@GeorgeAACX I'm so sick of Labour ultras attacking the Greens when Reform are the clear danger & am muting any that stray into my feed.
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simon
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Starmer and the government are actively working for the safety of our country and its people and you're expecting him to be posting about it on Twitter.
Shameful and just proves how little you know about how politics works.
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
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@williamnhutton As if the US & Israel haven't been committing war crimes in Iran for a month - and Israel in Gaza for 3 long years... where have you been, @williamhutton ?
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In little more than 2 hours Trump may direct an attack on Iran’s infrastructure that is illegal under international law - a war crime. The language he deploys broaches abominable lows. He may defer again. But it’s already enough. Too much silence from our political class.
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The Guardian will - with every appearance of regret - do all it can to destroy the Green Party and save its friends on the Labour right. If the party doesn't build its own media infrastructure it will be stamped into the ground by liberals, as much as by the right.
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Very bizarre that the @guardian have allowed Stella Creasy to try and link me with Tommy Robinson in her article today. Full exchange - where Stella says we need to strengthen our relationship with Trumps US is linked below. If anyone is being abusive here - it's not me!
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@lionel_trolling yes, I'd go mad if I thought about it all the time, so some defence mechanism is necessary (as with climate change). But shocking it is, and we must do all we can to punish those in power & in the media who could have done something, but have allowed it to happen.
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@SolHughesWriter ...until hopefully at some point Labour become so marginal that the lobbyists stop wasting their money on these failures
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defeated by the Greens, Thangam Debbonaire was rewarded with 3 lobbying jobs , working for firms representing South West Water, Serco and AI firms - Labour MP's will ignore voters who want them to go left if corporations give them jobs for staying right morningstaronline.co.uk/article/debbon…
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@suziegeewizz Welcome to the Greens. I was one of the 800k expressing interest in YP, but am so glad I stayed with 💚 It's a friendly & dynamic party without unpleasant factional infighting. Enjoy it.
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Corbyn is a ditherer but it's clear now that Sultana and her crew are mainly responsible for blowing up Your Party really before it even started. All sides bear some responsibility though & all should hang their heads in shame.
I'm cancelling my subs & joining the Greens.
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@Daniel_Grigg @ZackPolanski Except that for 10 years their most solid electoral base has been centrist & centre-right voters in the home counties who don't like either the Tories or Reform. So they were never going to outflank Labour to the left
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Lib Dems looking at the Greens, realising all they had to do was go to Labour's left and they could have overtaken them, the whole time.
If they'd been less Tory.
@ZackPolanski
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@robfordmancs The comparison falls down because Callaghan inherited a wafer-thin majority, whereas Starmer has a massive majority, but does next to nothing with it. But yes, they were both poor PMs.
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Imagine that. A leader levelling with people about hard times ahead and no easy options.
Tides of History@labour_history
Fifty years ago today, Jim Callaghan becomes Prime Minister. But he faces the most difficult economic crisis since the war: “There is no soft option. I do not promise you any real easement for some time to come”.
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@LilithRStacey Tbh I think things are so fluid that speculation about the next GE is pointless. We should focus on getting the best possible results in May & be prepared for all kinds of changes thereafter.
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I do think our ceiling is around 25%, with a small booster from tactical voting.
However, I suspect that by the time we reach 25%, Reform will have collapsed further (possibly w/ Farage jumping ship killing the project), thus making it a one way race between Greens and Tories.
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@LeoMontague91 Starmer's easy solutions are further squeezing the disabled, more drilling for oil, more privatisation in the NHS & repeatedly giving in to business lobbying. No thanks
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@simonreynell Opposite ends of the political spectrum. Same ego, same divisive tactics, same claims of easy solutions to difficult problems. Same populism.
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@LeoMontague91 Farage & Polanski are polar opposites, and I've canvassed enough streets this year to know that most voters understand this.
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@simonreynell At some point people will wake up and realise voting for a shape shifting narcissist is potentially not the greatest idea. Polanski and Farage are two sides of the same opportunistic, populist coin. And I’ll have nothing to do with either.
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@kieronmurphy5 @LeoMontague91 @TeresaC123 @TheGreenParty @UKLabour @Conservatives @reformparty_uk How does Rosebank fit in with this analysis, as well as this week's capitulation on intensive farming?
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@LeoMontague91 @TeresaC123 Absolutely 💯
Also anyone genuinely interested in promoting the green 💚 agenda, as @TheGreenParty used to be, can see that @UKLabour in government is delivering real progress and the only alternative government are the climate change denying @Conservatives @reformparty_uk
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@drgerke1 The sad truth is he's always had weaknesses as a leader: lack of clarity, indecisiveness, poor with media. I defended him 2016-2020 as I like his general politics, but if he'd become PM, he'd have sunk into a quagmire of ineffectiveness within months, even without media attacks.
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I’m completely bemused by Corbyn at this point. Is there any sort of a plan, anything thought out, or does he just operate on pure instinct? You can’t build a movement around someone who just acts, seemingly at random, via their own intuition, with no stated logic or goals.
Beanie 🏳️⚧️ 🔆 💚@beanietheonly
I'm getting really close to believing we shouldn't work with Corbyn on anything endorsing former Tories is clownish behaviour when he was talking about how the left must work together two weeks ago like how the hell can we trust this man?
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@rdg_elliott Good luck & I hope you win, but don't expect Meta or X to tackle abuse. It's horrible, but it's central to their business model (& their profits). Try to develop rhino skin (though I certainly couldn't do it)
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Is it any wonder fewer young people and women stand for local office?
I simply shared I’d been selected as a Green Party candidate, and the abuse has been awful.
Meta and X need to do far more to tackle this.
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@BanGaoRen I wish that was true, but fear that support Reform will be far more sticky than you suggest.
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The next UK General Election will be a mostly two-way fight between the Green Party and the Conservative Party for English seats. When this energy crisis really hits voters will dismiss as useless the glib adventurism of Farage and his incoherent ungovernable circus of a party.
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Corbynistas flock to Zack Polanski’s Green Party ft.trib.al/OwBjIH7
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@KarlTurnerMP @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer Labour are deplorable & immoral. What would scare them is if you joined the Greens, Karl.
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This is a fair reflection of what’s been happening behind the scenes @UKLabour. @Keir_Starmer knew full well what was happening. So did every cabinet member. I made sure they all knew. Some sent messages of support others turned a blind eye dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
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@timboxall @TheGreenParty Yes, same experience for me. The Green Party is much more friendly, and much less factional, than Labour ever was
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Went to the my first local @TheGreenParty meeting ever this evening. Never have I ever felt so welcome & valued as a party member, so welcome & encouraged to be involved at a local & national level.
Labour betrayed me after decades of my support, as they betrayed so many of those most in need of support & representation. No political party is perfect, but I think I've finally found a place thats willing to offer realistic hope rather than an endless doom spiral of Labour.
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