Emeritus professor of psychology. Formerly Green Party councillor on Swale Borough Council. Green activist. All views are my own.
Faversham, Kent
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Jackdaw: a decision for last century. climateuncensored.com/jackda…
A hastily drafted post following the UK Govt’s decision to approve further drilling & production at the Jackdaw gas field in the N.Sea. Please excuse typos, non-sequiturs, etc - I wanted to get the post online today.
Tim Valentine retweeted
We have just experienced our hottest summer on record.
It is unfathomable that the government would approve another gas field in the midst of a climate emergency.
The government has put the profits of fossil fuel giants over the future of our children. Beyond shameful.
Tim Valentine retweeted
Respectfully @SangitaMyska I disagree with your analysis BELOW
I am a Jewish Green and I was present for the debate which was conducted politely. I was impressed by the arguments of the Palestinian proposer and the Holocaust survivor who seconded
I think we should consider Zionism from the viewpoint of its victims as we would with, say, apartheid South Africa
Zionism has meant ethnic cleansing, persecution, apartheid, occupations and now GENOCIDE for the Palestinians. Zionism is the ideology which “justifies” this. It is clearly racism
As for the political fallout, it is clear that the Establishment have tried hard and in bad faith to use this to destroy Polanski like they did to Corbyn
I hope - and expect - the Establishment will fail and Polanski and @TheGreenParty will emerge stronger
The Establishment must not be allowed to dictate what the Green Party says and does
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The Govt saying we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant
You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw
Tim Valentine retweeted
British journalists never reported on their government's direct participation in the Gaza genocide
They were obeying a 'D-Notice' censorship order sent out by the UK military
Every media editor received this on 28 October 2023. You were never meant to see it. Here it is👇
Tim Valentine retweeted
Won’t lower energy bills.
Won’t boost energy security
And creates just 27 jobs.
Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes.
thelondoneconomic.com/politi…
Tim Valentine retweeted
Literally a Year ago @andyburnham sat with @MassiveAttackUK and signed the Fossil Fuel non-proliferation treaty "to end, coal, oil and gas and hold polluters accountable"
Today he has just signed off a brand new Gas-field in the North Sea.
Shameful
#Jackdaw
fossilfueltreaty.org/massive…
Tim Valentine retweeted
Fascinating chart on which countries are giving most to Ukraine (via Paul Krugman)
Tim Valentine retweeted
By the end of this Parliament, Labour will likely have approved:
1. Jackdaw
2. Rosebank
3. Third runway at Heathrow
These week cumulatively make it practically impossible for the UK to meet is Paris Agreement targets.
It will simultaneously likely have:
1. Cut the budget for national insulation/Warm Homes campaign to fund increased defence spending;
2. Slashed the UK's contribution to the UN's Green Climate Fund by 45%, reversing funding pledge made by Rishi Sunak (already happened).
We just had a summer of extreme heat and wildfires; next year is likely to be worse.
This is a war on the environment, waged because Labour simply refuses to tax and redistribute wealth, and is wedded to a totally broken and outdated concept of national rather than human security.
Madness.
NEW: Government is expected to approve the Jackdaw gas field tomorrow, per three sources
Announcement is expected early in the morning
By the ace @nearlblog with me and @BlewettSam (and assists from @CharlieCooper8 and @abby_wallace3)
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Tim Valentine retweeted
This is one of the most basic measures the Labour Government could have taken to make taxation fairer.
Once again this Labour Government is showing they'll side with wealth and power rather than everyone struggling right now.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Chancellor Healey rules out CGT rise.
That's bad news for a former Mayor of Manchester who famously once said “we have overtaxed labour and undertaxed wealth."
Our thoughts? 👇🧵1/4
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
Tim Valentine retweeted
The idiot’s guide to states – and their ‘rights’:
1. States exist. Some 200 of them.
2. States are the political arrangement in which a people express their self-determination. That arrangement can and does change.
3. States enjoy rights, but only against each other. They have the right, for example, not to face unprovoked aggression from another state.
4. No state has some enduring, abstract “right” to exist. Otherwise bad ones like apartheid South Africa would be unreformable.
5. Peoples, by contrast, do have a right to exist. That’s why states that commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are so gravely violating international law. Because they are violating a people’s right to exist.
6. When people argue Israel has a “right” to exist, they are trying to dupe you into believing international law is fine with apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. It isn’t. For obvious reasons, international law prefers the rights of peoples over those of states. Otherwise, no state could ever be illegitimate. Its rights would trump those of the people it rules over.
7. When someone refuses to agree that Israel has a “right” to exist, they are not being antisemitic, whatever the media keeps telling you. They are upholding international law: the precedence of peoples’ rights over those of states.
8. The claim that Israel has a “right” to exist is not what it seems. It’s really the claim that the current reality of extreme inequality between Israelis and Palestinians be set in stone. It’s the diabolical claim that Israel has a right to commit apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people.
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The past 20 days have marked one of the most monolithic pushes by British media to vilify the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion.
Imbalanced coverage would be an understatement.
The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Rabbi got 12,133 words. Palestinians got 3,173.
Any institution that parades as a "news outlet" can no longer be taken seriously if it covers this motion without also covering the people, Palestinians, who have endured, suffered and been oppressed the most by the ideology in action.
What the figures show:
• Israel's government alone got 3,904 words. More than every Palestinian put together.
• 2,422 of the 3,173 Palestinian words came in stories tying Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian who proposed the motion, to al-Qaeda.
• Apart from Lubna, two Palestinians were quoted across 436 articles, for 76 words between them. Nobody in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon was quoted at all.
• Lubna told the Telegraph that 56 members of her family had been killed in Gaza. One article mentioned it: the Telegraph's own al-Qaeda story, in paragraph 44 of 51.
• Lubna has received death and rape threats since the vote. Al Jazeera reported it. None of the 447 British articles did.
• 43 articles said, in the paper's own voice, that the motion meant the destruction or abolition of Israel. The motion calls for one state with "equal rights for all".
• 36 headlines said antisemitism. Not one of 447 said genocide.
• 304 of the 436 articles we read in full never mentioned the genocide at all.
• 0 of 89 comment pieces backed the motion.
• The Daily Mail ran 38 articles on the motion, and in that time, just 2 on Israel's ongoing attacks across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Full report: newscord.org/editorials/zion…
Tim Valentine retweeted
Ed has never threatened the Labour Party with non-cooperation for facilitating and enabling a genocide, arresting pensioners for holding signs, or overseeing new restrictions on the right to peaceful protest... despite being the Party of civil liberties. Why is that?
Seems to me the whole political establishment is telling on itself. A motion is a red line, but genocide isn't.
Tim Valentine retweeted
“People are dying every single day. And my party is unified on saying this government is still arming that genocide.”
Zack Polanski on the Labour government's continued involvement in Gaza and the fight for Palestinian rights. #BBCLauraK
Tim Valentine retweeted
"Even voters who know little about Palestine will struggle to understand why Labour is turning on its own local administrations.
The impression it creates is not of a party that’s been renewed as a force for ‘hope’, but of one that remains petty, vindictive and self-serving."
The Labour Party’s refusal to work with the Greens unless they renounce anti-Zionism exposes the hollowness of the Burnham project.
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/bur…
Spot on , Zack. I don’t see anything controversial in this answer. Labour needs to step up and stop supporting the genocide.
"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?"
@ZackPolanski is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK?
And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
Please repost.
Mothin Ali – apology and Correction
On 18 July 2024, I published a post on my X account in which I stated that Mr Mothin Ali, an elected official and Deputy Leader of the Green Party, was involved in the Harehills riots of July 2024 in which people attacked the police.
That statement was incorrect. In fact, Mr Ali was asked by the police to use his position of trust in the community to help bring about peace on the streets. Mr Ali attended the scene for that purpose alone. He was not involved in the disorder or violence in any way, and on the contrary he was one of the principal reasons of bringing an end to the disorder. I offer my sincere apologies to Mr Ali for my post, the harm I caused, and I have agreed to pay him compensation to vindicate his reputation.
Tim Valentine retweeted
NEW | Over 40 cross-party MPs have written to the Chancellor to call for fair taxes on private jets ahead of this month’s budget.
• Could raise £2.7bn a year
• Is supported by voters of all parties
• Viewed as ‘fair’ by the public
Read more: independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
