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Labour governments used to achieve things NHS, Council Housing & Minimum Wage are the three best Now all Labour do is spend money on wars while bashing the elderly, our children and the sick & frail while accepting private donations They are the worst political party in the UK

🚨 Breaking News 🚨 Green GAIN Greenwich By Election from Labour: • Green 35% (+20%) • Labour 30% (-29%) 29% swing from Labour to The Green Party.

Loved speaking at The Speakers Forum today at Glastonbury. Spoke about the Green Party stepping up to this moment to be the real alternative to reduce bills, tackle the far right & the climate crisis. And wonderful to be followed by the brilliant Tyrone Scott!

🎉 Absolutely amazing win for the Green Party in London tonight. 💚 That's our third new Green Party councillor in 48 hours! 🙌🏼 Change is happening. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I just joined the Green Party to #BackZack! @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the few people in modern British politics that gives me some real optimism for the future of the country and the world as a whole and I feel extremely proud to be a part of his movement.

In light of Labour's new plans to deny Personal Independence Payments to new claimants:

Farage wants to stop the boats, unless, it seems, they're megayachts youtu.be/cH7DKh1AqRI?... Farage says he’s for the people, but he’s part of the elite. His Britannia Card looks like a billionaire con trick, not a patriotic plan.

Labour is really in trouble. Even Polly Toynbee has noticed.

Ministers refuse to name companies that lobbied them over foreign ownership of UK newspapers. Why protect corporate raiders? If govt is doing secret deals or being bullied to advance some interests people have a right to know. How else can people assess govt conduct? What future for democracy?

RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity? Finance sector benefiting from wars? A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

One in four 16-24 olds in England have mental health condition. Rates higher in young women. Depression, insecurity, anxiety created by low incomes, insecure jobs, poor housing, loss of public services. Futures blighted by neoliberal policies. Govts talk about hot wars instead of war on poverty.

Police investigating the Horizon Post Office scandal identify 7 suspects, 45 people classed as "persons of interest". Criminal trials may begin in 2028. Scandal began in 1990s. Will drag on for years. Culprits will plead fraility, memory loss to escape retribution.

Politics is not a game. It's people's lives. The Government's welfare cuts will have a catastrophic impact on the sick & disabled, and plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. It's simple: show some humanity and drop this Bill, now.

“Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a normal part of the discourse in today’s Britain are things that [before Brexit] would have been totally unacceptable, totally ridiculous, totally shameful" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

❗️Keir Starmer's government is taking state secrecy to a new level. It is now refusing to even disclose which countries' militaries the Ministry of Defence trains. To protect "national security". #DCUKparliament

The UK government again rejects a call to suspend the training of Israeli military forces in Britain during a genocide. #DCUKparliament

Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found. The list of recipients includes Yvette Cooper, Britain's home secretary who wants to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby...

Zionist Starmer and his fake Labour Party is a threat to democracy, along with Reform Ltd and Conservative Party.

Today we're bringing the debate to the Scottish Parliament. We're calling on the government to commit to the expansion of publicly owned bus services that deliver high quality, affordable and reliable public transport.

Pollution and nutrient run-off has turned Lady Island’s Lake into an ecological disaster zone ⚠️ @rodericogorman.bsky.social joined RTÉ's Prime Time this week to call on the Minister for Agriculture to take the lead on solving this unfolding ecological crisis 👇

In the time you spend watching this video, Jeff Bezos will earn more than what the majority of full-time American workers earn in a year. Say it with me: Tax the rich.

I'll be voting against the welfare reform bill on Tuesday. We don’t have a sufficient impact assessment. We haven’t properly consulted disabled people. These proposals don’t reflect Labour values. The PM must show strength by pausing the bill. Reform must be done with dignity.

While child poverty rose in the UK, in Scotland it fell by 12% since 2017. We must go even further. To give every child the best start in life, we’re taking real action: ✅ Delivering the Scottish Child Payment ✅ Expanding free school meals ✅ Ending the two-child cap news.stv.tv/scotland/dro...

I just want to be clear: The vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers I know are enthusiastic Mamdani supporters.

Starmer will join Boris Johnson in having won a large, effectively meaningless, majority in the Commons and not seeing out his term. No one will mourn his departure, except Morgan McSweeney, maybe, although I am sure Farage has a job lined up for him.

Starmer continues to be a hypocrite #terrorlaws #starmer #protest #palestineaction

Why UK REALLY Banned Palestine Action

🔴Misinformation on ECHR Fuels ‘Hostility, Mistrust, and Bad Law’ Warns Human Rights Group Amnesty argues successive UK Governments ‘created the system they now condemn’ bylinetimes.com/2025/06/26/m...

In social media post Donald Trump has called on Israel to cancel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ongoing trial - the next hearing for which is scheduled on Monday - calling it a "witch hunt" and dismissing the severity of the charges. In other countries we’d call this corruption.

This should make the world stop. Bosnia all over. Why is this different? New Israeli directive expedites ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta. The military order removes the last legal barriers to the wholesale displacement of 12 Palestinian villages in the West Bank. www.972mag.com/masafer-yatt...

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

From Lawnmower Mishaps to Expenses Scandals: 10 Fresh Embarrassments for Reform UK  bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/f...

“We will have fund-raisers in the US, in Monaco, and we will have huge fund-raisers in the UAE, where we have an expat community there who are unhappy with the amount of regulation and tax in the UK.” Nick Candy Let’s not forget this…

Reform councillor steps down as leader of Warwickshire County Council after just six weeks www.warwickshireworld.com/news/politic...

Our Reform councillors need better answers than 'we don't know' www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

Morning all Deform can't stand the heat! County council Leader stands down for 'health' reasons, but is well enough to keep taking a 'wage' as a county councillor. Responsibility comes with election to power. An 18 year old new council Leader 🤷- good luck Warwickshire! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer really isn’t very good at a) leading, b) inspiring and c) politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour, Reform, Lib Dem’s and the Tories all responded to Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran in the exactly same way. They will all support war at the click of Trump’s fingers. Only the Green Party opposes it. Join the only party really willing to stand up to Donald Trump.

The vote on disability cuts could take place in the next few weeks. I've launched a petition for a Wealth Tax, not disability cuts. I'll be presenting this in Parliament ahead of the vote. It's already at nearly 70,000! Add you name below chng.it/ztV8MqDHVQ

I am one of over 100 Labour MPs to have signed the Parliamentary Amendment to vote down the Disability Cuts Bill at next Tuesday's vote. A Labour government exists to tackle poverty - not to force hundreds of thousands more disabled people into it.

TfL have finally bought genuinely clean energy for the tube, trains and trams in London for the first time. Today's deal will get TfL up to just 5% of their energy from renewables. Mayor must accelerate this. We need 100% clean energy on TfL now! tfl.gov.uk/info-for/med...

"This appears to be gob smacking levels of complacency from the Prime Minister,” says Zack Polanski, Green party London Assembly Member who is currently running for leader of the Green party. "....with no real plan for the country to tackle inequality." novaramedia.com/2025/06/25/e...

Two new @greenparty.org.uk councillors!! “My decision to join the Green Party has not been made overnight. A key driver has been that we need a progressive alternative willing to counter the racist narrative driving us towards a far-right government." www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Want to tackle inequality? Reduce our bills? Tackle the far right & the climate crisis? Join.greenparty.org.uk

A lot of talk about Lander's solidarity as a Jew with Mamdani who is Muslim. But back here we are also seeing so many Muslim Green councillors endorsing Zack Polanski who is Jewish. They might try to divide people but the reality is most people don't go by these toxic rhetoric. They're a minority.