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Mothin Ali

@mothinali.bsky.social
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Deputy Leader of Green Party & Councillor for Gipton and Harehills. Aka The Hero Of Harehills

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's polling day and look who i bumped into, the legend Andrew Feinstein! Today is a huge opportunity to bring real hope and real change to Holborn and St Pancras! This is looking so close, get out and vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bringing hope back to Holborn and St Pancras One poster at a time!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another fantastic weekend of campaigning in Holborn and St Pancras for @zackpolanski.bsky.social to get him elected and become the next MP to replace Kier Starmer. Called your friends, call your neighbours, call your enemies and tell them hope is here!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you all for your support over these difficult few weeks, we won’t let the wreckers destroy what we've built. So let's continue that momentum, let's get out and get our 6th MP, let's get @zackpolanski.bsky.social elected!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
5/ The Green Party wants to change British politics. I still believe we can.
But being progressive isn't simply something we can say about ourselves. Our values have to survive disagreement. They have to survive internal conflict. And they have to apply when examining our own behaviour, not just everybody else's.
For now, I welcome the Council's findings. I want to spend some time with my family, continue serving the people who elected me and get back to the reasons I entered politics in the first place.
But I will not be silent about what this experience has taught me about race, leadership, accountability and political culture.
Those are conversations worth having, not simply for me, but for everyone we want to encourage to step forward and believe that politics can be different.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
4/ This experience has hurt me.
It has damaged my reputation. It has affected my family. It has caused considerable emotional distress. And it has consumed Council time and resources that should have been spent serving the people of Leeds.
There have been moments when I have wondered whether public life is worth the price my family and I have been asked to pay.
But I'm still here.
I'm not interested in revenge. Nor am I asking anyone simply to accept my version of events.
I'm asking people to look at the evidence.
If I have done something wrong, investigate it and hold me accountable.
But when an allegation has been properly investigated and no wrongdoing is found, that has to matter too.
Otherwise the allegation itself becomes the punishment.
I hope the Council's conclusion finally draws a line under the
SRA issue.
But drawing a line under this allegation cannot mean drawing a line under the bigger questions raised by what has happened.
If we want more Black, Asian, Muslim and other underrepresented people to step forward into political leadership, we also have to be prepared to examine what happens to them when they do
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
3/ I am not saying everyone who disagrees with me is racist.
Of course they aren't. I am a politician and people have every right to criticise me, challenge me and hold me accountable.
But I am a Brown British Muslim who has achieved a leadership position in a predominantly white political institution.
Since standing for that position, I have repeatedly faced allegations, complaints, leaks and demands for investigation.
I no longer believe it is credible simply to treat every one of these episodes as completely unrelated.
I believe there is a racial dimension to what I have experienced.
I cannot tell you what is in another person's mind, and I'm not going to pretend that I can. But racism isn't only somebody shouting a racist insult. It can also operate through patterns: whose word is believed, who is presumed suspect, who has to keep proving themselves, whose leadership is repeatedly questioned and whether the same standards are applied to everybody.
Those questions don't disappear because we are Greens.
If anything, a political party that prides itself on being progressive and anti-racist should be prepared to examine them more seriously.
Anti-racism cannot simply be something we demand of other political parties and wider society. It has to be reflected in our own culture, our own processes and in how we treat one another when we disagree.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/That is now three separate examinations of this issue without a finding of wrongdoing.
I welcome that conclusion. But I'm not going to pretend that nothing has happened simply because the facts have finally caught up with the allegations.
The damage happens when an allegation is made and amplified. Reputations are damaged immediately. Time and resources are spent investigating. Families live with the consequences. And when the evidence eventually emerges, the damage has already been done.
Then another allegation arrives and the cycle begins again.
That is what concerns me most.
Private information about me has been gathered and circulated. Material has been provided to right wing journalists.
Most disturbingly, material about me has included information concerning where my children attend school.
My children are not politicians.
They didn't stand for election. They didn't ask me to become Deputy Leader. They didn't choose public life.
Whatever anybody thinks about me or my politics, my children should never become collateral damage in a political dispute.
For me, that crossed a line.
I also think we need to talk honestly about race.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵 You've heard the one sided attack, but the right wing rags or the wreckers working internally don't get the final say. It's time to speak out.
🧵 Since I announced that I was standing to become Deputy Leader of the Green Party, I have been subjected to a sustained series of allegations, complaints, leaks and personal attacks. Some have been explicitly racist and Islamophobic.

It didn't stop when I was elected.
I have tried not to respond to every allegation. I've tried to be patient, trust the proper processes and let the evidence speak for itself.
But there comes a point when you have to look at the pattern.
In early August, allegations were made about the Special Responsibility Allowance allocated to me by the Leeds Green Group.
The Head of Democratic Services looked at it. The Office of the City Solicitor looked at it. Both confirmed that the Green Group had acted properly.
The allegations continued.
Now Leeds City Council's Internal Audit team has completed a further review. We have received confirmation that:
"The payment for the Special Responsibility Allowance (Opposition Group Officer Holder) has been made by the council in accordance with normal practice, and that the council has discharged its role appropriately."
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lies and smears from billionaire media barons can't stop our movement. We'll keep building and we'll keep moving forward! join.greenparty.org.uk
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday under a very thin veil, Reform councillors brought a motion to council to attack another marginalised community. Gypsy, Roma and the Travelling community already face discrimination at all levels of society. Instead of demonising them we need solutions.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One year ago today 857 were arrested in Parliament Sq for holding pro Palestine placards. Yet, not a single arrest yesterday for balaclava-clad right wing vigilantes in Dover. Continuity Burnham must reverse Starmer's free speech and protest clampdown on anti genocide protests
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. I say that's a polite euphemism and and that Farage and his mates are a bunch of fascists who hold views most Brits find deplorable. We just need to keep shining a light on them and exposing them for what they are.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Back out in Harehills, fixing up a binyard in Harehills. That’s how we roll, fix up broken, disused, neglected spaces and turn them into something the community can use! watch this space for more!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hi @andyburnham.bsky.social Our ally here. If you can pull yourself away from videos about snacks for a moment, care to tell us when you’re going to stop arming this racist butcher
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Having so much fun campaigning in Rochdale, what an excellent reception
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's polling day, let's get out, let's get knocking on doors and make sure we give everyone the chance to make hope normal again!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The leader of Reform here supporting big tech bros spying on citizens through digital facial recognition He’ll be supporting digital ID next. He can point the finger at black and brown people, ultimately we know who's side he's on, it's not the British people! Is he funded by Tony Blair Institute?
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another Labour insult! Labour just don't believe the Muslim community are worth showing up for! The community is rightly angry and deserves an apology.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Out today on the Bayswaters doing our community litter pick with the team from Leeds Green Party and the Kurdish community group DAKOK!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social is a coward. He apologised for Labour on Gaza but He won’t call it a Genocide. He won’t commit to Sanctioning Israel. He won’t commit the British government to stop sharing intelligence and resources with Israel and he won’t commit the RAF To stop doing spy flights.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Andy Burnham knows that war crimes are being committed in Gaza, but has he got the courage to do anything about it? Britain must halt arms sales to Israel immediately
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Dr Hussam Abu Safiyah has been held for more than two years in an Israeli torture facility. His life is at risk, denied medical treatment and tortured daily. The world silent. He is an innocent man who must be released immediately and the perpetrators held to account. The UK government must act now.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A quick update of the progress being made to resolve the traffic blocking the junctions at the top of Ellers Road and Shepherds Lane. Greens working hard for our community to takle issues that our residents face.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Great effort by the councils active travel department and Everybody Cycles, organising this event to improve accessibility to everyone regardless of ability to get active and get cycling!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The right wing media do its best to portray me as something that I'm not, much of which has racist undertones. The Daily mail have now apologised to me. More apologies to come...
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Update from the first Inner East Community Committee meeting of the new municipal year. It's an important meeting to get people appointed to sub-committies, there's also an opportunity for the public to come along and raise issues they are concerned about.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
COME ON ENGLAND!!!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I visited @lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social recently with our wonderful candidafan @estherlie.bsky.social and our fantastic mayor of Lewisham @liamshrivastava.bsky.social who took me to see this wonderful community garden built on a scrap bit of land! The problem is the solution!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Green Team has been back out in Gipton and Harehills litter picking in some of the hot spots. We also recognised one of our community Street Angels for the work he has done for the betterment of our neighbourhood!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So much fun campaigning in Makerfield yesterday. The more time I spend with Sarah the more I know she will make such a fantastic MP, someone who cares deeply for people. It's time to heal our society and not use working class people as a stepping stone. Vote Green 18th June!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So excited to join Sarah Wakefield tomorrow in Makerfield. It's time to hold Labour to account for the years of failure and shield pur communities from the rise of thenfar right! It's time for change, hope is here with the @greenparty.org.uk
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
EID MUBARAK
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today was Leeds City Council AGM. It's great to have a strong green group to hold this Labour administration to account. We're not here to be disappointed by them, we're here to replace them!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Activists share why they're out campaigning to get Khizer Qayyum elected for Gipton and Harehills! We're not here to be disappointed by Labour, we're here to replace them! If you're fed up and want to make a difference join.greenparty.org.uk
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Another absolutely fantastic day on the campaign trail to get Khizer Qayyum elected for Gipton and Harehills! We're not here to be disappointed by Labour, we're here to replace them! @leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
MORE WILL GO UP!!!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Green Party poster boards miraculously grow legs and dissappear! We know these games very well, it's a sign of desperation! we're not here to be disappointed by Labour, we're here to replace them!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Another disgrace from the Starmer, Labour Together crew. Getting rid of councillors who don’t have the right face, for mates and relatives of the gang . Cronyism. Send Labour packing on 7th May. Vote Green
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What an absolutely fantastic day of campaigning in Harehills. We get such a warm reception down here from residents, it's absolutely fantastic.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Greening Harehills one corner at a time! I've managed to secure funding to renovate the Ashton Road planter! Once the election is over I'll get the new planter in place! If any of the local children want to submit a design please email me.
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Community spirit in action!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Labour's dirty tactics in Gorton & Denton: omitting Greens from graphs & ballot papers (4 candidates when there are 9!). Khizer Qayyum is gaining momentum. Your postal ballots are here - fill & send directly. Vote Khizer Qayyum May 7th. The Future is Green! 🌱
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Gipton and Harehills is ready to go green, for anyone that wants a poster board for their garden get in touch! We've already got lots up, so lets do this! @leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Fantastic to have @zackpolanski.bsky.social visit Gipton and Harehills today to push for a Greener, brighter more hopeful alternative to the failed labour politics and the hatred of reform. We will stand up for our communities and give it the voice it deserves!!! @leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"I am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity; my obsession is about the future and the political rights of all people" Benjamin Zephaniah www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-are-the... @globalgreens.bsky.social
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Gipton and Harehills is turning Green, for hope, for unity, the Greens put people and the planet first to make sure we build a future and a better world for our generations to come #VoteGreen
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I knew it all along, Nigel Farage wants Sharia for the UK 🇬🇧 Welcome my brother
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We're getting people in Gipton and Harehills active one bike at a time! Working with The Big Bike Fix we've been taking used bikes, giving them a bit of TLC and putting them back into the hands of people ready to put them to use!
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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Life, legacy and lessons! We can only look up!
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