Sally Longford
@sallylongford.bsky.social
Vice-Chair Nottingham Green Partnership, Former Nottm City Council Deputy Leader, Hon Alderwoman, Labour, Environmentalist, Interrail, ex Geography Teacher, School Governor, Grandma
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The idea that the installation of “so called rain gardens” is damaging people’s daily lives in Mansfield is bonkers, but the local Labour MP seems to agree!
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The idea that the installation of “so called rain gardens” is damaging people’s daily lives in Mansfield is bonkers, but the local Labour MP seems to agree!
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If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK.
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK.
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
"And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."
Important to be part of Nottingham Remembrance Day on the Council House steps this morning as an Alderwoman. A good turnout of local people
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Important to be part of Nottingham Remembrance Day on the Council House steps this morning as an Alderwoman. A good turnout of local people
Spot on! metro.co.uk/2025/11/10/t...
Tim Davie's BBC tried to appease right-wingers - and got eaten alive
Davie was the Tory pick who wanted more right-wing comedians, and who called for balance after years of bad-faith complaints about ‘BBC bias’.
metro.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Spot on! metro.co.uk/2025/11/10/t...
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Government wd hv to come out and say that the whole board has failed, get them all to resign and then push their own people onto a new board, who would then appoint a new DG. You would have to have balls of steel to put up with the attacks from RW media but I think it would be worth it long term.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Government wd hv to come out and say that the whole board has failed, get them all to resign and then push their own people onto a new board, who would then appoint a new DG. You would have to have balls of steel to put up with the attacks from RW media but I think it would be worth it long term.
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Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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India has now electrified almost 100% of their tracks, a poorer country with vastly more track. Over half of that has happened in just the last decade. The UK's poverty of ambition by comparison is truly staggering (and sad...) earthbound.report/2025/02/03/i...
India’s electric railway revolution
Every day, India electrifies 19.6 kilometres of railway line. In the last decade the country has electrified 40,000 kilometres of track, and it is due to reach 100% electrification this year, exact…
earthbound.report
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
India has now electrified almost 100% of their tracks, a poorer country with vastly more track. Over half of that has happened in just the last decade. The UK's poverty of ambition by comparison is truly staggering (and sad...) earthbound.report/2025/02/03/i...
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Deeply depressing. Short-termism rules again.
Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen.
Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.
Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen.
Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Deeply depressing. Short-termism rules again.
Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen.
Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.
Feels like a different age when we intended to decarbonise the economy. Not going to happen.
Also rail will be in a bad place in (say) 25 years time, still heavily dependent on diesel - and many of those diesels will be very old.
Makes me so angry 😡 The East Midlands is the poor relation yet again!
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Makes me so angry 😡 The East Midlands is the poor relation yet again!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Nine councillors have left the party in just six months.
Reform UK 'In Chaos' After Losing One In Six Members On Flagship Council
Nine councillors have left the party in just six months.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Nine councillors have left the party in just six months.
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Showing their true colours now. Let’s hope the public wakes up before its too late
Plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.
Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company
Plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.
Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Showing their true colours now. Let’s hope the public wakes up before its too late
Plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.
Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company
Plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and moving residents into the private sector.
Reform’s cabinet member for social care in Lancashire, owns a private care company
Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action, it’s easy!
svlint.org/ActB
svlint.org/ActB
Take action for uncontacted peoples!
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples’ forests are being invaded and ripped up to extract resources and make way for roads and ranches, by those who value profits over human rights and survival.
Send an ema...
svlint.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action, it’s easy!
svlint.org/ActB
svlint.org/ActB
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"We're the workers' party" but don't want you to have any sick pay, annual leave, maternity pay, paternity pay, etc, etc, etc, etc.....
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"We're the workers' party" but don't want you to have any sick pay, annual leave, maternity pay, paternity pay, etc, etc, etc, etc.....
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They've already voted against strengthening of workers rights, for things like fire and rehire. They'll slash necessary jobs just as Mu$k did.
This is just another fucking lie.
They are not the party of workers.
This is just another fucking lie.
They are not the party of workers.
November 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
They've already voted against strengthening of workers rights, for things like fire and rehire. They'll slash necessary jobs just as Mu$k did.
This is just another fucking lie.
They are not the party of workers.
This is just another fucking lie.
They are not the party of workers.
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It's no wonder that Nigel Farage tried to pretend he didn't know Nathan Gill well, though obviously he did.
The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's no wonder that Nigel Farage tried to pretend he didn't know Nathan Gill well, though obviously he did.
The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dominic Grieve’s response to Nigel Farage’s ‘let’s leave the ECHR’ stunt in parliament is spot on.
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"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Coventry South needs a by-election soon
Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...
Please join us at Nottingham Climate Assembly’s volunteer event on 19th November, we have lots of of work to do before our Assembly in Spring next year. Sign up on Eventbrite see below
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Please join us at Nottingham Climate Assembly’s volunteer event on 19th November, we have lots of of work to do before our Assembly in Spring next year. Sign up on Eventbrite see below
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social Stasi territory under the Labour Government. Palantir US Tech Spy company who have supported the Israeli regime with war on Gaza. Palantir have been handed NHS contracts and Police contracts and now this👇. Noone voted for it.
"A controversial US spy tech firm has landed a contract with UK police to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate data about citizens’ political opinions, philosophical beliefs, health records and other sensitive personal information."
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...
libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...
UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network - Liberty Investigates
libertyinvestigates.org.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Stasi territory under the Labour Government. Palantir US Tech Spy company who have supported the Israeli regime with war on Gaza. Palantir have been handed NHS contracts and Police contracts and now this👇. Noone voted for it.
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Environmental Audit Committee report on airport expansion - stops short of really putting the boot in but pretty critical of the gaps in Government policy to manage its impact on climate change
committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
Airport expansion could put net zero in “serious jeopardy” without further safeguards - Committees - UK Parliament
The government’s current approach to mitigating the climate impacts of aviation while proceeding with airport expansion could put net zero delivery in “serious jeopardy”, a committee...
committees.parliament.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Environmental Audit Committee report on airport expansion - stops short of really putting the boot in but pretty critical of the gaps in Government policy to manage its impact on climate change
committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...
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And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on?
Guess where that data looks like it will end up?
In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!
Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
10/
Guess where that data looks like it will end up?
In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!
Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
10/
October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on?
Guess where that data looks like it will end up?
In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!
Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
10/
Guess where that data looks like it will end up?
In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it!
Larry Ellison’s Oracle!!
10/
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BREAKING: Our latest research shows a 65% increase in complaints in Smoke Control Areas across England since last year.
Families across the country are suffering from neighbours’ burning, yet even after thousands of complaints, barely a handful of fines have been issued. #AirPollution #WoodBurning
Families across the country are suffering from neighbours’ burning, yet even after thousands of complaints, barely a handful of fines have been issued. #AirPollution #WoodBurning
No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England
Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
BREAKING: Our latest research shows a 65% increase in complaints in Smoke Control Areas across England since last year.
Families across the country are suffering from neighbours’ burning, yet even after thousands of complaints, barely a handful of fines have been issued. #AirPollution #WoodBurning
Families across the country are suffering from neighbours’ burning, yet even after thousands of complaints, barely a handful of fines have been issued. #AirPollution #WoodBurning