Richard Baker

Some early morning reading for the Energy Minister #Jackdaw #Rosebank👇

It's been happening forever, and will happen forever, that rich people fuck off to lower-tax areas and frame it as political defiance of some law they personally don't like. 'Seatbelts in cars make it impossible for me to deliver wealth.' 'Without smoking in pubs, how am I meant to...'

Months after the govt announced they were looking into decoupling the price of electricity from gas, we still have no further details or timelines on these plans - all while families across the UK face down surging energy bills. I've written to the SoS for Energy Security and Net Zero for answers.

Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable

Immensely disappointing head-in-sand stuff from Unite's leadership. Instead of using their political clout to push for the creation of high quality, lasting jobs in green industries, they're doubling down on fossil fuel jobs which will disappear as a result of geological reality & climate breakdown

"Public control isn't public ownership" Yep & as Kevin also points out, public ownership is actually popular If Burnham planned to nationalise something he'd be shouting it from the rooftops. But as his choice of language demonstrates, he isn't going to nationalise anything

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

Climate-wrecking airports, intrusive digital ID and more social security cuts. This is Labour’s unshifting agenda. Our Green amendment to the King’s Speech demands strong climate and nature action, rent controls, water nationalisation, and wealth taxes. We are listening to what people really need.

Singling out the only Jewish party leader in a question about people being untrustworthy. I see we are far beyond subtlety

One of the many curiosities of this decision is that Nigel Farage is the only serving UK political leader (to my knowledge) to have been criticised by the Board of Deputies for personally using rhetoric linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories, for which he has never apologised.

Brilliant list by @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social of all the amazing wins that just happened in the past few days! Amazing new Green Councillors who will work hard in their communities to make life easier for everyone. nataliebennett.org/2026/05/10/g...

Hilarious video that shows none of the Reform voters know any of Reform's policies.

At times Reform do feel absolutely committed to staying on about 23% support for ever. I’m just not sure vindictiveness plays that well beyond the already-convinced hardcore.

Community Security Trust does great work protecting the Jewish community but it's wrong about Palestine marchers We do not support Hamas or hate Jews I've never heard any marcher express antisemitism; only opposition to Israel's mass killing of civilians - a view shared by half the Jews in Israel

The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.

Caught short? Yes to public loos! And I spy a nod to the @carolinerussell.bsky.social London assembly motion 👍 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Delighted to announce that we've hit 500 members.

🚨 Not an April Fool: since Jan 2022, the Highway Code ranks road users: 🏃 Pedestrians first 🚴 Cyclists & horse riders next 🚗 Drivers have most responsibility Many missed the update, so key rules (passing distances, junction priority) are still ignored. 👉 cyclinguk.org/highwaycode

The deputy foreign minister of Cuba: "You cannot put a question mark on the system of govt we have.. if the US, the most powerful nation in the world, has had to dedicate almost 7 decades to try to destroy the system of govt, and yet failed"🎯

The ruling class of the United States can't stand the fact that the Cuban people have a universal healthcare system when they deny that very thing to their own people. So they are intent on destroying it.

NBC interviewer: "President Trump says he believes Cuba will collapse on its own" The Cuban foreign minister: ".. then why does the US govt need to employ so many resources.. to try to destroy [our] economy?" 🎯

‼️POLL | #GE2029 without any tactical voting* ➡️ Ref: 27% (+12) 🟢 Grn: 23% (+16) 🔵 Con: 17% (-7) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 13% (+1) Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Mar (+/- vs GE2024) --- *Voters asked to state true first preference. Excludes respondents who said "Don't Know".

"There are some winners in all of this, I'm afraid to say. Oil producers in the United States are making billions from this war because of increased revenues, and so too now are Russia" And we're paying.

With Green politics on the rise, want to understand Green #Philosophy? I've got a book for that, with @wiltonsquare.bsky.social 😏 wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/cha...

When people #VoteGreen this May, they know they'll be voting for someone locally rooted, someone who deeply cares about the issues affecting our communities, and someone who will work their socks off to make hope normal again.

This summer, govt will set legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for 2038-42 – critical for reaching net zero by 2050 🏭🌍 I’m part of the Environmental Audit Committee, which is urging the government to centre communities. 6 key takeaways from our report, published today 👇

"If you marched against the war in Iraq, no one could really say you supported Saddam Hussein [...] Khamenei was a right wing hardliner in Iranian politics [...] Mothin is a leftist following a gay vegan Jewish leader." @benmclaine.bsky.social defends @mothinali.bsky.social on GB News 💚✊ #Iran

This is an amazing interview. Not because of the interviewer, he was hostile, but the ability of Zack to answer so many questions, honestly, logically, with evidence and qualification is astounding. Such a brilliant leader. 💚

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

A seven-word headline that manages to be both misleading *and* racist.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, do you regret not standing in Gorton & Denton yourself? No, says Zack, because in the Greens we aren't unprincipled opportunists who parachute ourselves into seats to further our own careers (in so many words) #GMB

Reader, they chose Hannah! Can’t wait to see her at work on Monday 💚👏💚

Hope has won!

On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets. Lying to voters is all they have left. All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 30.4% (+22.9) 🌹 LAB: 27.7% (-12.8) 🏘️ OL: 16.2% (New) 🙋 Ind: 11.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 8.3% (-15.3) ➡️ RFM: 2.7% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-5.9) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) No Ind (-21.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

🚨 Our latest Green Party Political Broadcast drops this evening 🚨 ITV1 at 18:25 BBC One at 18:55 Youtube at 19.00

A new style of the US trying to force regime change. Unlikely to end any better than the military version www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Extract from Marco Rubio's speech in Munich yesterday. Pure, naked imperialism and white supremacy.

Huda Ammori is scathing about Yvette Cooper, & rightly so. Cooper banned Palestine Action in order to protect companies supplying arms to Israel during a genocide, and in doing so attacked the rights of every single one of us. And all of it was unlawful.

"Reform UK last year received £200,000 from a tiny UK firm run by a churchwarden in Potters Bar who has worked for an Iranian-Kazakh billionaire who recently bankrolled Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos...It listed tax debts totalling more than its political contributions"

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests. It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.

Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer has serious questions to answer about what his government knew, and when, about Mandelson's Epstein ties. Shocking that this man was made ambassador - he should have no role in public life. And we absolutely need a police enquiry into leaks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We're out campaigning in Gorton and Denton for the by-election on 26th of February. it's time for change in this community, it's time for hope, it's time to VOTE GREEN

Excited to see Hannah Spencer selected for this important by-election. I wish I could go and join the campaign, but since I can't make the time work, I've donated the cost of my train fare. Maybe you're in the same position? Just thinking of how much of their dodgy donations Reform will use.

So much for being anti-establishment...