thundertick

thundertick

@thundertick.bsky.social

Greenie and lefty. Sometime lecturer; sometime painter and decorator.

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The govt itself has admitted Jackdaw won't bring down energy bills or create many jobs. So I asked the PM: does Labour disagree with the overwhelming scientific consensus that fossil fuels must stay in the ground? Or was lobbying from the oil and gas lobby simply too difficult to ignore?

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Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

bbc.co.ukUK government approves Jackdaw gas field, and says production will start this month - follow liveActivists say approving the gas field will raise carbon emissions - while the developers argue it is important for the UK’s energy security.

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It’s obvious to everyone who’s not financially invested in this, that rosebank and jackdaw should not go ahead.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social

The Energy Secretary says North Sea drilling “won’t take a penny off energy bills.” The Health Secretary says summer heatwaves put pressure on the NHS. So where’s the Government’s impact assessment? If they don’t have one, they should delay the decision on drilling for oil & gas until they do.

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The state of journalists in the UK update: Delighted that a left wing news site has shut down. Silent when other journalists are mass murdered by Israel.

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist" Spot on Zack. If self-determination requires the dispossession & displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing & colonisation

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Excellent from Sheffield Green Party pointing out reservations working with Labour whilst their government arms a genocide. If Labour chooses to destabilise local councils because they want to play party politics - then they can own the consequences for the city. 👏🏼

Sheffield Green Party@sheffgreenparty.bsky.social

​Sheffield will not be dictated to by London. ​We stand firm. We stand united. We stand for justice, equality & human rights for ALL. 💚🇵🇸 ​Read Green Group Leader Cllr @angelaargenzio.bsky.social's open letter 👇 sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2026/10/16/s...

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BREAKING: Andy Burnham has clarified that Labour could never form a coalition with the Greens, due to their opposition to genocide and reluctance to quietly send arms to Israel while pretending to stand up to them

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If a Palestinian objects to the ideology used to justify kicking them from their homes, or murdering their relatives: They are branded a racist. You can only turn the world on its head for so long.

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I said in my speech to conference, the RNLI are the best of us. For those lucky enough to have parents volunteering with RNLI, I hope they feel nothing but pride in their parents.

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Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."

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The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

adambienkov.co.ukWhy the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green PartyThe dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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If you vote Labour today, the government will shift to the right. If you vote Green today, the government will be forced to shift to the left. This is a no-brainer.

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"Voting will open today in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election, the seat vacated by the former PM Sir Keir Starmer. 15 candidates are standing" If I lived in the constituency I'd be voting Green. Good luck Zack!

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A result! I must be getting something right if I’ve been called a “bot” for talking about the things Burnham doesn’t want you to talk about.

Mulv@mulv.bsky.social

Bot

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Did you know? In 1975 the United Nations general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination" (the resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks)

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I note that all of this analysis has been *completely unaffected and unchanged* by Israel embarking on a programme of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Lebanon that the white people world has non-negotiably supported. That simply is not a factor, at all.

theguardian.comZack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael BehrA toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵

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Gaza has more amputee children than anywhere on the planet and they will still tell you that Israel is not committing a Genocide. These same people would have lied for the Nazis.

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When hypocritical Labour MPs call the Greens “extremist”: -Continuing to export weapons to Israel, -75,000+ dead in Gaza, 20,000 of them CHILDREN, -Arresting 90-year-olds in wheelchairs for holding signs, THAT is what Labour extremism looks like.

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Just because literally the entire British media has united in condemnation nation of the Green Party, that doesn't mean Zionists control the British media. It's just a coincidence, you conspiracy theorist!

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Extraordinary the way the media is framing anti-Zionism as violent and saying it somehow calls for the extermination of Jews when Zionism is responsible for a genocide and literally exterminating Palestinians. The projection is truly off the charts.

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The media are falling over themselves to platform white people with nothing to do with this issue to comment on it. So I'll share this again.

Ed Poole@edpoole1975.bsky.social

Zionism is racism was not written by self righteous, white, lefties It was written by Palestinians in consultation with Palestinian and Jewish groups, Party officials, solicitors and many other over more than a year. I think Palestinian voices should be part of the debate youtu.be/6IQoRYEB-MA?...

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Now the leader of Brighton Labour is casually likening the Greens to the British Union of Fascists, scolding Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major UK party, for antisemitism and failing to mention her own party's ongoing complicity in arming the racist regime the motion is about.

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The BBC is determined to ask every supporter of Zionism if Zionism is racism. Unfortunately it can't ask the victims of Zionism because they were all killed by Israel.

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'To be a Green MP, or not be a Green MP: Zack is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Daily Mail hit jobs. Or to take arms against a sea of has-been podcasters' @zackpolanski.bsky.social would be a phenomenal MP! Major plot twist ahead? 💚🗳

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When Margaret Thatcher privatised our water, she told MPs to wait and see before judging. Well, we've waited. We've seen (we've arguably seen too much). Now we are judging. Water privatisation has been a monumental failure. Public ownership now

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All the money in the world won’t make Reform’s moronic policies workable. It won’t make their people less racist or idiotic. It won’t sort out their ridiculous egos or end the investigations. It won’t make the majority of us loathe them any less. In fact, the money may well bury them. Let’s hope so.

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Israel's defence minister revealed that his Government is seeking Donald Trump's support for their plan to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza. Forced displacement is a war crime. When will Labour act? End all arms sales. Ban illegal settlement trade. Sanction the Israeli Government.