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I'm assuming they added the "Vote Green" ribbon, because Zack Polanski, the One Jewish party leader our entire Press & UK Politicians are currently piling in on for Something something "Antisemitism" does not have a Big Hooky Nose.

Labour MPs should read the cover story in the New Statesman where the party’s in house mag concludes: These are the same Labour voices who informed my Spectator cover piece on Starmer months ago which concluded that he was the most incurious, unpolitical, ineffective and detached PM of recent times. The withering view of officials about this prime minister will be laid bare in another Spectator cover piece tomorrow. Like Tom McTague’s sources mine conclude that Starmer and his team are as bad as the worst periods of Boris Johnson’s rule. This is not a tenable position. Until now now the conclusion of MPs seems to be that there might be a worse option in the wings. It is increasingly clear to most of the people I speak to that almost any alternative is likely to be better.

A 10:1 pay ratio is too low, IMO. With the minimum wage set at ~£13, that gives an effective maximum hourly rate cap of ~£130 — much, much less than many skilled professionals charge for their services, and much, much less than you need to attract specialist, experienced talent in many, many sectors. BUT when we had lower pay ratios (under postwar social democracy) it wasn’t because of top-down legislation, but because of inbuilt structural mechanisms for bolstering workers’ bargaining power (i.e. powerful trade unions). Instead of pay ratios (which would invite all manner of insane avoidance/elite self-employment/boosted share option schemes), let’s have: 👉Nationwide sectoral collective bargaining 👉Worker representation on company boards Let’s boost productivity by incentivising investment in plant, machinery & automative technology over cheap, unorganised, casual labour.

Wow, Zack Polanski now actively sharing lies about British Jews. He doesn't know when to stop does he? We are Jews in Britain. We regularly counter the hate marches. Anyone who wants to join us is welcome.

Your Party bloc at the march yesterday. 20 branches came with banners, with 35 groups announcing attendance so far. Roughly around the same size as the Green Party bloc, despite having 1/4 the membership. People are saying this is a dead party — the branches are saying otherwise

The Green electoral model depends on three overlapping demographics, which I would crudely summarise as: young graduates, Muslim voters angry about Gaza, and Remainers in high-density urban areas. These demographics cluster in roughly 30–50 seats in England and Wales. In the other 550+ seats, the math ain’t mathing. The Greens will drag down or even push past Labour but can’t pull enough to win 89 post-industrial Northern England seats where Reform came second to Labour in 2024. Or the formerly Conservative strongholds of suburban and rural England, where Reform is now at the very least second.