Colchester, England
Joined September 2019
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Steph Nissen retweeted
A full time job is becoming increasingly out of reach. A wage should bring independence, pride & dignity. Unfortunately it doesn't it brings stress, hardship & exhaustion. A single person on a low to median wage cannot afford a home, a car or a holiday. A couple cannot afford a child. So work isnt paying. Wages need to rise, and the cost of living & housing needs to be under control
Universal Credit was designed to make work pay, simplify the benefits system and help people escape dependency. That principle remains as important today as it was when I introduced it. But successive governments have allowed policy decisions to undermine its purpose. During Covid, warnings were ignored, money was handed out with insufficient checks and we are now living with the consequences.
We have created a system where millions are trapped on benefits, too many young people are written off before their working lives have even begun, and the welfare bill continues to spiral. The answer is not simply to spend more money. It is to restore the moral purpose of work.
Work is about far more than a wage. It brings independence, dignity, self-respect and the opportunity to build a better life. That must once again be at the heart of welfare reform.
My interview with @thetimes thetimes.com/article/90fc76f…?
Steph Nissen retweeted
They want to cut up little girls’ vaginas and then sew them almost shut because that way men can tell if their brides are virgins. The fact that it means unimaginable suffering for the victims and a far greater risk of death in childbirth is unimportant to these people. The West could help put a stop this barbaric practice by making foreign aid contingent upon the Somali government’s making FGM illegal and actively working to stop it. It would cost us absolutely nothing, and it would do so much to help Somali girls, but we won’t do it because no one actually cares about these girls. If 99% of Somali boys were having their penises chopped off, you can bet that the world would do more than just shrug it off.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is an MP in Somalia THIS WEEK defending the mutilation of little girls because it benefits men.
I am running out of words for the sheer inhumanity of these men. And the female politician laughing behind him should be ashamed. But that would require a conscience.
Around 99% of Somali women and girls have undergone #FGM, yet politicians openly defend this horrific abuse.
And what do we do? Keep pouring billions into Somalia while pretending it is building a functioning state.
Why are British taxpayers funding institutions whose politicians show such contempt for little girls?
Not another penny without accountability. I am sick of this madness.
Steph Nissen retweeted
Antisemitism is not a winning ticket for @TheGreenParty, as was easily predictable.
Labour to win record number of MPs as Tories and Greens get zero in 90% of London - shock poll trib.al/LZH2IS4
Steph Nissen retweeted
EXCL: Green Party meetings must avoid “exclusionary” pubs *and* should start with each member revealing their pronouns, a new checklist seen by @TheSun has found
It comes as Mr Polanski's party remains in utter freefall👇
thesun.co.uk/news/40728788/g…
david-collier.com/inside-occ… “Make no mistake: the Green Party is the most antisemitic political movement the UK has seen in decades.”
There is literally no mechanism for Leader(s) to overturn a Conference vote. Conference is supreme decision making body, even GPEx cannot overturn it.
It’s deliberately set up that way, to keep power distributed.
Steph Nissen retweeted
Trouble for Hastings Greens with their local chair resigning from his position and the party. The letter raises an interesting point about the impact of being associated with an organisation adopting the ZiR motion in terms of members' professional standing, away from politics.
Steph Nissen retweeted
We spend an enormous amount of time talking about the very worst of us, so let's remember some of the best.
This is Dr Karmele Llano Sanchez, a Spanish veterinarian rescuing orangutans from the wildfires in West Kalimantan.
No AC or mod cons for wildlife rescuers and veterinarians working in the most challenging conditions in the field, often facing real danger with great courage.
Eight orangutans have recently been treated and released, but the suffering witnessed has taken its toll on her team.
Most people don't even know her name—she couldn't care less about that—but I do. People like her are true heroes, and we should know who they are.
Steph Nissen retweeted
🚨 There's nothing funny about normalizing misogyny.
The words we normalize shape the attitudes we tolerate.
Dismissing #misogyny as "just a joke" perpetuates a culture where hating and harming women and girls is excused.
And there is #NoExcuse for it.
#ForAllWomenAndGirls
Steph Nissen retweeted
Reminder for any Green Party office holder, whether that be internal or public office. You are now under investigation by the EHRC and your conduct is as an agent of the Green Party. Thinking of a certain Suffolk Green. Inshallah.
Steph Nissen retweeted
Board of Deputies welcome Labour commitment not to work with Green councils which uphold Zionism is racism policy.
Steph Nissen retweeted
Havant:
Cllr Charles Robert, elected as a Green councillor for Emsworth, has vacated his seat.
A by-election will be held in Emsworth.
Steph Nissen retweeted
Whatever legal bills she ran up against the @LibDems could and should have been set against her pro-bono work for them. Unhousing a dying woman is simply and plainly immoral. They have the capacity to wait. This party really is misogyny on stilts.
The Lib Dems are seeking a court order to evict and make homeless the party's 71-year-old founding member - who has incurable cancer - so they can sell her home, after she lost a legal battle following expulsion after she questioned their trans policies
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Steph Nissen retweeted
Prince Harry and Meghan arriving in Nottingham to a wonderful welcome. All the British media are there of course and I love that Meghan and Harry are ignoring them. All British media having live coverage tells you all you need to know about how “ irrelevant” the couple is😅.
Steph Nissen retweeted
There are only a handful of councils that have a Labour/Green coalition. There are 22 pacts between the @LibDems and Greens.
22. Over to you @EdwardJDavey
Labour to break coalitions with any local Green party that does not disavow ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion
jewishnews.co.uk/labour-to-b…
This is deeply significant and won’t be going down well at GPEW HQ.
Steph Nissen retweeted
BREAKING: The Labour Party has said that power-sharing agreements with the Green Party will end unless local Greens explicitly reject their party's "Zionism is racism" policy
The Labour Party has asked all Labour groups in power-sharing agreements with the Green Party to review their arrangements in local government after the prime minister's words at PMQs yesterday.
Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party, said:
“The Prime Minister has been completely clear: this policy is wrong and antisemitic, and has no place in British politics.
“Where local Labour Parties currently have an arrangement with the Greens in local government, we expect their Green counterparts to make clear that they reject this position and to call on their national leadership to reconsider the policy.
“We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end. This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share.
“The Labour Party fought hard to address antisemitism within our own party and ensure it had no place in our politics. We have a responsibility to uphold those same standards in our relationships with other parties.”
Steph Nissen retweeted
I am on my way to Madrid to receive an award, alongside women I deeply admire, Rosa María Payá and Yulia Navalnaya. Women who know what it costs to fight a dictatorship.
But I am not accepting this award for myself. I will be there to pick up against executions in Iran. I dedicate it to Najmeh Amini, a 23 year old accounting student in Iran.
Her crime? A social media post.
She has been sentenced to death for blasphemy. Insulting the prophet, they say. And 12 years in prison for speaking against the regime. She wrote that she is an innocent young girl who still has hopes, and that her mother spends every night in fear of losing her.
This is the true face of the Islamic Republic. A regime that hangs young women in the name of God, simply for criticizing Islam or daring to think freely. And it is getting worse. Executions in Iran are skyrocketing. In Afghanistan the Taliban do the same. This is what life under Islamic rule means for women.
So I will use this stage in Europe to say loud and clear: do not look away. Stop shaking hands and signing deals with the executioners. The real award Europe can give is to stand with the women of Iran and Afghanistan and refuse to legitimize these regimes.
That is why I am proud to announce that I will bring a delegation of women from Iran and Afghanistan to Spain. Their voices will be heard on European soil. The mullahs kill them at home. We will make Europe listen.
We need real action to save lives.
Say her name. Najmeh Amini. Her only crime is freedom.
#NajmehAmini
#StopExecutionsInIran
Hello everyone, this is a message from inside prison, from a young Iranian woman who is about to be executed. Please help me to amplify her voice before they hang her. 💔
«Remember my name, maybe I will not be able to speak again.»
This is the voice of Najmeh Amini, a 23 year old accounting student, speaking from Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. In her voice message she says: «Be my voice. I am an innocent girl, a young woman full of hopes and dreams.»
Najmeh is one of the detainees of the January uprising .
She spent months in detention without a verdict, denied access to a lawyer of her choice and pressured during interrogation. In August, her trial was held at the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad on charges of «assembly and collusion» and «insulting sacred values.»
She said in her voice message that her death sentence was issued on September 16, 2026.
In her own words: «People, I only want justice and the chance to defend myself.» And this is her dream: «Before the rope ends my life, let me see my Iran prosperous and free.»
Be her voice and all of political prisoners, especially those at risk of execution.
#NajmehAmini
#StopExecutionsInIran
Interested to see how the local party will spin this to fit their “malcontents and troublemakers who left because of the transgender issue” or “it’s Reform bots and trolls” narrative.
They should focus their concerns on these further breaches of the #EqualityAct
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish members of the Greens are planning to sue the party for discrimination and harassment after the vote to define Zionism as racism, The Telegraph can reveal.
Zack Polanski’s party is expected to face claims in the High Court from members who say they no longer feel welcome in the party after the Greens voted to define the Jewish right to self-determination as a racist ideology ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Another day, another #GreenParty scandal…
Scottish Greens face Electoral Commission probe and fine over failure to publish accounts scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/n…
