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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 19m

As Palestinians return, what now? Just dust and rubble. No food, no water, no medical, no jobs. While the US celebrates ending a genocide that it supported, how long before Israeli/US bulldozers arrive and start claiming plots for 'redevelopment'?

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 10h

Disaster capitalism phase 1: profit from destroying Gaza

Disaster capitalism phase 2: profit from rebuilding Gaza

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The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 20h

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h

Hind Rajab should have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A 5 year old trapped in a car and shot 355 times by Israel while they murdered the Paramedics who tried to help her.

This sacrifice should have ended Israel and the war.

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for also calling Reform's leadership fascists to their face on live TV. If only the legacy party members had this integrity and courage. Surrounded on all sides by neoliberals, you were fantastic.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 16h

Loud-mouth tax-dodging expat, Reform deputy head of misinformation, Dick Tice, who routinely denounces net zero and climate change, actually makes money from it.
Outstanding moral compass.

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 17h

Starmer's transition to a right-wing neoliberal Labour Party nears completion, leaving only the Green Party as a progressive voting option in the UK.

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 1d

Tabloids Brand #ZackPolanski ‘Dangerous’ — And Trigger a #GreenPartySurge

follow 'Dangerous' @zackpolanski.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2rA...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

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.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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

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.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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

⏰ Don't miss @zackpolanski.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.

💻 BBC iPlayer at 9pm
📺 BBC One at 10.40pm.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...

How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Watch this interview to hear how the status quo is leading us all to poverty and increased inequality and what we need to do to stop it.
Reshare widely
#greensrising

youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...

How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Scaifytime - WOUNDEDSPiRiT - lead guitarist @scaifytime.bsky.social · 3d

Let it die, along with reform. Labour might recover in the future but it’ll have to purge the tories from its ranks.

Vote Green bring about hope and change. Let the Lib Dem’s be the opposition. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over. Time for something new

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

I didn’t think I’d ever say this: let’s hope the Tory party can be saved | Polly Toynbee

Britain badly needs a grownup party of the centre right. It won’t come from Badenoch – it may come from a new generation of one-nationers, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 4d

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Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

More evidence of Private Equity disaster in US healthcare

PE bought hospitals, GP practices, nursing homes.

Cut wages, staff, investment, care; load with debt; extract profits; deaths, injuries rise.

Why is UK govt handing healthcare to PE/corporations?

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Private Equity in Health Care - ACHI

This explainer examines the rise of private equity in healthcare, the financial structures behind private equity transactions, what the evidence shows about the impacts of these transactions on the he...

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Councils aren't inherently wasteful. Decades of austerity politics has destroyed their budgetary strength.
Always call out Reform stupidity when we see it.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4d

Reform UK promised to slash “wasteful spending” - now they’re raising taxes.

Looks like Reform UK are learning council budgets aren't as wasteful as they thought...

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-uk-council-tax-kent-news-rf05q0bqm

Reform UK set to raise Kent council tax — despite promising savings

Nigel Farage had pledged cost-cutting, but officials now admit services are already ‘down to bare bones’ and a rise by the maximum rate of 5% may be needed

www.thetimes.com

Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Poundshop DOGE-style nonsense. The present Conservatives are a national embarrassment. The weakest parliamentary opposition in British history.

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Anybody else sick of seeing that vile grifter Farage on our publicly owned platform?

Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Continue to call out the political bias we see every day. The BBC is our public broadcaster and their obvious bias is a disgrace.
@bbclaurak.bsky.social

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d

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

The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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

bylinetimes.com

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

The established politic will use all their tricks to discredit the rising movements, but if we all remain honest, we will always have that advantage over them.
Torys-charletans
Reform-grifters
Labour-steath capitalists

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 3d

Just what our country needs. A room full of drunken fools waving plastic flags.
These shameless incompetents allowed Farage and Johnson to destroy the bedrock of this country and remove us from the EU. I hope at some point in the future they are held properly to account.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 4d

Or, as Badenoch would spell it, Sweet Carolien. #ukpolitics

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 4d

Late-stage capitalism, the result of decades of neoliberal policy, and the lie of trickle-down economics. Wealth only trickles upwards in our current system. This is now a fact not a theory.
Only a full scale reset will create the change required to lift people out of poverty.
#wealthtax

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

The state we're in

UK full-time employee median wage, £30,816.
4.5m jobs pay less than the real Living Wage.
1.17m workers on zero-hour contracts.
34% of Universal Credit claimants are in work.
16m Britons live in poverty.

Can't build economy on poverty.

Must increase worker share of GDP.

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 4d

The BBC reluctance to interview Zack and Greens is because their executive is influenced by right wing lobbyists. They know Greens represent change and the interests of the people not the rich, and it scares them. Greens have as many MPs as Reform and they appear hourly on the BBC.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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