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Green Party Trade Union Group Statement on Unite Affiliation Decision The decision by Unite to cut its financial affiliation to the Labour Party reflects a deep and growing frustration among working people who feel abandoned by a party that was founded to represent them. From the treatment of Birmingham bin workers to uncertainty facing energy workers and the ongoing undervaluing of public sector staff, Labour’s response to the challenges in 2026 facing working people is too often out of touch, managerial and disconnected from the reality of workers’ lives. Trade unionists are right to demand better.

Across the country, working people are facing a cost of living crisis, insecure work and a hollowed out industrial base. We need political leadership that stands clearly and unapologetically on the side of workers. Workers also need a serious plan for the future of jobs and industry. The transition away from fossil fuels must not be used as an excuse to abandon workers. Instead, it must be a planned and properly funded just transition that guarantees new, secure unionised jobs and empowers workers, bringing pride and economic regeneration to communities. That is why increasing numbers of trade unionists are looking to the Green Party.

The Greens support the right to strike, strong collective bargaining, higher pay, secure work and a just transition that protects and empowers workers and communities. The Green Party Trade Union Group stands in solidarity with workers organising for dignity, security and power in the workplace. We would encourage all workers who want a political party that truly backs trade unionism to join the Green Party and the Green Party Trade Union Group to help build a stronger voice for workers in politics.

Unite votes to cut Labour funding by 40%.

UNISON elects Andrea Egan as general secretary.

The Greens soar past Labour in popularity amongst NEU members.

We are witnessing historic shifts in the trade union movement.

a pretty brutal ratio right there

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IT'S TOTALLY @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social

Fascinating! Fits gut political instincts, but nice to see confirmed by data and more detailed analysis

The research notes that everybody thinks figures like santa will vote for the same party as them, but left wing people tend to do it more.

Umm yeah because heroes tend to have values like kindness, justice, and fairness which are at the heart of leftwing politics.

Santa in a green outfit

32% of Brits think Santa would vote for the Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

Pretty sweet endorsement.

He joins 100k+ others who used to like red and now prefer green.

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Zack Polanski, "It's not about me vs Nigel Farage"

"It's about his form of hate and division"

*Andrea Jenkyns starts moaning*

"Vs the politics of doing something about a broken system"

*Andrea Jenkyns moans even more professing: oh my god*

"About tackling inequality and offering hope to people"

So many bad-faith attacks on Zack Polanski.

His own partner works in palliative care!

About a third of carers are migrants.

Among other things, Labour has banned them from bringing their partners and kids here.

Labour pretending to care about them is nauseating.

I've met a lot of inspiring and talented activists in the Green Party and especially in Greens organise. Our Greens Organise Co-Chair Hau-Yu is right up there with the best of them.

Give her a follow and give this a listen.

Zack Polanski headshot with an abstract pattern of green stripes behind him.

While I think most literate people can be insightful and articulate in text form, if given enough time to collect their thoughts, it is a rare talent to be able to do that verbally, in real time, while responding to interruptions, hostile jibes or pointed questions and STILL get your point across.

Yes it's the moral and truthful position, but even on cold-blooded electoralism, going for the pro/neutral on migration vote is *far* more sensible.

Four(!) parties competing for the ~55% who say it's a most important issue to them. Greens under @zackpolanski.bsky.social the only party for the 45%

Very skeptical of this MMT stuff. It’s not party policy. I’m not an economist, but it just reads like wishful thinking.

Would prefer sticking to spending multipliers, post WW2 analogies, predictable investment etc.

If there’s a ”proof” it I’m open to being convinced.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Genuinely funny, and then at the last second the “They’ll come” nearly brought me to tears

What is going on?!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social bringing a different kind of authenticity

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

🧵1/9

Bring on the North.

85%(!) of the people who have formed opinions on @zackpolanski.bsky.social since September see him favourably.

85%.

Wild.

Starmer doesn't realise that the Tories could actually recover one day. Reform’s base is inherently unstable and right wing voters are shockingly forgiving.

The left won’t forget. The Green Party under @zackpolanski.bsky.social is far more coherent and fully democratic. When Labour dies it’s dead.

I can’t believe we’re living through the deaths of *both* the major UK parties.

If Starmer had stood on a progressive platform we would have had 3 Labour terms minimum, as Tories and Reform split the right for the first time.

Instead he joined them on the crowded right.

We’re not coming back.

Ah so the intensely anti-migrant people (who tend to live in low-migration areas) will stop hating the migrants they never meet if they volunteer at Oxfam and give away their heirlooms.

That sounds about right.

A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

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Screenshot of a headline reading: "Refugees' jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister."

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country

A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

How Starmer started vs how it’s going now.

Pointlessly disgusting. The left will never trust Labour again.

It won’t win over people obsessed with migration, it only fuels Farage.

Greens are soaring because people know @zackpolanski.bsky.social defends policies he *actually* believes in.

This is essential.

Immigration actually much less important to the public than often implied, even with the media obsessing over it.

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Greens jump from third to first.

This is why the pressure to vote tactically in FPTP is so utterly shit.

LDs and Lab screech that you *have to* vote them or get reform.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social was right when he said Starmer has no right to that line when he could run the next election under PR.

Rancid herring is very, very good.

100%! And at the end of the day it’s a democratic party, so if members disagree we vote for new policies

He knows his job is to represent the members/democratically selected policy

The third journalist in recent days to specifically note that Zack does this weird thing in interviews where he… answers their questions? 🧐

Many journalists will not agree with his politics but I bet we’ll be seeing him more and more. They're desperate to have real conversations for once

Zack for PM, anyone?

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Wild for a Labour cabinet member to lie in such a tragically transparent way.

You know who Zohran Mamdani is, Christ. Who do you think likes this answer?