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Green Cllr for Bromborough. Co-Leader Green Group @WirralCouncil. Birdkonian, Jewess. Views my own.
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Do You Want a Fairer, Greener Wirral? Then you're welcome to join us to make it happen. Wirral Green Party is looking for many more people who are willing to be the face of change in our local communities. youtu.be/x5pPsI7IwuE

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Great visit to heat pump supplier and trainer, @stiebeleltronuk.bsky.social . The business has created or enhanced over 2,000 green jobs across the country, from their UK HQ in Bromborough, Wirral. Our green future includes many more green jobs and zero carbon heating for homes.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Recently, Wirral Council agreed a refreshed Community Asset Transfer policy (CAT). But no voluntary sector organisations were consulted. wirral.greenparty.org.uk/2025/04/11/c...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Mr Stevenson said he had been supported by Bromborough Cllr Jo Bird. She told the LDRS, “Well-managed trees are vital for our wellbeing and for nature. Like any good neighbour, I would expect Wirral Council to pay for any damage caused by its trees.” www.birkenhead.news/new-ferry-ma...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is an outstanding Local Plan. This Local Plan means much needed homes will be built only on brownfield sites – not on our precious green belt.

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

Only the Greens would tax the wealth of the super rich to fund our public services, not the other way round

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

People with disabilities are facing a perfect storm.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

It’s three years ago today that I became a Green Councillor🌿 I continue to enjoy every day of it 💚 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

🎉 We've just hit 60,000 Green Party members! 💚 People across England and Wales are crying out for a positive alternative to the two old parties and that's exactly what the Green Party is offering. 🤝 Want to be part of the change? Join the Green Party today ⤵️

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

The Department of Degeneration?

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

A disgraceful ERH committee. Labour, Tory & Lib Dem cllrs hiding from the public to carve up regeneration funds to cover council delays and overspends and shovel more public money into the deeply unpopular Argos market. What they previously did to Birkenhead Market they have now done to Woodside.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Today is International Women's Day We're celebrating all the incredible women in the Green Party and beyond who are working every day to accelerate action for gender equality.

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Happy International Women's Day

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Green Councillors are recommending this Wirral Council budget because ...

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Cllr Jo Bird raised concerns about why the council had overspent so much so soon after an independent assurance panel overseeing the local authority stepped down. www.birkenhead.news/wirral-counc...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Wirral Tories still advocating for beach clearance in Hoylake and West Kirby despite guidance from national regulators indicating this would likely be illegal (and hugely expensive). At committee tonight I made the Green Party position clear @edbarnesjourno.bsky.social @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Honest, evidenced and fearless journalism from Charlotte Robson in The Post: The otherwise out-of-use, Grade II-listed town hall [in Wallasey] was reopened to the tune of £400,000 a year in 2024 after some councillors had felt intimidated by Liverpool Friends of Palestine’s March protest.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Wirral Labour and Tory leaders backed pet projects costing millions inc: •⁠ ⁠Empty office space in Birkenhead •⁠ ⁠Moving council meetings back to Wallasey Town Hall •⁠ ⁠Destroying nature on beaches wirral.greenparty.org.uk/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

England's water industry owned by companies with over 1,100 criminal convictions since 1989. Examples: United Utilities 205 Thames Water 187 South West Water 174 Anglian Water 128 Yorkshire Water 125 Southern Water 119 People forced to hand more money to criminals? Now they are not even fined.

submitted 79 days ago • 20 comments

Despite criticisms from within his own party and calls by Green cllrs to resign, Cllr Stuart has been praised by Conservatives and Liberal Dems. www.birkenhead.news/wirral-counc... Co-leader of Green Cllrs, Jo Bird said, “Wirral Council sorely needs a new style of leadership

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Four years on from purchase all we have is a massive hole in the town centre. Nothing has damaged the regeneration of Birkenhead more than the broken promises on Birkenhead Market @edbarnesjourno.bsky.social www.birkenhead.news/house-of-fra...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Used to vote for the Labour Party? Let's talk! Join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 88 days ago • 69 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 93 days ago • 1348 comments

We don't gather to only mourn the dead and the endless destruction. Our government has been complicit in selling arms to a country committing a genocide. We gather to demand justice and an end to the occupation. @pscupdates.bsky.social

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments