I went out to help a couple of times for this by-election, and some of my friends said I was aiding Reform by splitting Labours vote, but by being another (better) alternative, we had the opposite effect, and kept them further from gaining a foothold in the area

I fear this is another fumble. If/when they arrive, I want them to succeed (as part of an ecosystem on the left that includes the Greens with whom I will remain) but endlessly teasing a thing with no real way of geting involved, just endless sign-ups for mailing lists, is a waste of energy

For many long years, the left in Britian has been repeating that we need new leadership, if we don't grasp this oppurtunity with both hands we may spend another 5 years in the wilderness. Join the Green Party, Vote Zack Polanski.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Am so proud to have helped out on this campaign, a well deserved victory

Switch 2 June 5th! Why am I so poor?!

Update: weather has been gorgeous and it’s giving me the happy chemicals

Going to Scotland tomorrow, which will inevitably mean great weather continues in London

Won best quiz group name last night for “Houthi PC Quiz Group” which was the best victory

Nobodies discussing the idea that we could see 5 parties polling between 10 and 20 percent

Jodie Whittaker came into the cafe I was working in today and I finally know how it feels to be star struck

You always remember your first by-election of a new parliament

Are you a victim of last week's Fools spring? You may be entitled to compensation

Just heard I am now officially a NCTJ gold standard diploma holder, so please, hire and or commission me to do journalism for you

The map of cafes I’ve worked in hits 50, looking a bit crowded

Listened to ‘Wild Green’ by Foals as I felt sunlight on my face and became temporarily sane today

Few, things are back to normal

This is something I come up against even in London, where the Greens got 18 second places in 2024, reversing this notion alone is a big way for the Greens to unlock electoral gains

I've been saying for some time that gay marriage probably won't last in America, and the signs are getting stronger it seems

Green capitalism was never going to save us and I dare say you are naive to believe it will

Booked a little trip to Scotland at the beginning of April (Glasgow and Edinburgh) so hit me up if you want to hang

Nothing is ever a foregone conclusion in politics, this is like if Rishi Sunak's Conservatives had suddenly bounced back in the polls and (if this plays out) won in 2024

Cutting foreign aid to fund defence could be seen as a counter productive measure in terms of security. However, optically this looks good given the break down of Atlanticism (big given Starmer’s commitment to it in the past)

Did a yoga class for the first time, and so far corpse pose is my favorite, could have gotten on board earlier if I'd known pretending to be dead was a part of it

What a fun few days I had of telling everyone we might die in 2032

Will this be the set of results that gets the message home that emulating the far right isn’t a winning strategy for defeating them? Probably not but a boy can dream

The obvious problem I have with a “new left party” is that it doesn’t exist, and if it does come to be, is too late already. Do something now, don’t just wait for an amorphous thing to appear

Your ex won New Zealand bug of the year award

There’s a woman ordering a large latte with half oat and half dairy milk at a place I’m working in Highgate this week… when should I tell that all baristas she orders from hate her?

Last week, on Saturday the 8th, I attended the protest outside the Royal Mint in east central London, against the re-proposed Chinese Embassy on the site.

I fully expect the story following the locals in May to be that the 2 party system has taken yet another beating, excellent preview of what that may look like

Any word on banning second jobs to go with this or…?

Crazy we even have to urge them in this regard, literally what they were founded to do

I am at the protest of the site of the proposed Chinese Embassy (which would be the biggest in Europe) and size of the turnout is huge, overspilling police cordons, who are threatening arrests if crowds don’t move to official zones

Living my dream and sitting at the front of the DLR

Fingers crossed lads

Regional Assemblies how I yearn for thee

I'm coming around to the idea that the system will just fragment until PR becomes inevitable, we've been trending towards a multi-party system for decades in terms of parties outside the big two having seats (2017/2019 elections were aberations), but we may be close to a tipping point

A challenging day today where I built up in my head the task of sending an email over several hours, only to do it in less than ten minutes

For The Northeast Londoner I went to Gallery 46 to interview the curator of 'Working Girls' an exhibtion exploring the connection between art and sex work. The full video can be found here: www.nelondoner.co.uk/entertainmen...

So obssessed with 'Denial is a River' that every time I bump up against a minor inconvience I'm saying 'what should Doechii do?'

I wrote about projections for the extreme weather fueled by climate change in England, and how London is likely to be one of the worst hit places, which you can read about here: www.nelondoner.co.uk/life/2901202...

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I do think there's a timeline where the Greens out perform LDs in the popular vote (unfortunatly FPTP makes in unlikely they'll win more seats). During the last Labour government, disaffected Labour voters went to a (slightly) more progressive Lib Dem party, the Greens will take that place this time

I wrote about projections for the extreme weather fueled by climate change in England, and how London is likely to be one of the worst hit places, which you can read about here: www.nelondoner.co.uk/life/2901202...

Any notion this government is taking climate change seriously went out the window when they annouced Heathrow Expansion before getting HS2 to the North. Bad policy but also bad politics, so-called Red Wall Voters can read the signals, the UK economy will remain unbalence and London/SE focused

You should listen to my predictions more

Please let us have nice things you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

This has crystallised the scattering thoughts I’ve voiced about how the ‘YIMBY vs NIMBY’ debate is a distraction from criticising a policy area that is deeply flawed. Well worth reading

London not having this is kinda crazy, it’s money left on the table at this point