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Brian Candeland

@briancandeland.bsky.social
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Former Elections Coordinator on Green Party England and Wales Executive. Pronouns he/him. Other interests include Amateur Dramatics, walking, salsa. 50% Scottish, 50% English, 100% European. Views are my own.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Syd Barhey Esq. FCA. #FBPE @barheys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Call to action ? Change the bloomin law and make sure no one can buy influence in this way. The Representation of the People Bill is making its way through Parliament right now - amend it and fix this. Thats all the action thats needed. #UKLabour
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK's record-breaking donor was accused of running “in effect a money laundering platform”. Prosecutors accused Delo of being the “leader of a criminal enterprise” who knew that his Bitmex platform had become a “magnet for money laundering and criminal activity”.
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Reform UK Is Now a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform’s funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage’s shady funders
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Why the failure of news organisations to make it really clear about the potential conflicts of interests surrounding post-politics "interventions" by former politicians, is a huge failure of journalism bylinetimes.com/2026/05/27/h...
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He Who Pays the Piper: The BBC, Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak and a Failure of Journalism
News organisations need to be much clearer about the potential conflicts of interests that surround the 'interventions' made by former politicians, argues Adam Bienkov
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I will not be lectured about 'progressive cooperation' by people who also think that's something you can achieve with the party which ran this attack ad
Labour attack ad from Gorton & Denton claiming that Greens want to legalise all drugs and "let our daughters be used for legal prostitution" I mean holy fuck
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A detail everyone is ignoring or forgetting. Peter Mandelson masterminded Keir Starmer's reshuffle days before the scandal broke. That is, while he was the US Ambassador. This seems like quite an important detail!
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Looking forward to JD Vance coming to Britain to tour the country in support of Reform UK
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 05/04/2026
That time you suspend a raft of our own MPs for daring to tell you to do something then pretend to be proud when you're eventually forced to do it
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT
Who's got a piece of Wes Streeting?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Palantir has no place in our NHS. The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now. Listen to what health workers are saying. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...
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NHS hospitals urged to reject £330m data platform part-owned by Trump ally
The NHS Federated Data Platform is designed to collate information from across the service so hospitals can analyse it more easily and improve how care is delivered and supporters say it is already he...
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Anybody up for some marauding this weekend?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform? I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...
Dear Lucy
On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a
Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour
by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist.
This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party
in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public?
In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of
eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and
Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of
political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win.
You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the
Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real
prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want.
As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to
apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.”
Kind regards,
Zack Polanski
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.
Playgrounds would become crack dens if greens were in power policing minister says.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Since the start of this month the number of Green councillors has increased by 4 and the number of Reform councillors has decreased by 7. opencouncildata.co.uk/tracker.php
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Open Council Data UK - compositions councillors parties wards elections emails
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/02/2026
🔥 Caroline Lucas: "Your position is utterly incoherent." 🔵 "We've got a party that pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment, anti-elite party, and yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads." 🤔 "I mean, it just doesn't add up."
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ
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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It gets worse. Starmer's shortlist for US ambassador. Mandelson and George Osborne, Mr corruption and Mr Austerity. The voters can see it. In Gorton and Denton, it's between the Greens and Reform, and we will win. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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The Mandelson affair: inside the scandal of a century
Mandelson's fall from grace reveals a very Labour weakness
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If Labour claim that Gorton and Denton is between Labour and Reform, people need to think about that very Caerphilly.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#GetGreensElected - #VoteGreen
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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?
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Labour Reform coalition?
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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
International Rules-based Order, 1945-2026. RIP.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Christ on a bike. To admit we have no independent foreign policy and we have no concern for international law. This might always have been the case, but I can’t think of a time when it’s been so brazen, so humiliating. Starmer has enabled Trump’s global fascism.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice. Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance. Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products. Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
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US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Nationalist vigilante ‘street patrol’ groups with ties to Reform UK and the far right are falsely claiming to be working with the police, while seeking to infiltrate local school networks in order to “protect” women and children bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Fascist Reform leader Richard Tice would get REALLY upset if you shared this widely on all forms of social media so lots of people can keep it and bring it out before the next election to show that he is as big a liar as Keir Starmer. So please don't, he would be *very* upset.
Tice: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform"

Richard Tice 
13 April 2021

Great to be with Nathan Gill, leader of REFORM UK Wales, campaigning today...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It's a symptom of how far the Overton Window has moved that I now feel much more affinity with old Tories like Heseltine, Major and Patten than with Labourites like Starmer and Street IMG.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Please repost if you agree that the BBC is institutionally biased in favour of Nigel Farage.
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Heather Herbert is .... @heatherherbert.uk · 10/11/2025
Very glad to hear that @northwestbylines.co.uk and the rest of the bylines editors have seen this for what it is. An attempt by right-wingers to attack and stifle open and honest jornalism.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it. I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
actionnetwork.org
Petition to Democracy Minister
First Past The Post undermines our politics. It leaves most of us with MPs we didn't vote for, and keeps delivering results that don't represent public opinion. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chan...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One thing I find quite funny about this idea of vote Labour or get Reform, is that it ignores that a Lib Dem/Green coalition is becoming a genuinely viable alternative, and one which is pretty attractive to voters who want a positive plan for the future which doesn't involve demonising others. 6/
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Another take from the Caerphilly by-election is that even the combined Reform +Tory+Labour vote was less than 50%. The combined Plaid, Green and Lib Dem vote was more than 50%.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…
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Brian Candeland @briancandeland.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Telegraph, Mail, Express, Jeremy Clarkson etc, please stop saying nasty things about Zack Polanski; the Green Party membership system is struggling to keep up
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In this interview, Farage said, "Brexit is the best thing to happen to..." and the first country that came to his mind was Russia.
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis ultimately, he can't be held accountable for the actions of every single person who he comes in contact with." -Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK Department of Government Efficiency.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism. The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us. The Greens say enough is enough.
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