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Pretty audacious calling Polanski's approach insane whilst continuing to defend the 'trickle down' economic status quo, which has failed the average working person since the dawn of time

Here's @garethdennis.uk making a case which I've made for years (even when I lived in Inverness and travelled south regularly): dualling the A9 Perth to Inverness is the wrong solution (estimated cost- £3.8bn). Better to dual & electrify the Highland Main Line £4.5bn) youtu.be/0cr1UFujfws?...

🚨BREXIT BUDGET🚨 Daisy Cooper MP: "There is a £90 billion hit to treasury income as a result of the Brexit deal." "Brexit has been a disaster for our country. It has been a disaster for our economy."

To be fair, the coverage that follows is more substantive. But it's so hard to break the grip of "how will this poll?" rather than "what will this do?"

I wonder how many in Labour's inner circle realise they're part of the last ever Labour government? Letting Reform in when a different direction was possible but deliberately ignored is a sin 1000x worse than student fees were for the LibDems. Voters will never forgive it. bsky.app/profile/euro...

The BBC censoring criticism of Trump from one of their Reith Lectures is seriously worrying. The Liberal Democrats have written to the BBC Director General Tim Davie urging him to stand firm against Trump’s bullying and broadcast the lecture in full.

Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient. International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.

I've been "hilariously" mocked for my perceived ethnicity/religion as a "joke" from school through employment and I can assure everyone it's not funny and it hurts every time. He knows that, or he wouldn't have done it.

There are more of us than there are of them. We protect us. #antifa, #proudboys, #neverletthemhavethepark, #communityselfdefense, #musicandloveandnachos

It is really weird how so many people that count themselves in the liberal bracket have just said 'fuck that I'm staying on X' regardless of the dark shit that is perpetrated on there by its owner.

Whole thread is absolutely fascinating

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. We're just getting started. What's next? with @politicsjoe.bsky.social youtu.be/NYzp3UcxIGg?...

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not. He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions. Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A scattering of the usual, tiresome journalistic tics aside - "Hard left", "eye-wateringly expensive", "Is Britain ready for a gay prime minister?" - a really good interview. That he comes across so well in spite of the media's inability to get over themselves does him real credit.

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

President Mamdani visits Washington Old people's home

People voted in a Labour government by a landslide because they wanted something meaningful to change. Labour has, ever since securing that win, done everything in its power to signal it won't change anything very much.

At mum’s. Farage just appeared on TV. Mum: ‘get that cunt off my TV’ ❤️

Speaking in Brighton this PM, Zack Polanski has announced that Green Party of England & Wales membership is now over 170,000 - which means over 100,000 people have joined the party since his election in September

Macclesfield (at Westminster) was a Tory seat 1918-2024 when Labour gained it. This is a 23% Labour to Green swing in this ward

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“I voted for Labour but I will be voting for the Greens next time, I think Zack Polanski talks a lot of sense, I’m fed up with Labour, they are targeting the wrong people.” inews.co.uk/news/britain...

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "we have a govt that is always talking about tough choices. Why are they always tough choices for working class people, for unemployed people, for disabled people? It's time to make tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires. It is time to tax the rich"

The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here. I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.

Huge. And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well! Join.greenparty.org.uk

"A sea of Green Party supporters gathered in Bristol for a rally led by party leader Zack Polanski and Bristol Central MP Carla Denyer." A sea it was! @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @carladenyer.bsky.social led a truly electric atmosphere⚡ Bristol is going green! 💚 #MakeHopeNormalAgain

We are in despair after the Home Secretary’s announcement yesterday. As an organisation helping couples and families survive the immigration system, we struggle to accept plans that make it easier to deport families and children. #FamiliesBelongTogether

"Polanski was joined by many Labour MPs in opposing the government’s plans, although most of them are thought to be prepared to reluctantly support the measures." What's the point of being in Labour? Join.greenparty.org.uk

A whole bunch of Labour MPs are wringing their hands on Twitter about the party's horrific enhanced cruelty regime towards asylum seekers. But that's as far as it goes: meaningless performative outrage. If they cared enough, they'd walk and sit as independents.

You tell them @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Great to see a politician who is actually pissed off at this situation. I’m sick of people having to remain calm and dignified when most of the people in this country are angry at how shit things have gotten and that our government is failing to help the most vulnerable.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

It’s like Polanski has broken a spell. This is great if you care about human dignity and wellbeing but definitely threatening to those in power. All strength to him.

Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods. Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.

You tell them @elliechowns.bsky.social

You tell them, @carladenyer.bsky.social

Family jewellery is one of the few things you can carry when fleeing war or persecution. The cruelty in this policy is worse than just the financial one. It’s ripping away the remains of family.

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice. Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in. It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

Utterly disgusting

I am sickened by the Labour government. Appalling attitude on immigration. You seem to think the worst of us is the most of us. Disgusting.

It's disgraceful that Nigel Farage is egging Donald Trump on as he attacks the BBC and tries to pick pockets of millions of licence fee payers.

I am sickened by the Labour government. Appalling attitude on immigration. You seem to think the worst of us is the most of us. Disgusting.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

I agree with what @zackpolanski.bsky.social is quoted as saying in this article. It's what we are seeing locally. If the commentariat wants to believe people are rushing to the greens because Your Party isn't set up yet they are fooling themselves!