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However also inflation has hidden some of this success and it is starting to have some success. Scrapping it now effectively wastes most of that cost (other than for the few who did get heat pumps directly). Scaling it in a few years potentially sensible.

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The idea of the scheme is that is accelerates the move of Air source heat pump to mass market. The increases in scale will help drive down prices and allow mass electrification. This was not looking very successful partly due to the stop start approach of other schemes (Eco 4, Lad, HUG)

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There nothing I would like cut in DESNZ budget (which already seems underfunded for the task). However these cuts seem particularly poorly timed. Not just as with gas prices rising they look more attractive, the climate emergency and the urgent energy security need. It is also starting to work.

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Hopefully learning from this mess

Yes in every political question some people disagree and people making decisions need to consider their reactions. That is almost the defination. In this example campaigning to stop genocide in Gaza does not mean opposition to UK Jewish life. We don't need to take this route. It was a choice

Most of all I am sorry that this was all for so little that the prize at the end of the battle means so little. We have been torn as a party for a victory that tastes of ashes

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I proposed amendment 3 to my eternal regret making this situation worse when it was voted down. I apologise for my failure to stop this. To elected greens who will lose, to fellow Jews once again caught in this storm. To those, including the Palestinians, who would benefit from green policies.

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It refights the battle in Labour in 2018 (and we know those ended in success for everyone). Greens4palestine the main group pushing the motion hardly ever post about events in West Asia or what they want the government to do. It is about people in the UK they feel have been silenced

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‘A race against time’: Israel’s settlement drive is rapidly transforming Jenin

This I have to feel is the point. It is a form of activism that is not about creating a broad coalition to achieve policy objectives. Or even a narrow one push for a clear goal. This refocuses the debate on discourse in UK and the makes the UK activists main characters.

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New outposts, roads, and military bases are carving up Palestinian communities in an area that saw little settlement activity for two decades.

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See response to David Miller here:

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The Zionism is Racism motion has left the Greens with no good options

The use of both David Miller who seems to regard all synagogues as Israeli outposts makes this seem less of an accident. As does the history of the title of the motion. leftfootforward.org/2026/10/the-...

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Conference has been forced to choose between chasing out its Jews or appearing indifferent to Palestinian suffering

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It is also highly damaging to Jews. Over the past year the pro-Palestine movement and the Green Party in particular have been adapt at disassociating Jews from Zionism and the actions of Israel. The reaction to this predicably relinks these and recentres the UK Jewish community in this debate.

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The interview makes this point. The focus is not expanding practical asks and it takes the focus away from that to discussions about final territorial solutions that seem miles away and defining ideologies.

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Solidarity with the Green Party and its members - Palestine Solidarity Campaign

The pro-Palestine movement has built a broad coalition united by horror of what is happening in Gaza. This moves the focus to what British people want how this affects communities here. PSC statement makes clear the focus should not be on the solidarity movement in Britain

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PSC extends its solidarity to the Green Party of England and Wales and its members who are facing a barrage of media smears and abuse following their democratic conference decision to pass the ‘Zionis...

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Greens get attacked in a way we have not done before, we become internally divided on ground that we know is difficult for a left wing party. We lose elections. If you think Greens electoral success makes action against Israeli government more likely then this motion makes this less likely.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The question asked here is what we gain from passing this motion. It was a difficult motion It is first worth making clear what we lose.

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Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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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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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

12. Sometimes the story is the dog that doesn’t bark in the nighttime. European grids would once have struggled in a 2026-level heatwave, but they had only a few problems and high evening prices. CAISO and Ercot, which also have lots of batteries, had good reliability years despite record loads.

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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The best line I have heard recentally (and I can not recall the source) is it is a bit like putting your head in a bear trap to test the mechanism while dissmissing experianced trappers screaming stop at you as on the side of the bears

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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It is easy to be wise after the fact. In this case it is easy to be wise before after and during the fact because of the big flashing warning signs attached to it.

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I think both of us been on media saying the party not antisemtic. It is much harder now we seem to have explictly made the point that we do not vaule Jewish members

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Divorcing that required careful drafting this was not it. The text of the motion ignored this context and that of the prospers and their backers comments (see David Miller). Even without the amendment this confutation was inevitable and now made worse. I wish you had spoken to me beforehand.

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That not my recollection. As we have seen now unfortunately Zionism is very much associated with Jews. As mentioned most synagogues are Zionist, the majority of Jews are Zionists and I suspect in this country the majority of Zionists are Jews. All of us have had the insult Zionist thrown at us

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In all the years never discussed if you define as a Zionist or not, which shows how little it should matter. Genocide, ethnic cleansing are bad and states should act to stop them was a pretty strong argument and formed a pretty broad coalition

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would agree, but I brought an amendent to ensure no one could say that (a amendment we dicussed months ago and I know wish I had never proposed). Conferance voted it down. For some people in that room it clearly was about us. I dont know what to do about that but forgetting not the answer.

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My reflections this morning, some thoughts on how we build back better from here, and a message to members and constituents. 💚🙏

Sian Berry
Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion
This morning, in what I know is a very initial and uncomprehensive way, I want to offer some of my personal reflections and thoughts on what we do now, in the wake of both conference, last night's by-election, and following the many powerful and heartfelt messages I have received from residents, constituents and party members in recent days.
I am full of regret for so much that has happened, and very sad Zack is not joining me in Parliament next week. Sincere congratulations to Sagal on winning her seat too.
On the motion, I voted and argued against it because I felt it needed serious amendment, and if not then sending back for more dialogue or voting down. But the clash of conference with an exciting and mobilising by-election campaign meant many of us were persuaded not to campaign publicly for these ends, while proposers were very organised and remained intent upon no changes at all.
I want to take my full share of personal responsibility for the result of all this in the votes at conference. I should have worked harder to persuade more of our leading figures to speak up in a unified way to say that the motion as written was clearly not reflective of our values and policy principles.
Both in the words of the motion and in how they have been heard in the country, I can hear genuine worry about what it means for our communities, and can see genuine damage being done to our strong reputation as a leading, principled and inclusive voice for human rights in Palestine and against the atrocities of the Israeli state.
I regret this hugely, and apologise to members and constituents for where we are now as a party, which I know is causing real concern.

To Green Party members - especially those for whom thoughts of leaving must have crossed their minds in recent days - I say please stay and let us fix this together.
I am very glad that Zack has now said that he would have voted against the motion as it stood, and that he has agreed we have work now to do. We are not at all where we want to be today, but I know we can build from this starting point if we work together in a new spirit.
I stand ready to work with all my colleagues to restore trust in our processes and our party, fix the serious flaws in the motion that was passed, as well as to restore key policies aimed at inclusive peace-building.
And my principles dictate that I will always want to help find a way to do this work through understanding, listening and consensus building.
To my constituents, I want to reassure you this morning that the party's currently stated policy on this issue does not reflect my values, and that it will make no difference to the inclusive way in which I represent our fantastic, diverse, kind and inclusive community here in Brighton.
With love and respect to all, I look forward to important conversations taking place in the coming days and weeks to find a way to make sure our party is again a unified, enthusiastic and very clear voice for understanding, peace and human rights for all people.

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I wish this motion had not passed, I wish we are not having this conversation. However are watching our party being torn apart by this decision. It is not helped by attacking Jewish members opposing the motion. Lets be honest and not double down defending a flawed motion after the event.

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Most of Jewish Greens are and continue to be non Zionists. Being anti-Zionist does not mean support for this motion. None @richardkuper.bsky.social @jobirdjobird.bsky.social or @joshalston.bsky.social are secret Zionists. Even @zackpolanski.bsky.social seems to have realised this is a mistake.

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The motion background contains a number of more troubling elements as @yairwallach.bsky.social extensively highlighted. Many pro Palestinian activities seem appalled by our move to focus on a one state solution rather than opposition to genocide.

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A focus on identifying enemies within and Zionist will inevitably focus on Jews. The motion proposers have been very unclear on rejecting this position and rejecting a chance on conference floor widely seen as allowing it. It is entirely legitimate for Jewish Greens to be concerned regardless

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This motion has seen the Green Party condemned by almost the entire Jewish left including groups like Nammod, Diaspora Alliance and the Movement for Progressive Judaism. Conference had a chance to make clear this was not about synagogues and the Jewish community in the UK. They did not.

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It does represent the chair's who dispite this insuation has no a record of opposition to Jewish institutional establishment. The majority of JG commitee thought that the a motion spilting pro palestinan left and focusing on the question of if synaouges are racist is a bad idea.

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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lot of brilliant greens worked very hard in Holborn and St Pancras to stand up to a Labour goverment determined to take us backwards on human rights and climate change. I saw the effort when I was campaigning there They should feel very proud

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The world does not divide into goodies and badies sadly

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To give one small practical example of what I mean - I was listening to a New Statesman podcast express horror and condemnation of the Zionism is Racism motion (fair enough, I'm also v unhappy). The NS hasn't had one single trans person write about transphobia since FWS last April.

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olli (they/them) 💚🏳️‍⚧️ @olliwatkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have thought long and hard about the Zionism is Racism motion passed by Green Party Conference on Sunday. Here are some of those thoughts. They may not necessarily be insightful, but writing them down was a helpful exercise in processing them. olliwatkins.substack.com/p/reflection...

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Reflections on ZiR

It’s taken a few days for me to process how I’m feeling following the Sunday of Green Party Conference.

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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Scroll down to the endorsements then stop looking for honesty