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Do something plz @tc05.bsky.social · 15h

You have to make this happen.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is too expensive and nothing works.

Privatisation has been a resounding failure…but we can fix it.
Let’s take rail, mail, water and energy back into public ownership.

Let’s pull the country out of this corporate greed crisis for good!

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Francis Fisher @underthesunglow.bsky.social · 1d

Decided to get a Green Party membership. Cancelled my Labour one in May, now very happy to have a party who cares about people.

LEAVE Labour and JOIN the Green Party

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Chris Mrozek @chrismrozek.bsky.social · 2d

live ed balls reaction

Ed Balls seethes at an unbothered Zack Polanski

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Every day thousands of new members are joining the Green Party.

And solidarity to our friends in @scottishgreens.org who are also rapidly growing as a party!

Get involved:

Greens.scot/join

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d

And if you’re wondering who Labour is listening to? “Reeves boasted she hatched plan to rip down our nature protections over a “smoked salmon & scrambled eggs breakfast” with corporate lobbyists”. While Starmer’s resolve to kick down planning rules are result of his “conversations with leading CEOs”

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3d

The Rafah crossing is expected to re-open.

Alongside the desperately needed aid, journalists must be allowed into Gaza.

Over 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza - but the crimes of the Israeli government and military must not go undocumented.

Let the journalists in.

Graphic with an image of a press photographer among rubble in Gaza.

Text reads:

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

LET
JOURNALISTS
IN

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 4d

If you agree that mandatory digital ID cards are a terrible idea, please ask your MP to sign my motion opposing them.

These plans risk turning us into checkpoint Britain. They must be scrapped.

Email your MP my motion: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

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Darlington Green Party @darlingtongreens.bsky.social · 5d

We now have 100,000 members.

But we're not stopping there. Membership continues to climb.

If you want to bring funding to our communities, protect our NHS and build a bold new politics of hope - join us.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Real hope real change 100,00 Green Party members

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 8d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 9d

Greens show contrast with other major parties on disability cuts and refusal to stir up hostility to claimants
@thegreenparty.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/greens-show-...

Greens show contrast with other major parties on disability cuts and refusal to stir up hostility to claimants

The Green Party is set to continue to contrast its policy approach on disability with other political parties by supporting disabled people who rely on benefits and have already experienced years o…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 9d

We have the fastest growing membership of any political party because absolutely we want to #AbolishBadThings
We stand for; a Wealth Tax, renationalisation, green jobs, clean air, clean water, fully funded NHS, fight climate change, equality, and more!
If you feel the same join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 9d

👉 Record polling
👉 Record membership
👉 Record election results

Let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 9d

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 9d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 10d

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 12d

🔴 Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New ‘Green Wave’

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using “racist rhetoric” in chasing Reform UK
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/g...

Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New 'Green Wave'

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using "racist rhetoric" in chasing Reform UK

bylinetimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16d

What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most?

Did I guess right?

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 17d

'The guys who run Reform are absolute chancers.

The people who make our lives more difficult arrive in private jets, not dinghies.'

@ross-greer.bsky.social on #bbcdn

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17d

Who does this government serve? You? Or big business?

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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · 17d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHTa...

Water Privatisation is An Actual Crime

YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live

www.youtube.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18d

Just out

My latest @guardian piece on #climate pragmatism and the global rowback on climate action

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire

In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire

www.theguardian.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 19d

If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long…

paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

Digital ID cards – some of the issues…

Since Keir Starmer announced the forthcoming introduction of mandatory ‘Digital ID’, the so-called ‘Brit Card’, there has been a lot of discussion and debate – some of…

paulbernal.wordpress.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20d

I agree with this. There are a number of things about the current labour party which I think best make sense as a kind of fanatically committed centre right extremism. Odd to say because it's been tied up with a lot of dishonesty, but in a sense it's even principled...

Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20d

As I said the other day, the main retort of political science professors to people who identify Labour's trajectory as deliberately suicidal is, "Political parties don't like to lose elections," but I really think those people severely underestimate the zealotry that underpins the McSweeney project.

Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 20d

And if another Labour Together successor like Streeting takes over it will go from bad to worse. But McSweeney would rather see Reform in government than return the Labour Party to any kind of mild social democratic position.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22d

Brilliant discussion with the fab @graceblakeley.substack.com
on everything from growth to inequality, power & community organising, & how capitalism is actually a “system based on centralised planning & control rather than free markets”, where big biz is protected from consequences of failure👇

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

The latest episode with Zack Polanski in conversation with Grace Blakeley breaking down the structures that ultimately prop up our inequality is premiering now!

youtu.be/ojrrTf_SD0M

Why Rachel Reeves Is Obsessed With Growth At Any Cost | Grace Blakeley | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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