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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

People aren't leaving the Labour Party.

The Labour Party have left them.

I spoke today with Sky News - live from Swindon.

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Green Party leader reveals defection of three Labour councillors

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 10h

Opposing Labour is not “splitting the Left”.

It’s opposing the Far Right.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 1d

Greens are shifting the debate.

Next we shift power.

Join greensorganise.uk

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It’s moving and an arrow pointing left.
Underneath Zack Polanski pushes a box labelled “Overton Window” away from Nigel Farage while trampling on crumpled papers Reform UK.

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Jay Celio @jccff.bsky.social · 14h

It’s all we have right now. Labour are just nasty Tories and they will be voted out almost everywhere

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 14h

McSweeney is running the country and nobody voted for him. I thought Labour wanted to clean up politics? They’ve just made it dirtier

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 16h

there is a public support for this at like 7% but if you ask Morgan McSweeney that's 70% because the focus groups told him so

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16h

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17h

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 14h

It’s Morgan McSweeney and his AI focus groups. The input for the AI was like one dude in a pub from the red wall. Morgan is sweating like an American in a donut shop as he decides which minority to punish next to appease his hungry man in red wall pub

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

" @greenparty.org.uk have hurtled past 130,000, eclipsing number of Conservative members. One poll already puts them on 15%, more than double last year’s 6.2% & tied with Labour. To call that a political phenomenon is not hyperbole."

✍🏼- @owenjones.bsky.social

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The politics of despair have engulfed Britain. But Zack Polanski is offering a way out | Owen Jones

The leader of the Greens wants to focus on battles that unite – such as taxing wealth – without yielding an inch on minority rights, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Rachel Reeves says she needs to raise taxes to “balance the books.” But that’s not how government finance works. In this video, I explain why the government’s job is to sustain spending power, not drain it.

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Why most tax rises now would be economic madness

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Special rapporteur for poverty cites mainstream parties’ ‘extremely dangerous’ them-or-us dialogue Decades of efforts by mainstream politicians to roll back welfare programmes have given rise to an “extremely dangerous” discourse that has helped fuel the rise of the far right and rightwing populists in countries around the world, a top UN expert has told the Guardian. From London to Lisbon, politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike have steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Continue reading...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Highest. Ever. (Yet.) 🚀

Let's go! 🙌🏼

Source: YouGov

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Greens and lib Dems - 15%
Tories - 17%
Labour - 20%
Reform - 26%

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Your party is a disgrace. Starmer is a disgrace. McSweeney is a disgrace. Horrible people

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

You are a liar. I need the jab. I should get it for free. Streeting and Labour stopped the jab for people like me. You are a liar

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

@greenparty.org.uk has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester.
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Greens vote to oppose introduction of Freeports in the UK - Green Party

The Green Party has voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at it’s annual party conference in Manchester. Commenting Green Party Co-Leader A...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is being carved into 86 deregulated corporate zones—74 SEZs + 12 Freeports (now "Industrial Strategy Zones"), with 200 AI Growth Zones coming.
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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

It’s who they are. Starmer hates the disabled

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Their slashing of welfare was disgusting too, sounds like they want to cut some more. Very happy to not vote Labour again, voting Green from now on

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

I am appalled. It doesn’t feel like a Labour government. It feels even worse than the Tory ones

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Mummified Matt 🎃👻💀 @mattsawyer.bsky.social · 1d

A Tory govt gifted me a free flu jab when I turned 50 and a Labour govt took it away this year…not the turn of events I expected.

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

I have late stage kidney disease and immune compromised. Labour stopped it for people like me. I have to pay for it. I’m never voting Labour again, if you vote Labour you are sick

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie. I am immune compromised with late stage kidney disease and this government snatched the vaccine from me. I have to pay £100 to get one. If you vote Labour shame on you

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

That is a lie. Labour snatched tonnes of vaccines from people who need it. I have late stage kidney disease, I’m immunocompromised and I need the jab and this disgusting Labour government stopped me from getting it. I now have to pay £100 for it! If you vote Labour you are voting for evil

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

That’s some bull. Wes Streeting and this disgustingly right wing Labour government are to blame. Why are you blaming a previous government for a decision made by this government? You’re embarrassing.
Labour voters are now WORSE than Tory voters, as evidenced here

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BlueRayCrisp @permanentlytired9f.bsky.social · 1d

Why have Labour snatched vital vaccines from vulnerable people? Streeting and your party are a disgrace I have to pay £100 now for a jab I need for my immune system.

Why are you still voting Labour? Where is your red line? Because you’ve sank below “Tory voter” on the evil scale now.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 2d

I have spent more of 2025 in a state of semi-permanent exhaustion than any other year of my adult life, including the ones where I suffered a traumatic head injury and when I had to live on benefits.

That is pretty much directly the fault of the Labour Party and yes I take it personally.

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