ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 6mNot to mention in one of Labour's safe seats. Imagine what a tripling of the vote would do across Green Party target seats. 010
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 17mPeople really don't seem to understand that it's up to Green Party membership who their leader is, and that we all love how @zackpolanski.bsky.social is leading us and are immensely proud of how he tripled our vote. 0152
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 5hPresumably, if, as the media suggests, those voters are all vicious antisemites, they wouldn't have voted for Jewish candidates two elections in a row? 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 5hI don't know if he is, but he campaigned for the Green Party, and his previous voters voted Green, they didn't go back to the Labour Party. 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 5hBut he didn't stand, because he wanted Zack to win. 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 5hYou forgot to mention the bit where Andrew Feinstein was campaigning for Zack, and all the people who voted for Feinstein last time were convinced to vote for Zack rather than going back to the Labour Party. This isn't the win you think it is. 110
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7hSo you're saying that all of the people who voted for Feinstein at the last election were attracted to the Green Party by @zackpolanski.bsky.social ? 010
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7hWhat, you mean like the *real* poll that was held *yesterday*, where he increased the party's vote share by a whopping 22%? 120
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 7hYou're going back to Labour for its poisonous Zionism policy? It certainly is *very* Zionist, so I suppose if that's your poison. Personally I find an ideology that says Europe is not the true home of European Jews too antisemitic for my tastes. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 8hThe reality: @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaks out in quite some detail about why he finds some aspects of a motion problematic, and according to reports, personally proposes two amendments to it. The media: "Zack Polanski has failed to take leadership on the motion". 010
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 8hNothing has changed, the guardian has been going down the right-wing propoganda route for years! 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 11hYes, I think this upswing despite the attacks gives him more licence to take the gloves off, but I think he has the personality and political nous to do that without being unpleasant. 010
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 11hOne of the things I really admire about @zackpolanski.bsky.social is his ability to tell people where to get off *while remaining a really nice guy*. 130
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12h*You* have an opportunity to delete your accusation that the motion is racist; Zionism is not a race. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hI didn't accuse you of supporting genocide. I accused you of repeating genocide-promoting propoganda, which you did. I hope that helps your understanding. 200
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hThe second point he spoke about and made his opposition clear, indeed, as I understand, it was the reason for his abstention. The first point is bollocks, genocide promoting propoganda. 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hThere's a reason these voices are left out: because the people criticising the motion are racists. 012
Reposted by @ralpholsson.bsky.socialNormal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 21hBREAKING: Caroline Lucas condemns Zack Polanski for making the Greens dramatically more popular than they were under her leadership. 712933
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hWhy should a self-described anti-zionist Jew do anything to appease Zionists? 130
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hWow, must be a lot of people joining up to overload the server 030
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hThe fact that you are choosing to ignore the many things he has had to say about it is not the same thing as him not having said anything. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 12hQueue all the establishment bots (both computer and human) suggesting that a ** 22% upswing in the Green vote ** somehow suggests an existential crisis for the party! Thank you to @zackpolanski.bsky.social and everyone involved on the ground for a tremendous campaign that we can be truly proud of! 022
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"You don’t think it’s just a smidge antisemitic?" Zionism? I think an ideology that says European Jews are not allowed to consider European countries their homelands and have to fuck off back to the Middle East where their distant ancestors came from is massively antisemitic! 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If I wasn't already a socialist, this would have made me one. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Can we get that on some merch? I'd buy the t-shirt. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I like the equivocation ones: How can you declare "murder is bad" when "murder" is just the collective noun for a group of crows? What have you got against crows?! 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026www.pollcheck.co.uk/aboutpollcheck.co.ukAbout PollCheckPollCheck is an independent, nonpartisan UK political data site. Its 2026 local, Senedd and Holyrood projections, scored against the actual results. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I doubt that. Very few people who support Zionism in Holborn and St Pancras would have been going to vote Green anyway. If we're sharing feelings, I "feel" that genocide is really bad. I also feel that anyone whose feelings are hurt by opposition to genocide should pause for some introspection. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have no control over how they "feel", although I note that you are being antisemitic by again trying to make it about "Jews" when many Jews oppose the state of Israel. Regardless of what they "feel" they are not being treated unfairly. 110
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026No, it is *you* who can't have it both ways, you cannot insist on a "fairness" that extends only to the supporters of an ethnostate and not to its victims. That is not fairness. Telling criminals that they cannot commit crimes is not, under any serious definition of the word, "unfair". 110
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That would still not make them stateless. And besides, what "say" did the Palestinians have over the Nakba and the enforced ghettoisation and blockade and of millions of them in Gaza, and the subsequent genocide? 110
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026But they wouldn't be stateless, they would be equal members of a new state. 100
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Personally I disagree with that specific aspect of the motion, but that aside, you have still not explained how that constitutes "unfairness" to "people". A state is not "people". A state is a political construct. 110
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026c) you're antisemiticlly trying to make it about "Jews" despite the fact that the person you're attacking *is a Jew*, And d) you're trying to suggest that treating people unfairly includes criticising a foreign state for COMMITTING A FUCKING GENOCIDE! 2/2 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I see, so: a) you're blaming the leader for the democratic actions of members, b) you're talking about how people "feel", not about how they are being treated, 1/2 200
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think you're going to have to stop speaking in riddles, because I don't have a clue what you're talking about when you suggest the Greens under Polanski aren't treating everyone in a fair manner. 130
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Green Party *of England and Wales* certainly didn't go into a coalition with the SNP in *Scotland*. 120
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This sort of manufactured outrage is so tedious; if you don't want beans on toast for breakfast then just *don't order beans on toast*! 040
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Allowing your parents generation to unrelentingly vote Neoliberal and sell your future out before you are even born *is* a lifestyle choice! 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ah, the old "you're welcome to protest in a way I can easily ignore if you so wish!" 040
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"How dare you say I'm racist? Here's a picture of a Nazi with a keffiyeh photoshopped into it just to prove how much I don't hate Palestinians!" 200
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ah, the old 'force through a controversial policy by bundling it up with a far less controversial policy' ploy. Classic. 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Everything about the Labour Party stinks. 001
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Love this from @graceblakeley.substack.com, so true. substack.com/@graceblakel...substack.comGrace Blakeley (@graceblakeley)There’s a genre of leftist I see a lot of on Substack whose whole schtick is ‘the left lost itself in the culture wars’ - many of them are Marxists and some are good writers who produce good work. Bu... 000
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is one of those rare stories that gives me just a little bit of hope. 031
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tony Blair took away the option of real solutions to people's problems by destroying the Labour Party, that's how. 130
ralpholsson.bsky.social @ralpholsson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Teasing us with nice things that you know will never happen is just mean. 010
