I get the impression Isabel Oakeshott is suddenly going to be preferring the UK to Dubai.

Howdy.

Evening.

Thanks for all the kind comments! I do agree that the Green Party seems to be interviewed with so much more hostility than anyone else. But you know what - bring it on. 💚 youtu.be/cpVOHPYnnmE?...

Amused how many friends & old colleagues (actors, waiters, night club staff) keep getting in touch to say press keep phoning them or turning up at their door for stories. They can't stand the growth of our movement - lower bills & take on power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

🚨VERY IMPORTANT! ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT Make sure your MP attends! youtu.be/LPO_ZWlyb7Q?...

The attack line on Green Drugs Policy by Reform entirely echoed and exaggerated by David Blunkett on #bbcaq Wherever you stand on drugs and legalisation, this country needs a grown-up debate on this complex subject rather than this dismissive stuff about "Polanski wanting to legalise crack".

Guess the Board of Peace got bored of peace.

THIS.

The UK can't be dragged into another protracted Middle Eastern war by a US President. Keir Starmer needs to rule out the use of UK bases for any future unilateral US strikes.

While the rest of the world are hoping and praying that Americans just might do the bloody same…

Absolutely. “I’m not racist, I just care deeply about ‘lifetime net fiscal contribution’ for reasons I can neither articulate nor defend.” In one way, it’s just the latest in a long line of bigotry-shaped fig leaves. In another, it’s worse because it devalues public service & caring professions.

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech. Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

And to think he was overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize.

No half-sentient person would trust Trump with a barbecue, and here we are watching him start a war to distract from his weapons grade depravity & incompetence.

“Gorton and Denton…. was a stress test for grievance politics, and grievance cracked first. Reform’s instinct when challenged is not to persuade but to tantrum; not to build trust but to erode it. That’s the playbook. Win, or cry foul” @zoegrunewald.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

Obscene.

I suspect calling your prospective constituents 'chavs' having anti-worker, anti-women, anti-everyone (except the millionaires who fund Reform Ltd) policies, and being a nasty, devious sh*t was more relevant to losing than whatever conspiracy theory Trump clones promote meme via Susan Jones

Dear Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson, If we're not going to get the money back could you please have the decency to apologise especially to UKIP & Tory voters who believed your lies memes via Being Liberal

If only government policy all over the world hadn't been bought from corrupt politicians by greedy billionaires there might be different priorities like eradicating poverty, ending wars, tackling climate change ... meme via Democratic Socialism Now

'Stop looking back in anger, Nige. Manchester didn’t want to put their life in Trump's hands www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is crazy. Surely by now the government must realise it will not achieve decency over division by trying to be Reform Lite?

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes. Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time. What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

In other words, ICE-Gestapo kidnapped and murdered yet another innocent person.

BREAKING: Israel has launched a “preventative” attack against Iran, as witnesses say they have heard explosions in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to the Reuters news agency.

'Tin-eared' doesn't really cover it.

Why Voters Really Rejected Nigel Farage’s ‘Sectarian’ Politics in Gorton and Denton

President Trump delivered this speech June 2025. The was a US offensive, during the Israel v Iran conflict between 12-23 June 2025, which ended in a ceasefire. Here’s the thing, if Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed as Trump states here, why must USA attack Iran now? What’s the urgency?

Family voting isn't a real thing. And sectarianism is violence by one group of people against another. The people behind these accusations are morons who need any excuse to make up for their terrible unpopularity.

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling. You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

🔴 Naz Shah MP on Gorton & Denton Claims: 'How Do Supposedly Sectarian Muslims End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?' The MP for Bradford West told Byline Times: "I know what clan-based politics looks like, I have a history of fighting it, this isn't what this is"

Hannah Spencer destroying the competition in Gorton and Denton, proves the Labour Party is being replaced by a truly progressive movement. Thank you to Zack Polanski, Caroline Lucas and everyone at the Green Party for making hope real again!

Attacking immigrants, demonising minorities, and targeting the needy is not what Jesus spoke about.

Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/r...

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

Also, "we never thought we could win this". Again, no challenge from interviewers. Really? DO YOUR FKN JOBS.

RefUK's David Bull toured several studios this morning. One of his rehearsed talking points was along the lines: "in this sort of area, I am delighted that we came second". Not a single journo pointed out that they were second at the last GE. Not one. Isn't glancing at the last result minimal prep?

Labour MP Clive Lewis, "Keir Starmer is an interim PM" "We need a radical reset, fundamental change" "The tone of Starmer's Labour which I heard on the doorstep: you're not a Labour party I recognise, what happened to you" "Labour under Keir Starmer is like a pound shop Reform UK"

Has the person behind the Allister Heath headline generator created something similar for Kemi Badenoch? Breathtaking lack of self awareness from the leader of a party that polled 1.9%.

Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.

Should have opened with this.

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

Good point: “Reform’s strategy is failing. They’ve now lost 3 in a row in 3 different countries to 3 different parties because their plan of coming through a split vote isn’t working.” In fact EVEN THO’ there is a marked split they are still losing.

Donald Trump still refuses to admit his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, and now it looks like Nigel Farage is following the same playbook after the by-election in Gorton and Denton. Don’t let Farage try Trump’s tactics in Britain. Share now.

This is why Dyson backed Brexit. Because he hoped it would mean workers rights and human rights being decimated so he could use workers as a commodity. Dyson has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by 24 migrant workers, who alleged were subjected to forced & abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

"The politics of racism and division have been defeated in Gorton & Denton. Local people showed they want to defeat the rise of the far right. The Reform UK candidate ran a racist campaign and has a history of bigotry, Islamophobia and misogyny. He lost." via Stand Up To Racism

Mick Lynch: Farage didn't build a political career, he built a bonfire out of migrant families and called it leadership. #UKPolitics