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What a brilliant and wonderful young man!!

.@ZackPolanski brilliant on @bbclaurak just now - this is what making hope normal again looks like 🙌👏💚 #BBCLauraK

@Jon_Cooper_23 @ZackPolanski I don’t think Zack is against ordinary UK entrepreneurship- that’s exactly what we need. It’s multi billionaires that are his focus. They need to pay a fair rate of tax and contribute to society.

Zack, I’m a genuine admirer. You’re refreshing, authentic, and that man-of-the-people approach you show so naturally is powerful, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s exactly what gets you over the line. Twenty years ago, you’d have had my vote without hesitation. But life moves on, experience builds, and you realise balance is more complex than slogans. To win my vote now, and the votes of many British taxpayers and business owners like me, there has to be some compromise on the blanket hostility toward wealth. I understand the argument, but this country needs wealth and investment. It isn’t inherently bad, however it’s often portrayed. Right now, there’s very little encouragement for entrepreneurs to set up in the UK. The long hours, personal sacrifice, missed family time, and real risk of failure, especially under current economic pressures, make building and running a business here increasingly unattractive. On top of that, the Conservative/Labour approach to taxing international residents on worldwide income has been catastrophic. Many have simply left. That hollowed out entire service sectors built around high and ultra-high net worth individuals, with serious knock-on effects for jobs and growth. Combined with unfavourable business taxation and rising operating costs, it’s slowly strangling the country. With AI accelerating and likely to displace large numbers of jobs, we urgently need a UK that adapts, one that actively encourages business formation, innovation, and job creation. Brexit gave us the tools to do exactly that. It didn’t mean shutting the door to migration, it meant “control”. If we need European migration, we should welcome and support it. But we must rebuild industries now, while we still can, before AI forces much harder conversations around employment and migration, where may be closing borders is a necessity. We just don’t know yet. My final point: bring real business leaders into government, people who’ve run payrolls, faced risk, and understand growth. Don’t be afraid to rethink ministerial pay to attract genuine talent. Running a country is one of the most important jobs there is. It deserves world-class capability and appropriate reward, as otherwise government won’t attract the right people. These are serious, good-faith considerations for a forward-thinking Green Party. The UK needs a credible AI and business strategy, with properly incentivised, experienced leaders at the helm.

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@MiltonicMindset @ZackPolanski Yes it is. It’s been done before as the norm in very recent history.

@ZackPolanski Can you explain in concrete terms HOW you plan to pay for all of this? “Tax the rich” is not viable economic policy.

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This says it all - and our Govt shld be equally unequivocal abt what the US has done.

@Rainmaker1973 Ignored oil kills.

In 3 words

@MoleyDave68 @ChrisGPackham Just because we live in a fossil fuel-dependent world doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attempt to change the system in order to make the future less dangerous and better for all. Trying to make the world a safer place is not something to get upset about. Chris is a good man.

@ChrisGPackham This from someone who uses fossil fuels EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE! It’s mind boggling, lots & lots of people shout about stopping the use of them, but don’t seem to practice what they preach, so I think unless you’re willing to give up fossil fuel, shut the fvck up!

Yesterday I spoke at the first ever National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Hall . Our home is on fire – will we let it burn ?

@MoleyDave68 @ChrisGPackham Just because we live in a fossil fuel-dependent world doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attempt to change the system in order to make the future less dangerous and better for all. Trying to make the world a safer place is not something to get upset about. He is a good man.

.....and Green Party membership is rising yet again! If you want to lower bills and tax billionaires: Join.greenparty.org.uk #BBCLauraK

@ThatAlexWoman This is incendiary racist nonsense. And even if you did get sexist responses this is one street in the whole of the country. You are just stoking division. White English men are often sexist and make women feel uncomfortable in many environments, you know?

Walking down Edgware Road, I can feel leering eyes burning into me I feel almost naked. Exposed. Extremely self-conscious of my blondeness and Western dress. I zip my coat up as high as possible and tuck my long hair down into the collar I avert my eyes to the pavement and try to walk as quickly as possible, willing myself to be invisible. I am trying to ignore the hissed comments from men sat outside coffee shops with Shisha and cigarettes. There is a tight fist of anxiety in my sternum as my pace quickens. But this isn't a far flung, dangerous land that comes with a Governmental Travel Advisory Warning for solo women. This is my capital city. London. Yet I know I don't belong here. I am the exotic stranger having to adapt my dress and behaviour for my own safety.

@parcelforce Thanks I have sent a DM. I couldn’t get through to a person on the tel number.

@SooStow I can confirm this is our customer service phone number, however if you prefer you can send us a DM with your full name, address, contact details, tracking reference and how we can help. ^Matt

@parcelforce how can I speak to a real support desk person on the phone please. There is no way to do it on 03457 740 740 and the info options on the website don’t cover my situation.

This is brilliant. Thanks @ZackPolanski for saying it like it should be said!! ❤️

What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most? Did I guess right?

@IlanaAyr @BristolGalt @ThePosieParker And you’re basing this judgement on what? This sort of comment makes me so ashamed to be British. Hateful, hurtful and misinformed.

After spending the night in hospital with my daughter, who is very unwell but not life threatening, I don’t want to hear another word about how great the nhs is. The nurses have not looked after her at all. Loud unnecessary conversations throughout the night, lazy can’t be arsed attitudes, no explanation of what’s happening, at all, no desire to offer reassurance or comfort, not one question about whether she wants to sit up or lie down. We are being made to feel like everything is too much and we should be grateful for less than the absolute minimum. She asked for more pain killers, as it’s been six hours. “We will come at six, as it must be six hours unless you’re in pain” (it can actually be four) we explained the doctor says to make it regular, she’s also had morphine and that she is in a lot of pain. “If you dont wait until six the next lot will be hours and hours and hours” I ask what time the last lot was as we think it’s been a really long time. “11:13, so she can wait until six, unless she’s in pain” I say that that’s six hours ago. “Yes so at six we will come round” I have to say “no, at six it’ll be nearly seven hours, she’s in pain now, please can you go and get the pain relief now” She goes. When she returns, rather than coming round to the side of her bed to give a patient medicine, on a drip, she leans from the bottom of the bed and motions for my daughter to get up and take it from her. I have to remind the nurse that she’s in hospital because she’s unwell and in agony. “Oh I didn’t know, I’m new to this ward” this ward is uneventful, nothing is happening. She must have read my daughter’s chart to give her the tablets. What sort of nurse gives tablets from the bottom of a bed?!?! Imagine I wasn’t here? How many patients would have felt despite the pain they should take it from her? Imagine my daughter was a frail or vulnerable patient? The entire experience has been god awful. The hospital is very empty, with wards full lit with no patients in them. It’s utterly utterly shit.

@BristolGalt @IlanaAyr @ThePosieParker History shows how brutal colonialism was. Your attitude to an entire continent is crazy. How can you judge millions of people? Just think about what you’ve just said - it is hateful, ignorant and wrong in every way. Comments like this make me ashamed to be British.

@IlanaAyr @ThePosieParker Agreed but there is also an element of hatred I would say. A lot of them secretly hate us. All the lefty stuff our children are taught in school spreads, slavery, reparations, the Empire, etc. They’re taught to hold a grudge

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Wow that is a great broadcast! “Let’s make hope normal again.”

@NovaxForcazi @fugustra1 Prawn cocktail. 😂

@fugustra1 An indoor toilet A bath that didn't hang up in the yard that you didn't have to heat pans of water on the stove for A car A room of my own Central heating A bike Toilet paper not cut up bits of newspaper I could go on...

Air conditioning... 😂You?

@KirstieMAllsopp @MayorofLondon You do realise it was Trump who said he didn’t want him in the same room? Such a strange and divisive post!

Dear @MayorofLondon, It is you who talks London down, it is you who talks about hate, and pollution, and it is you who won’t meet the democratically elected leader of the country that sends us more tourists than any other. Start really promoting our city, because that is your job