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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️

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She/Her . Live in carer from the Rhondda Valley, environmental and climate activist. Singer songwriter of indie folky music #MelTEdwards. #citizensassemblies #antifa #blm #green on.soundcloud.com/MJbjHeSVks1aTU3PA

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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 23h
Congratulations Bess!! Brilliant news 👏 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h
🎉 join.greenparty.org.uk
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h
1) An emergency brake on rents - rising by the LOWEST of CPI inflation, wage growth, or 2%. 2) A commitment to protecting social security - not pitting people on benefits against spending on weapons. 3) Energy in public hands and a energy revolution now - cutting bills for everyone, forever.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h
Two weeks until the budget and here's what we're facing: The worst squeeze in living standards since 1961. The cost of renting to rise by 4% or 5% a year Household energy prices set to jump by £276 We need serious action not tweaks or half measures. That means 👇
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 6h
Ending neoliberal economics looks like this. 👇 A short 🧵 #Green 💚💚
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23h
🚨 GREEN WIN VS REFORM 🚨 Congratulations to Amber Valley Green Party on electing new councillor Bess Saunders in Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley ward in Derbyshire 💚
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BY-ELECTION WIN
GREENS WIN VS REFORM

Kilburn, Denby, Holbrook & Horsley

GRN 29.5%
REF 27%
CON 17%
LAB 16%
RES 11%

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The objection to Zionism isn't an objection to 'national self-determination'. It's an objection to national self-determination - at the expense of another people. Palestinians have rights as much as anybody else.
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Wokerati International Brigades #FreePalestine #Antifa4ever @wokeinter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zack Polanski keeps on saying what most of us are thinking.
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linealoca.bsky.social @linealoca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Polanski interviews the award winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr about Farage/ Reform donations +sponsors. But so much more discussing Brexit,Trumps 2016 election, the relationships of Putin, Trumps Maga, the Tech Bros,+ the implications for Europe + the world in general. youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?...
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Who Is Funding Reform UK? | Carole Cadwalladr | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We have a media which portrays opposition to Israel’s crimes as antisemitism. That same media is viciously and relentlessly Islamophobic. And as we see here, has no qualms using antisemitic tropes against “the wrong sort of Jew”.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12/10/2026
No half-measures. No tinkering around the edges. This Budget must deliver bold action to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Quote graphic featuring Green Party leader Zack Polanski in black and white, against a green-tinted background showing household energy bills.
The headline reads: “FAMILIES CAN'T AFFORD MORE OF THE SAME IN BUDGET.”
Below, Zack Polanski is identified as Leader of the Green Party, alongside the quote:
“With three in five families already cutting back on spending, and many about to see a £300 increase in their bills in January, we’re challenging the government to take bold and immediate action on the cost of living.
“For a start, this means moving more costs off energy bills, properly funding a national home insulation scheme, clamping down on profiteering by energy companies, and rapidly scaling up cheaper, cleaner energy.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Does Andy Burnham really want to end neoliberalism, and if he does, why has he ruled out rent controls? Why is he talking about public control of water companies, rather than [public] ownership?" Spot on.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's time to treat the causes of inflation. That means a clean energy revolution and cutting our reliance on the fossil fuel rollercoaster. It means an emergency rent brake, and it means urgently looking at ways to cut the costs of the basics we all rely on.
Rampant inflaron could land Healey with £35bn bill, IFS warns
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This summer: Thousands of deaths from extreme weather. This weekend in the media: What's the point of the Green Party? This morning from the Labour party 👇
Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New research from @jrf-uk.bsky.social www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...
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How big is the living standards challenge facing Andy Burnham?
As the pressure of the cost of living crisis mounts, the Government has the opportunity to return incomes to growth for low- and middle-income households.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Here's something the media is hardly talking about. This Government is set to oversee the steepest fall in living standards in modern times - unless they change course fast. In less than two weeks Labour faces a stark choice - will they tax wealth and back the majority?
Under current projections this is set to be the worst parliament on record for living standards growth - and a bar chart demonstrating it
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Markvz @markvzmaximvz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Probably not. Cut benefits. Cut pensions. Blame the immigrants. But never #taxtherich, Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Ruthi Brandt @ruthibrandt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am not going to share that disgusting cartoon that was in the Daily Telegraph. Suffice to say that it was disgusting and deeply offensive. Here is Jewish and Muslim Greens' joint statement on the matter, and a call to the DT to withdraw it - jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/11/j... 1/10
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Joint Statement from Muslim Greens and Jewish Greens Condemning Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Anti-Palestinian Racism in The Daily Telegraph - Jewish Greens
Muslim Greens and Jewish Greens stand together in unequivocal condemnation of the deeply offensive cartoon published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 10 October 2026. The cartoon, illustrated by Blo...
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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio @ariaunderground.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Man, it sure is weird how come nobody asks if Palestine has a right to exist...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not for the first time, I’d ask: what does it mean, if the press keep running campaigns claiming that country’s most horrific racists and bigots are the Green Party, the Labour left, Amnesty International, Stonewall, the police (I know) and Gary Lineker? Look around you. Does that feel right?
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Jew-baiting Greens haven't peaked: they're just getting startedIt's strange having a fully fledged, fully funded racist party in our political line-up. It does not comfort me that in Holborn & St Pancras the Greens "only" got nearly 9,000 votes. If the British National Party, another party defined by a racist lie, had won that many votes in any constituency, there would be pandemonium. There would be riots. There wouldn't be amused, jocular analyses in all the main papers. Its leader wouldn't be ushered on to the Today programme as a senior statesman for a light dressing-down by Nick Robinson.
He wouldn't be allowed to repeat propaganda as Polanski did (he sounded as if he was reading lines from a piece of paper). He wouldn't be greeted with a comical, indulgent shrug.
And if I were a Jew in Holborn, or anywhere, watching this, what would I now be thinking? I would be thinking: I now know precisely how many of my fellow constituents want to kill me. Is anyone doing anything to protect me from them?
Just look at the recent hate crime statistics. Jews are now almost ten times more likely than Muslims to be the targets of a religious hate crime. So no one is stopping it. No one is even touching it. This is an unacceptable place for politics to have reached.
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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"contrast between... sycophantic coverage of Badenoch... atrocious record in recent by-elections...and the utterly dismissive coverage of Polanski...significantly improved his party’s standing...tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK" open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The 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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/10/2026
A campaign powered by people. Thank you to everyone who played their part. 💚
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
“Burnham wouldn’t be there without Zack, because we won four times as many votes from Labour as Reform.” Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward, on BBC Newsnight, discussing Zack Polanski’s influence on moving Labour to the left.
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Glenn Vowles @enviroman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Green vote up from 11% to 33%; changing Holborn & St Pancras from a safe Labour seat to a marginal. Second best Green by-election result ever, making the seat winnable next time. 33% would win quite a few seats in the country with the vote division between several parties as things stand.
BBC graphic of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election result, October 2026. Labour 45% in first, down 4 points. Green Party (Zack Polanski) 33% in second, up 22 points.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The 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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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Enough hysteria. Let’s take a sensible look at the by-election results and what this means for the Greens - and let’s figure out what the problem actually is 👇 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-greens...
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The Greens, Democracy and Power... What’s the problem?
A closer look at the Green party, Zack Polanski, and what happens next.
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This man has achieved more in a year outside of parliament than a lot of politicians do in a lifetime. He's rightly taking this moment to thank everyone that tirelessly supported the campaign, but let's put some respect on his name too: big up, Zacky P! We're proud of you x
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If the @greenparty.org.uk can run Labour this close, under their new and currently popular Prime Minister, enjoying his temporary 'bounce', what will they be able to do once the novelty wears off? 👍
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
LGBTIQA+ Greens: Statement on the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
LGBTIQA+ Greens: Statement on the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
We would like to thank Zack Polanski and all the Green Party members who campaigned hard in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, including our own members campaigning to elect our first gay MP and and our second LGBTIQA+ MP after Carla Denyer.
Zack held the Labour government to account over many issues including their complicity in the genocide in Gaza and failure to address cost of living in this country, while also standing firm against racist attacks from Reform against the now Labour MP Sagal Abdi-Wali. We are proud that we are a party that stands for everyone being able to engage in the democratic process regardless of their race, gender, or any other form of marginalisation. 
We want to congratulate Zack on more than tripling our vote share in Holborn and St Pancras, as well as increasing the Green Party membership from 50,000 to 200,000+ in the first year of his leadership. Additionally helping to get the Wales Green Party get their first two members of the Senedd, and our own membership of LGBTIQA+ Greens now being over 5,500. These increases show that the Green Party is a growing political force across England and Wales and we can build on this to win in future elections up and down the two countries.
We trust that Zack can deliver real hope and real change to people’s lives, including for those of us who are trans and queer as we desperately need a different direction right now for the country. So we hope the party will join us in coming together under his leadership and take the fight to Labour and Reform.
LGBTIQA+ Greens Committee
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
"What we got was our second best ever by-election result in Green Party history" @zackpolanski.bsky.social reflecting on the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
"What we're hearing is rhetoric. We're not yet seeing action" @zackpolanski.bsky.social challenges the Prime Minister to close the gap between his words and his actions.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
A campaign to be proud of. A huge thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
Quote graphic featuring Green Party leader Zack Polanski, with his photograph on the right against a grey background. The headline reads: “A BY-ELECTION CAMPAIGN TO BE PROUD OF.”
Below, the graphic identifies Zack Polanski as Leader of the Green Party and features the quote:
“I'm incredibly proud of the campaign we did run. We got 30% of the vote, and in fact John Curtice, an independent pollster, said this shows that the Green Party are more of an electoral threat in these seats than we've ever been before.”
The Green Party logo appears at the bottom left, alongside the imprint: “Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social points out that under his leadership the Greens have had their two best by-election results in the history of the party, and he concludes: "if people are watching & think, I want to see the Greens do better, join.greenparty.org.uk "
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 09/10/2026
“What I've seen over the last few weeks are people who are excited about our plans. We are going to build and grow.” Zack Polanski reflects on the Holborn & St Pancras by-election as we more than tripled our vote share in the constituency from the last general election.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My job now is to focus on the future and drive the change we know we can make. One in three voters backed us here, and we know that many more considered it. We have an amazing opportunity to build to the next election - and we'll relentlessly focus on ending Rip Off Britain.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulations to Sagal. I wish her the very best in representing this amazing place. I'm proud of the campaign we fought. To go from 10% to 33% of the vote share during the PM's 'bounce' is good - but our ambitions are far higher.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wow. What a campaign. Thank you to the 1000+ volunteers today and everyone throughout the campaign. The Green Party got 10% last time. Whatever happens tonight - we made Labour work like they never have before. I'm so proud of you all. 💚🙏🏽
Huge crowd with vote green placards
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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @melted2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh my we all behind you 💚💚💚
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is it. The final hours to vote. Greens got 10% here last time. And now we're genuinely on the cusp of winning it. Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras! 💚
Zack in a group smiling outside Camden squareZack with a group of volunteers in Covent Garden Zack with volunteers taking a selfie Zack with volunteers outside Russell Square
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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @melted2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please please vote for Zack . Look out Parliament 💚💚💚
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today is the day! Go and campaign for @zackpolanski.bsky.social if you can! Even if it's just for an hour! Go to 📍St Pancras Gardens NW1 1UL. Spread the word!
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New London Boy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @newlondonboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have voted for @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🤞 #HolbornAndStPancras #GreenParty 💚
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Jordan @jordansaffron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is a trans ally, why is he allowing JK Rowling’s Harry Potter to take over the Christmas lights in Oxford Circus? Email him now and ask him to pull the plug on transphobia. goodlaw.social/e1ae3f
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Sadiq Khan: Pull the plug on transphobia
Tell the mayor of London to switch off JK Rowling’s Christmas lights
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today's the day to vote Green in Holborn and St Pancras! Good luck, Zack!! 💚
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Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
London Greening. It's gonna be close... Linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Montage of photos of green suppers in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election campaign.
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Flood Holborn and St Pancras with green supporters to get a record green voting turnout today. Elect Zack Polanski now.
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MaggsLondonGirl @maggslondongirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today is polling day in Holborn & St Pancras cast your vote for Zack Polanski Green Party the only candidate who will hold the Government to account ✅💚 #VoteGreen #HolbornandStPancrasbyelection
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