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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 12h

Seems like a good time to share this video... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

Rebellion isn't necessarily some grand act... it's all the tiny acts of insurrection as well

Andor: Nemik's Manifesto

YouTube video by SWFT

www.youtube.com

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome to the party 💚

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 13h

That will be a Daily Mail headline by Sunday...

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 14h

96 seats in the new Sennedd, so 49 needed for a majority.

It could be a Labour/Plaid majority gov't without needing Greens or Lib Dems?

Either way, the right is less likely to win this election than the left, and that's because of a better, newly introduced system of PR and a larger chamber 👍

Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social · 1d

A projection based on the latest Beaufort Research Senedd poll for @NationCymru:
➡️ Ref — 35
🌹 Lab — 24
🌼 PC — 24
🌱 GP — 6
🌳 Con — 5
🐤 LD — 2

from: devolvedelections.co.uk/wales/

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 14h

They clearly didn't read the article xD

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 15h

Should have definitely got a discount!!

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 16h

This link won't give the Express ad revenue archive.ph/PVZOy#commen...

I wanted to use that in the initial post but then it wouldn't have given the preview

archive.ph

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 16h

The Express printing positive articles about @zackpolanski.bsky.social wasn't on my bingo card... www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

What's next? The Daily Mail saying we have too much inequality?!

'Zack Polanski is misunderstood – every way people get Green Party leader wrong'

Britain needs to have a serious conversation about Zack Polanski.

www.express.co.uk

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 17h

The party reviews this every 3 years and it's unfortunately not due yet.

I am contacting my local party and arranging for myself to start doing this though.

FWIW it was £3.88 per month and was raised to £5 with a concessionary membership £6 a year for people who can't afford the standard fee

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 17h

To be honest, this is why I believe that for us to stand a chance of replacing Labour we need to ask all members to up their standard £5 a month to £10 which would double our income overnight making us much stronger as a party

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 18h

1. Love that the GPEW message is reaching Germany
2. We don't have a UK Green Party, we have the Green Party of England and Wales, Irish Greens and Scottish Greens

Will definitely consider your advice though

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

as someone who has 1) been drunk in multiple countries and 2) got tattoos while drunk on multiple occasions but 3) does not have even one vaguely Nazi-related tattoo, I am around for all TV, radio and podcast appearances as an expert in the matter

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 20h

Yh, the Lib-Dems seem deeply unhappy about this like they've been waiting for this moment for decades... it's finally here and voters have gone elsewhere instead xD

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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 21h

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 21h

The establishment is concerned? Good I'd be worried that we're not doing enough to challenge the status quo(which is why we're in this mess) if they weren't concerned

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 22h

Fair enough but it still doesn't mean she can't be a member if she wants

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

🤯 The government have announced that university tuition fees in England will increase every year in line with inflation from 2026.

🧑🎓 Education should be a right, not a privilege.

💚 That's why the Green Party would scrap tuition fees altogether.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE
STOP TUITION FEES!
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Our latest Westminster voting intention (19-20 Oct) has the Greens on their highest figure ever recorded by YouGov

Reform UK: 26% (-1 from 12-13 Oct)
Labour: 20% (=)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 15% (-1)
Greens: 15% (+2)
SNP: 4% (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 1d

I think your spouse would still be eligible if they want and would be welcome in the party 😊

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 1d

Just in from #Gaza: Morten Rostrup, emergency doctor, working inside Al-Aqsa Hospital, describes receiving dozens of wounded after the Israeli airstrikes across the #GazaStrip yesterday

It killed more than 45 people and injured over 150, according to the Ministry of Health.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Students: cost of living is soaring and we can hardly afford to feed ourselves

Government: I hear you - how about higher fees and more debt?

Politics UK @politlcsuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 NEW: University tuition fees will increase in line with forecast inflation for the next two years

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

One of the less discussed harms of car-centric planning is that it imposes a serious financial burden on working families. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

www.nytimes.com

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer for several years: "If you don't like the Labour Party you can fuck off out of it lol yolo"

Keir Starmer now: "What you look at the Greens for that's fucked up man I'm literally right here wow just wow"

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 1d

Utter tw4t.......leave the police & Aston Villa to do their job.
#BuggerMaccabi

And you could focus on doing yours.

And start with withdrawal of UK complicity in Satanyahoo's genocide in Gaza.
#KidStarver
#LikudLabourUK
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#WhiteWestComplicity

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Bristol Eco-Socialist(they/them)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @bristolsocialist.bsky.social · 1d

So much for solidarity eh?

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 2d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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