Mastodawn

Hannah Spencer's speech.
Good speech.

One criticism: why is it called the Green party? What about the ecosystem and climate emergency? You have to use opportunities like this to level with people.

"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/working-hard-used-you-house-33499412

#GortonAndDenton #overshoot #GreenParty #UKPol #climate

"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently

The Green Party secured a big win in the Gorton and Denton by-election

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Mark Burton Feb 27

My piece from September is relevant to this point.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/22/as-uk-politics-turns-both-right-and-left-how-do-we-get-degrowth-onto-the-agenda/
Greens must be both red AND green, and that means #degrowth

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?

By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

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Mark Burton Feb 27

"...it is the scale of the material economy, far exceeding the capacity of the earth’s geophysical and ecological systems to sustain it, that is both the bigger threat to human lives and livelihoods, and the fundamental cause of most of the other problems (that and capitalism’s inescapable pursuit of profit, “accumulate accumulate!”)."