It's time to take the fight to Palantir. YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

It's time to take the fight to Palantir.

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Seconded.

Fair enough. But please get through to some of your supporters that you're not unintelligent and you're not a victim. You knew the rules and what would happen. You made your stand knowingly. I can't help feeling many of them are entirely missing the point.

Starmer didn't appoint Mandelson; Mandelson appointed Starmer

... limited deployment.

I thought that at first, but then realised I didn't want him making policy towards Israel. Still, I was happy with his approach to the USA and Europe.

Then he started cutting dodgy deals with American tech giants.

These days, I think maybe keep him on as an international troubleshooter for...

How is opposing Labour 'splitting the left'?

I'm also not entirely convinced you were a Green Party member. Which party do you intend to go to now, given I think all have now said he should resign, including the leader of Scottish Labour and many of Labour's own backbenchers?

Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, to be questioned by MPs Exclusive: McSweeney summoned by foreign affairs select committee in rare step, as Mandelson vetting row continues

At last. 😏
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Yes! This was the follow-up I was waiting for.

Ah... the gent on the left? I did wonder. Who was the bloke on the right?

I'd have said putting him effectively in place before he got security clearance, and having the King and the US government sign off on it, probably qualifies as pressure.

Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo...

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Sorry, that was supposed to be the Twilight Zone theme; it doesn't transcribe very well. I just thought it fitted the dark foreboding of your comment.

Keir Starmer Is Finally FINISHED YouTube video by Owen Jones

@owenjones.bsky.social Jones gets to the crux here. To discuss the Labour Party's current travails without placing a central focus on the toxic Labour Together faction that controls it is pointless.
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Truss ticks your boxes and then some.

Polanski would lead this country very differently from Truss. Given your admiration of her, I can understand why you wouldn't want him.

But to be frank, I don't think the Green Party is trying to attract admirers of Liz Truss.

* International Trade Secretary, 2019;
* Foreign Secretary, 2021;
* Prime Minister, 2022.

Liz Truss.

What's not to like? 🤗

Yep. Parliamentary experience is crucial.

Look at this for a CV.

* PPE at Oxford;
* Entered Parliament in 2010;
* Education Under-Secretary, 2012;
* Environment Secretary, 2014;
* Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, 2016;
* Chief Secretary to the Treasury, 2017;
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... are the LibDems.

As for Mahmood, Labour can't have Reform-curious immigration policy, and you just airily wave that away. It's disgusting.

All to be paid for by benefit cuts while the top 1% of the country holds 70% of the wealth paying 29% of the taxes?

Rearrange the breadcrumbs that fall from an overladen table and yes, some will gain. Others will lose.

The system needs to be overhauled. It's not just the Greens saying that, so...

I did read somewhere that Mandelson's still shoving his oar in even now, and I doubt that McSweeney's doing anything other than getting on the phone every day.

You can't be taken seriously as a party if you concentrate solely on the environment. That has its place, but as a pressure group, not as a party running for office.

You can't run a country on environmentalism.

Polanski would be happy to work with Labour, just not under a Tory-emulating Reform-curious leadership.

As for talking to Putin, so does Macron. Or perhaps you believe that the best intermediaries for Europe when it comes to Russia are Witkoff and Kushner?

I see the assertion. I don't see a link to any Green Party statements on this.

Can we have a link to the statements on this, please, instead of 'Here's an assertion, take my word for it'?

I believe people are sometimes known to be, occasionally, less than scrupulously honest on social media.

The party has little changed its economic policies from the manifesto in the 2024 election.

And all Polanski has done is take a holistic approach to environmental policy placing emphasis on other areas neglected in campaigning and showing how environmentalism fits in with a broader picture.

... seem the best fit.

Your Party may be better for you. Far more uncompromising. But I'm afraid even Your Party has working with the Greens nailed on.

Perhaps your best bet is the SPGB, but they don't tend to run many candidates in elections. They only ran two in '24, and that's fairly standard. Nonetheless, it would...

... becoming quite bizarre, and there's so much of it about.

Every new PM is an unknown quantity.

Some of these things get wildly exaggerated. All an elevated backbencher would have to do is make a statement of intent, which he or she would do in running for the leadership anyway, and the EU would take it from there.

These arguments for stasis are...

Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’ Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham

Neither am I, and I'm a Green Party member who voted for Polanski's leadership and am very happy with what he's offering.

In any case, Polanski's already said he could work with Burnham.
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... simply refuse to do it.