LANDMARK MOMENT - the Greens now have more members across Great Britain than the Lib Dems! Let's keep it going! 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏽 join.greenparty.org.uk Latest stats available: 85,800 @greenparty.org.uk (England & Wales) + @scottishgreens.org combined membership 83,174 @libdems.org.uk (a single party across GB)

It's party conference season. We thought it was time to see where each party stands on public ownership. 🔎 Some of the results might surprise you! Check out our full Public Ownership Party Scorecard via link in comments below👇

“Bringing Britain into line with other countries such as the United Arab Emirates” is not a sentence I want to see.

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The Green Party now has 78,000 members. Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line. I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Heh this is great

Get off Meta, part 6251764 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Me: hm, there seems to be more chat / snark / down in the weede gossip about the Corbyn / Sultana stuff from people wedded to staying on X, do I want to go back there to get updated on the latest? Me, 5 seconds later: actually that’s the best argument yet to forget about Corbyn / Sultana stuff.

yesterday an acquaintance who is homeless & gay guy told me the hate he (& all homeless people) get has gone through the roof in recent months, chimed with other things I’m hearing, and yet the “centrists” are *still* more comfortable punching left than taking on the rising tide of hate & bigotry…

(+ yesterday another 1000) = 77,000 members. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"My door is always open for conversations with Jeremy and Zarah, two people committed to making our country fairer who I really respect. All my energy is focused on what I can do towards that end, and that’s to keep growing @greenparty.org.uk" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🏠 Taking on landlords 💷 ⁠Universal basic income 👶 ⁠Free childcare for all @sianberry.bsky.social takes you through three Green policies to help massively bring down the cost of living for everyone in this country.

Btw it's 76,000 now and going up every minute....

My only actual definite opinion on Your Party debacle is that getting 800,000 sign ups in a couple of weeks is actually really dangerous, all that happens is every group under the sun wants your shock troops for their own. Contrast organic growth that allows grassroots strength to build. Eg👇💚

God this is good on what ails Your Party - & easier to digest than the longer version I was sharing yesterday. Genuinely unclear though why people as smart as @archimbaldo.bsky.social aren’t now putting their energy into Greens as plenty other TUists are prometheusjournal.org/2025/07/10/l...

There are now (per @zackpolanski.bsky.social) 74,000+ @greenparty.org.uk members. Add 7,800+ @scottishgreens.org and the GB total is around 82,000. Lib Dems say they they have “more than 90,000”. Can the Greens catch them?

Yes. Thank you Zack Polanski. Finally a politician who is speaking of the elephant in the room. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Let's go! It's now 74,000. Membership rising fast 🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk

Been offline all day (mostly, picking up the care work that the state is failing to do adequately) - can someone tell me what on *earth* is going on with Your Party 🤯 I mean I’m Green anyway but I was vaguely keeping an open mind but WTF is going on?

I was held for hours when entering Israel when working as a human rights monitor. The treatment I, and my colleagues got was deplorable. They refused entry to some as well. This was in 2012. Their desire to avoid scrutiny is not new. Thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for trying

A joint statement from Dr Peter Prinsley MP and Dr Simon Opher MP:

Nothing to see here, just a genocidal regime backed by the British state, refusing to let in two British MPs who are also doctors. One is my MP @simonforstroud.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.

I see the New Statesman seems to be arguing that anyone might, for example, make violent sex / rape jokes to colleagues about a senior black female colleague, and that the real issue is that the poor lads in number 10 just haven’t learned how to use the internet properly yet.

The guardian is on manouevres for Streeting I see 🤢

you see how easy this is? madely can do it ffs! it's a *choice* not to do this, until now

Commentariat: it’s “the left“ who’ve suddenly noticed Starmer’s amorality / found emails in drawers & decided to move against him now to *checks notes* take him out the moment Rayner‘s gone & before Burnham can get a seat, thus maximising the chances of Streeting/Cooper/the right? Me: oh really 🤔

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN probe finds

Google data centres coming to Hertfordshire?! Sounds a lot like the final nail in an already well-nailed coffin for the local chalk streams. Or will the water be sucked out of the Thames at Teddington for it under Thames Water’s current plans? Keep your beady eyes on this.

👀Quite a lot of people telling on themselves here

Bet he was

“What’s a bit (more) of gross misogynoir and deeply sexualised sexist & racist tropes between friends, anyway, eh lads? Yeh we know we were banging on a lot about some kinds of racism back in the JC years but you don’t think we actually meant it, do you?”

strange how people who assured us they were just opposing Corbyn because they were so attuned to racist/antisemitic tropes, seem to think Keir *should be defending* vile sexualised comments about black women (who’re always judged on their appearance far more, & more ruthlessly, than are white women)

Solidarity with Diane Abbott, who has faced disgusting sexism and racism (misogynoir) for the crime of being a black woman in possession of brains and opinions, from across the political class including from the disgusting laddish culture that Starmer has so pathetically cultivated in Labour.

The misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott, the longest serving Black MP, recounted with glee by Paul Ovenden are utterly despicable. The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.

Jeez, these people really believe their own reviews don’t they. No government was getting re-elected given collapsing living standards post-pandemic, & the continuity of policy is both obvious & grim, anyway. The idea one centrist lad was our salvation, & his loss a catastrophe, is for the birds.

Eagerly awaiting the day when at least one politician in power realises that striking doctors/nurses are actually fighting for the future of the NHS - not somehow trying to undermine it. Rocket science, it is not. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is a fair point. But I’ve seen too many unnuanced copycat snipes at Polanski from centrists who are just still More comfortable punching left and whose analysis is less “centuries of British imperialism” and more “um, hm, superstructure, musk, something something?”

But somehow it’s still the fault of the antiracist left for talking too much about structure and economics. Or something.

A lot of you are still yet to learn that it’s not actually about just getting the right guy to lead this absolutely dreadful dying system.

Been offline but I see Britain has its worst far right rally in decades the centrist prime minister takes forever to say racism is bad and the centrist discourse is it’s the green left that is at fault for overemphasising the economic aspects of racism is that about right

You know how 2 days ago I was really excited about us having 70,000 members of the Green Party? Well yesterday it was 71,000. And today - yes. It's now 72,000! 🎉💚🎉 Join.greenparty.org.uk

Welcome! Many of the NHS campaigners I know (and I know a lot) have reached the same conclusion. #JoinTheGreenParty

“seeing them off” “winning” 🤢

TL:DR: a man is dead. No-one knows who killed him. He had awful, extremist beliefs. No-one should be killed for their beliefs. Nor should anyone seek to use his killing to whitewash, normalise or capitalise on such beliefs. Boris Johnson is a self-seeking embarrassment who brings shame on Britain.

Charlie Kirk: “Martin Luther King was awful. He’s not a good person. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.” Boris Johnson:

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I think it’s deeper. Mandelson epitomised the 90s cultural pressure to “relax” & worship, not criticise, ostentatious extreme wealth. I’m reminded of my French uncle who, walking through a posh bit of London, was challenged by a local for photographing his Ferrari in the drive. My uncle explained 👉

Indeed. Did everyone who knew about this (which is basically everyone in politics) just tell themselves that the children, whom the court believed, must have been lying, nonetheless? Or that it didn’t really matter? &/or that they didn’t want to hear any details beyond “he‘s got powerful friends”?