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Devon-based retired IT bod, Green Party member since 2010, barn converter, vintage car owner, sci-fi reader, Repair Cafe repairer, Library of Things organiser and gardener who wonders how he ever fitted work in. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
The first step in the road to removal of all of our rights was Brexit. The next is the abolition of juries.
This is so important we must ALL do everything possible to prevent it, regardless of politics or anything else.
To think, Starmer used to be a #decent lawyer.
Good on ya!
"Do bot-farms like you or not?" Interesting interview question.
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.
The fash are losing badly and they don't like it. Fewer and fewer of them getting more and more violent.
People defending Keir Starmer sure do love war crimes.
I think it’s time for something different, aye? No more fence sitting. No more punching down. No more mealy mouthed Labour garbage.
No more Labour Party.
Time to go Green ✅
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Shit berates shit for not being shitty in quite the same way.
The last time Earth encountered an arsehole of Darren's size was during the Cretaceous Period.
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.
Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
Haha @zackpolanski.bsky.social you legend. 💚
Speaking really sensibly about the Greens' drugs policy on Channel 4's The Last Leg.
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski headlining the biggest UK educators union.
This is the kind of onboarding that is going to attract a very broad approval.
Hope there will be some videos covering the keynotes.
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We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it."
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Stunning victory in Stroud last night.
Look at that majority! 💚😍
Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!
Join our movement:
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Woohoo!
It's so straightforward, isn't it?
✅️ We're against the Iranian regime because we support human rights.
✅️ We're against Trump's Iran war because we support international law.
✳️ We support human rights and international law because history has shown us terrible things happen when they're ignored. 🌻
Starmer, Shellbrooke, Taylor should be ashamed.
Desperate, they know their time as MPs is up so they're lashing out hoping to score some political points.
@greenparty.org.uk is going to replace them!
The majority of the UK is with me, no more illegal wars!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Leaving NATO is not Green Party policy. I thought you missed an opportunity to catch them out in a lie there George!
The Home Secretary’s own MPs see through this. She is desperate and dangerous.
People are joining the alternative:
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When the Prime Minister spreads lies about people - there are consequences.
He's made some outrageous smears. It's debasing our politics.
Anything to try to quieten dissent about the US and Israel starting an illegal war.
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Well, that's got to sting.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
In a press conference this afternoon Keir Starmer tells the country this conflict could go on for some time and he will do everything he can to uphold British values.
Helping the US & Israel while they murder kids. Those sorts of values?
The problem with all that surely is the disconnect with the grass roots. There is no compulsion for the PLP to take a blind bit of notice of anything the grass roots say at conference or anywhere else.
Second UK polling company in a day puts the Green Party at 20%+
The surge is real.
Perhaps "they haven't found the right way to disguise punching down as balance" is closer to the mark.
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
