"Persuasion UK presented DeSmog’s findings that the party raised £2.3 million between the 2019 and 2024 elections from climate science deniers and fossil fuel interests – equivalent to 92 percent of its funding over the period."

A new week - and a new huge milestone! @greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!! We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Sunday afternoon, time for another one-woman mending-&-craft party, gently and with cake & hot drinks. I have too many things on the go & some of them are things I want to be wearing, dammit 1. A bit of the current handknit sock to get started with. Love self-striping wool. Number 1, cuff-down.

OH ZACK! 😆 Thank you for making me laugh out loud on a grey Sunday afternoon! (It’s the bit at the end, but don’t skip the rest, it’s not very long 😊)

Why should the monarchy be able to opt-out of laws when they want to? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

One flu jab later, one set of mild aches & fever, as expected. Zero crafting or mending done, but a bit of both garden & indoor clearing. Apples have been picked. Soup & toast-and-marmalade have been consumed. The Addams Family has been watched. Cats have been snuzzed. That sort of a Saturday🍏

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Per the US National Institute for Health, over 40 *known* intersex variations exist. More are still being discovered. Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes –– even a person's cells can be female in one part of their body and male in another, and they may not even know it.

In Worcestershire, Reform are taking the Greens to court in hopes of overturning a Green Cllr win. Court cases are expensive & the Greens are funded by our grassroots, not oligarchs. I’ve chipped in a bit, can you? Bits add up. Thank you. #TeamGreen 🍃

Want to see something lovely? Want to feel hope grow in you? Want to hear a politician speak with a clarity and warmth that you want to yell ‘Yes!’ and ‘How can I help?’ Here. It’s Zack. Let’s go. #BackZack #TeamGreen

Desperate decision by the BBC to kill off Science in Action. 😔

Oof, been a day. Have reached the toast and marmalade and a book stage of the day. Too tired to knit, I think. Tomorrow I’ll tackle the things I didn’t do today.

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it. Join us and let's make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

Heading into a day of many things. Deep breath. Hydrate. Comfortable shoes. Gloves. Book & knitting for the waiting bits. Lists for everything else. “Go thou well into the day May there be wonders along your way” as the song goes. Wasn’t the Moon beautiful last night?

You can be part of this: 🍃 Membership starts at £6 a year 🍃 For social, racial, economic and environmental justice, & calling out the bullshit 🍃 Join up, give what you can, do what you can, support each other in kindness & hope 🍃 It’s time #TeamGreen #BackZack

#c4news And a Conservative Party donor called Graham King has been making millions out of those asylum hotels. It looks the Tories were operating another VIP lane. leftfootforward.org/2025/05/tory...

Beautiful mail from Hookland, thank you very much! 🌿 The music and lyrics by @taliskimberley.bsky.social, the artwork by @tomsbrown.bsky.social and the foreword by @hookland.bsky.social all sing! 🌀

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Talis’s Sunday Afternoon One-Woman Craft & Mending Party: a thread. 😆 1. Worked in the ends on blue legwarmer number 1, which I finished knitting yesterday. (To be continued, wish me luck)

I was so pleased. I reduced my mending pile to zero, & then I switched out my Winter clothes: This jacket’s great but the sleeves need taking up. This top’s really nice but needs some stitches just there. This skirt needs lengthening, this other skirt’s lining needs rehemming after I shortened it.

-Thread- Sapling 5th of the #Emberlings of Oct. Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art. Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191... We're hopefully doing a Welsh folklore anthology - gyffrous iawn! Please back and/or share widely!

History repeats.

Pictures by Thomas, accompanying words by me. A series of #Emberlings for the Ember season. Original art for sale😊 I *am* enjoying this game. I like a wordy challenge!

🚨 NEW | Anti-trans hate group "Green Women's Declaration" have been formally barred from Green Party conference. The group sought a stall at conference, but their bid was denied by the party. Green leader Zack Polanski recently affirmed the party's support for trans rights.

Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship. Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing. And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary. Thank you Zack. 💪

-Thread- Bus Stop 3rd of the #Emberlings of Oct. Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art. Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Live in a few minutes, the leader of the Green Party (England & Wales) @zackpolanski.bsky.social will give his 1st conference speech. Be moved, inspired, & brought to happy hopeful tears. Join us! For social, economic, & environmental justice #BackZack www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

Ok peeps, I know I’m a lot about Green Party this and Zack Polanski that, right now. There will be more of music and magic and art and trees and stories and songs and so on here but right now it’s HUGE to have something political to be positive about, hey? 🍃😉

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you still watch BBC / have a TV licence, there’s merit in watching via them to validate their (welcome) decision to stream the speeches (I don’t think that’s been the case previous years?) If you have no TV Licence, they’ll be on YouTube as well. That’s where I’ll be. 1.30pm today! #TeamGreen

What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most? Did I guess right?

Today's #emberling original is now going to a good home. Will include a surprise because that's fun. New witch tomorrow! Here is the tankard of prompts from @taliskimberley.bsky.social ... I've already opened the next one..

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I’m loving writing little witchy rhymes to accompany Thomas’s #Emberlings (Imagine I have Edward Gorey on one shoulder, & Pam Ayres on the other) XD Original art by Thomas, for you, or for the witchy soul in your life😊 🍁 This strange season, as ever, #ArtIsResistance & #JoyIsResistance

Lunch date tomorrow, I’ll be glued to the stream & cheering! I watched the leadership announcement ONE MONTH AGO, in happy hopeful tears. What a month since! And I LOVE that Zack’s leadership style means acknowledging the team he’s leading with warmth & humility. Bloody hell. I’m crying again.

I loved wearing this Nicola Quilter skirt (bought new at Camden Market years ago) back when I was a Green Council/GE candidate. I’m not going to fit it again & would love to give it to a Green activist who will enjoy it. UK Size 12 ish, I believe. (No dms, email me via my website or comment here)

Right. Tuesday. Stuff to do. Bins, clearing, sorting, errands, admin. Cats to snuzz. Bit of crafting. Play a tune on my fiddle. Make lists. Do the things on the lists. Have a good Tuesday, friends.

"Mr Polanski’s appearance outside Labour’s conference comes on the party's business day, which sees lobbyists and executives pay thousands of pounds for facetime with senior members of Sir Keir’s cabinet" Yep, read it again. That's sellout AI-Labour Then do the right thing join.greenparty.org.uk

I was Labour, culturally, I thought and mostly ideologically. The party left me, so I found a party with policies and a leader that I could completely get behind. I joined the Greens to vote for Zack, and he gives me reasons for hope every bloody day.

Hey, Labour pals! You, with morals & a will to make peoples’ lives better. I get that you’re hurting. I’m so sorry, but it’s time to do something brave. You wanted to make Labour better, but it’s steamrollering its way to authoritarianism & silencing voices like yours. Join #TeamGreen & #BackZack

Ooh! And we get HoL reform at the same time! Cracking idea! #UBI #WhatAGoodIdea (Ofc some members of the HoL actually do work damned hard - our 2 Green peers frex - but as an institution, it sucks.) With a lottery for attendance in weekly or monthly blocks, perhaps?

We're going up, up, it's our moment. You know we're going to be glowing. Gonna be gonna be golden.

Maybe you’re not a ‘joiner’. Maybe you don’t like something you heard a Green politician say once. Maybe you don’t think it’ll make a difference. Do nothing, join nothing, & always wonder what could have helped. Or watch this & say: sod it, let’s try something. Join in. Join #TeamGreen #BackZack

So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code. These are legal requirements. Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.

This is now the 4th biggest government petition response since they began Time to grow the numbers + show Starmer we don't want a police state, we don't want data harvesting + we really don't want his sick + twisted version of the Labour Party #StarmerOut petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Amidst the everything else, here’s a very sweary, hungover, Gareth Hunt (Roj Blake!), struggling to advertise coffee. Such a beautiful speaking voice, dear godlings! XD

Want to hear more about what the Green Party is offering? Watch the full interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on our YouTube, or listen wherever you get your pods. #PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UK #Socialism #YourParty

This petition gained a million signatures yesterday. If we can keep up that growth it will terrify people at the Labour conference. #PapersPlease petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...