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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

eh don’t make me have to explain the joke

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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 1d

Fiona explains to the audience a decade old non- story pre-dating Polanskis’ career in politics But she won’t explain the Nathan Gill story #Bbcqt from a few weeks ago about Nathan Gill, Farage and Reform Russian bribery story bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it’s quite mad that they didn't even put anyone on #bbcqt tonight…

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

😆

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty evident that this is already happening. Surrounded by three hard right wingers on tonight’s #bbcqt the Labour guy was basically invisible, he let Zack do all the work of standing up against bigotry - well, Zack and a hearteningly decent Shrewsbury audience.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

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Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 1d

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

lol Tory twat saying Jenrick’s racist comments were “a v minute thing”, reform twat dissing the audience & making up fiction about nhs, both obv rattled by the #bbcqt audience being sound on immigration & thanking immigrants for all the work they do & saying theyre sick of hearing about immigration

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

IPlayer is on now!

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing how a #bbcqt audience that presumably has been warmed up a bit by Zack amongst others, is sounding so basically decent on the whole, almost like beyond the Westminster village idiots & media tarts all thrilling to crypto fascism, there’s a world of sensible people

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Blimey, I just happen to be somewhere with live TV for a change and oh there is actually an episode of #bbcqt I want to watch for the first time in a very long time

Bingo card:
"Sixth-form politics"
Bonus point if interruption
Tax wealth not work
Not all Landlords
Bonus point if said by landlord
"Israel has the right to defend itself"
"Woke(ism)"
Bonus point if with "free speech"
"Won't the rich just leave?"
Politics of Hope
Bonus point if in the first 30 mins
"Two-tier" Policing
Your Party comparison
Point allowed if Corbynism
99% vs 1%
Bonus point for each occurrence
"Safe and legal routes"
Fiona Bruce interrupts Zack
Bonus point for each occurrence

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 1d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is what bugs me the most about the willingness of swathes of politicos to swallow a random r-wing internet conspiracy theory - that accepting this particular theory requires you to have paid zero attention to how outsourcing / privatisation / cronyism actually happens

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 5d

Did it not occur to you that this was clear bullshit? It was a line in a speech, not a worked-through plan, never mind a bill or legislation. How likely was it really that a company that doesn't even make software would have won a contract that was nowhere near being put out to tender? FuckSAKE.

Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 4d

So flipping true 😞

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Bolder. Effective.And surging!

Come on @greenparty.org.uk team.

Let's go!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party is louder and more left wing than ever.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 6d

I fear too much of the political class who have spent 15 years sneeringly referring to people outside the Westminster village as “keyboard warriors” have now become little more than keyboard warriors themselves

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 7d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

To be honest I think their muted reaction suggested they suspected a massive error

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7d

It can simultaneously be true that
A) ID cards are a terrible idea
B) The Blair family are greedy chancers
and
C) There is no evidence of this claim, it stems from far right social media accounts & amplifying it is a lazy failure of basic fact checking, political nous and common sense by #hignify

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 7d

Here’s the clip (which I will once again note for out-of-context reposts, is a total bullshit conspiracy/fake news).

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 9d

cc @henrymance.ft.com who brought this to my (and many others’) attention

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 9d

Why exactly the BBC judges hate speech laws to be relevant to debates about free speech, but public order and so-called terrorism laws not to be, is a highly ideological position that I want the BBC to justify, to Ofcom if necessary - or just admit they made a mistake with this one.

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