Ed Freshwater #Handsworth #TeamKip
@edfreshwater.bsky.social
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Green Party candidate for
#Handsworth
PhD Researcher & Mental Health Nurse Dad from
#TeamKip
pinned post!
I'll be posting on here about mental health, green and leftist politics, Handsworth, sarcasm, academia and silliness. But my constant thoughts are about this remarkable little boy Kip, who we lost in July 2021. Read his story at
TeamKip.co.uk
#TeamKip
#SmellyPantsWee
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Good. Although justice demands that he should have been thrown out. In fact he should never have been let in.
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Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal
Former minister apparently shared confidential government emails with child sex offender and financier
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/03/peter-mandelson-resigns-from-lords-after-epstein-email-leak-scandal
3 days ago
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Aquilino A. Gonell
12 days ago
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Council Estate Media
12 days ago
Call me crazy, but I'm starting to think the people who are murdering peaceful protesters on the streets of Minneapolis aren't too sincere about wanting to bring democracy to Iran
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Otto English
12 days ago
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge believed the exact same thing.
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This is Reform - taking healthcare away from you to make money for private insurance firms. Reform hate you. They just want your money to go to their rich friends. Don't ever vote for them.
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12 days ago
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Katie Mack
12 days ago
A reminder to the news media: โconflicting accountsโ is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Andrew Fisher
12 days ago
Any updates on how that's going?
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There is no value in the Nobel Peace Prize any longer. Any future awardee or nominee should reject it. If I had one I'd send it back. The nature of right-wing politics is to take good things and make them shit.
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21 days ago
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Be part of research to understand how team cultures are made and experienced by NHS staff working in the mental health sector. I am looking for participants employed in any role in NHS MH services in the UK to be interviewed.
[email protected]
for more info.
about 1 month ago
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Zack Polanski
29 days ago
Farage wants to bring Trumpโs death squads to the streets of Britain. Together, we will stop him.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
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Inside Trump's deportation 'goon squads' that are blueprint for Farage's Britain
Armed ICE officers ruthlessly swoop on US homes in the dead of night, rounding up men and locking them in shackles ready for deportation. The Mirror has watched them in action
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/blueprint-nigel-farages-britain-exposed-35973382.amp
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 1 month ago
"America is an oil company with an army." โGeorge Carlin
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Jeff Tiedrich
about 1 month ago
look, I may not agree with every decision our president makes, but he is our commander in chief and I will defend to the death his right to be impeached, removed from office, arrested, stripped of his wealth, tried for his crimes and thrown straight the fuck into prison
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The USA is a rogue state. Trump is a felon who poses a clear and present threat to global peace. He must be removed, and all nations place sanctions on the USA. Of course, this won't happen, because oil and money.
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Be part of research to understand how team cultures are made and experienced by NHS staff working in the mental health sector. I am looking for participants employed in any role in NHS MH services in the UK to be interviewed.
[email protected]
for more info.
about 1 month ago
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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
about 2 months ago
New Fairytale of New York lyrics just dropped... ๐ฎโ๐จ Grace Petrie ๐
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Green Elects
3 months ago
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
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Zack Polanski
4 months ago
People aren't leaving the Labour Party. The Labour Party have left them. I spoke today with Sky News - live from Swindon.
youtu.be/hJ0EJTakhxU?...
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Green Party leader reveals defection of three Labour councillors
YouTube video by Sky News
https://youtu.be/hJ0EJTakhxU?si=pXr1eDZ97rq64OnS
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Birmingham Green Party
4 months ago
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
stopped by
#Handsworth
yesterday and was welcomed by
@edfreshwater.bsky.social
of
#BrumGreens
in front of the
#BenjaminZephania
mural to show what a vibrant, diverse, integrated neighbourhood it truly is. Don't let anyone tell you
#Birmingham
is not multicultural and proud!
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efemera
4 months ago
Just finished watching
#BBCQT
.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
was fantastic and seeing the audience respond so positively really gave me hope. Proud to be a Green party member. ๐ฑ๐๐ฑ (Just hope Zack is getting enough sleep and personal time - he's doing too important a job to risk burning out.)
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Zack Polanski
4 months ago
We just hit 93,000 members. We're polling on average higher than we have ever before. Over 1000 people joining a day! Join our movement.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Join the Green Party
Join the Green Party from just ยฃ6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.
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Zack Polanski
4 months ago
So much energy from Green Party Conference. Great to hear about all the local parties in England & Wales calling up their new members, inviting them to action days and getting people involved. Let's go! ๐๐
novaramedia.com/2025/10/07/z...
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Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists | Novara Media
The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/10/07/zack-polanski-must-now-transform-his-fans-into-activists/
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Corinne Fowler
4 months ago
@onlyinbirmingham.bsky.social
#Handsworth
could teach @RobertJenrick how to live in a global society.
#BenjaminZephaniah
- spirit of
#Birmingham
- said "Handsworth for me is...where I learnt all my skills, my communication skills, my hustling skills, my poetic skills, everything."
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Saw this in a charity shop and thought of
@kermodemovie.bsky.social
! "Everyone's a critic, but only one can be the best"
4 months ago
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Otto English
4 months ago
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6xwy015ngo
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Bradford District Green Party
5 months ago
โ ๏ธ You CAN change things through politics ๐
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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BladeoftheSun
5 months ago
The 4 people who did this 'Led by Donkeys' were arrested for this as 'malicious communications' But it is just facts.
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๐ซ๐ทRaquel de la Roche๐จ๐ด
6 months ago
Ghislaine Maxwell's five convictions: -Conspiring to entice minors for illegal sex acts -Enticing a minor for sex acts -Conspiring to transport minors for sex acts -Transporting a minor for sex crimes -Sex trafficking conspiracy
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@simonmayo.bsky.social
The most recent segue into the
@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social
Laughter Lift was a thing of utmost skill and beauty. Jokes remain utterly stinky.
7 months ago
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Pablo
8 months ago
DEI makes rockets fly ๐๐ค
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Dave
9 months ago
Exactly my take, and he's much more likely to get media exposure because, aside from their obvious right wing bias, he has a bit of click bate-ability
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That a Labour Prime Minister has to send his front bench out to argue that his paraphrasing of a far-right racist wasn't as racist as he meant it to be... Bin Labour, go Green
Join.greenparty.org.uk
#backzack
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9 months ago
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Rajan Naidu ๐ โ
9 months ago
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Zack Polanski
9 months ago
Well that went pretty well!! ๐๐๐ผ
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"In my defence" cackled the Prime Minister, "it was obvious from the outset that I was a scorpion who was lying about my fundamental nature; in many ways it's Corbyn's fault that I'm poisoning you all. After all, being poisoned is kind of a change..."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer defends plans to curb net migration after backlash from MPs
Prime ministerโs โisland of strangersโ speech was likened to rhetoric of Enoch Powell
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/12/keir-starmer-defends-plans-to-curb-net-migration?CMP=share_btn_url
9 months ago
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I'm sure they are just giving him this $400million gift with absolutely no expectation of reciprocal favours in any way shape or form...
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9 months ago
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Dr Rachel Clarke
9 months ago
We need to be absolutely clear about the human cost of this policy. More ambulances stuck outside A&Es. More patients dying in hospital corridors. More suffering. More misery. More patient harm. Because Starmer has chosen to prioritise cheap headlines above improving society. Way to go, Labour.
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BladeoftheSun
9 months ago
It's funny isn't it, if all the 'low' skilled workers like Care Workers, Health Workers and farmers disappeared we would all starve to death and die. But if all the 'high' skilled workers, like Bankers, CEOs and Politicians disappeared we wouldn't even notice.
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9 months ago
Seriously, stop with the โthis isn't what I voted forโ crap. Keir Starmer's racism, transphobia, authoritarianism, militarism, and hatred of immigrants and the poor were all on full display. We warned you. This is absolutely what you voted for, and you're just trying to rehabilitate yourselves.
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Liam Kirby
9 months ago
The softly-softly approach has got us this far, but with Reform on the march and Labour giving up ground to the right, it's time for us to take the gloves off. That's why I
#BackZack
for the leadership
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Jill Hayward
9 months ago
Care work is NOT low skilled. It is, however, damned hard work, poorly-paid and not everyone has the right aptitude for it. Turnover in the first two years of employment is very high, as people realise they're not cut out for it/can't live on the wages.
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Cooper, Labour, the government, the party are in lock-step with the Conservatives and the far-right extremist Reform grifters in demonising those people who undertake the most thankless, least rewarding, low-paid jobs in the country. My contempt for their policy is absolute. Despicable and stupid.
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H.D. Gregg - Designated Terroristโข๏ธ
9 months ago
Execute Nazis.
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Meidas_SocietysChild
9 months ago
Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels are the same person. Prove me wrong.
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Krassensteins
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Nicholas Guyatt
9 months ago
To be fair to the UK ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, he has always been consistent in the company he keeps
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The Green Party of England & Wales
9 months ago
This week we commemorate 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe. Today, and every day, we all have a responsibility to ensure the words 'never again' are meaningful.
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Zack Polanski
9 months ago
To have the endorsement of Larry Sanders - and for him to liken me to his brother Bernie
@sanders.senate.gov
means a lot! From the UK to the USA - time to fight the oligarchy.
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News Eye
9 months ago
A Western nation with humanity should send its military now to airdrop food & medical supplies into Gaza. They should tell Netanyahu that if their planes get so much as a scratch on them, it will be deemed a declaration of war.
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Expropriate - a delight is an emergency that should give the government grounds to take this virtual resource away from people who have proven over decades they are incapable and unfit to hold such responsibility
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