Yesterday we had a trial for our planned Car Free School Street. The children had an assembly with Sustrans and a PE lesson on Breedon Road, to demonstrate how safe the street can be without cars driving up them. Sustrans West Midlands

Dear Rachel Reeves In the Autumn budget, please can you restore the £233m that was illegally removed from Active Travel England's funding. The miserable state of sustainable travel in England is beyond a joke, pushing people into costly travel alternatives. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Hahahahahaha. #ToryFail

Reform on #PoliticsLive

It’s becoming clearer why Rishi chose to call the election sooner rather than later. This crisis (made by the Tories) has been on the horizon for a long time. #ToriesBrokeBritain

#ToriesBrokeBritain

Cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths are the same curve, shifted 25 years.

Huge congratulations to The Labour Party - they’ve been in charge less than a month and already they’ve got inflation down. (What do you mean, it’s not because of them…? But…the Tories claimed it was because of them when they were in power!)

Feargal Sharkey Friends of the River Wye

I know Biden pulling out of the US presidential race is big news but I can’t stop thinking about how an asparagus fortune teller prediction on Jeremy Vine could be right. x.com/chiefbrody1984…

👀 The deadline for Farage to declare his extra parliamentary income is August 4. Watch this space: publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem… theneweuropean.co.uk/farage-is-forc…

#ToriesBrokeBritain

If we’re looking for someone who can maliciously damage high speed rail, then we know who has done it before.

brat summer yall

🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.

The Extreme Weather Report, August 1, 2024

That is funny. What she did wasn’t. #ToriesBrokeBritain

Good luck to all three Andy Bush on tonight’s only connect.