So it looks like the Green Party leadership race will be between Ellie Chowns/Adrian Ramsey and Zack Polanski. Now there's a clear difference of vision between "play it safe" and "swing for the fences". Personally I say swing for the fences, so I'll be backing Zack. - ThreadSky

philjdore.bsky.social • 7 days ago

So it looks like the Green Party leadership race will be between Ellie Chowns/Adrian Ramsey and Zack Polanski. Now there's a clear difference of vision between "play it safe" and "swing for the fences".

Personally I say swing for the fences, so I'll be backing Zack.

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babevigoda.bsky.social•6 days ago

Love Ellie but Adrian is a no go. Uninspiring and has alienated enough from the party after the Supreme Court ruling

swanjenn.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's not alienated me.

steamedrice.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is an ABBA race. Any Body But Adrian

avin-oops.bsky.social•7 days ago

Friendly outsider here (with no intention of joining another party in my lifetime so don't ask) - Polanski is easily the one if you want to take a leap forward. Be brave and do it, but brace for the flak you'll get from the media and right wing parties

philjdore.bsky.social•7 days ago

I agree.

jamie-a-m.bsky.social•6 days ago

We don’t need someone who is going to play nice. We need someone who is willing to fight. If that person is Zack, then he has my full support.

screecycle.bsky.social•5 days ago

The big doubt I harbour is what percentage of green party members are well meaning and ineffective Adrians.

danjac.bsky.social•6 days ago

Why did he hypnotise you to vote for him

hollybrigstocke.bsky.social•6 days ago

Zack is running with a strategy some of tried to push the Greens into. It's a partial implementation and he has his hobby horses but it's a necessary direction.

Chowns adhering herself to the underperforming transphobic Ramsay has to be the biggest career self-own she's made yet.

paulfg42.bsky.social•6 days ago

Adrian Ramsay? After 3 years of anonymity?

swanjenn.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm not fond of Zack's hypnotism history and he should have the self awareness to know it would cause him and party problems.

No idea why Adrian isn't running on his own. I'd be happy to back him.

thechiller.bsky.social•7 days ago

Same. Not interested in Ramsay leading again.

sg99.bsky.social•6 days ago

It seems fairly pointless playing it safe at the moment.

evie-lution94.bsky.social•6 days ago

Shame EC is tying herself to Ramsay, because a straight fight between her and Zack would have been very interesting.

As it is, ZP has my backing now. We don’t need co-leaders again and we certainly don’t need Ramsay to be one of them

arthurpomodoro.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's a massive mistake for the Greens to have co-leaders. Voters don't know who they are. There needs to be a single face and voice for the public to identify as the leader. Anything else is putting an unnecessary hurdle in the Green Party's way.

So even on that basis, Zack is the one to vote for.

dangerouscorner.bsky.social•6 days ago

... and if you join before July 31, you yourself can help to make this happen.

dangerouscorner.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also, it's the more viable electoral strategy: https://novaramedia.com/2025/05/12/green-politicians-please-stop-looking-like-the-establishment/

thankyoueurope.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sorry, is Carla Denyer not running? Your most recognisable MP? I find the mandatory green leadership elections so strange.

philjdore.bsky.social•7 days ago

She's stepping down to focus on her parliamentary and constituency work.

britestoan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Which is a huge mistake for the Greens.

philjdore.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's a shame, but whenever I've met an MP of any party I've been blown away by how much work they have to do, so I can't blame anyone for wanting to hand over any additional responsibilities.

britestoan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Given that Bristol has a Green council, you'd think that she could offload the constituency work to the local party machinery and thus be able to be the leader.

raosbo.bsky.social•6 days ago

Seems lots of us agree that EC should stand alone. I'd certainly vote for her in a straight race. As it is, I'm undecided. Will be watching carefully.

freespeechforpeace.bsky.social•6 days ago

Greens have been seen as safe for too long. Zack Polanski is the voice we need - saying everything socialists believe in.

We need someone to stand up for the majority, while everyone else only benefits the 1%. #BackZack

localnotail.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't think many voters will go for leaving NATO, like Zack Polanski says we must. Doesn't seem like a sensible position in the current climate.

https://bsky.app/profile/bylinetimes.bsky.social/post/3lonxtfdpck2g

philjdore.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm not in favour of leaving NATO, but on a broader level, I do think that for as long as Trump is president the NATO alliance will be fundamentally broken. We do need to think about our European alliances because Uncle Sam ain't coming to the rescue.

strangenoises.org•6 days ago

Which for those reading the **** article seems to be the point he was making

localnotail.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump is only president for 45 more months and he may well take the US out of NATO.
It won't help us or Ukraine if we leave it now.

Only 6% of the UK population support leaving NATO + some of them are Trumpy RW who will never vote Green.
It's a vote losing policy IMO. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/trackers/support-for-nato

philjdore.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Green Party leader doesn't make the policies though. GP conference does. It's not currently our policy to leave NATO, and that won't change unless it's voted on at conference.

localnotail.bsky.social•6 days ago

The simple fact that he's leading with that as a policy makes me not want him as leader.

edpoole1975.bsky.social•6 days ago

He didn't say we must leave NATO. He said if the US is part of NATO and threatening NATO allies with invasion then we need to be thinking about an alternative arrangement.

localnotail.bsky.social•6 days ago

“I think the age of NATO is now fully over.”

edpoole1975.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes because of Trump. If NATO members are invading other NATO members it is obviously not a viable security arrangement. Is it?

localnotail.bsky.social•6 days ago

You seem to be believing a Trump fantasy wish rather than actual reality where NATO members are not actually invading other NATO countries.

Even if it did ever happen, which it won't, it would be a reason to expel the US from NATO rather than leave it ourselves.

edpoole1975.bsky.social•6 days ago

But given that Trump is a Putin admirer it makes sense to reevaluate our defensive arrangements, which are currently dependent on the US. Polanski is not alone in being concerned. European leaders have been thinking about it for months
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/europe-working-on-plan-to-replace-us-in-nato-in-five-to-10-years-report

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