The Green Man

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Not just the family institution. He was on Question Time last Friday saying NATO should be denuclearised, then disbanded and a new organisation founded, based on peace and prosperity. Dream world or what?

Yeah, he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one

Zack should take a sharp scythe to many of the old ideas that've become outdated in the 21st century, pruning back the influence of Bruce Kent and the CND brigade. Ironically, they actually started off as 'The People's Party', while Farage was picking his nose in primary school, but a more coherent economic policy and serious data crunchers would be more useful in presenting themselves to the electorate at large, who've been hoodwinked into believing migration is "The Big Issue".

Between July 2024 and June 2025, there were approximately 49,000 detected irregular arrivals, compared to 1,000,000 people who legally entered the country. So the vast majority of all immigration is legal, and compared to the number of homeless people in the UK, just over 350,000 according to Shelter, and the number of empty houses in the UK which stands at just over 750,000, the real problems are being overwhelmed by the foghorn politics of the far right.

 

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The G. Man has taken the bold step of entering the lair of the Fascist beast...

Two days after winning the leadership of the Greens in England and Wales with 85% of the votes cast, Polanski took the very direct route of travelling to Clacton-on-Sea to ask people about the policies supported by the MP they elected last year, and to listen to their views. The chats – some of which saw self-professed Farage backers express support for Green policies including a wealth tax and more official routes for asylum seekers – will be packaged into a social media video, part of a strategy by Polanski to reach more voters with the party’s messages, an approach directly echoing that of Farage.

Polanski told the Guardian he was alarmed at the polling success for Reform UK, a party he described as “on the far right, or at least far right-adjacent in terms of the causes and issues they’re willing to align with”.

 

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Good news!

Almost 1,400 people sign up in 24 hours to increase party membership by 10% since Zack Polanski’s leadership win this month...thanks to the public split between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana cast doubt on the viability of the pair’s new leftwing party.

Meanwhile...

In a last-ditch call to heads of government summoned to New York by the UN secretary general this week, Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, said governments would almost certainly fail to come up with the climate commitments needed to fulfil the Paris agreement before a deadline this month, but they could still reset their economies to reap the advantages of low-carbon growth.

“We’re moving in the right direction,” he said. “Not fast enough, not deep enough, but [the progress countries have made on moving to a low-carbon economy] is showing that something is working. China’s roaring successes in the green economy, with renewable energy now generating a quarter of electricity, electric vehicles now taking 50% market share and booming exports of low-carbon goods worth $177bn (£131bn) last year,

It is easy to look at the UN’s annual Cops and say nothing happens – in the words of Greta Thunberg, “blah blah blah”. But before the 2015 Paris agreement, the world was headed for more than 5C of heating – a level that would leave the world unrecognisable. Ten years later, the projection – if all current commitments are fulfilled – is for 2.7C of heating. That is still far too high, and this year’s NDCs must at least “bend the curve” towards 1.5C, Stiell said, even if they still fall short of meeting it.

Keep Green and carry on.

 

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he mask has slipped in British politics. Divisive politics are openly back on the ballot paper. Labour is capitulating to the anti-migrant talking points of Reform, all while talking the language of decency and fairness... Britain has always been built on the contribution of people who’ve arrived here to build a better life, and our future depends on us embracing that truth, not denying it. Until we do this, we will always be handwringing and trying to ineffectually factcheck Nigel Farage’s claims about migrants.

There is an alternative. One set out this weekend in Bournemouth, where a record number of Green party members are expected to attend our annual conference. A wealth tax on the richest 1% to fund public services. An end to rip-off privatisation so water, rail and energy work for people, not shareholders. Universal free childcare, to give every child the best start, and every parent real freedom. Rent controls and investment in warm, affordable homes. Real investment in green jobs and infrastructure, and a Green New Deal that doesn’t just cut carbon but transforms communities, lowers bills and creates opportunity.

The truth is simple: Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality. Because of an economy that allows billionaires to hoard wealth while millions struggle to get by. Because of a political class that has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose.

Zack Polanski @ the Guardian

He spoke well at the conference where there was more energy this year than ever before. Fartrage may have a lead in the polls now but three years is an eternity in politics and we'll see where the hare ends up before the tortoise gets on his skateboard.

 

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Has Green Party "politician' Mohhin Ali spoke on the synagogue attack yet?

This party is just another muslim trojan horse like Labour and the tories.

These people should not be anywhere near our political system or in any positions of authority. Support them and you are effectively supporting a hostile foreign power.

 

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Has Green Party "politician' Mohhin Ali spoke on the synagogue attack yet?

No idea: perhaps you can find a source?

This party is just another muslim trojan horse like Labour and the tories.

Don't be silly.

These people should not be anywhere near our political system or in any positions of authority. Support them and you are effectively supporting a hostile foreign power.

or not. Carry on Cunstable.

 

[yorksbuilder]

Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs

Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.

www.bbc.co.uk

The leaders latest ravings.

Plus an invite for all migrants and refugees to come to UK.

He's an idiot

 

[Diver Fred]

They don't inspire me at all - If they want (me) to see them as 'Green' they need to tax families with more than 2 births. The planet cannot afford to have the human population increasing and it really needs reducing.

(And before anyone has a go at me - I have no biological offspring!)

 

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Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs

Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.

www.bbc.co.uk

The leader of the Green Party says he wants to legalise all drugs, calling for an approach "led by public health experts, not politicians".

A non-starter in this political age but putting the policy in the hands of health experts would at least allow the science to show how beneficial a discerning approach to enforcement can be, without interference from political bias.

The leaders latest ravings.

Polanski remains clear that his party wants to "tax multi-millionaires and billionaires" in order to create a fairer society. "This is about redistributing the excess wealth that is happening right across the South East and England and Wales, and saying, let's put that money back into our communities," he said.

I think 'working-class' communities ought to broaden their view of what is to blame for their troubles...and illegal migrants are small beer compared to the champagne lifestyle of the super rich who syphon their wealth into offshore accounts and avoid paying tax.

Plus an invite for all migrants and refugees to come to UK.

It says nothing about that in the link so maybe a source can be found for that claim.

He's an idiot

Says he's an "eco-populist" during the recent leadership election, with a more radical, left-wing approach....the anti-Farage, if you will.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

They don't inspire me at all - If they want (me) to see them as 'Green' they need to tax families with more than 2 births. The planet cannot afford to have the human population increasing and it really needs reducing.

(And before anyone has a go at me - I have no biological offspring!)

What happens if a family have a child and then have twins or triplets?

What if the 1st birth is triplets ?

 

[MNW67]

Oops, replied to wrong post!

 

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Oops, replied to wrong post!

'interesting'.

 

[MNW67]

'interesting'.

It really wasn't

 

[Diver Fred]

What happens if a family have a child and then have twins or triplets?

What if the 1st birth is triplets ?

multiple children born at the same time = 1 birth.

 

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The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. If the same momentum continues, party officials say, they could be on course to become bigger than the Conservatives. Tory party membership figures are not made public, but recent reports say the total is slightly above 120,000. the Guardian

We're all v. excited about it.