But but but ... Labour said only THEY could beat Reform, and the Greens KNEW it, and should step down because WE were just splitting the vote! 😯

Hannah Spencer WINS GREENS WIN! [ID] Manchester Green Party graphic showing the election result in Gorton and Denton. Greens win. Hannah Spencer elected. Greens won with 41%. Reform lost in second on 29%. Labour way behind in third on 29%

Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

Free public meeting - all welcome! Are we going to lose the 'local' in 'local government'? Last November, councils across Lancashire voted on their preference for either 2, 3, 4 or 5 new unitary councils. Reform-led County Council voted for 2. Lancaster City Council for 4. Wyre Council for 3. 1/3

Loved Dennis the Menace comics when I was a kid. And I love the Greens , so glad this is pissing all the right people off in the media.💚💚💚👌 Bring it on.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

"Parker! I want photos of the Green Menace on my desk by the end of the day or you're fired!"

Hey Hannah - not sure if you're up to much today?

Me too. Regardless of tomorrow’s by-election result, the hysteria in today’s Daily Mail suggests something very significant is happening in the green corner of UK politics.

"The Green Menace" sounds pretty cool too, like a Pertwee-era Doctor Who episode

I WANT TO VOTE FOR THE GREEN MENACE!!!!!

Loved chatting with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a live @boldpolitics.bsky.social from #Brighton - we covered everything from the climate & nature emergency (obvs), telling better stories of England, hope & despair, & why we often do end of life so badly - give it a listen 👇

It's a Green Party in Gorton and Denton Vote Hannah Spencer Vote Green 💚

Just finished at London City Hall asking the Mayor questions about Retrofit - lower carbon emissions, our bills and create loads of jobs! And now I'm heading for a train to Manchester to go help get Hannah Spencer elected! 💚🚅 #VoteGreen

Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

Brilliant to be out knocking on doors in Gorton and Denton with a lovely group of volunteers; we have 75 more groups like this getting out the vote all across the constituency! Just spoke to one voter whose daughter has made her own beautiful poster to show her support💚

Hannah Spencer, "People say: you're so relatable" "I'm no different to most people just walking down the street" "We need to change, we can't have people who are there for their own ego"

The billionaire-owned UK Establishment Media really has it out for @greenparty.org.uk The Daily Mail newspaper that backed the Nazi's says: Beware the Green Menace! 😁

Lower bills. Protect the NHS. Rebuild public services. Vote Hannah Spencer & the Green Party.

On the eve of the Gorton and Denton by-election, @itvpeston.bsky.social has spent about a third of the show talking about the Green Party, but apparently haven't invited anyone from the party on. 2 x Labour 1 x Tory 1 x Reform 0 x Green Great job, folks. 🤦🏻‍♂️

On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets. Lying to voters is all they have left. All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday.

A vote for Hannah Spencer and the Green Party in Gorton and Denton is a vote for hope, for the party of the people not the investor classes, and for keeping it real. This is how we stop the far right division, and defeat those who manipulate and lie to stay in power and enable that same rhetoric.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

The collapse of key ecosystems could potentially happen as early as 2030, and no community anywhere in the UK will be able to avoid the impacts. This is not a drill. 3/3

The bombshell 'Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security Report' warns that the UK is sleepwalking into a national security crisis that undermines every aspect of our lives - health, food supply, crime threat, poverty or even national and international conflict. 2/3

Come along to a public meeting next Tuesday the 3rd March in Lancaster - free and all welcome - to hear from our 2 speakers about responding together to the climate and nature emergencies. No need to book. 1/3

“Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics”.” It’s wild that masking in sports is sometimes more normalized than masking in medical settings.

Dear Young People. This post is written for you… Our generation of doctors decided to let you all get infected with a novel virus without even protection from vaccines in many cases, and we already knew that some of you would be killed or disabled for life when we made that decision.

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

House of Commons is not even ordinary person accessible! Public School boys feel right at home 🤨 .. A place to hang up your sword & all this bewildering, wierd, archaic bollocks. Ppl assuming Black women MPs are staff. Bullying in the corridors. Being able to lie but not point out lies. Braying.🤢🤦🏻‍♀️

1. Outstanding article from Tess Finch Lees: 'Meanwhile, when asked why she’s masking during chemo, Meg now says, “I’m training for the Olympics” '. Please click on the paywalled link first, archived link in next post. Also consider sharing. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

Nobody chooses to get born into monarchy, and for many royals it's miserable. A true gilded cage. Over and above the overwhelming case for a republic on democratic and constitutional grounds, there's that Andrew, however, is the very worst product of the system. Grasping, entitled, nasty, stupid.

I'm going to Gorton and Denton

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked: - A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment - A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman" Reform is not a serious operation

Great. So is this something labour will roll out? Clean air for all schools? @london.gov.uk has been amazing on this.

Agreed! Clean air is something I've long campaigned on.

This is great news! Please could you fix indoor air quality in schools at the same time? We know from #Covid that schools are major sites of transmission for airborne infectious diseases. If we have to close schools when the next pandemic hits, it will be because lessons were not learned. #CleanAir

Join us and @airsupportproject.bsky.social  on Sunday, Feb 22nd, 12 noon ET / 5pm GMT for a conversation about cancer and COVID with guests Ruth Brooker of Clean Air for Kids UK, and Arijit Chakravarty, COVID educator.  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/neiR4EXlTUiZEauB6p-fJw#/registration

Ruth Brooker will share her story of her child being diagnosed with leukemia shortly before the pandemic, and Arijit Chakravarty will discuss some of the science on the intersection of COVID and cancer.

Nigel Farage lashes out at a FT journalist and refuses to answer the question. Is this how Reform UK would ignore media questions if they got into government?

From Heaven to Palantir HQ, from Yorkshire to our Bold Politics studio - great to have legendary journalist Simon Hattenstone follow me around. Here's what he saw in his report: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The rot runs right through this Labour government. Starmer made Mandelson ambassador to the US despite knowing of his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He must go. Streeting must cancel the NHS contract with Palantir which has Mandelson's hands all over it.

Decades of under investment have weakened our schools - and that weakens the whole country. We need real funding & care for education now. Here's my conversation with the General Secretary of the National Education Union @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social 👇🏼 youtu.be/MD-wBnLxOsM?...

Left: Why were Zuckerberg, Musk and Theil having dinner with Epstein in 2015? They must all have known he pled guilty to child abuse in 2008... Right: Zack Polanski criticising the UK gov for repeated contracts with Theil's Palantir