Ignoring the CPS advice like that is quite something. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Labour establishment have been vicious towards Zack since they realized the threat he poses to them And yet they are thinking that the Green Party should stand aside for them in Makerfield? Cooperation is a two-way street as are pluralism and respect

I personally would prefer it if Burnham could be swapped in quickly and easily, and it’d probably be better for the nation. But I see no reason why the Greens should now help people who just spent two weeks calling them hateful racist cranks trying to give heroin to children.

One of my most shallow opinions is that a decent percentage of far right hate is driven by the fact that few people are attracted to them, physically or spiritually, and they want to be able to legislate around this. See: this thread

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Statement by our Stirchley and Bournville and Cotteridge councillors on "Raise the colours" birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/15/s...

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

Wes Streeting, the member for Palantir North.

"I have a girlfriend at another school, but I've made the principled decision not to introduce you to her for fear of embarrassing you all"

This has also been woefully underreported.

I want everyone (EVERYONE) who wears Meta AI glasses branded as a creep and weirdo (bad weirdo as opposed to good one) and publicly shamed. We did it with Google glass, we can do it again

#PalantirOut - that's what should be happening, but instead they're been allowed full access to individuals' records. "All-round access was originally intended only for NHS England employees with security clearance" www.ft.com/content/8ce1...

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

I can’t believe Zak Polanski didn’t originally pay the correct amount of council tax. This is worse than failing to declare a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire and it’s correct that it’s receiving more press coverage, except it really very much isn’t.

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

In two years Keir Starmer’s government has tried to rob Disabled people of help, kept children in poverty, trashed nature protection, restricted peaceful protest, helped arm genocide, and moved to scrap jury trials. He says that Greens exploit despair. He has created it. We offer only hope.

Members of the Conservative Party and Reform Party were invited to speak the rally, but the Jewish leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, who opposes the Gaza genocide and has been vocal in his criticism of Israel, was not.

Remember when one of Wesley's junior Ministers led us to believe Palantir couldn't access identifiable patient data? Turns out that wasn't true.

Less people than the capacity at Glastonbury.

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

@cahokia.bsky.social Hiya! Just checked out Return to Daggerworld via one of those skeevy pdf sites (sorry!) to see if it was any good, and now I've seen that it's awesome stuff I'm going to buy a copy! My question: is Heart of Daggers or Itch better for you? Do you get more money from one of them?

Proposed Birmingham City Council coalition: Lib Lab Love, Bab #LocalElections #LE2026 #LibLabLove

This is why we stand against Reform and all they stand for. metro.co.uk/2026/05/09/r...

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

One thing you won't hear on the News is that the Green Party got the 2nd highest number of votes in the Local Election. Ahead of everyone but Reform, and the Green vote is still growing.

#Bigtech consistently lies about the environmental impact of #DaraCentres. Why is it so hard to create and enforce rules that the polluter pays for the damage they caused? Most likely because if tech paid a true cost for their damage they'd be bankrupt. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🎉 BIG GAINS IN BRUM 🎉 👏 Huge congratulations to Birmingham Green Party on going from 2 to 19 councillors! 💚 Greens are now the second biggest party on Birmingham Council.

With #AltText for everyone, because everyone needs to know.

The Onion ass headline

I’m so proud to be one of 19 @brumgreens.bsky.social councillors on Birmingham City Council! In Billesley, hope triumphed convincingly over hate. We got 45% of the vote and 1,200 votes more than our closest Reform candidate!

i thought this was the case it's nice to see that it is. the seat wins look scary but their vote is actually down.

BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!

Introducing your new @greenparty.org.uk Birmingham councillor for Handsworth - Ed Freshwater!

In Wigan, Reform got 46% of the vote. That gave them 96% of the seats that were up for election. First Past the Post is not fit for purpose.

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

Absolutely incredible news. Huge congratulations to Anthony - our first ever member of the Senedd!!!! 💚🥳

You voted Green today? Then come and join us! join.greenparty.org.uk

I’d believe in the significance of what was happening in the English local council elections if more than 44% of the people eligible to vote had bothered to show up. I’m no political scientist, but a media blitz from the world’s richest fuckheads still couldn’t fight extreme disinterest

Birmingham Greens take Tyseley and Hay Mills!

Evergreen headline.

The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory! Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team. Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried. And we're making hope normal again.

a decent answer to a fucking stupid question

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

"When you lose an election in a democracy you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, 'what were you thinking'?"

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

General election still a long way away so trying not to lose hope but it’s hard not to see a future in which reform get in, do a terrible job for four years and get kicked out again, but do a huge amount of damage and line their own pockets