I still do not have a clue who will win the Gorton and Denton by-election but the Greens say that in six hours today they leafleted all 40,000-plus households, done by 400 volunteers, which does show Lib Dem-style levels of dedication to campaigning (and to the printing trade).

A pleasure this evening to talk with Brighton & Hove Green Party as @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social's Finance Chair. Lots to discuss, including our budget experiences, moving from opposition to administration, and dealing with Labour mismanagement. Thanks for inviting me @bhgreens.bsky.social! 💚

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Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

Honestly I had multiple nervous bathroom visits before making this speech. Thanks to everyone for their support!

CBA with doing this "Progressive Alliance" bollocks for another decade. I will simply vote Green and campaign for as many years as it takes to get a Green MP. I don't care to try and game the system like a middle class armchair general.

I'd rather that than Molly's personal brand of absolute mind numbing boredom politics. Absolutely nothing exciting ever, that's the Scott Cato prospectus.

Amazing. No notes.

I thought I might be being uncharitable but the lovely interviewer kept trying to point out that @greenparty.org.uk is terrible at social media and Carla can't respond with much. They're only now developing a strategy to work as MPs?! Wtf? They've been candidates for almost 3 years!

As I've been saying for years now. The Green Party Exec has fundamentally failed to invest in it's communication infrastructure. A *single* employee on social media is a shambles. I'm glad I'm not the only one calling this out. @owenjones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Talking inside the Green Party about how we've fundamentally failed to engage properly with social media, how the party's failed to invest, how the leadership make 0 effort to lead, is perhaps the most infuriating pastime I could have chosen.

MRP is a *projection* not a poll. It's a projection, based on a national poll, and seat based demographic data. They're only slightly more accurate than a blindfolded asthmatic 3 pints down trying to hit a dart board from 3 meters away.

Another entry in the "Maybe putting an apolitical vacuous centrist in No10 was a terrible move?" file. He didn't have a plan, he's never had a plan, in order to have a plan you need "political ideology". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour are delivering falling living standards because they're too afraid to tax the rich and redistribute wealth. They promised change but the only party that will actually deliver it is @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Mass unregulated Private Landlordism is another Thatcher experiment that leeches off the British people and puts money in the hands of a wealthy few. We need to Abolish Landlords and Build Council Housing. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Making "Growth" your number 1 mission in Government, and then invest £0 to make it happen, and then being surprised when it doesn't happen is objectively hilarious. "Well we thought if we said growth a lot it would just ✨*manifest*✨" - Keir, probably. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I'm 3D printing a G clamp. One of the most useful tools around. This printer can handle Carbon fibre reinforced filaments as well! The possibilities are limitless.

Bought a 3d printer. Insane how advanced they've become I'm 10 years. It's basically plug and play and suddenly it's printing stuff like this!

Labour MPs will always move Right in Government, they always have. They're literally Tories at this point. We're back in 2010.

Greens, I've been saying this *for years* now. Thank god people in the media are now just saying it straight, like @lewisgoodall.com. Stop blaming the media for the lack of coverage, start blaming people like @greenpartymolly.bsky.social and the rest of GPEx.

Keir Starmer is as bad as Boris Johnson. Just as bad.

"The Green party surged in July, but has failed to pick headline-grabbing fights, or build momentum in the dozens of seats in which it secured second place in July." @owenjones.bsky.social Standing still is not enough, we have to be moving *forward*. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don't read the article. It's lazy. Want to know the reason, watch these 4 clips below, compare and contrast. It's not co-leaders or tired fruit based political metaphors. It's electing passionate, competent communicators.

Don't read the article. It's lazy. Want to know the reason, watch these 4 clips below, compare and contrast. It's not co-leaders or tired fruit based political metaphors. It's electing passionate, competent communicators.

You could write such a good and incisive article on this subject, and you just didn't. 😂 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Simply put, the Green Party spent 2015-2020 obsessed with electoral pacts and alliances, and we didn't actually get anywhere. In 2024, when we weren't obsessed with standing down, we quadrupled our MPs! I don't think going back to standing down again is a positive step. End of.

Good reasons to join the @greenparty.org.uk; Propagate socialism, Have a good time, Stave off depression, Stop climate change. Bad reasons to join the Green Party and tbh we'd rather you didn't; Pursue Labour party factional beef and constantly talk about Jeremy sodding Corbyn.

I just find it bitterly funny that in all the "what will be Labour's challenge to the left" articles, the obvious answer isn't the Green Party, but a party that doesn't exist. This should be a wake up call to leftwing Greens, the party needs serious reform if it's going to compete in 2029.

Customer walks in Me : Sorry mate the machine is busted, we're waiting for a mechanic so we can't make any espresso based drinks. Customer : that's alright! I just wanted a latte. Me : ...............

When the "Housing" means private corporations building car dependant suburban sprawl landlord fodder with no infrastructure or facilities whatsoever, I'll take the nature thanks. Build Council Housing, not private profits. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Can't wait for the farmers to go to prison. 👍🏼 For balance.

The motorists must be up in arms! The tractors are blocking ambulances! Or was it just massive hypocrisy from rightwing people?

Keir Starmer is cosplaying as Nigel Farage again.

Incredibly funny that 62% of Green voters have favourable views of socialism but our Leadership and MPs would run a mile to dodge the question "is the Green Party leftwing?" The answer is yes btw.

Yes I'm sure getting the Saudis to fund UK infrastructure won't have any unintended and long lasting consequences that anyone with eyes could see? Labour, shamelessly privatising the public realm because taxing the rich is too hard for them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think it's right to say that this is the most fertile political soil that @greenparty.org.uk could possibly hope for. The problem is we don't seem interested in capitalising on it. Our Comms are going nowhere at the moment and @greenpartymolly.bsky.social doesn't seem fussed. 🤷🏼‍♂️

The only redeeming factor about this vile bigotry and discompassionate human vacuum is that she's honest about the fact she has no humanity whatsoever.

I've put down this #RentControl amendment because spiralling private rents too often push people into poverty & homelessness We need this to be debated & acted on in Parliament - so please ask your MP to sign up to co-propose my New Clause 7 to amend the #RentersRightsBill @acornunion.bsky.social

Where was "the left" when the Green Party tried to negotiate electoral pacts in 2017 and 2019? In Labour, bullying our candidates and activists. Funny how it's still the Greens who are expected to stand down now you're in a different outfit. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Billionaires should not exist is a fairly moderate and sensible position tbh. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-elo...

For anyone arguing for the Greens to just do what Caroline did x4. Here is your Womp womp moment. No, we actually need our MPs to be vastly different.

"Labour seem more focused on political point-scoring than the fact that 150 people’s jobs are now on the line." For B&HLabour, it's about protecting their political position rather than people's jobs. That's what it's always about.

The surprising thing here is why groups that establishment Greens like Caroline Lucas and Molly Scott Cato have spent years refusing to speak to and for would vote for us. Bring on a new Green Party. A socialist one that harnesses the anger at neoliberalism, to build a democratic revolution.

The Green Party doesn't believe in trickle down economics because it isn't full of idiots. It believes in the redistribution of wealth though.

All of this has been plain for years. Labour doesn't care. Labour has never cared about the structures of democracy. They care about a fleeting administration, so they can hark back for another 15 years.

How awful we wouldn't want Lawyers housed would we?! Council housing is meant for everyone! It isn't meant to be a slum. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The UK should do this, but for wind farms. We're one of the windiest places, we have a huge amount of coastline. The King shouldn't be making money off of windfarms, we all should receive that money! www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Sorry but I just hate the English obsession with Elected Mayors. They're antidemocratic and they're a gimmick. The left shouldn't support them. Fight for regional and local power and autonomy. Not this treasury dependant placation.

Unitary Authorities Yes, Metro Mayors No. The English obsession with gimmicks rather than democracy and regional autonomy is the problem with mainstream "devolution". It isn't devolution if you're still begging the treasury. www.thetimes.com/article/4d4a...