This attempt at distinction is going down like a lead balloon. I like Zarah but this is a wild interpretation of Green policy that feels quite bad faith. The Green stance is nuanced- the party is no NATO fan but recognises its current necessity as well as the need for dramatic change.

While the law allows a significant amount of intolerant racist antisemitic anti-Muslim speech, the current context sees many people inconstently celebrate some forms of intolerance (as free speech) while trying to curb lawful speech (as prejudiced), differing depending on the topic/target

Zack absolutely coming for them

Seat Projection:

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (-3) LAB: 17% (-2) CON: 17% (+3) GRN: 15% (+4) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct. Changes w/ 1 Oct.

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

Home Secretary: Freedom of speech is a sometimes right to be reserved as a treat for cheat days

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

Green Party Conference 2025 just passed a motion that would Abolish Landlords! Through a programme of unprecedented council house building, taxation and housing those who need it, a Green government would eliminate profit from a human right. Housing for all.

I cannot get across just how big a deal this is. The TERFs were always a minority but an exceptionally loud one, bringing all functioning of the party down around them as they used every procedure in the book to block things. This just passed without a single speaker against.

Oh god, I just looked at the comments section of a notable left wing MPs post about the attack yesterday. I'm afraid if you think an attack on Jewish people on the holiest day of the Jewish calender is an Israeli false flag operation then it doesn't matter what you do for Gaza, you can get fucked.

I'm in a cafe who hasn't paid for Spotify and god the ads are so bad. They're asking me to "monetise my passion" lads 😔

So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s: ✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer ✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist ✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The news is in, and it’s good 🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda But the party stood firm 1.

Now. And always. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

“You shall grovel for your place in our country and you’ll say bloody thank you, scum”

Everyone is speculating about when the inevitable Starmer U turn on ID will come - based on experience, it will clearly be at the exact moment they will do maximum damage to themselves. Hold out long enough that everyone against it has turned against you and only then give in.

Well done, you have successfully pitched a policy *nearly* as awful as Reform but also just complicated enough that it will be drowned out by the far right's much simpler demands. This Labour government are really good at one thing only: alienating their core vote while legitimising Reform.

If Labour think the Green strategy is to be “all things to all people,” then they’re in trouble. We’re pro-trans rights, anti-genocide, pro-environment, anti-racist. All the things they have failed to be but certainly not “all things to all people.”

Let’s also set up infrastructure that a far-right populist party might abuse should they win an election.

Vichy Labour. Deliberately and repeatedly affirming and amplifying the inflammatory far right *lie* of "uncontrolled migration".

Taps sign

Instead of a digital ID scheme just give everyone a leitmotif

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

We're still doing this. Are we the only ones still doing this? It seems like a vital thing to do, doesn't it? If we can, shouldn't we be doing things like this? news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...

Pretty sure this just undoes everything Ed Miliband has and will achieve as Energy Secretary. Nice work 👍

"gReEns aReNT a SocIaLIsT pARtY!!1!1" And yet somehow even the most liberal, NIMBY-like elements still support nationalisation and wealth redistribution?

You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time? This is why:

Liberals when fascists announce their intentions to strip millions of people of their human rights

Also: bear in mind that this is what’s being served up almost a full four years before the next General Election. At this rate, any 2029 manifesto offerings milder than indentured labour for anyone whose family arrived after 1066 would be a pleasant surprise

4. TORIES ON BIKES There’s posh people who sometimes talk about environmental stuff like it's somehow removed from an oppressive economic system... but strangely they all support mass wealth distribution and were calling out a genocide from the start... Charlatans!

After something to listen to over the weekend? Our newest podcast with @katrinanavickas.bsky.social dropped yesterday! We talk about the history of the commons (communal resources), enclosure, and resistance to that encroachment. Plus, Untitled Goose Game. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

"There's people who will cook food in their own homes and take it out and feed people who are less fortunate... That's patriotism. That's love for your community. And that's standing up for British values." Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.

Topics include: Handforth Parish Council ("you have no authority here, Jackie Weaver!"), @househouse.bsky.social's Untitled Goose Game, geese more generally, John Clare, lantern slides, and much, much more.

There’s only one thing for it: Keir Starmer must shag the flag on live telly

UK living standards have collapsed while govt after govt have sat on their hands. Now the vacuum they left is being filled by fascist agitators like Tommy Robinson and super-rich big-business-backed politicians like Farage. There is an alternative–and we can all play our part in fighting for it.

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

I've been thinking a lot about how we can reclaim patriotism from the far-right - ultimately I think we have, through legitimate criticism of the horrors of colonialism and a rejection of British Exeptionalism, allowed the right to claim the national symbols of GB and England for their own ends.

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

I never went to that island

Ambassador??? I barely know her!!!!!

"How long until Mandelson ends up in a high-paid consultancy somewhere? While another washed-up former Westminster insider ends up in Washington?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the resignation of Peter Mandelson, appointed by Keir Starmer as ambassador to the US.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

Here he is supporting Paul Pelosi's attacker www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🪙As Bristol Council's Chair of Finance, I'm delighted our administration confirmed today that the our library budget will be protected for the next year. 📖Greens will always fight to protect our vital libraries. 🛑BUT - this depends on the Labour govt properly funding councils in the future.