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Elaine Francis @greenlainey.bsky.social · 1d

There’s never been a more exciting time to be part of @greenparty.org.uk so come and work with us!

We’re hiring a Campaign Organiser in #Bradford

🔗 Click for more info and to apply: greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...

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@mothinali.bsky.social @bradfordgreens.bsky.social

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

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 5d

I hardly knew him!

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

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Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 6d

Nature lovers and photographers! 🍂

The leaves are turning, the nights are growing longer… and it’s time for seasons to change on our profile.

Share your best autumn snaps in the replies, and we’ll pick a favourite to feature as our cover photo! 😍

A Crested Tit, with its bold spiky crest, stands on a lichen-covered branch. Its soft brown and white feathers blend into the natural tones of the landscape, while its bright red eye adds a pop of colour. Delicate cobwebs cling to the branch, creating a peaceful and autumnal scene.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

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Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 6d

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 6d

She fucked everything up and we’re still dealing with the consequences, pal

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!

You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):

@greenparty.org.uk are surging.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

#BBCQT

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.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 6d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

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Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Elaine Francis @greenlainey.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve just seen someone in a local politics group call Michael Heseltine a ‘leftie’ for speaking the truth about R*form being the equivalent of 1930’s fascists.

A leftie?? Ffs. Have a day off man.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 10d

“Your enemies aren’t other poor people. Your enemies are those that extract wealth from our society to fill their coffers.”
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10d

Are Reform UK getting donations from a tax exile - or has this guy just failed to fulfil his promise to leave the UK? (As most of them do). Via Private Eye:

Nigel Farage and his Reform UK treasurer (and former tax exile) Nick Candy must be relieved that one of their more generous donors doesn’t keep his promises.

“I’m moving – that is it,” Nigerian-born businessman Bassim Haidar told the Guardian in May last year after the previous government announced the end of the “non-dom” tax regime (following which chancellor Rachel Reeves enacted the changes). “What’s the logic of me living in the UK when other countries are offering no taxes at all?” he wondered. “In Monaco there are no taxes, and no inheritance tax.” He was reported to have established a “working group” of 29 non-doms looking to up sticks before the start of the September 2024 school year.

Latest political donation declarations, however, show that Haidar gave Reform UK £200,000 in April this year. As laws introduced in 2009 require donors of such sums to be “resident, ordinarily resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom for the purposes of income tax”, it seems the entrepreneur has opted to stay put.

For yet another erstwhile non-dom, when push comes to shove, life in a country with a tax system turns out to be preferable to tax haven tedium

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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 10d

Sand dune flora.
#stunday #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #scape #bloomscrolling #grasses #sanddunes #flowers #nature

Field of colorful earth tone ornamental grasses and white blooming perennials on a sand dune on the beach.

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Amnesty UK Feminists @amnestyfeminist.bsky.social · Aug 18

We clicked on this story thinking a nine-year-old girl had joined a dangerous gang and was out there shooting people.

But no. She was eating ice-cream in a restaurant with her family when a man burst in and shot her in the head.

Yet again male violence is missing from a headline. Do better BBC.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10d

These are just our first steps.

Let's keep going.

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11d

Green Party membership overtakes Liberal Democrats under Polanski news.sky.com/story/green-...

Green Party membership overtakes Liberal Democrats under Polanski

Around 20,000 people have joined the Green Party in the past few months, and new leader Zack Polanski says he has "undoubtedly" had a role in this success.

news.sky.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 12d

What @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying is simply what anyone who pays attention to politics is witnessing

Starmer has played a key role in mainstreaming far-right politics, enabled by a mainstream media which still tiptoes around this terrible state of affairs

Headline: Green party
Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12d

They're rattled, aren't they, as votes keep pouring off Blue Labour's Left and liberal flanks?

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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 11d

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski

Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters

www.theguardian.com

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