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whatdowewant.bsky.social @whatdowewant.bsky.social · 2d

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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 · 1d

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

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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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

🔴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

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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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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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.'

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Polanski is a leader we can all get behind. Inspirational, clear, honest. He answers questions when asked. He has ideas and plans, and he has the knowledge to back them up.
If you aren't a Green, please take a look.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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

Government does not get to decide what we protest about. That's the point of democracy.

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

This is a vile further attack on democracy and free protest that I would have expected from Trump not our government. Shame on you!! @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
I hope more protest as a result.
Disgusting 😡

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 4d

“It is designed to capture cumulative disruption.”

Shabana Mahmood denies that strengthened protest laws were created with the Gaza protests specifically in mind.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18d

Got permission to share this reaction video from TikTok!

Love it!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17d

In retaliation for 11 countries recognising Palestine.

Netanyahu has just promised there will be NO Palestine, the West Bank and Gaza will be eradicated and replaced with Jewish settlements.

He is a War Criminal and the leaders of the world need to treat him as such.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23d

It's official

And the UK and US government are complicit

Starmer and Trump are implicated up to their necks

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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23d

This is completely unacceptable

It is clear that up here in the Peak District, and at other national parks, the water companies think they can get away with anything

They really don't give a sh*t about our rivers

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Revealed: sewage overflow in English and Welsh national parks twice outside rate

Exclusive: Campaigners attack ‘outrageous’ situation, saying waters in protected areas should be cleanest

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23d

How do we fix this mess?

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Lord Liberty 💚 @l0rdliberty.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm done.

Today I've cancelled my Labour membership and have joined @greenparty.org.uk.

I joined Labour to secure my future away from the Tories and Reform and due to their pandering, callousness etc., they have utterly failed at doing so.

I now place my trust in @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

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Stuart From Cheltenham @st2brgz.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm sorry that you have to receive such vile treatment.
But.
It shows how rattled the right wing monsters are by you and what you might achieve @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations Zack, Mothin and Rachel!

Great time to join!

Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations to Zack for his energy & vision and thank you to every member & volunteer who supported us in this campaign! We’ll keep working together for the Green Party’s success.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Sep 2

Congratulations to the newly elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Leadership elections results
New Deputy leader
Rachel Millward
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REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
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