Green Party Councillor, Gleadless Valley
Promoted by Eamonn Ward, 73 Eskdale Rd, S6 1SL on behalf of Sheffield Green Party
Views my own. RTs not endorsements
Fantastic response on the doorstep in
#SheffieldHeeley
this evening 💚
Something exciting is happening - lots of people really enthusiastic about voting for
@TheGreenParty
on 4th July.
Wherever you live
#VoteGreen
for real hope, real change ✅️💚🗳
I'm standing for the
@TheGreenParty
in
#Sheffield
Heeley 💚
I was the first Councillor in the country to pass a motion calling for a ceasefire in
#Gaza
🇵🇸
UK🇬🇧 must
#StopArmingIsrael
Get in touch to join the campaign or donate to our crowdfunder 🙏
Boris Johnson, asked today by reporters about President Biden's concerns over the Northern Ireland protocol, told them the President didn’t raise it during their 90 minute meeting.
The
@WhiteHouse
says differently..
The Axis of Genocide:
Israel 🇮🇱 Britain 🇬🇧 Germany 🇩🇪 Italy 🇮🇹 the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Switzerland 🇨🇭 Finland 🇫🇮 the United States 🇺🇲 Australia 🇦🇺 and Canada 🇨🇦
The ICJ must widen its investigation.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a
Found out while canvassing yesterday that my old cat had been found after being missing for almost a month 🙌💚
And yes I did sign the Cat Manifesto 🐈⬛
#VoteGreen2024
💚🐈⬛🗳
📢 I am delighted to announce I am standing for
@TheGreenParty
for Sheffield Heeley
#VoteGreen
for:
🌍 Climate & social justice
✅️ Public ownership of water transport & our NHS
🏦 Redistribution of wealth
🍉 No arms sales to Israel or complicty with genocide & apartheid
Dear
@LouHaigh
Sheffield Council - including all Labour councillors - supported a ceasefire weeks ago.
How many more Palestinians need to be killed - how many doctors, how many babies, how many journalists, how many UN workers - before you do the same?
I am really excited to be standing for
@TheGreenParty
to give Sheffield Heeley the chance to vote 🗳 for real change and real hope ✊️💚🍉
Want to get involved? Drop me a message or 👇
#GetGreensElected
Congratulations everyone 🎉
We did it 🙌
@SheffCouncil
voted unanimously to reaffirm our status as a City of Sanctuary ❤️
Thanks to everyone who stayed in the public gallery for over 3 hours to hear the motion being debated 🙏
Sheffield says loud & clear
#RefugeesWelcome
✊️
Relieved to report that our motion on "Stopping Genocide in Gaza" passed today at Full Council ✊️🇵🇸
Thanks to everyone who came to ask questions & protest outside.
The whole Council heard you loud & clear 1/5
Today me &
@HaybeMaleiki
will move
@SheffieldGreens
motion to Stop Genocide in Gaza.
We will call for an immediate ceasefire, to stop arming Israel, & join the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
Gaza needs your support. Please join us ✊️🇵🇸
#Sheffield
Council is flying the flag of an apartheid regime conducting a genocidal campaign against a captive civilian population, ⅔ of whom are refugees & ½ of whom are children.
Israel has cut off water, food & medicine to
#Gaza
.
The Council is supporting war crimes.
A huge demonstration in
#Sheffield
sent a clear message to the Council, Universities & all our institutions today:
🚫 We will not accept complicity with genocide and apartheid.
✅️ We demand Sheffield becomes an apartheid free zone again ✊️🍉
#RafahGenocide
#FreePalestine
A 1% wealth tax on assets over £10 million would raise £12 billion.
Abolishing the two-child benefit limit – and thereby lifting 300,000 children out of poverty – would cost £3.4 billion.
That should be a priority for our new government: Tackling poverty and taxing the richest.
What an epic election night 🙌
I am so proud of our campaign in Heeley & humbled by the number of votes received with an 11.1% swing to the
@TheGreenParty
We will continue to push for climate action, to end austerity & to end UK complicity with war crimes in Palestine ✊️🇵🇸💚
🚨 Boris Johnson is meeting the Saudi dictator to ask for more oil.
Mohammed bin Salman’s war in Yemen has caused 377,000 deaths.
Our new film exposes Britain’s double standards on war crimes.
🎥
With our new "Greens for Palestine" banner at the protest in London today.
We will not stop marching until we have:
🍉
#CeasefireNOW
🍉 Stop the genocide
🍉 End the occupation
🍉 Achieve equal rights & justice
✊️🇵🇸
@SheffieldStar
The only way to reduce traffic is by giving people other means of transport.
We're in a climate emergency, 29% of Sheffield households don't own a car & we have the most dangerous driving of any UK core city.
We need a modal shift, & measures like this are the way to do it 👍
We did it 🙌
Thanks so much to everyone who helped with the campaign 💚
And thanks to all the voters in Gleadless Valley for your support 🙏
@SheffieldGreens
@PaulTurnips
Fantastic that
@SheffieldGreens
beat Lib Dems for the first time to become the 2nd most voted-for party in Sheffield 🥳
🥀 Labour: 51,574
🌱 Green Party: 28,561
🔶 Lib Dems: 28,096
Or 1st 🤭:
🌱 Green Party: 28,561
🔶 Lib Dems: 28,096
🥀 Labour: 26,062
🐝 Co-op: 25,512
1/2
As
@SheffieldGreens
Councillors we have consistently argued for divestment from genocide & apartheid.
Labour 🥀 & the Lib Dems have not.
On 4th July you can vote 🗳 for a party that supports a permanent bilateral
#CeaseFireInGaza
, equal rights for all, & to
#StopArmingIsrael
Write to your councillors to demand they divest from any companies complicit in Israel's attacks on Palestine and call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire to end Israel’s assault.
Write here
Lots of
#VoteGreen
stakes up already in
#Sheffield
Heeley 🙌
We all know the Tories are toast 🥳 but "Labour" 🥀 are offering the same failed policies 😪
Vote Green for real hope and real change ✊️💚🍉
🗳️ Vote for me as your
@TheGreenParty
MP on 4th July 🙏
There is immense suffering in
#Gaza
as
#Israel
commits genocide.
After hearing
@michaeljswalker
's interview with
@AlnaouqA
, I was moved to include his brother Mahmoud's final LinkedIn post 💔 in my speech in a motion for a
#Ceasefire
May all those responsible face justice 🙏
🕊️ Yesterday we were proud to hear
@AlexiDimond
and
@HaybeMaleiki
's powerful speeches in full council, moving and seconding the Green motion regarding Stopping Genocide in Gaza
🏳️ Calling for an immediate ceasefire
🎥 You can watch them both below 👇
All 31 Labour councillors in Sheffield have defied Keir Starmer and the Labour leadership in its support for Israel by voting for a motion calling for a ceasefire.
Read
@ClareHymer
's report here 👇
Unlike Labour 🥀
@TheGreenParty
will abolish
#austerity
& consign it to the dustbin 🚮 of history
We will *increase* funding to public services & end privatisation
Vote for me in Sheffield Heeley or your Green Party candidate for Real Hope, Real Change ✅️
#GetGreensElected
🚨 BREAKING: Labour refuses to rule out cutting public services if they win the 2024 general election.
Darren Jones (Shadow Chief Treasury Secretary) told Sky News that "It's going to be really hard because of the state of the economy".
The Green Party of England and Wales have now have candidates in all 575 seats in E&W on
@democlub
Due to the convention of not contesting the speakers seat, which the Greens don't follow, they are likely the only party who will contest every seat in E&W.
Dear
@LouHaigh
,
As my MP, I am asking you to represent me & the residents of
#Sheffield
Heeley who, along with the vast majority of people in the UK, support a
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
.
Do not be complicit in
#genocide
.
Be on the right side of history. We will be watching keenly.
Children in Gaza don't need a pause in the killing, they need it to stop. That is why there must be an immediate ceasefire.
This is not a radical proposition. It's backed by the UN, countries around the world, and by the majority of the public.
Be on the right side of history.
Another hugely positive response on the doorstep in
#Sheffield
Heeley.
Lots of posters given out, lots of people planning to
#VoteGreen2024
for real hope, real change.
Go team Green 🙌💚
I have sent the following letter for the attention and action of
@shaffaqmohd
(cc.
@EdwardJDavey
&
@LaylaMoran
) leader of the
@SheffLibDems
.
Abuse, misrepresentation & anti-Palestinian racism should not be acceptable conduct for a senior Lib Dem Councillor.
If everyone votes for
@TheGreenParty
in
#Sheffield
Heeley today, I'll be looking for an office.
This place already features lovely artwork from
@bryanjohnartist
Just need to change the colour from 🔴 to 💚
#VoteGreen
for real hope, real change ✅️🗳💚
As the major city with the most dangerous roads in the UK,
#Sheffield
needs to get serious about traffic calming measures.
These would be a great addition 👇
So pleased
@SheffieldGreens
were able to successfully win the argument for some free public transport for Christmas rather than free parking.
So much more equitable, and better for people and planet 🌏 💚
Fancy a day’s worth of travel on the bus & tram this festive season? 🎄🚎🚐
Just download the BetterPoints app, complete a 2 min joining survey & earn an instant 100 points, which you can then exchange for a TravelMaster CityWide Sheffield 1-day pass.
Sheffield Council just voted to support
#ProportionalRepresentation
🙌
However,
@SheffLabour
voted against, and therefore against the democratic will of the last
@UKLabour
conference, Labour members and the Trade Union movement & in favour of the two party system.
Huge turnout I'm
#Sheffield
for
#EnoughIsEnough
demonstration ✊
We are united in demanding 📢
#ToriesOutNow
We support all striking workers, & demand publicly-run services for people & planet NOT profit.
Today
@SheffieldGreens
welcomed the new green 💚 & electric⚡️FREE city centre buses: Connect 1 and 2.
Originally suggested by Green Councillors in 2019, its great to see this ambition realised 🙌
1/2
My leaflets are ready and I've been enjoying the spring sunshine 🌞 while out delivering them.
If anyone would like to help, please DM me or email alexi.dimond
@sheffieldgreenparty
.org.uk 🙏💚
I'm glad the new Parking Enforcement Policy was agreed yesterday & the Lib Dems were unsuccessful in watering it down.
Tackling illegal parking is vital for road safety, more reliable buses & making active travel safe & viable.
The changes should mean less of this 👇
🅿️ At yesterday's Waste and Streetscene committee Greens backed plans to improve enforcement on illegally parked vehicles
💬 Green spokesperson for the committee
@AlexiDimond
said, "Selfish parking forces people who cycle, walk or wheel into roads & into traffic."
Fantastic support and solidarity for the
#RMTstrikes
in
#Sheffield
now ✊
We are united behind
@RMTunion
and all workers striking for fair pay and conditions.
It's time to take the fight to the Tories!
Important & huge display of solidarity, love ❤️ & support for refugees today, along with colleagues from
@SheffCityofSanc
The fascists were outnumbered & out-chanted ✊️
Thanks to
@council_trades
& everyone who came for making this happen 🙏
#RefugeesWelcome
Today me &
@HaybeMaleiki
will move
@SheffieldGreens
motion to Stop Genocide in Gaza.
We will call for an immediate ceasefire, to stop arming Israel, & join the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
Gaza needs your support. Please join us ✊️🇵🇸
"We don't have the time or frankly the money to be nationalising water companies right now."
@SophyRidgeSky
asks
@LouHaigh
if nationalising water companies should be on the table in light of the Thames Water crisis.
#PoliticsHub
📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
In the 70s and early 80s Sheffield Labour supported public transport to combat inequality but now they are a parody of their former selves.
Nearly 30% of
#Sheffield
households don't have a car (rising to >50% in the most deprived wards), but Labour have totally abandoned them.🧵
Do Sheffield Greens have an anti-business agenda ?
Sheffield Labour has been working hard to deliver for local communities.
Sheffield Labour are On Your Side
But whose side are the Greens on ??
I'm pleased to announce that the Council's online tool for reporting incorrectly parked vehicles - which
@SheffieldGreens
Councillors have long been pushing for - is now live:
England/Wales water companies dumped sewage five times a day, every day, for a decade.
Boosts profits and exec pay. Execs collected £25m bonus since last election.
Tinkering with regulation won't do. Must eliminate the profit motive.
Nationalise water.
I drafted & proposed the first successful Council motion in the UK calling for a
#CeasefireForGaza
& to
#StopArmingIsrael
.
It was titled "Stopping Genocide in Gaza" and was passed in November 2023 ✊️🇵🇸
Contrast that with
@LouHaigh
's record 👉
Who’s calling for a ceasefire:
- UN Secretary-General
- the Irish government
- the Spanish government
- Amnesty
- Oxfam
- Save the Children
- Doctors Without Borders
- the FT
- 76% of the UK public
#CeasefireNOW
is not a radical demand. It’s the only way to stop the bloodshed.
Sheffield Labour sack their candidate for comments "about the need for reform, greater accountability and transparency at the council off the back of the Sheffield tree inquiry."
...but want
#Sheffield
to believe they have changed 🤔
👏
@SheffCouncil
unanimously votes for Action on the Nature Emergency 🙌 following a motion by
@SheffieldGreens
.
Congratulations to all the campaigners and activists who have made this possible 💚
Big turnout for
#Palestine
🇵🇸today in
#Sheffield
for the march from the amphitheatre to the rally at City Hall ✊️
After 5 months of facilitating a genocidal bombing campaign, the US/UK must force Israel to lift the seige of
#Gaza
, end arms sales & force a
#CeasefireNOW
Amazing turnout today for joint Gleadless Valley & Nether Edge & Sharrow Action Day today 💚
Me and
@MRaoufNES
are up for reelection ✊️🍉
Remember to register to vote 🗳
&
#VoteGreen
on May 2nd ✅️✊️🍉
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail printed a photo of me on this nasty anti-worker front page.
They’ve now agreed to pay just short of £1,000 for using the photo.
I’ll be sending that money from the Mail straight to the
@RMTunion
strike-fund.
Victory to the rail workers ✊🏽
🚨 NEW: Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says Labour will embrace Thatcher's economic policies.
Saying Thatcher delivered a "decade of national renewal", Reeves says Labour will deliver "wide-ranging supply-side reform" and "reform" public services.
Carla Denyer, "We have got 4 Green MPs elected for the first time"
@carla_denyer
👏
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "What will you do with 4 MPs? It's a tiny number"
CD, "We're taking on the baton from
@CarolineLucas
We'll put pressure on Labour."
Emily Maitlis, "If the Greens becomes
This letter in today's Star from a Labour Councillor is quite astonishing.
Labour repeatedly lied, used draconian anti-trade union laws, private security, the police, arrests & injunctions on the residents of
#Sheffield
in an attempt to fell 17 500 healthy street trees...
While donors bought influence over "Labour" 🥀 policy to the tune of £9.5million plus,
@TheGreenParty
is truly a people-powered movement.
Be part of the real change 💚👇
'Labour got more
#donations
than other parties combined', over £9.5m, with over £8.5m from 10 donors & £2.5m from just one. The rich & super-rich distort our
#democracy
. There's no level playing field. Big £££ should be removed from party/election funding.
Fantastic night (and meal) at the
@TheFoodWorksSHF
on Friday. Lots of interesting conversations & ideas about what the Council could do to help community food growing.
Growing our own food would help food resilience & make fresh, healthy food more accessible.
Amazing show of solidarity & humanity in London today 💚
Our 'leaders' may stand for war & genocide.
But, the people stand with Palestine ✊️🇵🇸
#CeasefireNOW
#StopIsraeliGenocide
@ukhomeoffice
This you?
HM Inspectorate of Prisons visited the KIU in September and found that "children were held for far too long and often overnight" in facilities with "no access to the open air and little or no natural light".
The number & wealth of UK billionaires has grown massively along with the use of foodbanks & homelessness.
Only
@TheGreenParty
supports wealth taxes, redistribution & properly funded public services.
Vote for me in
#Sheffield
Heeley or your local Green Party candidate 🗳💚✅️
📺 "We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The money is there in the economy, but it is unequally distributed."
@carla_denyer
tells BBC News that Green MPs will work for a fairer tax system to ensure public services are properly funded to benefit everyone.
💚
@davidschneider
Relaxed?! This is mission accomplished.
@sajidjavid
and his banker mates will be celebrating. This is *exactly* what the Tories are paid to do.
I addressed a demonstration at the
@sheffielduni
about a chaplain who has returned from the IDF. A person who has contributed to the attack on Gaza - & glorified it on SM - is not fit to advise students on ethical & religious matters.
#GazaGenocide
Only
@TheGreenParty
will end the housing 🏡 crisis. We will:
✅️ End Right to Buy
✅️ Build 150 000 social homes per year
✅️ End no fault evictions
✅️ Give councils the powers to introduce rent caps
✅️ Introduce mandatory landlord licensing
#VoteGreen
🗳✊️💚
The biggest headline from yesterday's
#Sheffield
Council budget was that Labour and Lib Dems came together to block >£10m annual investment in public transport & active travel. 1/4
Today was a momentous day in
#Sheffield
's democratic history.
Thanks to the hard work of
@ItsOurCitySheff
we are moving to a Committee system.
I hope we can put opportunistic, tribal politics behind us for the good of the city. 1/4
It's been a brilliant campaign, I've had so much support from so many people.
Many will be voting Green in a
#GeneralElection
for the first time tomorrow ✊️💚✅️🗳
Really enjoyed campaigning for my local candidate
@AlexiDimond
over the last few weeks speaking to people and putting forward a positive case for
@TheGreenParty
! I intend to vote with my heart tomorrow and vote Green, with Labour on course for a landslide get Greens elected!
The report into
#Sheffield
’s Clean Air Zone shows it has been an unmitigated success 🥳
But we need to go further to meet our legal obligations on air quality and
@WHO
guidelines on safe NO2 levels
Enhancing the CAZ could also have wider benefits 👇
Today I joined
@TheGreenParty
and
@UKLabour
members today to oppose
#GrouseShooting
and the mismanagement of our moorland.
It's a cruel sport that harms animals, the ecosystem and the climate.
Thanks to
@Unite_Community
for organising this annual event 🙏