Former Green Cllr- Brighton and Hove 2019-23. Now back in North East. Working in Housing Policy and Public Affairs. Views my own 📚(he/him)
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Excellent news! Seriously if he does this, I think it will be a key plank in an election winning strategy.
Council tax should been reformed long ago and has become a Frankenstein tax that had been added to with reduction schemes and premiums that try to make it fairer.
If he goes through with this, he will be braver than any PM in the last 35 years, as all have refused to break from the 1991 valuation fudge.
But key is, this was not in Starmer’s manifesto so I think, sadly, this will not happen, and even if he did, it would probably be such a large change that he would need a new mandate for this via a General Election
This is a brilliant piece of communication. Excellent storytelling, heaps of personality, clear messaging … proud to be in the current version of @TheGreenParty that is really stepping up to the plate at the minute 💚
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Another day, another journalist who doesn’t understand how Green Party makes policy 🤦♂️
“The Green Party” doesn’t draft proposals, it’s individual members, or groups of likeminded members, that do that 🤝
Then, any proposal will need a lot of support from other members to finally be debated and its only ever the most serious ones that get voted on 🗳️
I predict that you’ll hear a lot about supposed Green proposals over the next few years from journalists looking for stories but many will unlikely ever come close to becoming policy ☑️
🚨 NEW: The Green Party has drafted proposals to reduce the time police can detain terror suspects from 14 days to 4
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A good thread tackling some of the misinformation about our @TheGreenParty administration in B&H between 2020-23 🧵
It sounds like @bhlabour are continuing to invest more in keeping the city centre clean, which is of course a positive, but to say there was never any jet washing in the city under us is simply a lie 🤥
1/5 Hey @bhlabour & @rowkz is someone telling porkies when they say no jet washing took place in Brighton under Greens? Multiple @brightonhovecc docs say different. @uklabour lose residents' trust by distorting facts. You have a responsibility to be honest facebook.com/share/r/1D587h5…
Brilliant! 🤩 I’d imagine we aren’t far behind Labour now and likely to overtake them over the next month. It is quite something!
Wow! What a poll 😳
@TheGreenParty on the up 💚
@reformparty_uk has plateaued and people beginning to see through them
@UKLabour and @Conservatives continue to fade into obscurity ⬇️
All makes for a very interesting local elections … ALL to play for!
YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention
*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*
RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),
Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second. It is also the lowest we have had Labour.
In terms of how meaningful this is, it is obviously likely driven to a significant extent by the publicity from the Denton & Gorton by-election, as well as any impact it has from the Greens appearing a more viable option and less of a wasted vote. It remains to be seen to what extent it sticks, or whether it fades again as the immediate publicity boost recedes.
Sunday/Monday
I’m over the moon with the result! Bloody fantastic. Hannah will make a great MP. Looking forward to whole load more working class and Northern Greens getting elected in the next general election, and in local councils before then 💚
It’s incredibly tight! 😬
Has there ever been such a closely fought by-election by three parties? 🤔
Going to be determined by who can get their vote out on Thursday … 🗳️
Greens still have to be slight favourites I think but just! 😳
Very interesting! One of the questions about the campaign that I’ve had is where was Keir Starmer so fair play to him visiting. You would have thought he would have stayed clear if he didn’t have some indication that Labour were still in this … let’s wait to see whether they are doing better than the polls and bookies say on Friday morning!
There has been a lot of conjecture about the potential result of the Gorton and Denton by-election but proper constituency polls are really the only thing that can provide independent verification that can be trusted 👍
I think this is an ideal poll for @TheGreenParty so looks as if their hard work over the past few weeks is paying off and confirms what they have been saying in their literature and comms 👏
Persuading those undecided voters will be what wins or loses it over the next week 😬
Three by-election results last night, and @UKLabour being attacked from different sides, including a @TheGreenParty win 💚
⬇️ DOWN 28%
⬇️ DOWM 12.8%
⬇️ DOWN 25.2%
Could this pincer movement be an early glimpse into what will happen in the local elections in 11 weeks!?! 🤔
ALT Election Maps UK • @ElectionMapsUK Zetland (Redcar & Cleveland) Council By-Election Result: X.com LDM: 50.5% (+15.2) LAB: 21.6% (-25.2) RFM: 13.5% (New) GRN: 7.4% (New) CON: 7.0% (-10.9) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.
ALT Election Maps UK • @ElectionM... 7h Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result: GRN: 30.4% (+22.9) LAB: 27.7% (-12.8) rOL: 16.2% (New) Ind: 11.5% (New) CON: 8.3% (-15.3) RFM: 2.7% (New) LDM: 1.6% (-5.9) Ind: 1.6% (New) No Ind (-21.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ Show more
ALT Election Maps UK & @ElectionMapsUK Van (Caerphilly) Council By-Election Result: PLC: 43.3% (-1.9) RFM: 28.5% (New) LAB: 26.8% (-28.0) LDM: 1.4% (New) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.
Absolute chaos! 🤯
I wouldn’t like to be with the election teams in the 30 councils that will now have to pull together emergency plans for May this afternoon. They must be pulling their hair out 😡
And got to feel sorry for all political parties in these areas that now have to frantically select candidates at last minute 😩
This is all Labour’s mess, they should have seen this coming and they are going to be badly punished at the ballot box for it 🤦♂️
Politics has been very volatile over the past 18 months but things are set to get even more interesting 👀
Whilst Your Party hasn’t had a great start (that’s an understatement!), it is clearly a vanguard party on the left of British politics, and Rupert Lowe and Advance UK are beginning to carve out a serious space to the right of Reform ➡️ ⬅️
It’s time that Labour seriously grapple with bringing in PR for the next General Election to ensure fair representation for everyone in the country and a result that people can accept 🗳️
Rupert Lowe could drag down Reform and further dent Labour, giving Zack Polanski's Green Party a cleaner run at government.
@willem_moore_uk takes a deeper look.
thecanary.co/trending/2026/0…
To be fair, Labour have over 400 councillors in Greater Manchester, 24 Labour MPs and the regional Mayor. They aren’t going to roll over.
In comparison, Greens only have a dozen Green councillors. It is a stark contrast.
If Labour do hold on then it might be due to local politicians campaigning and using their existing links to the community to encourage people to stick with them.
I have been thinking for a few months now that an early general election is likely the way things are going 😬
To be fair to Nigel Farage, he was the first person that I recall saying this when he spoke at the Reform Party conference last year. Maybe he is right (for once!) 😳
If Keir is toppled, which seems more and more likely, and a new leader wants to be much more strident, the pressure to call an election from external stakeholders would be enormous and they might cave in if the polling is looking reasonable 📈
NEW
Keir Starmer’s allies are warning that an Angela Rayner leadership coup would trigger a general election.
It is being argued Rayner’s left-wing policy platform would differ to the 2024 manifesto and she would not have a personal mandate as PM.
One Labour figure who served on Starmer’s front bench tells @Telegraph: “Presumably Angela Rayner, if she got elected, would have a completely different agenda.
“If you come in with a completely different agenda then the country legitimately says, ‘We didn’t vote for this’.
“And so what are the grounds for refusing a general election? You can claim constitutional grounds, but in the world of frenzied media, of TikTok, YouTube and GB News, is it really sustainable? It doesn’t feel sustainable to me.”
A current cabinet minister said of a leadership switch: “The pressure for an election would be enormous.”
The arguments are backed up by Rayner’s own position in 2022 when she demanded an election after Tory leader changes.
Rayner said back then: “The Tories have crowned Rishi Sunak without him saying a word about what he would do as PM. He has no mandate, no answers and no ideas. Nobody voted for this.
“The public deserve their say on Britain’s future through a general election. It’s time for a fresh start with Labour.”
This idea could make Labour MPs pause for thought before any attempt to switch leader given the party’s deep unpopularity.
(If an election result matched the current average polls, with Labour on 19%, scores of MPs would be kicked out of the Commons.)
However… it is worth noting this same claim was made by allies of one Boris Johnson as he wobbled in 2022. Tory MPs then switched leader not once but twice. No snap election was called.
Story👇
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
This is interesting, and seems to be backed up by what @reformparty_uk are saying too ie that it’s between @TheGreenParty and Reform 😬
One of the most accurate sources of info on how a by-election is going is from the campaign teams themselves, and so information like this, if true, is useful ✅
However, it does seems like this data might not include the ‘don’t knows’ and from my canvassing experience there are quite a lot of those undecided! 🤷
Maybe it’s just the figures are for the people that have indicated they are committed to voting a certain way, in which case, there is a large gap from potential swing voters that are more likely to vote tactically 🗳️
It would be great to have an independent constituency-wide poll that samples appropriately across the constituency to factor in all the variables and I’m hoping this will come over the next few weeks 🙏
I’m over the moon with this choice 🌝
Hannah is great and she’s got a great chance of winning 💚
It might be that the stars are aligning for us … 🌟
It’s time for everyone on the left to unite and throw everything at this over the next four weeks ✊🏼
I’m assuming this means that the by-election has come too soon for @thisisyourparty but nevertheless Salma has made a brave call here, which some in YP won’t like, but it’s the right one 👏
It would be great to see @zarahsultana and @jeremycorbyn get behind @TheGreenParty candidate as well once they are announced and it could be an important campaign in building the type of powerful left alliance that could challenge for the next GE ✊🏼
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