Martyn Hurt

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Green Party councillor for Trinity Ward in Burnley, Lancashire, England. Co-Convenor of Burnley Green Party.
Part time wheelchair user, full time Ataxia sufferer.
Hobbies include Sit Down Paddle boarding, reading and cooking, especially curries.
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Green World have published my article on making #Burnley streets more #accessible

I have been absolutely overwhelmed by the amount of publicity and support that my motion has received.

https://greenworld.org.uk/article/campaign-make-burnley-safer-disabled-people

Campaign to make Burnley safer for disabled people

Councillor Martyn Hurt has been campaigning in Burnley to make the town centre safer for disabled people. He discusses his unanimous success and the challenges facing the campaign in the future.

Green World

Proud to have my Accessible Streets motion passed at #burnley council on Wednesday, and amazed at the positive reception and publicity it is receiving (although I've been asked to do a live radio interview which is terrifying!).
Must keep the narrative away from it just being about pavement cafés though - they're just a tiny part of the issue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64429062

Burnley councillors pledge to clear pavements of obstructions

Cafe tables and A-boards on pavements cause issues for visually-impaired people, a councillor says.

BBC News
Yet again, Tories criticising money being spent on a #ClimateChange Officer and #CarbonLiteracy Training in #burnley at Full Council tonight.
Despite one of the wards they have Councillors in being heavily affected by flooding in recent years, requiring extensive and disruptive flood defences being built they still either just don't get it, don't care or don't believe.

#OctopusEnergy #SavingSessions currently in progress.
Using about 43w/h at the moment with the tumble dryer on and powered by V2L from the car.

Probably won't save us much as 5pm-6pm is a low usage time for us anyway, but it all helps keep the fossil fuel power generation from firing up.

If Scarborough can stop its fireworks for a walrus, all cities can stop them for the thousands of dogs, cats, kids, neurodivergent people, and everyone else who is disturbed by fireworks. #WeDontAllHaveToWaitForOurOwnWalrus

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

Is your MP angrier about a Netflix show than people unable to heat their homes and feed their kids? If yes, I think it’s time for a different MP.

I'm at #Burnley College this morning at the Mine Energy Seminar - can we use Burnley's numerous mine shafts to heat homes and businesses with an affordable, sustainable and renewable heat source?

#renewables #ClimateChage #EnergyCrisis #HeatNetworks

This feels like a good time for lots of non trans people to loudly state the truth that trans people are good and more out and visible trans people is good for society.

Well done to Steve McAuliffe of Chichester & Arun Green Party who was elected with an increase in vote of 22% yesterday in West Sussex as cllr

Although the Greens held the seat it was a big increase in vote

#GreensMakeTheDifference #Sussex #WinningHere

(Graphic courtesy of Green Elects)