Glenn Vowles

Should be a #budget to tackle inequality & the cost of living, to tax the super-rich, to begin wealth redistribution, to invest more in public services, to begin a green industrial revolution, to aim to increase human well-being & sustainability. Bristol Green MP @carladenyer.bsky.social is spot on.

'Balancing the books' might seem a sensible idea but underpinning it is a fundamental error. Our economy isn't like a credit card or household budget. Economics is not finance or accounting. We must #budget based on an accurate model of how our economy actually works. youtu.be/8PQ-3l6yvj4?...

Labour now briefing young people won't get the same minimum wage uplift. Even Starmer didn't break this pledge. Workers rights mean same rights, pay & conditions, same rate for the same job. What does this Labour government have against young people? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes, the Greens are right. You can't transform society, tackling it's major problems, by mostly tinkering. Inequality, unfairness and unsustainability require new socio-economic goals, a wellbeing economy. #budget

"...we cannot be confident that temperature decline after #overshoot is achievable within the timescales expected today. Only rapid near-term emission reductions are effective in reducing climate risks."

Tripling global #renewables by 2030 (4 yrs away) means an additional 11,000 GWe. Tripling global #nuclear by 2050 (24 yrs away) means only an additional 1,400 GWe. Do the maths. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Really heartening to see news from Brazil of Lula's historic election success. A brilliant victory for the environment and for progressive values over the far-right – proven all the more necessary given Bolsonaro's immediate attempts to undermine the outcome of a democratic election.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Disinformation, climate denial and Big Tech interference couldn’t silence Brazil’s voters. People organised. Democracy won. But no government gets a blank cheque. The pressure stays on: zero deforestation, a just energy transition and no deals that sell out people or planet. #Lula2026 #elections

Many congratulations to the student movement in Serbia for their powerful victory in the elections this weekend - a brilliant reminder of the power of collective organising and protest in the face of corruption.

I'm unemployed so I don't have a lot of money to spend on booze, what with interest rates and utility bills always going up. Plus I'm seven years sober. How about the government actually rising to the challenges we face rather than shrugging?

Historic European moment: "The Serbian leader lost in a landslide to a protest-backed student movement" www.politico.eu/article/serb...

Fascinating. Piers Morgan came across as lazy (he hadn't read Naomi's book) and I'll informed and inconsistent. Naomi was really clear and well reasoned. A good watch.

Sign the petition: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout 4 DAYS TO GO! We have until Thursday 29th Oct to get Andy Burnham to block the Thames Water bailout and bring it into public ownership

PRESS RELEASE: #COP17 has taken stock of the gaps that must be closed to keep the 2030 targets within reach and address the drivers of biodiversity loss.

This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sign now: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

This week's Budget must tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Tax the super-rich. End austerity.

This week we helped the BBC and Reuters report on the oil spill affecting the UAE after a strike on the Gem 2 tanker. This is the BBC's take www.bbc.com/news/article...

This year was France’s hottest on record, and the country counted 8,000 excess deaths during the summer’s heat waves. These student protests have become one of the most significant social movements in the country’s recent history. #ExtremeWeather

We’ve seen this script before. This Labour government won’t take action for the people who so desperately need change right now.

#Scotland #GreenParty members overwhelmingly block plans to support new #nuclear www.thenational.scot/news/2666800...

We don’t need a business-as-usual Budget. We need a Budget to tax extreme wealth and make the UK affordable. This is the scale of change Britain desperately needs – and only the Green Party can deliver it.

The working class are the wealth creators, by making things and providing services. The people who own businesses make profit. That's not wealth creation. Banks and government create money not businesses. Giving them tax breaks etc just funnels that money out of the economy.

Ahead of the budget, I met with constituents in Parliament to discuss measures that would *actually* bring down bills, including increasing Capital Gains Tax & making council tax fairer. Of course, we also talked tackling rip-off rents & how local groups can feed into & boost the work I'm doing.

Just a reminder that the science on the fundamentals of climate change isn't in doubt. news.cornell.edu/stories/2021...

Technology doesn't control society, humans do. Powerful voices are pushing AI into every corner of our lives, from classrooms to jobs. But despite what they say, AI is not inevitable. It is a political choice and we can choose a different future. #TechEthics #SystemChange #YouthVoices

British Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social: people need to stock up on food and water "because we’re living in a world where unexpected events seem to be becoming more and more common". Such a mystery! 🤔 Perhaps scientists should look into it.

The equivalent of every soul in the towns of Athlone, Portlaoise, Kenmare and then some combined being wiped out. Imagine the reaction if so many were murdered in a terrorist attack. Yet fossil fuels continue to be massively subsidised, and emissions to rise, because NOTHING must limit profit.

The devastating consequences of climate breakdown are already here and the UN this week has warned that global warming will breach 1.5°C. Labour's response: pushing ahead with more fossil fuels by approving Jackdaw.

"We need to generate enough energy before the 29th to demand Andy Burnham step in and block the Thames Water bailout and take Thames Water into Special Admin." Our Outreach Lead @jbnwogbo.bsky.social spoke at Arise: Festival of Left Ideas. This is his speech vist.ly/5pqq3

End the tax breaks for big tech. Use the money to fund warmer homes!

The government didn’t just approve Jackdaw, they also reiterated their support for so-called tiebacks - a dodge to allow yet more new drilling without new licenses. This deserves almost as much scrutiny as Jackdaw and has got barely any of it, so I raised it in the Chamber.

The planet doesn't need more data centres. It needs more forests, clean air and a future.

Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills. www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-exp...

Dear @katharineviner.bsky.social, you ask us readers to donate to @theguardian.com for its #climate journalism. But your financial editor keeps writing apologies for fossil fuel companies. Which of the two is our money paying for?

Scottish Greens : "Proposing new #nuclear power stations as a solution to today's energy crisis is like thinking the solution to your house being on fire right now is the construction of a billion pound fire station in twenty years' time." #Scotland www.thenational.scot/news/2666106...

As US National Nuclear Security Administration pushes to dramatically accelerate plutonium pit production, it is cutting safety corners, bypassing fiscal oversight, and risking #nuclear instability—all to fix a problem that elite scientists say doesn’t exist. thebulletin.org/2026/10/the-...

Water is a human right, not corporate profit. communities are drawing a line in the sand. From the Yucatán Peninsula to every corner of the world, people are standing up, fighting back, and demanding clean water. #PeoplePower

Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

Jackdaw offers just 27 jobs, 35 million tonnes of carbon, and no change to energy security or bills. Greens offer a different vision. Our own homegrown, renewable energy, creating thousands of British jobs and investing in our children's futures. join.greenparty.org.uk

A Nuclear Strategy Review in the Pentagon (excluding the State Department and National Security Council): the expected outcome is allowing 'limited nuclear use' in regional conflicts. #NuclearDisarmament #ScrapTrident #AntiWar #UKPolitics #GovernmentAccountability

Day four on the Immigration and Asylum Bill Committee. Today I am opposing the utterly cruel proposal for a ‘Refugee Tax’ for the poorest refugees to pay back support they received, while they were banned from working, to the Home Office.