@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social You said something similar about the @greenparty.org.uk commitments in 2019 As it transpired, the Tory govt increased public borrowing by an even larger amount than the Greens were proposing Strangely, all those domesday predictions re the Greens were then forgotten

I think this doesn't take account of just how loathed Reform are by non-Reform voters In Wales, for example (according to Election Maps UK), every Reform gain would be in seats where Plaid+Grn+Lab+LD vote is DOUBLE theirs. It would take a modest local campaign to coalesce that vote against Reform

One interesting feature of FPTP is that, as soon a there are two parties clearly in the lead, the system will push voters towards them in large numbers This tipping point might be reached, and regardless of the politics, anyone not in the top 2 will be squeezed out of existence

So much to digest here, not least Labour winning 0 seats in Scotland and Wales, but most importantly it is the first poll in all of human history showing Labour losing Bootle (to the @greenparty.org.uk) Let’s get on it @seftongreenparty.bsky.social !

Au contraire! It's been hugely successful at demonstrating the utter moral bankruptcy of the Labour Party and the stupidity of our FPTP system. Blue Labour might yet deliver real change in the UK, but just not in the way they intended

Really important article here that really gets underneath voting intentions and was able to predict this: "On Thursday, Hannah Spencer will be elected to serve Gorton and Denton in Westminster, and the dam will be broken. By the end of March, the Greens will be leading Labour in all polls"

I've always been very ambitious for the @greenparty.org.uk, and thought if we could hit 12-15% in the polls we could seriously disrupt UK politics If this poll is accurate, we have overturned the table Labour is about to find out how it feels to not be one of the 2 parties in a 2-party system

No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers. They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

In another international betrayal, the UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help | Climate aid | The Guardian - “If the UK breaks its commitments, it gives cover for others to do the same, with devastating consequences for global climate action.”

Labour have lost the plot, part 53 Do they really think this screaming at voters works? They just sound unhinged

This is how much the establishment don’t understand what’s happening Portraying the @greenparty.org.uk as the standard bearers of the left, and planting a flag on the defeated bodies of Labour, Reform and The Tories, is exactly the message the Greens want to get across Well done The Sun!

If you had told me that within 6 months of @zackpolanski.bsky.social becoming leader of the Greens, we would hit 200k members, I would have completely dismissed it as over-optimistic nonsense And yet here we are. The members have come and so has real optimism I’m so happy to be wrong

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

Labour: why don't you all fuck off LOL Labour: no not like that

There is someone within Labour who seems to get it…

A Green win must mean that "left behind" voters forgotten by Westminster want open borders and legalised class A drugs. That's how it works right?

Just for fun, but… If this swing were replicated in a general election, the @greenparty.org.uk would take about 250 seats from Labour And Labour would win zero seats overall Difficult to see how Starmer can survive this

Hannah Spencer MP for Gorton and Denton. Hope is here. 👌

Amazing result for the Greens Outside observers really have no idea how hungry for success most Green Party members are We’ve tasted crushing defeat so many times that we will push towards success with 10x the energy of Labour and Reform

I think this by-election has made the Labour Party lose its mind An openly progressive @greenparty.org.uk has sent Labour hurtling into the most regressive and reactionary hole in the political world. And they will struggle to climb out of it

Polls open until 10pm in Gorton and Denton. It's Greens vs. Reform - every single vote counts. 🗳️ 💚

Two options for voters in Gorton & Denton. Greens or Reform?

The rich are fully aware of climate catastrophe. But their solution for climate catastrophe is to get rid of the rest of us by the way. That’s why tech bros are arguing robots are less resource consuming than humans so openly.

@turnleftmedia.co.uk - have you verified that this, in fact, is a Labour sponsored ad/vehicle in Gorton & Denton? The language seems odd and a bit extreme, even for Labour

As cynical as I am about politics, this has genuinely shocked me What does Labour think it’s achieving? By obviously lying to voters, it is degrading wider trust in its future claims And their response when caught “well other people have lied (no evidence presented), so we’re going to as well”

The Daily Fail has spent years telling us that ‘illegal’ migrants already get all this stuff. Are they now saying that wasn’t in fact the case? Their claims about the @greenparty.org.uk should be treated as equally false

"If I’m elected on Thursday, it will send shockwaves through the political establishment and show that the old way of doing politics is over... The establishment’s days are numbered." Thursday's stakes could not be higher. Read more from Hannah Spencer ⤵️

Extraordinary account of war crimes by Israel Astonishing that the international response to this is mostly silence 15 clearly visible paramedics killed, “some shot ‘execution-style’ at close range”. Absolutely depraved stuff that no reasonable person can defend

That living room definitely looks middle class!

For every £1 we invest in active travel, we get £5.62 back We can’t afford not to do it And the govt knows it - committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide....

In my experience a lot of people in the Labour Party accuse others (especially Greens) of being middle class But Labour’s activist base is mostly very middle class Always seems like an odd thing to say to me (and by ‘middle class’ they mostly mean any working class person with nice things)

Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

It is strangely fascinating just how bad Starmer’s judgment is. Everybody around him is reeking of sleaze and every appointment dripping in incompetence This looks like another rolling scandal that he’ll eventually claim he knew nothing about

Labour is the reactionary force in our society that progressives must now remove in order to achieve meaningful change Also, they regularly talk utter nonsense like this…

✅ Tactical voting organisations ✅ Doorstep data ✅ Constituency polling It's clearer than ever that it's Green vs Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for Hannah Spencer is the only way to stop Reform's hate and make hope normal again.

🚨 POLL | Greens LEAD in Gorton and Denton ** Labour drop to distant 3rd ** 🟢 Grn: 33% (+19) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 26% (-25) 🔵 Con: 5% (-4) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-1) Source: Omnisis, 13-19 Feb (+/- vs GE2024)

Just one poll, but it reflects what the bookies have been saying (and close to what the Greens have been suggesting with their canvassing returns) If people want to stop Reform and push this govt in a more progressive direction, voting Green is the only way to go

People switching from Green to Labour now would run a very high risk of Reform winning

This is a dead giveaway for Labour. A *landlord* puts up a sign supporting Labour. Labour is the LANDLORDS party. No wonder he wants to stop the Green Party, the Greens are the party that will cut rents.

Well this is interesting from @yougov.co.uk Turns out that the @greenparty.org.uk are much more effective at attracting the anti-Reform/Tory vote than Labour If you really want to keep the far right out of power, supporting the Greens is a clearly way to do it

All this does is highlight the fact that the Green candidate is the one to beat in Gorton and Denton It’s Labour saying that the Greens are the front-runners Greens should put up another one next to it saying “clearly worried about being in a distant 3rd place” with a big ⬅️

When even the ultra-loyalists are turning away in despair, it suggests Labour are in even deeper trouble than we realise Really extraordinary to see this www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/02/13/f...

Starmer isn’t loathed because of some media conspiracy, but because he has abandoned Labour’s principles and the people they used to serve Anyone who ignores that is acting in bad faith (or lives in a bubble)

So, occasionally I look on Threads and have noticed that it’s swimming in pro-Starmer posts (that feel more than a little coordinated) Is this a real thing? Do I miss it here because BlueSky has a more filtered experience? Or is Threads just where Starmerites have their echo chamber?

Indeed. Getting tired of people pitching in for Starmer. He’s not decent, his rhetoric and actions towards minorities has been vile. Worse than May’s and Cameron’s Tories

This is such a bad take The sexual abuse and trafficking of children happened, and was tolerated and covered up, because of political corruption Abuse, especially at scale, always happens in situations where there are powerful men and an absence of accountability

Half the journalists & pundits rabbiting on about Starmer's catastrophic "misjudgement" were hailing his appointment of Mandelson as "inspired" just a year ago. This was an appalling failure of jounalism as well as of politics.

I’m seeing a lot of this whataboutery from Labour supporters The entire New Labour/Starmer project has been exposed as corrupt and lacking in both morality and judgment, and their response is to plead for people to look away Shameful, really

Even without Starmer Labour are fucked. Plan B was Streeting and he's as popular as crabs. They have 400+ MPs but all the newbies are Mandelson approved briefcases. One of the safest seats in the country opened up and they gave it to Luke Akehurst. They've really got *nothing*