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"We're going to take the fight to power and wealth, and we're going to turn this country around." New Green Party Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks to Sky News about how you can help our growing movement. Join us today: join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...
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📺 Tune in to watch the announcement of our new leadership team live on YouTube from 11am, Tuesday 2 September. youtube.com/live/vdqz9Zv...
Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @rachelmillward.bsky.social
Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @mothinali.bsky.social
The very richest in society currently produce 10 times more carbon through their domestic travel than the rest of us. And this is set to rise to 13 times by 2035. The threat to our environment isn't migrants or disabled people. It's the super-rich laughing at us from above.
One million hectares have burned across the EU so far this year. Langdale Moor in North Yorkshire is on fire as we speak. And yet governments and the media continue to bury their heads. Only the Green Party has a plan to tackle climate breakdown and close the inequality gap.
One of the most interesting facets of history is the refusal of supporters of fascist policies or leaders to be called fascists. They would almost prefer to be called anything else. Let's face it, fascism got a bad rep after 60,000,000 people died as a result of it in World War 2
From the US, a great example of why far right political forces hate an independent judiciary and want to sweep it away. The separation of powers is one of the strongest pillars against tyranny.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Reality hits you hard, bro. @TiceRichard take note: No fracking in Lancashire, says Reform-led council
I have just asked Reform UK led Lancashire County Council whether it has consented to Union & England flags being hung from its lamp posts. If not, the Council has a legal duty to remove them. Most are at less than half mast and some are upside down which is very disrespectful, also a safety hazard.
"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Lavrov’s response 3 times is to insist that Russia has “never, ever targeted civilian sites.” So the apartment buildings and hospitals we see in flames every day and bodies of civilians is all made up apparently. This is who they are - liars and barbarians.
Which of these parties has more ELECTED MPs? 72 v 4 Which gets more broadcast media coverage? Sign this petition now &pass on. Democracy depends on it. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
A slightly geeky video about Dr Jim Hansen's latest work. Basically he describes why the IPCC models have been too conservative and why climate change is advancing quicker than they predicted. So urgent action to stop fossil fuel use is even more important.
Reform UK’s board is full of Nigel Farage patsies. 3 elected, 3 appointed. Reform UK is a personality cult.
Research shows England will sell off more than 8 times as many council homes in 2025-26 as were constructed the previous year. Labour need to stop lining the pockets of their private developer mates, invest properly in quality council homes and scrap right to buy (properly!).
🤯 Most people seeking asylum are not allowed to work and are forced to rely on state support—as little as £6.43 a day. 🤔 What might be a good way to help asylum seekers out of hotels? 🤝 Maybe let them work, gain financial independence and contribute to their communities!
If this report isn't a wake-up call to the Government, I don't know what will be. 2024 was the hottest year on record. Climate Adaptation can no longer be treated as a luxury. It is essential. Heatwaves aren’t rare anymore. They are the new normal & we are woefully unprepared.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
New data has suggested more than one in four parents will go without food or heating to afford school uniform. Meanwhile, the rich get richer and richer and richer and richer. Child poverty is a political choice. This government could make different ones.
The rich keep getting richer. The gap keeps getting wider. But it doesn't have to be this way. We could tax the super-rich fairly to close the inequality gap and fund our public services properly.
Solar power is surging – Britain has already generated more this year than in all of 2024. Meanwhile, the government’s nuclear plans are crumbling. The Treasury admits a proposal for an underground waste dump is “unachievable” as waste from past projects still has no safe home.
UK Govt to kick off public-private partnerships in England. It is new name for Private Finance Initiative. Private sector invests £1, gets £6+ back. The state guarantees corporate profits. Nothing learnt? Govt can create money, borrow, do QE, tax the rich ... why hand free cash to corporations?
Reform serves council 'plate of chaos' as 22-year-old deputy leader 'sacked' after just three months
Reform UK ‘looking after our own!? Don’t count on it. Homeless charity closes following funding dispute With Reform UK council www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?
A pretty hefty piece of @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis out today by me & @pollardtom.bsky.social, in collaboration with @jrf-uk.bsky.social, on the problems with free hours-based childcare system Labour inherited - & case for a more progressive alternative 👇[1/] neweconomics.org/2025/07/the-...
To engage people on the problem of wealth inequality, we should focus on the “unfair influence” wielded by those at the top, write @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, @wealtherty.bsky.social & Annalena Oppel, even if that causes outrage. @jrf-uk.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/GAf0Es5
Most of Lake Windermere polluted with sewage bacteria. Only 14% of England’s rivers/lakes meet good ecological standards. Water companies major culprits; over 1,135 criminal convictions, United Utilities have 205. No exec prosecuted, no licence to operate cancelled.
Shell alone has caused at least $1.42 trillion in climate damage - and they’re still planning new oil and gas fields. Sign the Polluters Pay Pact here: action.greenpeace.org.uk/make-pollute...
Busy fishing while children in Gaza starve.
Rachel Reeves thinks that weakening environmental protections during a nature and climate crisis will boost 'growth' and that will magically solve all our problems. The Cambridge dictionary has a new word for that...
2025 is on track to beat the national record for wildfires. Our country is burning and the Westminster bubble be like …
🤑 The average FTSE 100 CEO is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker. ⚖️ The Green Party would introduce a 10:1 pay ratio, meaning the highest-paid employee cannot earn more than ten times the lowest-paid.
"You're sat there saying 'oh, please think of the billionaires'. @zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the need to tax the super-rich properly on GMB.
Amazing result @walesgreenparty.bsky.social and congrats to Matt Youde. Politics is changing. The days of two party politics are over. Join us today and together we will break through into the Senedd in 2026
This IS genocide: Destroy everyone's homes, schools, hospitals and sanitation. Starve them and then negotiate their 'voluntary migration' to a war-torn country. Via Euronews: Israel in talks with South Sudan to resettle Palestinians from Gaza, sources say www.euronews.com/2025/08/12/i...
When marine life migrates to UK waters due to the pressures of ocean warming, most people welcome the new sea creatures with open hearts. When humans try to migrate because global warming has deprived them of food, water and a liveable climate, the same people scream "Stop the boats!".
Trump doesn't care about crime in D.C. — which is at a 30-year low. He's creating another fake "emergency" in an attempt to show force. If he actually cared about keeping the city safe, he wouldn't have stoked insurrectionists to attack the Capitol on Jan 6. Hello?
The hotter it gets the deeper the denial. #ClimateCrisis #BurningWorld #BoycottTrump
Farage faces backlash from younger Reform voters over net zero policies inews.co.uk/news/farage-...
Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes. Many components were beyond their design life. Successive govts used the national security argument to cover up the leaks.
Sure, the facilitators of genocide run the British state. They can use the state machinery to crush opponents of genocide. They bet that no government will ever be elected which enforces the Genocide Convention, which criminalises complicity in genocide. They'll lose this bet.
The hotter it gets the deeper the denial #ClimateChange
I think of Labour members as progressive people tolerating a regressive Labour Government.
How times change. In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7.2 million. 157 years later, Russia owns the White House, and they didn't fork out a single dime.
Gaza's endless suffering Jeremy Corbyn, not yet leader of the Labour Party, and me, then Green Party leader, on August 9, 2014, after speaking at a rally in Hyde Park during what was known the "2014 Gaza conflict" www.unrwa.org/2014-gaza-co...
Without unconditional basic income for all, society says everyone is worth nothing until you do something that society pays you to do. But you are not worth zero "unless". You have inherent worth. We all do. UBI enables and empowers us to demonstrate that worth, and in ways beyond monetary exchange.
Violent, lawless, broken Britain? The facts tell a different story The populist narrative of a migrant-driven crimewave is catnip on social media and oil to the wheels of Reform. But it is so far from the truth that we’re in danger of losing sight of the country we live in
The so-called Alaska summit feels like the dystopian apotheosis of 'Pax' Americana An event staged for television where the US president gives away land in somebody else's country that thousands have fought and died for Just so he can posture as peacemaker to his domestic audience Sickening
#HostileEnvironment - inhumane, unjust environment in the Home Office. Policy of @greenparty.org.uk - break it up www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
President Zelenskyy: "Ukrainians defend what's theirs. Even those who are with Russia know that Russia is doing evil. Of course, we will not reward Russia for what it has perpetrated. The #Ukrainian people deserve peace. But all partners must understand what a dignified peace is.
The huge presence of these plastic-loving lobbyists threatens the Global Plastics Treaty. They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits. Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇 act.gp/4licpMq
🚨BREAKING: Fossil fuel/chemical industry lobbyists OUTNUMBER scientists 4 to 1 at the Global Plastics Treaty talks. Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
Fascists in clown suits 🤡
Must have undersized fuses or circuit breakers.
The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?
British electricity mix at 11am on 6th Aug 2025 🔥Gas 7.0% Biomass 6.0% Wind 15.6% Solar 33.8% Hydro 0.8% ⚛️Nuclear 12.0% ➡️Imports 24.3% Other 0.0% 🪫Storage 0.4% 🔌Generation 30GW 🌍Carbon intensity 93 gCO2e/kWh vs target of annual average 50-100 gCO2e/kWh by 2030
Defend our right to protest before it's too late: act.gp/41tmUFx
Luke Campbell is all over the place on this… Reform's Luke Campbell pulls out of Yorkshire mayors collaboration agreement over net zero www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has warned that Rachel Reeves will have to raise taxes in the Autumn Budget. The Chancellor has a choice - continue to penalise people on the lowest incomes or tax the super-rich fairly. We know what we would do 🤑
"What we should really do is go after the property developers." @greenjennyjones.bsky.social responds to the prospect of councils flogging off allotments on Good Morning Britain.
If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.
It's time for a basic income for farmers. 20% of the wealthiest landowners recieve 80% of the subsidies. Meanwhile the farmers who protect our food security are often just trying to survive. I spoke to the Financial Times 👇🏼 www.ft.com/content/b0d8...
On this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima, my thoughts are with the survivors who have suffered so much. And it’s frankly horrifying that the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs - and still want more. @cnduk.bsky.social
Is Reform UK setting up a new site called Crimefunder?
Reform UK councillor Mandy Clare accused of Pride assault and criminal damage launches fundraiser for legal defence ahead of court this Friday. www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/2536858...
As delegates meet in Geneva to shape a UN Global Plastics Treaty, the UK must fight for the strongest deal possible. We must stand up to petro-states and fossil fuel giants trying to weaken action on plastic pollution. The planet can't afford anything less. greenparty.org.uk/2025/08/05/u...
BBC Radio 4 reported that 'hundreds of Gazans have died while trying to reach food aid'. No - they were shot dead by the Israeli Army. For a state broadcaster that crows about verifying its reports, this is a cruel and sinister dilution of language. Words matter. The truth matters.
Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E
Miles & miles of maize but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany. Maize is mainly 🐄 feed. Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion. Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
news.sky.com/story/just-3...
As in the UK, fascism has injected itself into the political mainstream in the US and is pursuing a political Blitzkrieg while normalising industrial lying and the demolition of the separation of powers. If we cannot defeat it constitutionally, it's back to total war like WW2.
On this #PoisonedPlanet, so many threats to life. Cocktail of #pesticides and important issue for many species #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
As climate change drives more extreme weather, we can be certain of one thing: Nigel Farage's denial and inaction. www.lincsonline.co.uk/spalding/new...
Aspen trees are growing taller in Yellowstone thanks to wolves that prey on elk, which graze on trees.
🚨UK Lawyers for Israel Ltd has tried to silence various voices supporting Palestine. Their charitable wing has made public statements rejecting international law. Activist Em Hilton is on the Charity Commission offices to ask for an investigation. youtu.be/Ui70R8PCkJ4
🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.
Standing for Reform UK this week…
Now then.
I can't fathom how the South Yorkshire Police Constabulary can possibly still exist after the Hillsborough and Rotherham scandals. One like this would be enough to sink most forces. The organisation must have friends in very high places.
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
On this #PoisonedPlanet, last thing #PublicHealth or #Biodiversity needs is more #pesticices
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.
#Biodiversity - it is all interlinked
A group of leading economists is urging Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to introduce a wealth tax to tackle extreme inequality. The Green Party has consistently called for a fairer tax system. Time for Labour to make some different political choices and tax the super-rich fairly.
Starmer/Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists. Long overdue. Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined. Laws bent to help the rich - privatisations, PFI, corporate subsidies, capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, unchecked profiteering.
Here's what we think the Prime Minister should be discussing with Donald Trump this afternoon. How many will he manage?
McKinsey and Oxford Economics say that worst-case tariff scenario can't hold back the clean-energy revolution. www.mckinsey.com/industries/E...
Longtime policy of the Green Party - #Votesat16. Delighted to be talking @YoungGreenParty conference in Cardiff on this advance in #democracy tomorrow, as I was in #HouseofLords on Thursday
The shameless lies that fascists tell wherever they are in our world.
Felt like the right choice today. Nae pasaran!
