Still slightly surreal, but incredibly honoured to join the Green group at City Hall after the wonderful news that @zoegarbett.bsky.social had been elected as Mayor of Hackney I’ll be serving on Housing, Planning & Police committee joining @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @carolinerussell.bsky.social

A grand total of 40 Green councillors elected in Lewisham to work with Mayor @liamshrivastava.bsky.social 💪

Telegraph Hill (Lewisham) Council Election Result GRN: 54.7% (+32.4) LAB: 35.2% (-33.3) LDM: 3.7% (-2.4) CON: 3.0% (-0.1) RFM: 2.7% (+2.7) OTH: 0.7% (+0.7) Green GAIN from Labour (X3) Changes w/ 2022.

We've done it, the @greenparty.org.uk have taken Lewisham Following breakthroughs in Hackney - and with @zoegarbett.bsky.social leading the way - we now have a Green mayor and a majority Green council in Lewisham too Three London boroughs now under Green leadership We’re only getting started 💚✊🏼

Looks like a majority in Lewisham, as well as Waltham Forest and Hackney

Really excellent

Forgot to post this yesterday, but excellent news!

AN INCREDIBLE RESULT IN HACKNEY! 🎉 We have gone from 4 to 42 councillors! And now have overall control of the council led by our new Mayor of Hackney Zoë Garbett! 💚

What a #GetGreensElected result for @haringeygreens.bsky.social! Greens from zero last time to 28 seats, just one short of a majority. Labour losing 30 seats

🚨 | 90% of the council results declared: 21:00 English LE update: Seat running tally: ➡️ Reform: +1371 (1373 seats) 🌍 Green: +357 (485 seats) 🔶 Lib Dem: +144 (823 seats) ℹ️ Ind/RA/Oth: -9 (220 Seats) 🌳 Conservative: -539 (742 seats) 🌹 Labour: -1316 (918 seats) 4561/4992 seats declared. (91.3%)

Just double-whow: ANOTHER a huge piece of history. Hackney really decided the direction it wanted to head, with a Green mayor and this council: 38 Green Councillors (+36), 8 Labour (-36), 5 Tory (-)

Yesssss

Are Waltham Forest and Hackney the only London boroughs that have gone green thus far?

Only about nine hundred seats left to declare!

Holyrood Results - as of 19:45 Mid Scotland and Fife (constituency seats) ➡️ RFM | 2 (+2) 🌹 LAB | 2 (=) 🌳 CON | 2 (-2) 🌍️ GRN | 1 (=) Edinburgh and Lothians East (constituency seats) 🌍️ GRN | 3 (+1) 🌹 LAB | 2 (=) ➡️ RFM | 1 (+1) 🌳 CON | 1 (-2)

This is mad

This is the craziest result to me, I'm not sure this was a key target?

Another win!!

The results in Newcastle (still coming in) are disastrous for Labour - with the Greens surging in the city ... (Tories also wiped out so far)

Astonishing

Whoop, whoop, utterly delighted for Zoe and Hackney Greens!!

Manchester City Council Results (1/3 up) 🌍️ GRN: 18 (+17) ➡️ RFM: 7 (+7) 🌹 LAB: 6 (-24) 🔶 LDM: 1 (=) Labour HOLD Changes w/ 2022 for outgoing councillors.

Oxford City Council Results (half up) LAB: 10 (-5) GRN: 9 (+5) LDM: 4 (=) IND: 1 (=) Remains No Overall Control Changes w/ 2022

Coley (Reading) council election result: GRN: 33.4% (+15.6) LAB: 33.1% (-18.4) REF: 15.3% (+15.3) CON: 12.6% (-4.5) LDEM: 5.7% (-7.9) Green GAIN from Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

St Thomas (Exeter) council election result: GRN: 37.0% (+28.6) LDEM: 23.7% (-13.1) REF: 19.5% (+19.5) LAB: 15.6% (-22.8) CON: 4.2% (-7.2) Green GAIN from Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Is this first of the night?

Just went and voted, leaving it to the last minute as per! Very busy, delighted to vote for the excellent local green candidates.

Whoop Whoop!

Not sure he can survive this scandal

give us the full fouracres cut of the pork board sketch please

All worries about SNL UK tailoring too much of its content to a US audience utterly smashed by the final pork sketch. The cast hysterical and seemingly unable to believe that the gatekeepers had been drugged and trussed to that extent. Total joy.

Bloody hell, most demented episode yet, so many great runners, and that pork sketch at the end was like some horrific fever dream #snluk

A statement from the Newcastle Green Group on the Blakelaw & Cowgate Candidate Tina Ion

The funny thing about Hannah Spencer is that she’s literally exactly what everyone pretends they want from politicians in political media: a working class woman who has broken into politics from a normal job, speaking her mind from genuine lived experience. And they fucking hate her for it lol

the Labour Right spent 10 years arguing that a left/soft-left Labour government would be a disaster and then about 10 minutes proving that a Labour government led by them was a disaster too

Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood as next hosts, better than I ever could have imagined ! #snluk

I've joked before that Anas Sarwar has lost the Mandate of Heaven but genuinely if you lose the Ultimate Scottish Labour Poster you might as well suspend the campaign and resign as leader now

Last week was all about everyone dressed up as weird animals, this week everyone's in a polycule #SNLUK

Lmao that palantir joke was great #SNLUK

"the first journalists in Saudi Arabia to kill themselves" #SNLUK

And chaser!

Shot

Sources close to Hezbollah say the Strait of Hormuz will not open if the Israeli attacks in Lebanon continue. A wave of strikes in the past hours killed and injured hundreds. One of Iran’s main conditions for a ceasefire is an end to all attacks including on Lebanon.-itv news

there's a pervasive learned helplessness to the american left which makes so many of them utterly humiliating to interact with. everything is too difficult, everyone is powerless, there's no point. "you expect me to blow up the white house rather than just post"? as if those are the only options

1000%, there has to be a total break with the US, nothing less will do

profound evil

I thought Riz Ahmed was a phenomenal host, fully committed to everything, some amazing sketches and Weekend Update was brutal #snluk

Hannah Spencer's Guardian op ed is pretty inoffensive. Can Labour MPs really not take such mild criticism? You worked as a management consultant for PWC before you became an MP on 30% of the vote - yes, it's probably likely that you're a bit out of touch lol

Well I thought that episode of Beyond Paradise was good, it handled several subjects very sensitively #beyondparadise