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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

"One should not give a poisoner medicine,
A conjurer fine apparatus, nor
A rifle to a melancholic bore."
WH Auden

Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.

🍿 MTG still making sense. This past year really has felt like we’re living in the upside down.

Always the first to flee while everyone else suffers the consequences.

Update: The total number of little girls killed at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, by the US and Israel has risen to 51.

The entire community is devastated, families destroyed.

Jeremy Bowen: "The word preemptive has been used. Now that's a word that suggests there was an imminent threat, that is an imminent attack before these strikes started. There's no evidence of that. It looks very much as if this is a war of choice that Israel and the US have done"

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech.
Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

The attack on Iran will not liberate its brutally-oppressed people, but make matters worse. It could be a trigger for major conflagration.

Campaigners condemn Starmer’s secrecy over US attack on Iran American warplanes are transiting through UK military bases en route to the Middle East. Why is Britain allowing it?

As the US and Israel illegally bomb Iran, American warplanes have been transiting through UK military bases en route to the Middle East.

www.declassifieduk.org/campaigners-...

CAMPAIGN TRUMP 2024:
“When crooked Hillary Clinton was running against me, she said… look at him. He will start a war, a world war.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP 2026:
U.S. attacks Iran with Israel

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hillary Clinton walked into that Senate room & did what too many in power refuse to do. She said “Release the files”

No hedging!
No selective outrage!
No protecting the powerful!

Survivors deserve truth not partisan games! The public deserves facts!

#SheShed
#StrongWomen
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Stansbury: “The vast majority of co-conspirators that were investigated were the women who assisted in Epstein's crimes—

None of the male perpetrators who committed rape & SA, including potentially the president who’s accused in the files, have been called to testify & to account for what happened”

Starmer telling Labour MPs today that the Greens are "divisive," "sectarian," and "not the kind environmentalists they pretend" is not going to go down well with the millions who now back Greens. It'll simply tell them Labour doesn't hear us. More tin-eared stupidity.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski reacts to 'transformational' by-election win YouTube video by Good Morning Britain

This is a seismic victory.

The Green Party are the alternative to the Labour Party AND Reform.

youtu.be/6yoo56xYCsg?...

Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right"

"They just get worse and they drag the government with them"

"I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

Lovely painting. Beautiful little bird with an amazing voice 🎶

Joyful to see Goodwin and Farage having a huge wettie and rightwing media scrabbling around for credibility in the rubble of their cocky predictions and polling.
You don’t have this in the bag.We voted for change in 2024. That never meant hate-fuelled populism. It meant hope. You don’t give us that.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Starmer wants to be Macron. He risks becoming Hollande. And why Conservative/Reform shrieking about the rise of "sectarianism" rings hollow

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande.

And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them.

New substack from me

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Adam hills, josh widdicome and Alex Brooker. Jason manford, Lou Sanders, Bella hull and Zack Polanski. The last leg.

Imagine your party has won a historic byelection.

You've had election day, a loads of interviews, held a press conference with your new MP and welcomed lots of new members.

Sleep? Nah. It's time for The Last Leg!

#isitok

Drag his orange a$$ in!

Republicans knew there was no proof that Hillary Clinton ever met Jeffrey Epstein, yet they had her testify for 6 hours behind closed doors.

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.