@ben-wild
Trying to make the world a better, kinder place. Supporting the 99% and our only planet. Civil Servant, but views are my own. Would like to work more directly in politics. 1st Class international relations graduate. London, Edinburgh, Vienna. He/him. 🌱
Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.
That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.
The dealer needs to keep you addicted.
Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.
This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.
And we're making hope normal again - together.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
on the 24th of Feb, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was part of a coordinated effort to destroy socialist and Pan-Africanist movements on the continent.
Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.
The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.
Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9
Starmer:
“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”
Voters:
Reform are always obsessively challenging others to debates.
But my invitation to debate Nigel Farage - leader to leader - still hasn’t been taken up.
What are they running from?
The Green Party will stop Reform.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Large electric powered container ships are already a reality.
When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible.
Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?
Zack on the sofa on Peston set
Coming up on @itvpeston - the Green Party have plans to lower your bills, protect our NHS and rebuild our public services.
Starting with Hannah Spencer beating Reform in Gorton & Denton!
The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.
Hannah and Zack and the three beautiful greyhounds
Saturday. 10am. Denton.
Biggest action day ever?
We have to stop Reform.
Let’s elect Hannah Spencer 💚
actionnetwork.org/events/big-d...
Reform has always lied when they said they were the party of the working class. They're all millionaires! They don't care about you!
"Can't we just bomb Iran into being more free, more civilised, more like us?" Asks the entire West without even a hint of irony, self awareness or historical context.
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
It's wild that European leaders are deploying troops to Greenland to "demonstrate they are serious about ensuring the security of Greenland against China and Russia", when it is blindingly obvious that the threat is emanating *not* from China and Russia but from the United States.
Palantir was a warning sign.
Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment.
All in the name of "investment." What about national security?
When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided.
When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.
The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.
It's time for a rethink.
Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders.
When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it.
He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead.
The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me.
A pattern emerging...
Good morning.
A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.
That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.
Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
Thames Water is going bankrupt, AGAIN.
It can be nationalised very easily and for free.
Freeze their bills, watch them go bankrupt, takeover water supply as soon as they stop, as the law already states.
Job done.
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Conservative party pledges £1.6bn ice style removals force. Woman in Minnesota fatally shot by ICE agent during raid, video shows.
Trump started it.
Reform and Tories are at it too.
And Labour already heading in that direction.
All cruel, potentially deadly and does nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.
Nigel Farage is too scared to debate Zack Polanski.
Pass it on.
Your opinion. How about a 1-1 debate? Let the voters decide.
Ball. His court.
Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical.
It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.
And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
Not one word of condemnation by our government of Trump's illegal act of war in Venezuela.
Not one word.
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
Every imperial power drums up paranoid fears to justify aggression and expansion. If one excuse looks too ridiculous to attempt, another will always be found.
