Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith

Green Party Councillor for Old Moat, Manchester. 🐝🐐💚

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Location: Manchester, UK
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2026-05-29 09:37:59 CEST

Pondering the youth unemployment crisis that is all over the news.
My employer has:
1) Cut the grad scheme
2) Eliminated junior roles
Meanwhile they ARE spending oodles of money on adopting LLMs including to “replace” customer service and software testing functions.
That’s just one employer, but I suspect it is repeated in many other workplaces.
Anyone else seeing this?

2026-05-09 10:06:33 CEST

So yesterday I got elected as the new #GreenParty councillor for Old Moat in Manchester. 💚
I genuinely didn’t expect this, thinking that I’d come a good second, but as it turned out I ended up with a majority of 640.
I’m suddenly part of a group of 21 Green Councillors, an amazing team to work with. Really hoping I can be a force for good, and open many cans of worms! 🪱
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2026-02-11 09:17:01 CET

I’ve got a day in #GortonAndDenton ahead. Stanning for Han! 💚
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2026-01-26 22:53:45 CET

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and OMG welcome 💚💚🥰

2026-01-25 15:28:18 CET

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fab stuff! There’s already a hectic campaigning schedule going out via party emails.

2025-12-09 19:32:43 CET

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honestly I think parliament having a debate about it should be (at this stage) mostly about exactly that shifting back of the Overton window and the start of rebuilding some trust.
But given that it’s a private members bill, it’s being treated with contempt by the governing party, and passed on a 100-100 split, isn’t sending any meaningful signals that things have changed here. Yet.
I think we are in for a long wait.

2025-10-06 11:25:59 CEST

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The Green Party believes that the decommodification of Housing, and that the effective abolition of Private
Landlordism and the Private Rented sector, coupled with the mass expansion of Council Housing is the only way to end the Housing Crisis.
The Green Party would use policies like a Land Value Tax, Rent Controls, Ending Right-to-Buy and Buy-to-Let
and giving Councils the powers to borrow, to fund a new Golden Age of Council Housing.

2025-10-06 11:25:59 CEST

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4. Provide finance to Councils. Councils should be given the Right to Buy when Landlords sell, or property that
hasn’t been insulated to EPC rating C or fails to meet the decent homes standard, or any property that is
left empty for more than six months, with the total current tenancy discounted, tenants moved to a truly
affordable Council tenancy. Government must change prudential borrowing requirements to allow Councils
to buy back and build new housing on a massive scale. (2024 Manifesto Pg9)

2025-10-06 11:25:59 CEST

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The Green Party’s Five Step Plan to Abolish Landlords;
1. Introduce Rent Controls and Abolish Right to Buy. (HO401, HO503)
2. Tax the Landlords - move towards a Land Value Tax levied on Owners, not Tenants. No Exceptions. Business
Rates on AirBnBs/Short Lets. No Exceptions. Double taxation for empty properties. Put National Insurance
on Private Rents. (HO401, EC780-2)
3. Remove finance for Landlords - end Buy to Let mortgages. (HO521)

2025-10-06 11:25:59 CEST

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To further this, the Green Party would establish a State Owned Housing Manufacturer, that would mass
produce high quality, affordable Council Housing for Local Authorities, providing skilled jobs and training around
the country. That company would also focus on innovating on housing design and manufacture, without the
need to produce private profits.

2025-02-28 23:50:52 CET

I know you’ve all already done all the hot-takes… but…
This is going to take some *leadership* from Europe. And unity. And that is what scares me.
We are all so deep in our own national squabbles with the far right, and capitulating to them on moving the Overton window of policy in shitty directions, and not getting the fact that it’s the same damn playbook right on our doorsteps.
Fuck Trump, fuck Musk, fuck Putin, fuck Farage, fuck Weidel, fuck Le Pen. /1

2024-10-13 11:11:15 CEST

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But a mealy mouthed response about LTNs (they don’t want to talk about them) and a whole bunch of blaming delivery riders for unsafe riding (this boils my piss: the imperative is to make the infrastructure safe, and go after Uber/Roo/Etc) 2/3