Ed Poole
@edpoole1975.bsky.social
Chair and Campaign coordinator Hertsmere Green Party, Greens Organise Steering Committee, Democratic eco-socialist, Internationalist, intersectional class politics, NHS, Unison, Villa. Views my own. he/him.
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Ed Poole
@edpoole1975.bsky.social
· Nov 18
It's great to meet all theses amazing new people. I thought I would introduce myself with a little thread. I’m a Green Party activist and a Patient safety manager in the NHS. I’m married and we have two miniature schnauzers! I’m here mostly to chat about politics.
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Labour MPs warn council tax is “driving poverty” as analysis shows some of the most deprived areas are paying the highest rates
The analysis revealed a strong relationship: the more deprived a local authority, the higher its CT as a percentage of house prices
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
The analysis revealed a strong relationship: the more deprived a local authority, the higher its CT as a percentage of house prices
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Labour MPs warn council tax is “driving poverty” as analysis shows some of the most deprived areas are paying the highest rates
The analysis revealed a strong relationship: the more deprived a local authority, the higher its CT as a percentage of house prices
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
The analysis revealed a strong relationship: the more deprived a local authority, the higher its CT as a percentage of house prices
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"Are there even any-" it doesn't matter. Banning the few trans athletes isn't the point. The point, from Trump's ban on trans people in government to Britain's bathroom ban to Newsom's sports ban, is to make sure everyone knows trans women are OTHER and to act accordingly to us in their daily lives.
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Please sign and share because it's scandalous that air pollution limits in the UK are not set to @who.int levels that are in place to protect children's health.
Implement World Health Organisation standards in the UK now!
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
Implement World Health Organisation standards in the UK now!
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
Sign our Petition to Protect Children’s Lungs: Implement World Health Organisation Air Quality Standards in the UK
🫁 Support our call for urgent clean air action
Toxic air isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health emergency. It contributes to lung cancer, worsens asthma and COPD, and harms children’s deve...
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Please sign and share because it's scandalous that air pollution limits in the UK are not set to @who.int levels that are in place to protect children's health.
Implement World Health Organisation standards in the UK now!
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
Implement World Health Organisation standards in the UK now!
action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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You can catch me on Radio 4 - The Week in Westminster talking about the rapid rise of the Green Party.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Week in Westminster - 08/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Caroline Wheeler reports on the latest developments at Westminster.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
You can catch me on Radio 4 - The Week in Westminster talking about the rapid rise of the Green Party.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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💚Let’s be honest, a lot of media doesn’t want you informed, they want you managed.
If your opinion comes straight from a front page, it isn’t your opinion, it’s theirs.
Take it back. Think for yourself, and if this resonates, join some like-minded people at @greenparty.org.uk 💚
If your opinion comes straight from a front page, it isn’t your opinion, it’s theirs.
Take it back. Think for yourself, and if this resonates, join some like-minded people at @greenparty.org.uk 💚
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
💚Let’s be honest, a lot of media doesn’t want you informed, they want you managed.
If your opinion comes straight from a front page, it isn’t your opinion, it’s theirs.
Take it back. Think for yourself, and if this resonates, join some like-minded people at @greenparty.org.uk 💚
If your opinion comes straight from a front page, it isn’t your opinion, it’s theirs.
Take it back. Think for yourself, and if this resonates, join some like-minded people at @greenparty.org.uk 💚
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You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
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The US economy has become one big bet on AI.
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age
The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The US economy has become one big bet on AI.
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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The BBC withdrew from the Stonewall workplace scheme in 2021. Absolute lies
The language is word-for-word from gender-critical campaigning…
“Captured by Stonewall.”
“Trans agenda.”
“Biological sex, not gender identity.”
This isn’t media ethics, it’s an op-ed straight from the ‘Sex Matters’ / Transgender Trend’ playbook! 😖
“Captured by Stonewall.”
“Trans agenda.”
“Biological sex, not gender identity.”
This isn’t media ethics, it’s an op-ed straight from the ‘Sex Matters’ / Transgender Trend’ playbook! 😖
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The BBC withdrew from the Stonewall workplace scheme in 2021. Absolute lies
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Yay! A fresh round of baseless scaremongering.
Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.
Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**
USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...
Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.
Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**
USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Yay! A fresh round of baseless scaremongering.
Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.
Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**
USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...
Now, the noisy minority of greedy super-rich are telling us settling up charges will mean no one will invest or start business in the UK.
Just like they don't elsewhere with exit taxes like **checks notes**
USA, France, Germany, Canada, Australia...
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Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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We get the politics the few pay for.
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Billionaire Tory donor gives £200,000 to Reform UK
JCB chair Lord Bamford hands equal amount to Tories and Reform to support parties he says ‘believe in small business’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We get the politics the few pay for.
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#democracy - it would be a good idea
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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It's a shameful, disgusting situation, that successive governments have deliberately allowed to occur.
This should be a national crisis, this is a choice, it’s always a fucking choice
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's a shameful, disgusting situation, that successive governments have deliberately allowed to occur.
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Good to see the Manchester Evening News getting their asses sued they thought they could say anything they liked and thought a Black artist wouldn’t take action. Good for Bob Vylan.
Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays 'substantial damages' to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Good to see the Manchester Evening News getting their asses sued they thought they could say anything they liked and thought a Black artist wouldn’t take action. Good for Bob Vylan.
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Poverty affects almost a third of children in the UK.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Poverty affects almost a third of children in the UK.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let's stop subsidising destruction.
This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.
Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...
This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.
Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...
COP30 must confront the climate and cost of living crises together
By Zack Polanski
bestforbritain.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Let's stop subsidising destruction.
This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.
Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...
This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.
Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...
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Please pray for rain in Iran.
Iranian capital faces water rationing and evacuations if it doesn't rain soon, president warns
Iran’s capital is facing an unprecedented water and energy crisis as reservoirs supplying the city plunge to historic lows, threatening supplies of drinking water and electricity generation.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Please pray for rain in Iran.
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Philippines weather bureau warns of 'life-threatening conditions' as super storm heads for its largest island.
Nearly 1 million Filipinos evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong approaches
Philippines weather bureau warns of 'life-threatening conditions' as super storm heads for its largest island.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Philippines weather bureau warns of 'life-threatening conditions' as super storm heads for its largest island.
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Thousands of families reportedly received letters about stopping child benefit after overseas travel.
I’ve asked the Government how this data was used, whether it was legal, and if any internal review took place.
#PublicAccountability #ChildBenefit
I’ve asked the Government how this data was used, whether it was legal, and if any internal review took place.
#PublicAccountability #ChildBenefit
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Thousands of families reportedly received letters about stopping child benefit after overseas travel.
I’ve asked the Government how this data was used, whether it was legal, and if any internal review took place.
#PublicAccountability #ChildBenefit
I’ve asked the Government how this data was used, whether it was legal, and if any internal review took place.
#PublicAccountability #ChildBenefit
This won't come up because Andrew Feinstein will be the MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
Green leader says Starmer is ‘not a man I would be willing to work with’
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This won't come up because Andrew Feinstein will be the MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
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Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
Meaning of a white poppy and white poppy symbolism as Zack Polanski wears one
Green party leader Zack Polanski was seen sporting a white poppy alongside a red one for Remembrance Sunday today - but what does a white poppy mean?
www.express.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Such is the power of @zackpolanski.bsky.social that he's prompted the Daily Express(!) to write a totally respectful article about the meaning of the white poppy
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131...
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I've found my political home in the #GreenParty, and @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a great political weathervane.
I do the stuff I do & he's never far away. Today, we bumped into him at the National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony; I'm quite used to seeing him around supporting peace & justice ✊🏻🕊️
I do the stuff I do & he's never far away. Today, we bumped into him at the National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony; I'm quite used to seeing him around supporting peace & justice ✊🏻🕊️
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I've found my political home in the #GreenParty, and @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a great political weathervane.
I do the stuff I do & he's never far away. Today, we bumped into him at the National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony; I'm quite used to seeing him around supporting peace & justice ✊🏻🕊️
I do the stuff I do & he's never far away. Today, we bumped into him at the National Alternative Remembrance Ceremony; I'm quite used to seeing him around supporting peace & justice ✊🏻🕊️
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I have only just seen this interview, and it's glorious. Phillips launches gotcha question after gotcha question and he just can't land a punch.
It ends, hilariously, with Phillips failing to grasp that it's actually trans *men* who get pregnant.
Anyway, get a load of this: 💚
It ends, hilariously, with Phillips failing to grasp that it's actually trans *men* who get pregnant.
Anyway, get a load of this: 💚
Great to see our membership numbers still rising....
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
This morning on Sky News. 👇🏼
youtu.be/yTTPu02UWDw?...
Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'
YouTube video by Sky News
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November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I have only just seen this interview, and it's glorious. Phillips launches gotcha question after gotcha question and he just can't land a punch.
It ends, hilariously, with Phillips failing to grasp that it's actually trans *men* who get pregnant.
Anyway, get a load of this: 💚
It ends, hilariously, with Phillips failing to grasp that it's actually trans *men* who get pregnant.
Anyway, get a load of this: 💚