Dear Lucy On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist. This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public? In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win. You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want. As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.” Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform?

I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

The first constituency poll in Gorton and Denton is out.

It shows the Green Party is ahead.

But it also shows a race against time to reach undecided voters...

www.owenjones.news/p/new-poll-g...

"The Greens are going to win"

Meet Hannah Spencer, the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton.

Plumber, councillor, and "Reform's worst nightmare".

Utterly depraved. We must all condemn the US govt. false account. This is facism. We must never let Reform import this to the UK.

Here comes the video analysis:
- Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun
- He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent
- They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down
- He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

I'm sure I don't need to tell you what this means for the construction project, for example, which would initially maybe (if at all) be a little more expensive with sustainable materials and greater efficiency.

NEW RESEARCH: UK heat pumps can perform far better than many think.

Our analysis of HeatPumpMonitor.org data shows well-designed systems achieve ~40% higher efficiency than past trials (SCoP 3.86 vs 2.81), cutting bills (~£224/yr) and emissions.

Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Left Bible

Zack Polanski nails the reality: the gap between a millionaire and a billionaire isn’t “a bit more money” - it’s a completely different universe.

This is why taxing extreme wealth matters. 👏

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.

Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?

For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

This is particularly good news for people living in flats. Air to air heat pumps are particularly good for small properties, or if damp and mould is an issue. They can provide cooling too, which will help with overheating in flats.

More details of the funding for air to air heat pumps here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Cross Laminated Timber production capacity in Spain has quadrupled in the last 5 years, with new plants operational across the north from Galicia in the west to Catalonia in the East

Read about one of Europes emerging success stories in Mass Madera's annual report: massmadera.org/informe-mass...

An extraordinary realignment of British politics

If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Yeah, OK it's an 80m tall timber TRÆ,

but look at the facade,

it's #circular reused metal roofing.

lendager.com/project/trae/

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Large text reads: Greens polling second nationally. Screenshot of Tweet reads: RFM: 32% (=) GRN: 17% (+2) CON: 16% (-1) LAB: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK, 29 Oct. Changes w/ 22 Oct. Picture of Zack Polanski with speech bubble saying: “It’ll go higher.”

The Green Party SECOND in a national poll for the first time ever!

There’s no way we’re stopping there.

A memorable night ruined by a racist thug.

I was invited to speak at the EuroAsia Curry Awards on Monday night, it should have been an exciting opportunity. But on my way there, outside Earl’s Court station, I was subjected to an Islamophobic hate crime. I have now reported it to the police

🚨 BREAKING | Greens hit 10% in poll average for the very first time, an all-time high for the party.

This is the first time in the party's history that they have hit double-digits in polls, and comes as the party stands within touching distance of 100,000 members.

NEW | Electricity generation from fossil fuels fell in China and India in the first half of 2025 🔥📉

This marks a reversal from previous trends.

Simultaneously, there was a small uptick in the US and in the EU.

A thread 🧵

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

An Anti-immigration Push Won’t Solve Japan’s Cost of Living Woes Blaming foreigners may be politically convenient, but it distracts from one of the true culprits behind inflation: climate change.

Instead of blaming foreign workers, Japan's new PM must recognise climate change as one the main culprits of rising costs of living--and deliver climate action "as an act of love and necessity."

350.org Japan's Masayoshi Iyoda writes for
@thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/10/an-a...

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

there's a very good reason Labour, run by Tufton Street, don't directly attack Reform, run by Tufton Street, and instead attack Zack Polanski, can you think what it might be?

How to tackle (and not tackle) migration: lessons from Italy [FREE TO READ] Successive British prime ministers have destroyed trust with a millefeuille of falsehood about asylum seekers

My Trade Secrets today. Govts often do an immigration sleight-of-hand, demonising a tiny minority esp asylum-seekers as cover to admit workers.

Giorgia Meloni can still pull this trick off and is issuing 500k non-EU work permits. Keir Starmer is so scared & UK public trust so damaged he can't.

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Auch cool, WBS70 retrofit mit Holz Laubengang.
Bild: Hütten und Paläste
www.bauwelt.de/themen/betri...

Crew on a bus all smiling!

Bold Politics starts on the number 38 bus!

Thank you everyone. What a day!

(Few more interviews to do!)

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The Green Party Has Finally Picked a Side | Novara Media With three leftists winning the landslide victories in the Green leadership election, the party has stopped trying to bridge its centrist and socialist factions and committed to a radical path, writes...

The Green Party has decided - overwhelmingly - to stand up and fight against the powerful:

Me on @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social’s victory:

novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/t...

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...