Joe Belcher

The Green Party is in clear 2nd place, catching Reform. Vote Green on May 7th 💚

Pro-war, pro-privatisation. Don't trust these people.

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Keir Starmer promised Commons' consent before military action. We’re still waiting.

Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170 million building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top. #ReformUK #NigelFarage #GBNews

Who funds Reform? Greens will never take dirty money - our members power our party. People and planet remain our only vested interests. Join.greenparty.org.uk observer.co.uk/news/national/…

Watch the Reform UK's James Orr humiliate himself on #BBCQT James Orr, "When the wind doesn't blow, you need gas to back it up and sometimes the wind doesn't blow" Fiona Bruce asks how drilling helps us is oil and gas are traded on the international market James Orr, "Prices are fixed internationally but a portion of them is connected to" Caroline Lucas, "It really isn't. It's sold on international markets to the highest bidder" James Orr, "That's not true.. Bills are higher because of unreliable renewables" Caroline Lucas, "They are not unreliable. All we need are interconnectors so when its not windy in this country you import the wind power from somewhere else" "I just despair at the kind of lies James, you are telling to people" James Orr, "These are not lies" Caroline Lucas, "They are"

Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT

It's clear - Reform are a danger to our NHS. Only Greens can stop them.

Zack Polanski calls for rent controls, "If we froze rents in Autumn 2022 households would save £3,300 per year" "That's £18 billion of purchasing power back into pockets of people" "Money that could be spent on local businesses, buying a coffee on the way to work, or a few pints at the end of a hard week" "Instead, straight into landlords pockets" "Leaving our high streets hollowed out" "And our Green MP Carla Denyer has been raising the alarm on this scandal" "We need to bring in rent control" "We would stop the choke hold of rip off rents and bring life back into our communities"

‼️POLL | #GE2029 without any tactical voting* ➡️ Ref: 27% (+12) 🟢 Grn: 23% (+16) 🔵 Con: 17% (-7) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 13% (+1) Poll: @YouGov, 15-16 Mar (+/- vs GE2024) --- *Voters asked to state true first preference. Excludes respondents who said "Don't Know".

⏰ Catch @CarolineLucas on BBC Question Time tonight. 📺 BBC News Channel 9pm 📺 BBC One at 10.40pm

We're out again today, listening to local residents telling us what matters most to them. Great responses on the doorstep and lovely weather, too ☀️ If we missed you today, don't worry, we want to hear from you. Talk to us here 👉 tinyurl.com/issues-walsall #Walsall

Our priorities are clear: Make life more affordable. Protect the majority over the wealthy elite. Protect our planet for generations to come.

Zack Polanski, "Brexit has been a disaster for this country, socially, economically and culturally" "And the fact that Nigel Farage, the principle person behind Brexit has the chutzpah to return to the national stage and say that things are a disaster, often turbocharged by Brexit, and he's the person who's going to fix this? It's an outrageous claim" "And yes, I do want to see us rejoin the European Union" "We're much better building our relations with our European neighbours, including rejoining the Customs Union" "But yes, one day I want to see us rejoin the EU"

“It is utterly unacceptable that just four years after the last energy price shock, we are facing another — because far too little has been done to protect our people, our economy and our country.” @ZackPolanski speaking at the New Economics Foundation on the urgent need to insulate homes and protect people from rising energy costs.

Zack Polanski criticises Thatcher for selling off our water companies, calls out the sewage crisis poisoning nature, and says the Greens will renationalise

In January BBC News provided 37 minutes of live coverage of a Reform press conference (12 minutes and then 25 minutes). @ZackPolanski has done a press conference for the Greens this morning, & never mind any live coverage, I haven't even see it mentioned!

We live in Rip Off Britain. We have to lower people's bills and tax wealth fairly. This morning I'll be starting to lay out our vision of how to do this. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

This week’s YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention poll has the following headline results: RefUK 25%(+2), GRN 19% (nc). CON 17% (-2), LAB 17% (nc), LDEM 14% (nc), The poll was taken on Sunday 15 March and Monday 16 March, with a sample of 2,329 respondents from YouGov’s online panel. This is the first poll since Nigel Farage and Reform UK publicly challenged YouGov’s approach and the pollster agreed to supply more underlying data about each poll. How YouGov carries out voting intention polls. During the last election campaign in 2024, YouGov changed how it conducts its weekly voting intention polls in an attempt to pick up tactical voting that has become an increasing feature of UK elections in recent years. They have continued to use this methodology since the election. Unlike other pollsters, YouGov’s methodology involves asking their online panel two voting intention questions: first, how they would vote if a general election were held tomorrow and - second - how they would vote in a general election if they were thinking specifically about their own constituency. The results are then put through an MRP model - or to give it its full name, a “multi-level regression and post-stratification” model to turn their raw data into headline voting intention - the figures that Sky News reports each week. YouGov uses these two techniques - a pair of voting intention questions and then putting the results through an MRP model - because they believe this allows them to get the closest to the result of an election held tomorrow. There appear to be significant differences between pollsters in their respective treatment of Reform UK: there are a lot of irregular voters currently telling pollsters they will go out and vote for Nigel Farage’s party in an election tomorrow, and different companies take a different view on how likely this would be to happen in practice. Why Reform UK dispute the methodology In recent months, YouGov has reported lower polling shares for Reform UK than other firms, although other pollsters also reported a decline from their peak, and Nigel Farage’s party has now challenged the pollster’s methodology. They say they believe that the first voting intention question - that makes no reference to constituencies - is a better representation of what is happening in the country, as well as questioning the use of the YouGov MRP model. They point to the pollster Peter Kellner, a one time employee of YouGov, who said that use of a second voting intention question about how a respondent would vote if thinking about their constituency would advantage the Lib Dems over Reform UK. From this week, following the Reform UK challenge, YouGov has agreed to publish the results to the question without the constituency prompt, as well as the one with the prompt which was already automatically part of the data. Nigel Farage is claiming this as a victory for transparency. YouGov’s methodology, however, has not changed and they stand by their approach. So here are YouGov’s raw voting intention numbers this week without a constituency prompt, and before YouGov apply the MRP model: Reform UK 19% Green 16% Conservative 11% Labour 11% Lib Dems 7% SNP 2% Plaid 1% Other 4% Would not vote 10% Don’t know 15% Refused to say 3% These are the numbers that Reform UK say are the “real” figures which each week they are likely to highlight. Note the figure here for Reform UK is the same this week when the question is asked both with and without the constituency prompt - 19%. Who is right? All pollsters use modelling and a range of techniques to generate the headline voting intention they believe best reflects reality. Ultimately, these results can only be tested at a general election, and at these moments, polling companies are judged by clients and shareholders. This wait can be frustrating for political parties, since in between elections polls drive momentum and, at worst, can be used to justify a change of leader. However at the last election, the final YouGov MRP poll put Reform UK on 15%, the exact number they received at the ballot box, and the final MRP was the most accurate by seats of any pollster, with 92% of constituencies called correctly.