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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 18h

90,000 members and still surging.

Be part of it: join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 17h

🤩 blimey O’Reilly!

✊Alright, let’s crack 100k before the end of this month - we can do it!

👇If you’re looking for a progressive party that’s already *had* a successful Autumn Conference and passed a bunch of amazing policies - you know what to do.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 3d

🍺 #gpconf is over - time to celebrate!

💚 things have happened this year that knocked me off course - but being with @greenparty.org.uk members this weekend has brought me back. Let’s do this folks.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 4d

🏳️‍⚧️ that’s how we do in @greenparty.org.uk - members make policy, members vote on policy, and on occasion we have basically no difficulty in passing it because it’s just that good! Massive love to @kailajay.bsky.social for their stonking achievement today!

Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 4d

🟩 Green Party Conference 🟩

🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨

✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members

✅ Every speaker in support

✅ Every vote in favour

The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like

#GPC25
#TransRights

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 4d

And @kailajay.bsky.social spoke so brilliantly. A very emotional conference moment. 🏳️‍⚧️ 💚

#GPConf

Cade with a dog on stage at Green conference with Ani in plaid trousers holding a mic

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 4d

🇵🇸 took some time today to head down to the beach at Bournemouth and be a part of the Red Line For Palestine event at @greenparty.org.uk conference.

✊let the call continue to go out to stop the genocide in Gaza, stop selling arms to Israel and sanction its government - again and again, until peace.

Man standing on the beach in a line of many others holding a red banner.

Hundreds of people on the beach at Bournemouth holding a long red banner.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 5d

After a panel on ‘Attacks on Protest’ today at @greenparty.org.uk conference, chaired by @carolinelucas.bsky.social, I was reminded of this.

You don’t have to support Palestine Action to think its proscription was a travesty. Sign and defend the right to protest.

www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK

1500+ people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them....

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 5d

👏 @zackpolanski.bsky.social raised the roof on day 1 of @greenparty.org.uk conference in Bournemouth.

💚 I had a reminder today of what got me into Green politics in the first place. Climate justice also means economic, social and racial justice, and in this room is a movement to make it happen.

Zack Polanski receiving a standing ovation at Green Party Autumn Conference 2025

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 5d

Barnstorming speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social properly addressing the horrific division in our politics and calling for kindness in the way we do our work.

“Let’s look after each other, the Green Party’s time is now, we’re ready, let’s go! “

#GPConf

Standing ovation room filled with clapping people.

Carla handing over to Zack surrounded by press.

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 5d

👏 the man is non-stop…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

www.theguardian.com

Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 5d

😁 @zackpolanski.bsky.social front and centre in Bournemouth - makes sense!

💚 you can feel the energy this morning at @greenparty.org.uk conference - let’s pick up an agenda and get cracking!

#gpconf

Man smiling in front of a poster of Zack Polanski bearing the text ‘Bold Plans For Britain’

Foyer of the venue for the Green Party Autumn Conference 2025

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 6d

🌊’I could dive down. / I could paint pictures. I could be a good person.’

😌 read the poems of Freya Bantiff, including her National Poetry Competition-placing ‘God the Whale’, for the pods of illumination breaking their surfaces in wry serenity - and cherish the world to which they direct us.

Man holding a copy of ‘all appears ordinary’ by Freya Bantiff

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 6d

So it’s #NationalPoetryDay

In the same day the antisemitic attack in Manchester and news of the detaining of the members of the Sumud Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza have meant that I cannot really engage with this year’s chosen theme of ‘Play’.

But here’s this.

Take care - breathe, keep going.

TEXT:
be up ahead of the light
sometimes

dressing in the dark
attempt an undressing
of all seeing and sensing

as the audience of one
for all that assaults prepare to receive
a litany incomplete
no less true almost obscene

in the drone strike
in the child’s eyes
in the widow’s cry
in the evening of the world
in this yet

there is such sweetness

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 6d

🙃 ‘[W]hen your neighbour is going mad it is only reasonable to want to understand the source of their distress.’

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Glancing as O’Toole’s is at times, he is entertaining on the structures of English self-pity, and surely right that the farce of #Brexit must force a nation to know itself differently.

Man holding a copy of ‘Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain’ by Fintan O’Toole

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 7d

🎲 you’re pre-rolling some characters for a D&D session. You need names and you’re coming up with them at speed, ramming various words together as you do.

✍️ such that you don’t see until too late that your bard’s second name could be read either as ‘Far-Treader’ or ‘Fart-Reader’.

🤦‍♂️

#tabletoplife

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 9d

🙏’Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers bend the arrow shaft. Wood the carpenters bend. Themselves the wise ones tame.’ - Dhp 80

☸️ revisiting some of that Original Recipe Dhamma to start the week.

#reading #dhamma

Man holding a copy of an Oxford World’s Classics edition of the Dhammapada

Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 10d

😁 we hit it - 80,000 MEMBERS PEOPLE!!!

💚 the wind is at @greenparty.org.uk’s back right now. And we are going to make it count!

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10d

🎉 80,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 We have no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11d

🥰 Final reminder that tomorrow (Sunday) is the biggest action day ever in the history of the Green Party.

⏳ Mayor of Hackney & local council elections in May.

💚 First timers especially welcome - no experience necessary!
See you tomorrow! 🎉👇🏼

Https://actionnetwork.org/events/big-day-out-in-hackney/

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 11d

‘I’m told what seems like joy / is often joy’

👏 it is a pleasure to go back to this debut from @kavehakbar.bsky.social and find in it the same luminous hunger for life, so viscerally expressed, that has attracted me to their later poetry. A book to quench your thirst then excite it all over again.

Man holding a copy of ‘Calling a Wolf a Wolf’ by Kaveh Akbar

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

We just hit 79,000 members of @greenparty.org.uk

Big milestone coming...

A bold vision to lower bills, bring water back into public ownership, protect our NHS and end the genocide in Gaza.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 13d

‘You can tell a lot about a society’s priorities by what it tries to protect itself from…. really I should say ‘a government’s priorities’.’

My piece in Solicitors Journal contrasting the treatment of Palestine Action and violent far-right movements.

www.solicitorsjournal.com/sjarticle/wh...

Whom do we really need protecting from?

The UK’s treatment of Palestine Action contrasts starkly with tolerance of violent far-right movements

www.solicitorsjournal.com

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Nate Higgins 🏳️‍🌈 @natehiggins.bsky.social · 14d

The Government has recognised the state of Palestine but still intends to prevent councils divesting from complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza & their illegal occupation.

On behalf of @newhamgreens.bsky.social I’ve asked @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social to demand Government protect our right to divest.

To the Mayor of Newham:

The Government is introducing mandatory pooling for local government pension funds. This reduces the freedom of councils to set their own ethical standards for investment. Newham must be able to divest not only from the arms trade but also from companies based in, listed in, or operating in Israel, whose taxes and profits sustain a genocidal government and the illegal occupation of Palestine - a state we have finally recognised. Local government divestment was central to the UK’s fight against South African apartheid and Newham residents and workers must have the same right today to ensure our money is not complicit in war crimes or human rights abuses. Government reforms must not block councils from setting local standards of divestment. Will you write to the Government and demand that Newham retains the right to divest on behalf of its residents, in line with international law and ethical responsibility?

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Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social · 14d

‘Dismantling the edifice of race… is about fundamentally rewriting the way we think about human difference, to resist the urge to group people at all.’

🖤 in a world turning scarily to racist myths, everyone needs to read Angela Saini.

✊ for all of us, the myth of ‘superior’ people must die.

Man holding a copy of ‘Superior: The Return of Race Science’ by Angela Saini

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve written to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper demanding urgent action to ensure the safety of the Global Sumud Flotilla. 52 boats carrying aid and peace activists to Gaza.

The UK must act to assure their safety.

Israel is committing a genocide. All eyes are on this flotilla.

Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP
Prime Minister

Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Foreign Secretary

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

24th September, 2025

Dear Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary,

I am writing to you with urgency regarding the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which is currently attempting to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza. The flotilla is made up of 52 boats, carrying humanitarian supplies and peace activists determined to support civilians facing unimaginable suffering.

Reports have already emerged of explosions, unidentified objects being dropped near the vessels, drones circling overhead, and communications being jammed. These are deeply concerning developments. We know from past experience that when Israel smears peace activists with unfounded claims of links to Hamas, it is often a precursor to violent attacks.

The UK Government must make it absolutely clear that these boats, carrying only aid and peaceful activists, must be treated safely and in line with inte

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