1 it would be over £170k.
So, if you can afford to help with £1, go for it. Help make 2026 the year hope wins (big) across the country.
If every party member donated £1 it would be over £170k.
So, if you can afford to help with £1, go for it. Help make 2026 the year hope wins (big) across the country.
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution - the #ClimateEmergency is worsening the #PublicHealth dangers
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How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous | CNN
Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis
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November 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
#PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution - the #ClimateEmergency is worsening the #PublicHealth dangers
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Many might think about the next step: join.greenparty.org.uk
A poll of readers of my monthly newsletter (464 responses) shows that 44% of them say they voted #Labour in 2024 but only 7% would vote that way in a general election tomorrow.
Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
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Massive swing to the #Greens.
Details: bit.ly/3KwBiaP
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Many might think about the next step: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?
The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and the rate of errors being made in payments of what I ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.
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This!
Get in touch with your local party and help any way you can. Deliver leaflets, knock on doors, organise social events, post on social media. There is a role for everyone.
Thank you, some very exhausted local party officers. 💚
Get in touch with your local party and help any way you can. Deliver leaflets, knock on doors, organise social events, post on social media. There is a role for everyone.
Thank you, some very exhausted local party officers. 💚
To all the new members, GET INVOLVED, GET ACTIVE, WE NEED YOU!
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This!
Get in touch with your local party and help any way you can. Deliver leaflets, knock on doors, organise social events, post on social media. There is a role for everyone.
Thank you, some very exhausted local party officers. 💚
Get in touch with your local party and help any way you can. Deliver leaflets, knock on doors, organise social events, post on social media. There is a role for everyone.
Thank you, some very exhausted local party officers. 💚
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Speaking at a regional conference in Manchester, it was amazing to see so many new members feeling absolutely energised and ready to take on the challenges ahead and unite this country behind hope.
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Speaking at a regional conference in Manchester, it was amazing to see so many new members feeling absolutely energised and ready to take on the challenges ahead and unite this country behind hope.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
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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October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?
It's tantalisingly close to happening!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa electoral-reform.org.uk/how-first-pa... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa
South Africa’s history shows how an electoral system can change everything. Sometimes, democracy’s biggest dangers aren’t coups or revolutions, but the quiet impact of the rules th
electoral-reform.org.uk
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
How First Past the Post helped apartheid take hold in South Africa electoral-reform.org.uk/how-first-pa... Electoral Reform Society – ERS
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Reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe. And Americans are now significantly less safe
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe. And Americans are now significantly less safe
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This is what Labour should be doing. They probably will now the Greens are 😂
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
October 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is what Labour should be doing. They probably will now the Greens are 😂
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We have to expect the right wing and their media to start attacking Zack and the Greens vociferously because it’s been so long since there’s been a voice or a party calling out wealth inequality instead of blaming asylum seekers for our problems.
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
October 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We have to expect the right wing and their media to start attacking Zack and the Greens vociferously because it’s been so long since there’s been a voice or a party calling out wealth inequality instead of blaming asylum seekers for our problems.
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One of those clips which can't get any bett... oh, no, it just did.
My day has instantly become better after watching this
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
One of those clips which can't get any bett... oh, no, it just did.
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🤯 ye giddy gods! We’re within 5k of breaking six figures!
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
We can't keep up...
Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.
Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.
Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
October 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
🤯 ye giddy gods! We’re within 5k of breaking six figures!
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
💚 people - the progressive momentum is with @greenparty.org.uk - you know you want to!
join.greenparty.org.uk
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Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.
We're just getting started.
This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're just getting started.
This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.
RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.
We're just getting started.
This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We're just getting started.
This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
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July 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Floating around with mum!
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Floating around with mum!
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"Protesting has never been easy, but over my career I have watched laws steadily tighten, step by boiled frog step. Now, every detail seems to fall under police control."
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures
Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to ...
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July 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Protesting has never been easy, but over my career I have watched laws steadily tighten, step by boiled frog step. Now, every detail seems to fall under police control."
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
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July 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM