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John Berry he/him
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Don't blame me: I'm one of the 1,843,124 people who voted Green.
One of the people of Beorma and a bit sweary.
Member of the Green Party but my views are all mine.
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John Berry he/him @thejohnberry.bsky.social · Sep 24
In my pursuit of @greenparty.org.uk history I've been reading the original PEOPLE party's Manifesto for Survival from 1974.
It already includes some familiar items like no whip, localism and UBI, which it calls the National Income.
#greenpartyhistory
Cover of PEOPLE's Manifesto for Survival, 1974 Policy reducing local governance areas to a population of only 20,000 National Income scheme manifesto.
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avdeggar.bsky.social
Your Party's conduct has been so consistently laughable from the get-go that it is verging on psy-op territory now.
Independent MP Adnan Hussain has resigned from Your Party "The culture surrounding the party has become dominated by persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence"
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏

Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Not here to be disappointed.

Not here to be concerned.

Here to replace them - and then take on Reform.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
I'm not willing to work with Keir Starmer...and he might not even be an MP by the next general election" says green leader Zack Polanski
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
Zack for PM, anyone?

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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fesshole.bsky.social
On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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stevehyndside.bsky.social
Latest polling for Greens (changes from previous month):

YouGov - 16% (+5) and record high
Find Out Now - 17% (+6) and record high
More in Common - 12% (+4) and record high
Opinium - 12% (+5) and record high
Techne - 12% (+3) and record high
Lord Ashcroft - 17% (+4) and record high
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Love that every time Labour make these crap attacks ads - the Green membership rockets up.

And indeed the Green Party overtook Labour in a poll so let's hope they keep it up!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
shakethescales.bsky.social The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 10d
He ditched the Green New Deal the moment he took power; invented 'grey belt' to build over green; slashed regs & fast-tracked Heathrow's 3rd runway: Keir Starmer is rattled, caught in a pincer movement between Left & Right with no one to blame but 'centrism' itself. He's coming for Zack. Personally.
A dishonest Labour Party social media advert (aren't they all) captioned 'Labour is delivering on making Britain a clean energy superpower...' with a picture of Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, clearly focusing heavily on his teeth, even though plausible deniability will be their defence when called out on this ("His teeth aren't our fault..." might be the line), because his teeth are the attack line de jour following an intervention by Right-wing TV pundit and professional sock-vomit Jeremy Clarkson last week. The advert also says: 'Their councillors block solar farms and clean energy infrastructure. Their leader is against nuclear energy. What's so Green about the Green Party?' The words 'block' & 'against' are highlighted in yellow, the word 'Green' is highlighted in green. All lettering is in shouty capitals. This line of attack shows three things: 1. Labour sees the reinvigorated Green Party, and so Zack Polanski personally, as a huge threat to their electoral chances because it campaigns from the Left; 2. The politics of personal attacks is fine by Starmer (as he has proven time and again, against Diane Abbot and Jeremy Corbyn for example); 3. The Labour Party is composed of lying, disingenuous little shits. My main post outlines just three of the inexcusably anti-environment policies Starmer has forced upon us which will set us back years, not to mention the insistence on a 'growth' economy on a finite planet in the throws of climate collapse. In the case of Heathrow expansion, Starmer overturned at a stroke a hard-fought ban on the 3rd runway which followed decades of campaigning. The advert's central point pushes nuclear energy as a clean option, when it is literally the worst option possible if you can see further than Starmer's endlessly growing nose. Sizewell was leaking toxic material within 15 years. See this thread (entitled 'Nuclear meltdown') for further details: https://bsky.app/profile/shakethescales.bsky.social/post/3lyvggmbdys2j
November 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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owainsutton.bsky.social
Let's recycle ALL the tropes!!!

"Look at Labour, splitting the vote."
"Labour need to affiliate to the Green Party."
"I'd vote for Labour, but they don't stand a chance here."
"If those Labour voters went Green instead, Reform would be out."

Do join in with your own!!
electionmaps.uk Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 15d
Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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picklebee.bsky.social
Nothing to see here, your party is totally on track for 100s of MPs.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party to launch legal action against three of its ‘rogue’ founders, sources say
Exclusive: Leftwing party seeks to recover donations and data from company run by Andrew Feinstein, Jamie Driscoll and Beth Winter
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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berinfw.bsky.social
Confirmed - @zackpolanski.bsky.social is the doctor 🟦🩺
October 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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hollyanderson.bsky.social
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
So it turns out I'm on a list of Greens who aren't really Green but have some other agenda. I suppose this means I've arrived and am definitely a proper Green. 😂
Screenshot of Clearsky app showing I am on a list called Green in name only 💪😁 Screenshot from Concerned Greens saying Zack Polanski isn't a Green. 😂
October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
Another adapted Labour poster...
A Labour election poster adapted to say Vote Green Party to keep the BBC announcer saying Zack Polanski.
October 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
Whoooo such good news! 💚
alizaadi.bsky.social Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · Oct 1
🚨 UPDATE 🚨

The news is in, and it’s good

🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference

They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda

But the party stood firm

1.
alizaadi.bsky.social Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · Sep 29
🚨 UPDATE 🚨

This week, Green Party Specialist Interest Groups will be told whether Party leadership plans to allow GWD to run a stall at Autumn Conference

To be clear: GWD is a transphobic lobbying outfit, fronted by expelled ex-members with a history of breaching party values and code of conduct
October 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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thejohnberry.bsky.social
Funny, this old Labour poster now fits the Green Party better!
An old Labour Party poster saying Support your own team, vote Labour - edited with the Green Party logo covering the word Labour.
October 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
🎉 Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been included in this year’s Time100 Next list, an annual list naming the 100 leaders shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism.
TIME100 NEXT 2025 Zack Polanski Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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vesseymiller.bsky.social
Hundreds of Green Party volunteers reached nearly 100k households in a single day, sending a strong message to the voters here that Zoe & Dylan are the change Hackney needs.

#Greens #GreenPolitics #ZackPolanski
A group photo of 370 Green Party volunteers standing around Zack Polanski, in a park in Hackney, celebrating the Party surpassing 80,000 members in England & Wales; a new record.
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
Messiah: 21st Century Jesus CD Messiah: 21st Century Jesus CD
September 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
If you see this skeet, skeet a pic from your device with no explanation.
September 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
Is this what ratioed means? 💚😂
labourlist.bsky.social LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · Sep 28
Our event ‘Turning the rising Green tide’ in partnership with Hold Fast Labour is starting now in Meeting Room 11a ACC!

Featuring @_karin_c, @johnmcternan, @BellaSankey, @ThangamDebb, and @Scarlett__Mag of @StrategyMerlin.
September 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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thatelizabeth.bsky.social
Your (no, not you and definitely not her) party.
September 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
The brain's behind this account
September 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
Just like genocide is ecocide.
Homophobes always turn out to be racists.
Anti-vax is discriminatory against disabled and elderly.

It's intersectional.

It's why there are four pillars to Green politics:
Our environment
Grassroots democracy
Nonviolence
Justice 💚
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Sep 26
There is no such thing as a "progressive transphobe", a "left-wing gender-critical" or a "Green TERF".

Transphobia is climate-change denial, they are all working for fossil fuel companies that are also funding fascism.

Transphobia 🤜🤛 fascism.

Transphobia IS fascism.
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 26
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
thejohnberry.bsky.social
In my pursuit of @greenparty.org.uk history I've been reading the original PEOPLE party's Manifesto for Survival from 1974.
It already includes some familiar items like no whip, localism and UBI, which it calls the National Income.
#greenpartyhistory
Cover of PEOPLE's Manifesto for Survival, 1974 Policy reducing local governance areas to a population of only 20,000 National Income scheme manifesto.
September 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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greenelects.world
🎴| Greens overtake Lib Dems in latest poll📊

Last time Greens were this high was in June 2025

➡️REF: 27% (-)
🔴LAB: 22% (-1)
🔵CON: 19% (-1)
🟢GRN: 13% (+2)
🟠LDEM: 10% (-1)

via Lord Ashcroft Polls / 11 - 15 Sept
Chs w/ 14 - 18 August.
Image shows poll from Lord Ashcroft. In this it states Greens over take Lib Dems in Ashcroft poll. Reform: 27% (-) Labour: 22% (-1) Conservatives: 19% (-1) Green: 13% (+2) Lib Dem: 10% (-1) 11 to 15 Sept Changes from 14 to 18 August.
September 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM