Pete Baird

Pete Baird

@petebaird.bsky.social

Evertonian and Green Party supporter. Views are my own. 💙💚 Wirral, UK (Please don't DM me, as won't see them because of the age verification crap!)

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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The working class are the wealth creators, by making things and providing services. The people who own businesses make profit. That's not wealth creation. Banks and government create money not businesses. Giving them tax breaks etc just funnels that money out of the economy.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Chancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics live

theguardian.comChancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics liveJohn Healey is expected to cut red tape requirements, particularly for smaller businesses Good morning. A week today John Healey, the chancellor, will be doing a media round defending the budget he is presenting on Wednesday next week. Ahead of that, he has given an interview to Patrick Maguire from the Times. As you would expect, there is no real detail in it about the measures he will be presenting to MPs. But the big picture message is very clear – and quite surprising, coming from a chancellor serving a PM who in some respects is steering left compared to his predecessor. Healey says that he wants to be on the side of bloody-minded entrepreneurs who make a profit, he acknowledges that government has made their life harder over the past two years, and he suggests that cutting the ‘cost of living’ for business is just as important as cutting the real cost of living for families. In the quote that gives the Times its splash headline, Healey says: I want to be a chancellor who backs business in Britain making a profit, and those entrepreneurs who, in the end, are the ones who challenge the status quo, come up with innovative ideas and are trying, some of them through sheer bloody-mindedness, to keep going through these sorts of pressures … If you’re not making a profit, you’ve got nothing to put back into the business. And for the people who start up these businesses, the ones who really thrive and grow, they have to make a profit — and they will be much more inclined to put it back into their own business. But we want it to grow here and stay here. If you talk to any of the businesses that have come in and have either had one-to-ones or round tables with me, I have recognised that in recent times there’s been a lot of pressure: employment law, regulation, tax, input costs, supply chains. And so when I talk about the cost of business, and recognising that in the same way as we’re recognising the cost of living pressures, I’m conscious of that as I go into the budget for both businesses and households. [Healey] is expected to use the budget to make significant cuts to regulation on businesses that one senior Treasury source described as “the sludge choking firms”. Reporting requirements are likely to be abolished for many smaller enterprises, The Times understands. Continue reading...

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We don’t need a business-as-usual Budget. We need a Budget to tax extreme wealth and make the UK affordable. This is the scale of change Britain desperately needs – and only the Green Party can deliver it.

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There is utterly stupid logic that the UK Labour government is trying get voters to swallow: We need to transition to renewables so we can stop burning fossils fuels, and we will raise the money for this by burning more fossil fuels. We’ve reach peak stupid in this debate

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Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell and Donald Trump on climate vandalism, and into line now on cruel immigration reforms. What is the point of Labour if they can't even do the basics to protect people and the planet?

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Labour, Tories and Reform all agree on the problem, and dispute the solutions. The greens dispute the problem AND the solutions. That’s the difference.

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Will Labour next week in the budget tell us sad stories about "difficult decisions" and how there's "no money left?" Or will this Labour Government challenge the broken economic thinking that has lead us to this place? And tax the assets of multimillionaires & billionaires? 👀

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We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk

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The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

adambienkov.co.ukWhy the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green PartyThe dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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What amazing biased illogic that the only party which did better in the by-election is the one all the mass media are saying failed and it's leader should resign ... meme via Dianne Drew

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At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

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Greens increased their vote share in Holborn and St Pancras by 20%. If Reform had done that the press would be telling Burnham to shoot foreigners on sight to appease them, but because a leftist party did it the leader’s facing calls to resign because it wasn’t good enough.

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Congratulations to Sagal. I wish her the very best in representing this amazing place. I'm proud of the campaign we fought. To go from 10% to 33% of the vote share during the PM's 'bounce' is good - but our ambitions are far higher.

Hoping but not expecting Zack to win H&SP. A Labour victory here will give the govt green light to drill for oil in north sea and pander to Reform UK Ltd voters again. We need more Green MP's in parliament, especially Zack! 💚

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Queen's Park (Brighton & Hove) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 50.1% (+1.8) 🌹 LAB: 35.3% (+4.2) ➡️ RFM: 7.0% (-3.1) 🌳 CON: 4.3% (+0.8) 🔶LDM: 3.7% (-0.9) No Ind (-2.7) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2025 By-Election.

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“We can push the government in a better direction. We can get them to finally start putting people before profit.” Hannah Spencer on how getting more Green MPs can challenge the government to be bolder and deliver for ordinary people.

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Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

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“I am here to fight for you. Between now and polling day, I’ll be on the doorsteps listening to people about the issues that matter to them.” Zack Polanski after being selected as the Green Party candidate for the next MP for Holborn and St Pancras.

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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading ✅ Ayes: 270 ❎ Noes: 286 The Noes Have it. November 2024 (2nd Reading): Ayes 330, Noes 275. June 2025 (3rd Reading): Ayes 314, Noes 291.

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Labour has delayed its plans to allow new North Sea drilling until after the Holborn and St Pancras byelection. A Green win on 8th October will add pressure on Labour to reverse this shortsighted and dangerous plan. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comPeople ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack PolanskiParty leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstep

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Nobody wants Private Business in charge of essential services like Healthcare, Energy, Water, Public Transport, Telecoms, Banking... Because all that happens is they rip you off, deliver a terrible service and the profits they steal from you fly off to a tax haven never to return

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I guess the Mail won’t be saying ‘Hurrah for the black shorts’

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas