| Reform v The Greens 08:27 - Sep 7 with 5921 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Have to say, I'm liking the noises coming out of the new Green Party leader. Seems to be a decent chap with his head screwed on (absolutely made mincemeat of Ed Balls the other day, although I appreciate that's not too difficult).
Whilst green issues are obviously huge, I tended to think that's all they stood for, but I'm now (from hearing a few bits from Polanski) realising there's much more to them (that I like). Particularly over taxing the rich. Could they be the alternative that Corbyn's party wants to be? And could they, under this new charasmatic and intelligent leader, be a challenge to Reform in terms of seats, given they're only one behind them currently?
I don't know why the Beeb (and others, but you expect better from the Beeb) give so much airtime to Farage. It's certainly not proportional to the amount of seats they have - they get way more coverage than the Greens, for example, who are only getting more now due to appointing a new leader.
Unfortunately not enough people care about green issues in this country (not enough to vote for them at least) so if their scope is seen to be wider, could they be the 'surprise package' at the next election? This country is crying out for a decent alternative but I have to say I didn't expect it to come from The Greens. |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 15:41 - Sep 7 with 977 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Reform v The Greens on 13:14 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Can you expand on these "nutjobs" or is it something you just made up? |
Not enough sensible, level-headed people like the Conservatives packed their candidates with in the last few parliaments. They need more people like Dorries, Truss, Braverman, Rees-Mogg, Coffey, Gove, both Hunts, Pincher, Johnson, ... |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:00 - Sep 7 with 932 views | Dubtractor |
| Reform v The Greens on 15:00 - Sep 7 by Swansea_Blue |
Polanski will be smeared to hell. He’s a threat to those who’ve accumulated power and status through greed. |
Some of the coverage in the mail is already pretty dubious.
What the hell even is this article?
Lower bills.
Tax the Rich.
Stop the genocide.
And stop obsessing about my teeth, my beard and my boyfriend! — Zack Polanski (@zackpolanski.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T17:57:50.868Z
The Daily Mail resorts to personal attacks because they’re rattled.
Nazi backing rags protecting their super rich owners.
And Keir Starmer’s randomly ranting about me in Parliament.
Best way to respond to this desperation?
👉🏼 join.greenparty.org.uk — Zack Polanski (@zackpolanski.bsky.social) 2025-09-06T17:44:47.468Z
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:05 - Sep 7 with 924 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Reform v The Greens on 13:54 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
in suffolk the old greens were doing very well - lots of success in council elections. that was from people choosing between them labour and the lib dems and thinking that the greens were the best chance of getting someone elected to do something sensible. i suspect the chances of that continuing have gone now - lots of those voters won't vote for a hard left party and i suspect many of the councillors won't want to represent it. |
Are they hard left? | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:06 - Sep 7 with 919 views | blueasfook |
| Reform v The Greens on 13:13 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You're doing well to be able to see 4 years into the future! How are Town doing there, are we in Europe yet?
Christ, even the UK might be back in Europe by then! |
Yep here in 2029 we retained the premier league title and champions league under Sir Keiran Mckenna. Lord Ashton has just announced increasing the capacity of Portman Rd to 90000.
The EU disbanded in 2027 after mainland Europe became part of the new USSR. |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:07 - Sep 7 with 912 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Reform v The Greens on 14:20 - Sep 7 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Thank goodness he's Jewish!!
Have you finally accepted that you voted for red Tories last time Dollers in light of the linked content? |
No, of course not. I'm just keeping an open mind and wanting to look at what other offerings there are. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:09 - Sep 7 with 908 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
This is exactly how the press generally select images and details to paint the image they want. They have far more power than most people realise. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:18 - Sep 7 with 875 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
I love the phrase "before they could be separated". So loaded and so nonsense. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 16:20 - Sep 7 with 869 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Reform v The Greens on 16:18 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I love the phrase "before they could be separated". So loaded and so nonsense. |
It did make me wonder where the image is of everyone trying to pull them apart. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 17:14 - Sep 7 with 815 views | DJR |
That Quenten Letts' headline and accompany photo could be said to have shades of antisemitic tropes and imagery but no one will call the Mail out on this.
https://antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Antisemitic-imagery-May-2
As regards claims about antisemitism in relation to Green candidates, Polanski's response is well worth watching.
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| Reform v The Greens on 18:11 - Sep 7 with 727 views | lowhouseblue |
he is. the people who joined to elect him are. many of the previous supporters weren't. |  |
| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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| Reform v The Greens on 18:19 - Sep 7 with 693 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Reform v The Greens on 18:11 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
he is. the people who joined to elect him are. many of the previous supporters weren't. |
You described the Green Party as a hard left party... you seem to be rowing back on that only one post later. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 18:25 - Sep 7 with 663 views | lowhouseblue |
| Reform v The Greens on 18:19 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You described the Green Party as a hard left party... you seem to be rowing back on that only one post later. |
no, the membership, including the new comers, elected him so that's where the party now is. many of the previous supporters are probably somewhere else. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 18:35 - Sep 7 with 639 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Reform v The Greens on 14:57 - Sep 7 by WinchBlue |
For example they plan to abolish caged egg production.
It’s a scientific fact that free range egg production has a 15-20% bigger carbon footprint than production from caged systems.
Also, manure from free range birds is impossible to control.
Regardless of whether you feel sorry for the birds or not, humane cages are better than free range. |
Presumably you're vegan? |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 18:44 - Sep 7 with 625 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Reform v The Greens on 18:11 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
he is. the people who joined to elect him are. many of the previous supporters weren't. |
What's your definition of hard left and which of their policies most frighten you? | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 19:18 - Sep 7 with 559 views | Clapham_Junction |
| Reform v The Greens on 13:16 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
and there's no longer a plain green option. if you wanted to vote on environmental lines you can't do that now without it coming with with identity politics, anti-nato and nutty economics. it will lose a lot of traditional green voters - and it will undermine the credibility of the environmental case with voters more broadly. |
The Green Party has always had those types of policies – they just haven't been front and centre of their campaigns. If anything the party's view on NATO is more positive than it used to be (until 2023 it was policy to leave NATO). [Post edited 7 Sep 19:22]
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| Reform v The Greens on 19:50 - Sep 7 with 493 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Reform v The Greens on 18:25 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
no, the membership, including the new comers, elected him so that's where the party now is. many of the previous supporters are probably somewhere else. |
You've made a hell of a lot of assumptions there. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 20:04 - Sep 7 with 462 views | Dubtractor |
| Reform v The Greens on 19:50 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You've made a hell of a lot of assumptions there. |
To be fair, if talking about the green's success in Suffolk elections, which Lowers did mention earlier, that very much came from a large NIMBY vote, from people more naturally conservative.
That's not necessarily the case nationwide, but it was definitely a factor here in Suffolk. [Post edited 7 Sep 20:16]
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| Reform v The Greens on 20:13 - Sep 7 with 427 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Reform v The Greens on 14:57 - Sep 7 by WinchBlue |
For example they plan to abolish caged egg production.
It’s a scientific fact that free range egg production has a 15-20% bigger carbon footprint than production from caged systems.
Also, manure from free range birds is impossible to control.
Regardless of whether you feel sorry for the birds or not, humane cages are better than free range. |
And todays b/s post of the day goes to... |  | | |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:17 - Sep 7 with 410 views | Whos_blue |
| Reform v The Greens on 16:09 - Sep 7 by Nthsuffolkblue |
This is exactly how the press generally select images and details to paint the image they want. They have far more power than most people realise. |
The Milliband bacon sandwich is a classic example of this. |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 20:27 - Sep 7 with 375 views | Swansea_Blue |
No surprise 
I hate the DM with a passion. They turned my old man once we lost my mum. Reading that rag became his daily routine and before we knew it he’d gone full Brexit even though I was project managing EU-funded projects and my wife had a prestigious EU research grant for 5 years. But apparently the Pole and Turks were going to take it all away from us, so he voted to instead to save them the bother.
The DM is next up against the wall after Farage. |  |
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| Reform v The Greens on 20:36 - Sep 7 with 341 views | Whos_blue |
| Reform v The Greens on 13:10 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Really?! ONE thing... that has been debunked as nonsense?!
Even if the press do flog it to death, there's only so long you can keep that going. They're going to need more than one dodgy story. I genuinely asked what else there was as I assumed from "baggage" you knew of a few things. If this is it, it's barely even baggage. |
To you and me it's a non story flash but you know how it works. Whether he's debunked it or not he's a new kid on the block and the press haven't had their pound of flesh yet. As we speak they'll be scrutinising every social media post he's ever sent going back years. You've already seen the dm making a reference to him hugging his partner. The dm ain't big on the gays, so that's a nice line of attack at some point, especially if he's pro trans rights etc.
I want him to be a positive voice in amongst all the negativity, but he's got his work cut out. | |
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| Reform v The Greens on 20:39 - Sep 7 with 331 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Reform v The Greens on 18:11 - Sep 7 by lowhouseblue |
he is. the people who joined to elect him are. many of the previous supporters weren't. |
The leader does not dictate the policies of the green party. His opponents in the leadership election would have had the same policies to promote.
Weird how taxing the uber rich is now seen as hard left
Centre ground has moved miles to the right | | | |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:43 - Sep 7 with 316 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Reform v The Greens on 19:50 - Sep 7 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You've made a hell of a lot of assumptions there. |
He always does... | | | |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:50 - Sep 7 with 301 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:17 - Sep 7 by Whos_blue |
The Milliband bacon sandwich is a classic example of this. |
And how many times did GB post about that? | | | |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:54 - Sep 7 with 281 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Reform v The Greens on 20:13 - Sep 7 by reusersfreekicks |
And todays b/s post of the day goes to... |
Purely in terms of carbon footprint A.I. agrees with him....however.... | |
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